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 […]
Category Archives: Publication
Staging the Archive
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A new book to note: Ernst Van Alphen‘s Staging the Archive: Art and Photography in the Age of New Media (Reaktion Books, 2014). From the publisher’s website: “Staging the Archive shows how artists read the concept of the archive against the grain, questioning not only what the archive is and can be but what materials, […]
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 […]
The Materiality of Method: The Case of the Mass Observation Archive
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New article in Sociological Review Online by Liz Moor and Emma Uprichard: The Materiality of Method: The Case of the Mass Observation Archive Abstract: The Mass Observation Archive presents numerous methodological issues for social researchers. The data are idiosyncratic, difficult to analyze, and the sample design is nonsystematic. Such issues seriously challenge conventional […]
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 […]
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, […]
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