Musical Materialities in the Digital Age, 27-28 June 2014, University of Sussex Music, while summoning notions of intangibility, transience and loss, is also associated with material objects that serve to ground the musical, make the transient permanent and defer loss. Unearthing music’s association with materiality reveals a fascinating array of artefacts, including instruments, scores, transcribing […]
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Archives for the Future: Programme
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Mnemoscape has announced the full programme of speakers for their Archives for the Future conference. An Art and Visual Culture Conference Saturday 29 March 2014 Fyvie Hall, The University of Westminster 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW The conference is free of charge. Registration is now open and it will close on the 25th of March […]
The Allure of the Archives
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At long last there is an English translation of Arlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive. Yale University Press has published a translation by Thomas Scott-Railton entitled The Allure of the Archives which also has a foreword by Natalie Zemon Davis. More information here.
Perversions of Paper
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A one day symposium jointly organised by the Birkbeck Material Texts Network and Archive Futures on Saturday 28th June 2014. The call for papers can be found under Events.
CFP: Digital Memories: 5th Global Conference
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24-26 September 2014 Mansfield College, Oxford, UK This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues and implications created by the massive exploitation of digital technologies for inter-human communication and examine how online users form, archive and de-/code their memories in cybermedia environments, and how the systems used for […]
Germaine Greer donates her papers
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Germaine Greer has announced that she is donating her papers to the University of Melbourne. The archive extends to 150 filing cabinet drawers and will be transferred from the UK to Melbourne in July 2014. “Archives are the pay dirt of history,” Greer said recently. “Everything else is opinion. At a certain point you actually […]
Unconventional Archives
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Unconventional Archives – Literature and the Uses of History, 17-18 January 2014 This two-day workshop will held at Ertegun House, Oxford. The aim of the workshop is to draw together students and scholars of the late 19th nineteenth century to the present, in order to explore how our understanding of substantial categories in the history […]
The Pop-up Workshops
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The Pop-up Workshops We are launching a new network initiative: the archivefutures Pop-up workshops. Read about them and think about offering to convene a pop-up!
“Archive Fever”, ABC Radio National Hindsight on 22 Sept 2013
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Listen in to ABC Radio National’s Hindsight programme, “Archive Fever” at 1pm (Australian Eastern Time) on 22 September 2013 (repeated 26 September at 1pm). The programme features: Linda Morra, Catherine Hobbs, Karina Vernon and Maryanne Dever. The programme can also be listened to and downloaded on the Hindsight website. Features producer: Lyn Gallacher
Paris Review: Mysterious Skin: The Realia of William Gaddis
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Paris Review: Mysterious Skin: The Realia of William Gaddis “Most people with scholarly inclinations will visit a novelist’s literary archive to follow the paper trails, as manifested through gathered correspondence, stray postcards, marked-upon stationery, and scattered drafts. A couple of months before the recent publication of his collected letters, I visited the William Gaddis Papers […]
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