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 […]
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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: 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, […]
ARCHIVES 2.0: EMERGING RESEARCHER PANEL
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Archives 2.0 – Saving the Past, Anticipating the Future is the title of an international conference that will take place at the National Media Museum (Bradford – UK) on 25 and 26 of November 2014. Due the great amount of interesting proposals we’ve received, we have decided to organise a pre-conference event which will include three […]
CFP: Fashion Research Now: Archives
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Fashion Research Now: Archives CALL FOR PAPERS The inaugural issue of Fashion Research Now reflects the aims of the Fashion Research Network: presenting critical, innovative and interdisciplinary research on fashion and dress. It will provide a space for early career researchers and PhD students to publish current and innovative research. Submissions are […]
CFP: Archives on Fire
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Call for Papers RECONSTRUCTION: Studies in Contemporary Culture http://reconstruction.eserver.org/ Volume 16.1 (2016) ARCHIVES ON FIRE: Artifacts & Works, Communities & Fields Archives today are on fire–energized and endangered, mobile and mutable, ubiquitous and unique–as the library’s form and function in society undergo significant changes. Digital tools, open-access platforms, and social networks are transforming the fields […]
CFP: Failure in the Archives
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The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) is pleased to announce Failure in the Archives, a conference celebrating the frustrations of archival research, to be held on 30 October 2014 and featuring a keynote address by Natalie Zemon Davis. Failure in the Archives will provide a forum to examine everything that doesn’t belong […]
Pop-up Workshop: Sex + Gender + Archive
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Friday 9 May 2014 13:00 – 17:00 Venue: University of Tampere, Linna Building, Kalevantie 5, room 6031 How do new debates concerning sex and gender reframe what we do in and with archives? Are our understandings of evidence shifting? What does it mean to take archives and archiving as the subjects of our […]
CFP: Forbidden Access: Censoring Books and Archives
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6-7 November 2014, Senate House, University of London A collaboration between the Institute of English Studies, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Senate House Library. ‘Forbidden Access’ is a multidisciplinary conference exploring how published works and archival materials and the ideas contained in them are affected, obscured or distorted by censorship. The […]
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