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*** Apologies for Cross-Posting *** Dear All, Please find below details of several events taking place in conjunction with the Refugee Council Archive here at the University of East London. We would like to highlight our forthcoming Open Day to be held during Refugee Week; A Lecture to be given at Eastside Community Heritage; and the Launch event for our current civic engagement project entitled, "Democratic Access or Privileged Exclusion? A Workshop on the Preservation of and Access to Refugee Archives." These events are all free but booking is required and we would love to meet you at one of these events! These are for your information and please do consider disseminating these details via your own networks. Many thanks. UEL Archives and Special Collections Open Day When: Tuesday, 16 June 2015, 11am - 6pm. Where: University of East London, Docklands Campus Library Archive: Room DL.G.02 As part of Refugee Week 2015, we are pleased to announce a UEL Archives Open Day to be held on Tuesday, 16th June 2015 between 11am and 6pm. We would very much like the opportunity to welcome you to a showcase of material from our unique and diverse archival collections and we are also very keen to use this day to discuss how are archival collections can be best utilised to encourage greater usage and accessibility beyond the confines of academia. We are very keen to make our Archives more interactive and engaging and we are hoping to take a step towards achieving this through a civic engagement and outreach project that we are currently running. If you are interested in attending, please sign up for a free ticket via our Eventbrite page in order that we can get an idea of the number of people who are interested in attending. Please sign-up here: http://uelarchivesopnday.eventbrite.co.uk Details of how to find the UEL Docklands Campus can be found here: http://www.uel.ac.uk/about/campuses/docklands/ Eastside Community Heritage Seminar Series 2015 Paul Dudman, Archivist, Refugee Archives at UEL 18th June, 6.30pm - 8.30pm Paul Dudman is the Archivist responsible for the Refugee Archive, in addition to the British Olympic Association Archive and the East London People's Archive (Eastside) held at the University of East London. The focus of this presentation will be to investigate the role of Archives in preserving the history of the refugee experience through a case study of the Refugee Archives at the University of East London. This event has been organised by Eastside Community Heritage and further details of all of the lectures in this series are available in the attached advert. All of the lectures will be held at Eastside offices at: : 326 High Road, Cardinal Heenan Centre, Parish Centrem Ilford, IG1 1QP. Booking is essential as spaces are limited. Book using contact details at: [log in to unmask] Democratic Access or Privileged Exclusion? A Workshop on the Preservation of and Access to Refugee Archives. To be held on Monday 13th July at the UEL Docklands Campus and further details to be confirmed in due course. The University of East London's Library at Docklands has been the home of the Refugee Council Archive for over a decade. According to the Archives Hub database, there are several other archives documenting refugee lives which co-exist in London and beyond. Questions arise as to who accesses these archives? Are refugee archives well-represented in relation to the preservation of lived experience of refugees and migrants? If not, why is this? Who get excluded from refugee-archives, and in what ways? How could we improve access to refugee research archives? This half-day workshop led symposium seeks to find answers to the above questions. It is a launch event of an outreach project, "Democratic Access or Privileged Exclusion: Civic Engagement through the Preservation of and Access to Refugee Archives". In February 2015, under the auspices of the UEL Library and Learning Service, a bid was submitted by the Refugee Research Archives at UEL and the Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging, focusing on the preservation of refugees and migrants lives through engaging with local refugee communities. Awarded with an internal fund from the University of East London, we sought to use existing Archives held within the UEL Library as a basis to forge new partnerships between communities, students, academics, archivists and practitioners within the field of refugee and migration studies. At this end of project workshop we wish to share our findings with you which can help to generate a discussion on how to make archives as accessible, inclusive, representative and democratic. We will showcase the oral history of local communities and refugees made accessible through the new website of Living Refugee Archive. All welcome. The event is free but registration is required for catering and space purposes. Please register before end of June at: http://democraticaccess.eventbrite.co.uk Join us to discuss what can be done to improve access to refugee archives. Programme 13:30 Registration, Tea and Coffee. 14:00 Welcome by Thomas Shaw (Head of Collections and Digital Library, University of East London) 14:10 Who is the archive for? Knowledge, power and the (re)production of legacies of community, oppression and struggle, Dr Tom Vickers (University of Northumbria) 14:20 Archiving oral history: some possibilities for engaging with communities, Dr Toby Butler (Birkbeck and University of East London) 14:30 Listening to Lived Experience and Narratives of Refugees in London, Dr Rumana Hashem and Paul V Dudman (University of East London) 15:00 Making archives accessible and democratic: Breakout sessions 15:35 Tea and coffee break 15:50 Vice-Chancellor's greetings - Developments relating to civic engagement within UEL, Professor John Joughin (University of East London) 16:00 Mapping the couplet of exclusion and access: A roundtable discussion and group feedback. Chair: Dr Georgie Wemyss (CMRB, UEL). Discussants: Dr Ben Gidley (COMPAS, Oxford), Maurice Wren (Refugee Council), Sarah Menzies (Evelyn Oldfield Unit), Dr Toby Butler (Birkbeck and UEL), Paul V Dudman (Refugee Archives, UEL), Dr Rumana Hashem (CMRB, UEL), Dr Tom Vickers (Northumbria University). 17:00 A tour to the UEL's Archives over drink and snacks reception Hosted by the Refugee Archives and Library and Learning Services of University of East London. Maps and details of how to find the UEL Docklands Campus can be found here: http://www.uel.ac.uk/about/campuses/docklands/ Please contact us if you would like any further information on any of these events. Many thanks and best regards, Paul Dudman Paul Dudman BA (Hons.) MScEcon. 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