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 […]
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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!
CFP: Convergence: Special themed issue – Digital Archives & Open Archival Practices
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Convergence: Special themed issue Vol 21, no 1 (February 2015) Digital Archives & Open Archival Practices Guest Editors: Sarah Atkinson and Sarah Whatley This special issue aims to bring together researchers, artists, professionals and practitioners from the field of digital archives and the archiving of practice with an emphasis upon Art, Design, Media, Film and Performing […]
CFP: Writing the Archive Conference
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WRITING THE ARCHIVESymposium, University of Burgundy, February 7, 2014
“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
Programme announced for Cataloguing Creativity at the British Library
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Programme announced for Cataloguing Creativity at the British Library Cataloguing Creativity: symposium on cataloguing literary archives and manuscripts to be held on 15 November 2013 at the British Library.
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 […]
Scholarly Editing and Archival Research: Symposium
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The Wayne State University Symposium on Scholarly Editing and Archival Research is an interdisciplinary conference inviting new perspectives on current practices in the editing and presentation of literary texts in all media. The Symposium will take place at Wayne State’s campus on September 26, 2013. Keynotes: Martha Nell Smith and Peter Quartermain Details and Programme
Animate Archives Symposium
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Animate Archives Symposium This one day symposium seeks to consider archives as animated (as always having an ‘aliveness’, an affective force) and as requiring further orders of animation (re-readings, installations, performances). In this way we are acknowledging both the ‘vibrancy’ (Bennett) of the matter held within archives and the work needed to re-enliven or re-write […]
Welcome
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Welcome to the archivefutures research network, an international network of scholars and archivists engaged in speculative and theoretically informed considerations of archived manuscripts and personal papers. This research network is coordinated by Maryanne Dever (University of Technology Sydney) and Linda Morra (Bishop’s University, Canada). This site provides information about network activities and also serves to provide a noticeboard for events, developments […]
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