If you did not manage to catch up with this wonderful conference event live on 7-9 April 2022 you can now find recordings for most sessions online. Keynote sessions feature Professor Jacqueline Wernimont, Dartmouth College: On Dying and Being Dead in an Archive, Jacqueline Wernimont Abstract: What are the temporalities of archives? In this talk, […]
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Call for papers: Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture
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Living in hopeful times, this appears to be a call for a real life gathering in 2021. The Popular Culture Association annual conference will be held June 2-5, 2021, at the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts. The Libraries, Archives, and Museums area is soliciting papers dealing with any aspect of Popular Culture as it […]
Postponed: Archives Amplified: Connect, Challenge, Reimagine now 2021
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2020 Archives Amplified Conference Postponed to 2021 In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we regret to advise that the 2020 Archives Amplified Conference, which was due to take place on 26-28 August 2020, has been postponed. Our priority is to ensure the health and safety of everyone involved. There is some uncertainty about how long […]
Designing the Archive, Adelaide, October 2019
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The program is now available for Designing the Archive in Adelaide, 21-25 October 2019. “The conference theme Designing the Archive is about putting people at the centre of what we do. It provides an opportunity to explore how data and information managers, records managers and archivists are using, or can use, human-centred design approaches to ensure we deliver […]
CFP: Stardom and the archive
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Stardom and the Archive — an International Symposium Saturday 8th February 2020 Followed by a public exhibition event on Sunday 9th February 2020 University of Exeter, Devon, UK Confirmed Keynotes Professor Maryanne Dever (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney) Dr Lucy Bolton (School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary […]
Archiving the Unarchivable: Conference
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Archiving the Unarchivable – Das Unarchivierbare archivieren Thursday, November 22 – Saturday, November 24, 2018 Venue: documenta Halle, Dy-Ry-Straße 1, 34117 Kassel Program With its extensive media collection, which serves as analog and digital documentation of the world’s most important art exhibition of contemporary art, the documenta archiv would like to use this conference to […]
Literary Archives in the Digital Age
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TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, 7-8 JULY 2017 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DR WIM VAN MIERLO (LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY) In recent decades there has been a gradual yet dramatic shift in the means by which scholars engage with literary archives, as the widespread digitization of manuscript texts and the comprehensive shift to digital research tools has […]
Deadline extended: From Dust to Dawn
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The deadline for submission of papers for “From Dust to Dawn. Archival Studies After the Archival Turn” at Uppsala University (15 – 17 November 2017) has been extended to 2 January 2017. Read the full call for papers here.
Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences
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15 – 17 February 2017 Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai Via dei Servi 51 50122 Florence ITALY Keynote-Speakers: Lorraine Daston, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin Elizabeth Edwards, De Montfort University, Leicester Photographs are not only images, but also historically shaped three-dimensional objects. They hold a physical presence, bear traces of handling and use […]
Extended deadline! CFP Archival Afterlives: Postwar Poetry in English
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2017 The John Rylands Research Institute Conference 27-29 June 2017, University of Manchester New deadline: 20 February 2017 The John Rylands Research Institute invites proposals for its 2017 conference on modern literary archives. Reflecting the strengths of the Special Collections at the John Rylands Library, the conference will focus in particular on archives related […]
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