I would like to suggest, rather more importantly, that its not just
about how people interact with archives, 'elsehwere', but that the
implicit theoretical standpoints visible here, in fact, underpin
everything that we do every day. These issues are seminal to the
practice and process of archives, but so often dismissed as irrelevant
or peripheral it would appear...
Thanks for an excellent response Rachel.
Lynne
On 2/17/14, Caroline Williams <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Rachel
>
>
>
> Thanks for the gentle nudge. I agree there's nothing to be lost - and
> potentially much to be gained - from being open to what's going on
> elsewhere
> about 'our' stuff!
>
>
>
> Caroline
>
>
>
> From: Archivists, conservators and records managers.
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rachel Hardiman
> Sent: 17 February 2014 06:56
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Archives for the Future Conference: Full Programme
>
>
>
> I hesitated a great deal before joining this thread, as I do not wish to
> come across as po-faced and humourless in response to what are probably
> only
> light-hearted and throw-away remarks. But in the end, I felt it worth the
> risk as I think the comments encapsulate, no matter how jokingly, a
> persistent strand of insularity in some of our professional attitudes.
>
>
>
> I didn't think that the conference programme was particularly 'pseudish' -
> just couched in a jargon different from our own. In fact, it looked rather
> interesting. We often, and quite rightly, stress the importance of user or
> community engagement, outreach, and a whole host of other pluralizing
> desirables, yet when others actually do engage with records and archives,
> or
> ideas about them - in academia, in high or popular culture, in everyday use
> by various internal and public 'stakeholders' - they not infrequently evoke
> a defensive or dismissive reaction when such engagement does not conform to
> our perspectives. This is not to say that our perspectives are not central
> and essential; but we are not dealing with Records and ArchivesT, we are
> dealing with powerful and resonant artefacts and structures of individual,
> social, and cultural remembering, forgetting, accountability, and
> sense-making. We should have a curiosity about the endlessly inventive ways
> in which these are being used and repurposed for both good and ill beyond
> our own walls; this conference, which is free to attend, offers an
> opportunity to do just that. Maybe the papers and presentations will be
> irrelevant navel-gazing, maybe they will be thought-provoking or
> entertaining. Either way, if I were still living in London, I'd certainly
> be
> tempted to go and hear what was on offer.
>
>
>
> Here endeth today's po-faced and homourless intervention ...
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
>
> Rachel Hardiman
>
>
>
> linkedin.com/pub/rachel-hardiman/22/915/45b
> <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rachel-hardiman/22/915/45b>
>
> twitter.com/Paradoxographer
>
> uva.academia.edu/RachelHardiman
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Mckenzie, Sue <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> Glad it wasn't just me.....
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>
> On 14 Feb 2014, at 15:14, "Brian Carpenter" <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> Indeed. I am certainly interested enough to send the programme to Private
> Eye for inclusion in Pseuds' Corner.
>
>
>
> Brian Carpenter
>
>
>
> From: Shepherd, Elizabeth [mailto:[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:e.shepherd@UCL..AC.UK> ]
> Sent: 14 February 2014 14:33
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: FW: Archives for the Future Conference: Full Programme
>
>
>
> Apologies for cross posting.
>
>
>
> Colleagues might be interested in this conference.
>
>
>
> Elizabeth Shepherd
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