New article by network member Kate Eichhorn just published in Australian Feminist Studies 30.83 (2015) on Barbara Godard’s personal papers. Abstract: As Joan Wallach Scott warns in The Fantasy of Feminist History, the danger of depositing one’s personal papers in an archive is that one’s papers then become open to misinterpretation. In this article, Scott’s fears […]
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Questioning Rights: Disruptive and emerging IPR management practices in the arts
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Central St Martins, 21 April 2015 This builds on previous events with organisations including: Arts Council England; Archives +, Manchester; Library of Birmingham; University of Bristol Theatre Collections; and more recently, ARLIS Committee on Art and Design Archives; and a seminar at the Institute of Historical Research. The event will examine the challenges and opportunities […]
New National Library of Australia Fellowships
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Applications for the 2016 National Library of Australia Fellowships are now open. Closing date 17 May 2015. These Fellowships are open to Australian and international researchers and established and emerging scholars. The Fellowships support researchers to make intensive use of the Library’s rich and varied collections. Six funded Fellowships will be offered in 2016. Additional Honorary Fellowships […]
Recent journal special issues on archival themes
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Have you seen these recent journal special issues? Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 21.1 (2015) special issue on Digital archives and open archival practices. Focuses on digital archives and examines how the affordances of digital technologies are transforming archival practices, including archiving the creative process. Issue Editors: Sarah Atkinson and Sarah Whatley Radical […]
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 […]
From Dust to Digital: Open access publication
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Now available from Open Book Publishers: From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme, edited by Maja Kominko. This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe. The volume can be […]
Library additions
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A new page listing readings on archives and materiality has been added to our Library. There is also another new page with links to videos concerning the conservation and handling of archived paper.
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 […]
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