Apologies for cross- posting. Posted on behalf of a colleague: Dr. Amber
Regis, University of Sheffield.
Would Library and information professionals be interested in this one
day symposium at Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield?
(Re)Presenting the Archive
University of Sheffield
28 May 2013.
In a Higher Education context where “originality” in research is
increasingly valorised, what place is there for explicitly
re-presentational practices such as scholarly editing and curating?
At first glance, the REF2014 landscape would seem favourable. Panel
guidelines recognise “scholarly editions”, “databases” and “electronic
resources” as outputs, and promote “the creation of archival or
specialist collections to support the research infrastructure”. Edition
and curation also produce tangible results—including printed and digital
texts, catalogues and exhibitions—that can ‘impact’ beyond the academy,
preserving and presenting materials for a general audience. But what is
the value of these activities and how can it be measured? How will
REF2014—with its categories of “originality”, “significance” and
“rigour”—judge the editor and curator?
This symposium will address such topical debates, interrogating theories
and practices of editing and curation alongside methodological questions
raised by innovation in the digital humanities. The relationship between
editing, curating and pedagogical practices will also be addressed, and
we will ask how scholars working with archival materials might learn
from those working outside Higher Education (e.g. how do museums and
galleries (re)present the archive?).
Speakers include:
Fiona Douglas (Leeds)
Tony Edwards (Kent)
Wim Van Mierlo (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
James Mussell (Birmingham)
Terry O'Connor (Forced Entertainment/Sheffield)
Cathy Shrank (Sheffield)
Alison Wiggins (Glasgow)
For more information and for details of how to register, please visit:
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/thearchive
We will be awarding three bursaries of up to £50 for postgraduate
students traveling to Sheffield from other universities. If you would
like to apply for one of these bursaries, please send a 250 word account
of how this event will support and inform your research to
[log in to unmask] by 1 May 2013. Bursaries will be awarded on the
basis of distance traveled and academic ‘fit’.
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Ian Trowell
National Fairground Archive
0114 2227293
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