Following previously successful I-CHORA conferences in Toronto (2003), Amsterdam (2005), Boston (2007), Perth (2008), London (2010) and Austin (2012), the University of Amsterdam, Media and Information Program is pleased to announce the forthcoming seventh International Conference on the History of Records and Archives to be held in Amsterdam from 29-31 July 2015. The theme of the […]
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CFP: Seventh International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (I-CHORA 7)
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Summer School: Archive Futures: Operations, Time Objects, Collectives
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(We’ll forgive them for stealing our name!) Archive Futures: Operations, Time Objects, Collectives Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies, 14 – 20 June 2015 Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) Location: Germany Closing Date: 10 December 2014 Coordinators: Christoph Eggersglüß (Weimar), Mladen Gladic (Princeton) The Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies – a collaboration between the Bauhaus-Universität […]
CFP: Radical Archives
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Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Archive Journal on the theme of Radical Archives Deadline: April 15, 2015 “Radical archives” and “radical archiving” are concepts that continue to gain currency among archivists, artists and cultural theorists alike, but to date, discussions of “radical archives” and “radical archiving” often appear to rest on an […]
Out now! Literary archives, materiality and the digital
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The special issue of Archives and Manuscripts edited by Maryanne Dever and Linda Morra (an initiative of the Archive Futures network) is now out. Vol 42, issue 3 (2014) on the theme of “Literary archives, materiality and the digital”. TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial: Literary Archives, Materiality and the Digital Maryanne Dever […]
New Publication: UNARRESTED ARCHIVES
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A new publication from network co-convenor, Linda Morra: UNARRESTED ARCHIVES: CASE STUDIES IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY CANADIAN WOMEN’S AUTHORSHIP. University of Toronto Press, December 2014. “Calling upon the archives of Canadian writers E. Pauline Johnson (1861–1913), Emily Carr (1871–1945), Sheila Watson (1909–1998), Jane Rule (1931–2007), and M. NourbeSe Philip (1947– ), Linda M. Morra explores the ways […]
CFP: 40th anniversary issue of Archivaria
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Call for Papers for a 40th Anniversary Issue of Archivaria (Fall 2015) Archivaria Anniversary Issue: To Understand Ourselves In 1953, the Archives Section of the Canadian Historical Association was born. A decade later, Hugh Dempsey, the first editor of The Canadian Archivist, argued that “the Archives Section feels it would perform a useful service by […]
New publication: Uncertain Curature
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Uncertain Curature: In and Out of the Archive is a new collection edited by Pippa Skotnes and Carolyn Hamilton from the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative at the University of Cape Town, SA. “Uncertain Curature explores the archive – the past, our material inheritance – in the context of postcolonial world of South Africa. These engagements with the past […]
New publication: Spontaneous Particulars – The Telepathy of Archives
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A new work by distinguished American poet Susan Howe will be published this month as a New Directions and Christine Burgin co-publication. Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives continues Howe’s engagement with the materiality of archived manuscripts. From the New Drections website: “Great America writers William Carlos Williams, Jonathan Edwards, Hannah Edwards Wetmore, Emily Dickinson, Noah Webster, […]
ARCHIVES 2.0: EMERGING RESEARCHER PANEL
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Archives 2.0 – Saving the Past, Anticipating the Future is the title of an international conference that will take place at the National Media Museum (Bradford – UK) on 25 and 26 of November 2014. Due the great amount of interesting proposals we’ve received, we have decided to organise a pre-conference event which will include three […]
Public lecture: Feminism’s Archive
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Part of the ANU Gender Institute 2014 Public Lecture Series Feminist Theory Now Presenter: Associate Professor Maryanne Dever Event date: Wednesday, 24 September 2014 – 5:30pm to 7:00pm Venue: Seminar Room 1 (3.02), Sir Roland Wilson Building (Bld 120), Australian National University, Canberra Abstract: Where is feminism’s archive? The approaches to research that defined feminist […]
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