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With apologies for cross-posting:
Please find below a programme and registration form for a conference
being held by the Centre for Archive and Information Studies, University
of Dundee, on 10-11 April in Edinburgh, funded by the Royal Society of
Edinburgh.
For further information please contact Jennifer Johnston at
[log in to unmask] or call 01382 384095. Further information
will be available shortly at www.investigatingthearchive.org
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Scottish Executive Arts & Humanities Award
Investigating the Archive project
The Philosophy of the Archive
Hilton Caledonian, Edinburgh, 10-11 April 2008
Programme
Thursday 10 April
9.00 - 9.30 Registration and coffee
9.30 - 9.45 Welcome and Introduction
Professor Nicholas Davey, Dean, Schoolof
Humanities, Universityof Dundee
Keynote speaker
9.45 - 10.45 Terry Cook, University of Manitoba, Canada
Along the grain: assumptions and voices
of archivists from the inside
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee
Session 1: Recording and Representation
11.15 - 12.45 Geoffrey Yeo, UniversityCollegeLondon
Records and representations
Jim Burant, Library and Archives, Ottawa
Archives and absences: the graphic
records of disorganisation, disorder and dissidence
James Girdwood, Universityof Glasgow
Recording and memory: the ontology of
recording and memory
12.45 - 1.30 Lunch
Session 2: Collecting and Representing
1.30 - 3.20 Andrew Flinn, UniversityCollegeLondon
Democratising the archive. Representing
diversity: an agenda for a 21st century profession
Sarah Jones, AHDS Performing Arts,
HATII, Universityof Glasgow
Redefining the Performing Arts archive
Gail Chester, Royal Holloway,
Universityof London
When is an archive not an archive? The
experience of saving the Feminist Library
Sue Breakell, Tate Londonand Victoria
Worsley, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Context is half the work: activating the
Artist Placement Group archive
3.20 - 3.40 Coffee
Session 3: Memory and Identity
3.40 - 5.00 HeatherHome, Queen's University, Kingston,
Ontario
Aspects of memory
Craig Gauld, Universityof Glasgow
From things to experience: relativism, identity
and the archive
Nick Barratt, Founder, Nation's Memory
Bank
Memory, history and social networks
Evening reception
6.30 - 8.30 Wine reception, hosted by the National Archives
of Scotland
George MacKenzie, Keeper of the Records
of ScotlandandProfessor Chris Whatley, Royal Society of Edinburghand
Vice Principal and Head of the Collegeof Artsand Social Sciences,
Universityof Dundee
Friday 11 April
9.00 - 9.30 Registration
Keynote speaker
9.30 - 10.30 Elizabeth Shepherd, UniversityCollegeLondon
Culture and evidence: conflict or
continuum?
10.30 - 10.50 Coffee
Session 4: Social Memory and Evidence
10.50- 12.30 Andreas Litschel, Universität Bielefeld,
Germany
Perpetuating replacement. Representing
archives and the imaginary of social history
J
ennifer Meehan, Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library, YaleUniversity
The archival nexus: re-thinking the
interplay of ideas about the nature, value and use of records
Ineke Deserno, MonashUniversity, Melbourne
The value of business archives: the
importance of the archives of large businesses in shaping cultural
identity
Mareike Menne, Universität Stuttgart,
Germany
Archives, power and knowledge
12.30 - 1.15 Lunch
Keynote speaker
1.15- 2.15 Verne Harris, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory,
Johannesburg
Against the grain: archive(s),
discourse(s) and outside(s)
2.15 - 2.35 Coffee
Session 5: Representation, Justice and Power
2.35 - 4.30 Giulia Barrera, Italian Archives Directorate,
Rome
Of condors and judges: archival musing
over a judicial investigation
Tom Connors, University of Maryland,
Maryland
The tainted archive: political, moral
and philosophical considerations
Tom Adami, United Nations Mission, Sudan
Peacekeeping and archives: The United
Nations in Sudan
Alistair Tough, HATII, Universityof
Glasgow
The philosophy of the archive and the
social creation of knowledge
4.30 - 4.45 Concluding remarks
Caroline Brown, Universityof Dundee
Delegate Registration Form
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Scottish Executive Arts & Humanities Awards
Investigating the Archive project
The Philosophy of the Archive
Hilton Caledonian, Edinburgh, 10-11 April 2008
Please complete this form in BLOCK CAPITALS and return to:
Conference Registration, Centre for Archive and Information Studies,
University of Dundee, United Kingdom, DD1 4HN
Fax: +44 (0)1382 385523. Email: [log in to unmask]
A SEPARATE FORM IS REQUIRED FOR EVERY DELEGATE
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PAYMENTS
Full Delegates
I wish to register as a delegate for the full conference (April
10-11):
Full Conference
*70
Registration includes conference sessions, lunches, reception
Day Delegates
I wish to register as a delegate for the following days of the
conference:
Thursday 10 April
*40
Friday 11 April
*40
Registration as a day delegate entitles the attendee to attend all
conference sessions and includes lunch.
Conference Presenters
I wish to register as a presenter for the full conference (April
10-11):
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Fee waived
Registration includes conference sessions, lunches, reception
(Payment details overleaf)
Payment Methods
Full payment must be made in advance and no later than 2 April 2008.
Please indicate which of the following payment methods you wish to
adopt:
Cheque payable to 'Universityof Dundee' (please return with this form).
All cheques must be in UKpounds (Sterling). Cheques in other currencies
cannot be accepted.
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any personal information you provide (which may include sensitive
personal information) to be held and processed by the University of
Dundee for the purpose of administering your attendance at this event.
The information will not be passed to any third party and will not be
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Patricia Whatley
University Archivist & Head of Archive, Records Management and Museum Services
Tower Building
University of Dundee
Dundee DD1 4HN
Office: 01382385587
Mobile: 07841368799
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/armms
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