Kent Centre for Law Gender and Sexuality, University of Kent, 3 April 2014. A workshop examining questions of materiality, method, endurance and transformation with respect to the document and/or the contract. Details here. This is an Archive Futures event.
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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 […]
Photo tales lost in the digital wave
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“Digitisation will also inevitably change the way we do research. Many researchers in archives will tell you how they like to touch an old photograph or pore through old newspapers to get the feel, the smell, the weight. They are not saying that because they are sentimentalists but experience has told them how our senses […]
Conference CFP: Archives for the Future
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ARCHIVES FOR THE FUTURE: An Art and Visual Culture Conference Saturday 29 March 2014, University of Westminster (309 Regent Street, London, W1B 2UW). The conference is organised by Mnemoscape (Elisa Adami and Alessandra Ferrini) with the support of the University of Westminster, the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture and The International Association for Visual […]
Conference Call 2014 Archives and Records Association UK & Ireland
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‘Survival of the Fittest: strengths, skills and priorities for 2014 and beyond’ This century has seen rapid changes in how we create, use, disseminate and access information. Increased interactions between states, organisations and societies have raised questions about the creation, recording and control of information. Individuals and communities are remembering and communicating in different ways […]
Emily Dickinson The Gorgeous Nothings
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Previously published as a limited edition artist’s book, Emily Dickinson The Gorgeous Nothings is a colour facsimile edition of Emily Dickinson’s writings on envelopes. Compiled by Marta Werner and Jen Bervin (with a preface by Susan Howe), this striking volume raises all manner of questions about archival scraps, paper and materiality. Published by Christine Burgin/New Directions in […]
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 […]
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