Event: The Archives of Empire Conference: Historians & Archivists discuss

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BRA Conference 2012

Jewels in the Crown? The Archives of Empire

This year’s conference will be held on Monday 10th December 2012 at the Swedenborg Society, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH.

The British empires affected millions of people across the world over four centuries, so what sort of records were created and where are they? What evidence has been kept and what destroyed? How do official records relate to the surviving unofficial and personal papers? What role have the custodians of records played and can the collections offer new insights for researchers in the 21st century? These are some of the issues our speakers, who are both archivists and historians, will discuss. The speakers are:

John Fisher, University of the West of England

Tom Lawson, University of Winchester

Lucy McCann, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth & African Studies at Rhodes House

Antonia Moon, British Library

Rachel Rowe, Smuts Librarian for South African and Commonwealth Studies, Cambridge

Terry Suthers MBE, Harewood House

We are delighted that The Maurice Bond Lecture this year will be given by Peter Hennessy, Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield, on ‘The Great Power Impulse; the pleasures and pains of archival research and on becoming an item at Kew’. As usual, this is a public lecture at the end of the day, open without charge to those who cannot manage to attend the other papers.

BRA Conferences are stimulating and informative; they afford an opportunity to step back and consider the nature and research value of  the archives we keep.  And there is time over a buffet lunch and refreshment breaks to discuss matters of common concern and interest.

The charge is £53 for members and £63 for non members of the BRA. There is also a discount rate of £26 for students and unwaged.

A full programme, further details and a registration form may be found on the BRA website at http://www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/forms/BRA2012Conferenceleafletdraft7.docx.pdf

Further information may be obtained from Maria Evans, Office Manager, 020 7833 0428, info@britishrecordsassociation.org.uk

Contact the list owner for assistance at ARCHIVES-NRA-request@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra

 

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Reminder: Call for Submissions, Association of Canadian Archivists 2013 Annual Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Association of Canadian Archivists 2013 Annual Conference:

Community as Archives, Archives as Community

Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada

13 – 15 June 2013

 

Communities are the framework of our identities, our history and our lives. Online and offline, connected by geography, ethnicity, language, sexuality, interests, professions, friendship and kin, our lives are a lattice of communities.

 

Join us in Winnipeg, city of communities and meeting places, for an exploration of how archival consciousness arises in communities and how community consciousness has arisen among archivists. We invite proposals related to all areas of archival theory or practice and pertaining to any and all media. These contributions can come from anyone involved with archives: from archival staff and volunteers, from those who share an interest in archives, whether as a community organizer, researcher, creator, a professional or an academic, and from anyone who considers themselves to be a knowledge worker.

 

Topics might include:

• Archives as Community: What issues are important to the Canadian archival community right now? How can we act together to achieve our goals?
• Community Archives: What is a community archive? What is participatory archiving? How do we build collections and staff that are broadly representative of Canadian society?
• Archives and Indigenous Communities: How can archival practice engage with Indigenous knowledge traditions? How can archives build healthy relationships with Canadian Indigenous communities?
• Alternative Archives: Do certain communities treat archives in a particular way? How is the concept of “archives” reinterpreted (as a space, or as an idea)?
• Virtual Communities, Virtual Archives: What are the challenges and opportunities of social media as collaborative tools? How do we create archives for digital natives? How can archives participate in open source and standards communities?

 

SUBMITTING PROPOSALS:

The 2013 Conference Program Committee invites contributions in a variety of traditional and nontraditional formats including:

 

1. Traditional session: formal presentation of papers; approximately 20 minutes per speaker, with questions to follow as time allows.

 

2. Panel discussion: abbreviated presentation of papers; approximately 10-15 minutes per speaker, with discussion to follow.

 

3. Roundtable: brief 5-7 minute presentations with open discussion

 

4. Focused Debate on a specific topic: brief presentations with open discussion & debate to follow. Can adhere to formal debating rules or not.

 

5. Pecha Kucha Session: 8-12 presenters have 20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds on a timer. Thus, each presenter has just 6 minutes and 40 seconds to explain their ideas.

Use the “Call for Submission” button on the ACA website at http://www.archivists.ca/.  Submitting your session proposal in electronic form using this link is strongly encouraged.

The deadline for these proposals is: Saturday, September 29^th, 2012

Note: Please be advised there will be a Call for Student Papers as well as a Call for Posters later this year, with submission deadlines early in 2013.

 

WORKSHOP PROPOSALS:

For 2013, ACA will use the “Call for Submission” button for any workshop proposals that will be associated with the Annual Conference; these submissions will go to the Professional Learning Committee, which will make its decisions in mid October 2012.

Workshop is defined as a full 1-day or 2-day event, generally combining presentations, group discussions and hands-on activities for a group of about 25 – 30 participants.  Workshops can cover any topic/subject, and may not be related directly to the conference theme.

Questions:

Please feel free to direct questions to:
Johanna Smith
Chair, ACA 2013 Conference Program
c/o Library and Archives Canada
550 blvd de la Cité
Gatineau, QC K1A 0N4
Telephone:  613-897-4742
Fax: 819-934-6800
johanna.smith@bac-lac.gc.ca

archivists.ca/content/annual-conference

 

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