Archives and Manuscripts is the professional and scholarly journal of the Australian Society of Archivists, publishing articles, reviews, and information about the theory and practice of archives and recordkeeping in Australasia and internationally. Its target audiences are archivists and other recordkeeping professionals, the academic community, and all involved in the study and interpretation of archives. […]
Category Archives: call for papers
CFP: From Dust to Dawn. Archival Studies After the Archival Turn
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Uppsala University, 15-17 November 2017 Conference theme Archives – collections of paper, objects, and other substrates of information, as well as the institutions that house and organize them – have become increasingly important in modern everyday life. But archives are no longer exclusively the objects of historical work – no longer simply a means to […]
Materiality and the Visual Arts Archive: Matter and Meaning
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23 September 2016 University of Brighton, UK On the one hand… material is discussed today in the light of an idea that it has been dissolved by the so-called immaterialities of new technologies, while on the other – from the margins – we can observe the consolidation of material as a category of its own. […]
CFP Feminist engagements with archives and new modes of history
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Australian Feminist Studies is seeking contributions in the form of original articles (up to 8,000 words) for a 2017 themed issue covering feminist engagements with archives and new modes of history (literary history, social and cultural history, the history of sexuality). Shorter thematic pieces (up to 5,000 words) may be considered for the journal’s ‘Feminist Debates […]
CFP: Archival Uncertainties
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Date: 4 April 2016 Venue: British Library This conference represents an opportunity to explore the uncertain future of literary archival sources in the present age. While information technology is changing rapidly and bringing new possibilities for the democratisation of knowledge, debates remain about intellectual property, ownership and access rights to individual archives. Uneven investment in […]
CFP: Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities
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The National Archives (UK) have issued a call for papers for DCDC15, the third collaborative conference with Research Libraries UK. This year’s conference, ‘Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities: Exploring new digital destinations for heritage and academia’ will explore the innovative ways in which heritage and academic organisations can engage with existing and emerging audiences through digital formats. The […]
CFP e-Remembrance or e-Oblivion?
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International Conference on the Society’s Memory Functions in the Digital World Organized by the Doctoral Programme Memornet, University of Tampere, Finland Tampere 23-24 November, 2015 Invitation Memornet is a Finnish doctoral program and a research network for the society’s memory functions. It brings together both academia and memory institutions (libraries, archives and museums) to […]
CFP: Performing the Archive
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“Performing the Archive” Conference, National University of Ireland, Galway 22–24 July 2015 “Performing the Archive” will gather together scholars, artists and archivists to confront exciting developments in archival research in the field of theatre and performance studies. With the advancement of digitisation technologies and the continuing expansion of innovative methodological and theoretical approaches, “Performing the […]
CFP: English Literary Heritage Conference
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18-19 September 2015 (Institute of English Studies, London) Keynote speaker: ‘Beyond Words’, Jeff Cowton (The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere) This interdisciplinary conference aims to consider the interpretation of literary heritage objects in archives, museums and literary houses. It aims to stimulate an inclusive discussion about new and innovative ways to preserve and exhibit literary […]
CFP: Seventh International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (I-CHORA 7)
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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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