Across the divide: Interdisciplinary dialogues on the archive
Saturday 15 March 2008, 9.30am - 4pm, River Rooms, Tower Building,
University of Dundee.
This workshop is part of the Investigating the Archive series of
conferences and workshops made possible by a Royal Society of Edinburgh
2007 Arts & Humanities Award. It brings together scholars from Archive
and Information Studies, History, Literary Studies, Cultural and Book
History, and Film Studies to initiate dialogue and reflect collectively
on the construction, mobilisation and deployment of archival records in
all formats.
The speakers are David Finkelstein, Jennie Hill, Peter Krämer, Alison
Light, Roberta McGrath and John Regan, for further details see the
programme below.
Abstracts of the papers and a registration form are available on the
project website www.investigatingthearchive.org and the workshop pages
http://www.investigatingthearchive.org/across-the-divide/ .
Please get in touch if you require any further information.
Programme
9.45 Opening Remarks: Peter Kitson (English, University of Dundee)
10.00- 11.15 Panel 1: Chair: Caroline Brown (Archives, Record
Management and Museum Services, University of Dundee)
John Regan (History, University of Dundee): 'Archives the last refuge
of a scoundrel?: Archival positivism & modern Irish historiography'
Jennie Hill (Archives and records management, Aberystwyth University):
'Monuments on Quicksand: The Inscribing and Re-inscribing of Archival
Evidence and Context'
11.15-11.45 Coffee Break
11.45-1.15 Panel 2: Chair: Anna Notaro (Media Arts and Imaging, DoJ,
University of Dundee)
David Finkelstein (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh): 'Working the
Archives from a Book History Angle'
Peter Krämer (UEA): 'Oskar Schindler and the Movies: Archival Traces of
Hollywood Blockbusters and Unproduced Films'
1.15-2.15 Lunch
2.15-3.30 Panel 3: Chair: Beth Lord (Philosophy, University of Dundee)
Alison Light, Research Professor (Raphael Samuel History Centre and the
University of Newcastle) 'The Act of Recovery: Experiences in the
Archive'
Roberta McGrath, 'Photographs as History'
3.30 Closing Remarks: Patricia Whatley (Archives, Record Management and
Museum Services, University of Dundee)
Caroline Brown
Programme Leader
MLitt Archives and Records Management
Centre for Archive and Information Studies
University of Dundee
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