*With apologies for cross posting* Posted on behalf of CAIS at the University of Dundee:
The deadline for conference registration, Tuesday November 30, is fast approaching and early registration is advised as places are filling up.
Memory, Identity and the Archival Paradigm: an interdisciplinary approach
Wednesday 8th - Friday 10th December 2010
Dundee, Scotland
The conference programme and abstracts, registration and information on accommodation can be found at the links below:
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cais/memoryandidentity/
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cais/memoryandidentity/programme.htm
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cais/memoryandidentity/registration.htm
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cais/memoryandidentity/accommodation.htm
Keynote speakers:
Terry Cook, Visiting Professor, University of Manitoba, Canada
'Shifting the archival paradigm for memory, identity and community'
Graham Dominy, Chief Director, National Archives of South Africa
'Overcoming the apartheid legacy'
David Lowenthal, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Honorary Research Fellow, University College London
'Pandora's plenitude: archives for all forever?'
Sessions include:
- Value, Appraisal and Theories of Identity and Memory
- The Impact of Description on the Archival Record
- The Act of Display and Interpretation in the Creation of Memory
- Records and Truth: the Creation of Community and National Identities
- Everyone their Own Archivist an Eternal Verity or a Digital Virtue?
- Activating the Archive: A Site for Creative Exploration.
- Beyond the Written Word: Recording Memory and Identity
- The Making of History: Archives and the Historian
The conference is supported by a Royal Society of Edinburgh Arts and Humanities research award and is the second conference within the Investigating the Archive project. The first conference, the Philosophy of the Archive, was held in Edinburgh in April 2008. Selected papers from that conference were published in a special issue of Archival Science, Vol 9, no 3, 2009.
Patricia Whatley
University Archivist & Head of ARMMS
Director, CAIS & Hon Lecturer
Tel: 01382 385587
Mobile: 07841368799
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www.dundee.ac.uk/armms
www.dundee.ac.uk/cais
Mark Conrad
NARA Center for Advanced Systems and Technologies
NHA
The National Archives and Records Administration
Erma Ora Byrd Conference and Learning Center
Building 494 Second Floor
610 State Route 956
Rocket Center, WV 26726
Phone: 304-726-7820
Fax: 304-726-7802
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