Democratic Access or Privileged Exclusion? A Workshop on the Preservation of and Access to Refugee Archives
Monday 13th July, 1:30pm to 6:00pm
Registration from: 1pm
Room SD.1.04, Docklands Campus, University of East London
Event is Free but Booking is required: http://democraticaccess.eventbrite.co.uk
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<http://www.uel.ac.uk/lls/>, a bid was submitted by the Refugee Research Archives at UEL<https://uelarchivesportal.wordpress.com/our-archives/refugee-council-archive/> and the Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging<http://www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/>, 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. Join us to discuss what can be done to improve access to refugee archives.
Programme
13:00 Registration, tea and coffee
13:30 Welcome by Thomas Shaw (Head of Collections and Digital Library,
University of East London)
13:35 Opening Remarks by Professor Allaine Cerwonka (Dean of the
School of Social Sciences, University of East London)
13:45 Who is the archive for? Knowledge, power and the (re)production of
legacies of community, oppression and struggle, Dr Tom Vickers
(University of Northumbria)
14:00 Archiving oral history: some possibilities for engaging with communities, Dr Toby Butler (Birkbeck and University of East London)
14:15 Listening to Lived Experience and Narratives of Refugees in London, Dr Rumana Hashem and Paul V Dudman (University of East London)
14:45 Making archives accessible and democratic: Breakout sessions
15:15 Tea and coffee break
15:30 Vice-Chancellor's greetings - Developments relating to civic engagement within UEL, Professor John Joughin (University of East London)
15:45 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), Paul V Dudman (Refugee Archives, UEL), Dr Rumana Hashem (CMRB, UEL), Sarah Menzies (Evelyn Oldfield Unit), Dr Toby Butler (Birkbeck and 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.
Any questions or feedback, please contact the Archivist Paul Dudman, on 020 8223 7676 or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Paul Dudman BA (Hons.) MScEcon. MCLIP
Archivist
Library & Learning Service: Archives
Library and Learning Centre
University of East London
Docklands Campus
4-6 University Way
London
E16 2RD
Tel:- +44 (0) 20 8223 7676
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