Events

Current and Forthcoming Events

Memory, Identity and the Archival Paradigm: an interdisciplinary approach
Conference, sponsored by the Royal Society of Edinburgh as part of the 'Investigating the Archive' Project, 8-10 December 2010, Dundee, Scotland. The programme and further details will be available from the website soon.

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cais/memoryandidentity/
The Philosophy of the Archive
Conference, Sponsored by the Royal Society of Edinburgh as part of the Investigating the Archive Project, 10th - 11th April 2008, Caledonian Hilton Hotel, Edinburgh

http://www.investigatingthearchive.org/philosophy-archive/
Archives, Records and the User: The Changing Nature of University and Scientific Archives in the 21st Century
Conference on behalf of the International Council on Archives, Section on University and Research Institution Archives, 13-17 August 2007, Dundee

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/SUV2007/programme.htm

Practical Approaches to Electronic Records: the Academy and Beyond
CAIS Seminar led by Dr Chris Prom, Fulbright Distinguished Scholar, Friday 21st May 2010, University of Dundee

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cais/erm/

Developments in the Recordkeeping Profession: 40 years of Archive and Records Management Services
CAIS Study School Seminar, September 2009. Speakers included Marion Stewart, latterly Archivist for Dumfries and Galloway Council, Bob Steward, the retired Highland Council Archivist, Kevin Wilbraham, Corporate Records Manager, Edinburgh City Council, and Siobhan Convery, Head of Special Libraries and Archives at the University of Aberdeen.

The Archive is Politics
Led by Randall Jimerson, Professor of History Western Washington University. September 2009

Archives and Publics
Sponsored by the Royal Society of Edinburgh as part of the 'Investigating the Archive' Project. December 2008

Records, Rights and Responsibilities: International Perspectives
CAIS Study School Seminar, September 2008. Speakers included Jens Boel, UNESCO Archivist, Dr Hans Eyvind Naess, Senior Advisor, National Archives of Norway, Nigel Hardman, Alliance and Leicester Archivist and George McKenzie, Keeper of the Records of Scotland.

Across the Divide: Interdisciplinary Dialogues on the Archive
Sponsored by the Royal Society of Edinburgh as part of the 'Investigating the Archive' Project. March 2008

Financial Archives

This was a joint event organised by the Business Archives Council of Scotland (BACS) and Archives and Records Association Scottish Region and sponsored by CAIS Dundee to introduce members of both organisations to the records of financial institutions.

It provided a 'hands-on' opportunity to use the records of the Alliance Trust, one of Dundee's prominent Investment Trusts and to learn more about using financial records.

The Annual Joan Auld lecture founded in memory of Dundee’s first University Archivist followed lunch.

Friday 25th November 2011
New Perspectives on Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Scotland
Economic and Social History Society of Scotland Conference, 7 - 8th May 2010, Apex Hotel, Dundee

Scotland's Historians: The Development of Eighteenth Century Historical Studies
Economic and Social History Society of Scotland Conference, December 2009.

The Nature of University and Research Institution Archives: An International Perspective
ICA/SUV Conference, 8-11 September 2009 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/SUV2009/

Training in Audio-Visual Archives.
Co-sponsored with Skillset (the sector skills council for cultural media) and the Society of Archivists