Archives in Liquid Times: a new publication about philosophy and theory on archives. It is free to download in PDF (see below). Archives in Liquid Times aims to broaden and deepen the thinking about archives in today’s digital environment. It is a book that tries to fuel the debate about archives in different fields of research. […]
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Out now! Archives and new modes of feminist research
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Just out from Australian Feminist Studies (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) is Vol 32, Nos 91-92, a special double issue on ‘Archives and new modes of feminist research’. Edited by Maryanne Dever, the double issue opens by “asking what feminist archival research looks like in an era when the metaphor of the archive is invoked to cover […]
CFP Special issue: Digital Medieval Manuscript Cultures
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Archive Journal has published a call for papers for a special issue. Deadline: extended to 1 January 2017 In medieval manuscript studies, an important feature of the “digital turn” has been the creation of digital surrogates. Until recently, this activity has taken one of two forms: either the digitization of major categories of manuscripts (such […]
CFP Archives of the Digital
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Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, Issue 8.1 Guest Editors: Hermann Rotermund, Wolfgang Hagen and Christian Herzog (Leuphana University Lüneburg) Deadline for the submission of full papers: 31 July 2016 The issue is scheduled for publication in Spring 2017. Digital media has initiated the transformation of archiving practices with implications for audio-visual archives, written archives […]
ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPTS: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
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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. […]
Affect and the Archive, Archives and their Affects
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Archival Science has published a special issue on the topic of Affect and the Archive, Archives and their Affects. The co-editors are Anne J. Gilliland and Marika Cifor. CONTENTS Volume 16, issue 1 (2016) Editorial: Affect and the archive, archives and their affects: an introduction to the special issue by Marika Cifor and Anne J. Gilliland Affecting relations: introducing […]
Archives on Fire: Publication
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Journal issue: Reconstruction Vol. 16, No. 1 (2016): Archives on Fire: Artifacts & Works, Communities & Fields NB This issue appears not to be accessible any longer. A new link, however, to Michelle Caswell’s piece can be found here. Introduction Archives on Fire: Particle, Wave, and Field, by W. Scott Howard Particle A Live Finding Aid of […]
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 […]
Making Archives, Shaping History
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University of Manchester 26 April, 10am, ALB G30-31 In the process of creative making archaeologists, architects, visual artists and conservators produce and assemble a massive and heterogeneous amount of visual and paper objects: correspondence, sketches and drawings, working models and simulations, observational reports and reading notes. While the fate and politics of established archives is largely tackled in […]
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. […]
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