Places are still available for the upcoming conference on Memories, Identities and Communities to be held 23-25 April in Dundee, Scotland. Building on previous successful conferences the wide-ranging programme includes contributions from national and international speakers representing 10 different countries. The papers reflect the interdisciplinary interest in the nature of archives and their connection with memories and communities. The programme is structured to allow plenty of opportunity for discussion and debate.

 

Highlights include:

• Jeannette Bastian on the community in place: landscape, archives and memory
• Participatory approaches to archives
• Archival intervention as radical politics
• Digital records: trust, authenticity and interactions between communities
• The archives of the Rwandan genocide
• Preserving public and private memory: everything from home videos to popular music archives and football culture
• Visual representations and archives
• Sue Black, forensic anthropologist, University of Dundee on civil conflict, identity and communities
• Transforming archival and record keeping policies and practices

For the full programme and details of how to register see http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cais/Conference2014/index.htm

 

 

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Dr. Craig Gauld

Centre for Archive and Information Studies (CAIS)

School of Humanities

University of Dundee

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** All CAIS programmes are accredited by the UK Archives and Records Association and The Records and Information Management (RIM) Professionals Australasia **