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Wednesday 8th December
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| 9.00-9.30 | Registration and Coffee
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| Welcome and Introduction
Professor Nicholas Davey, Dean, School of Humanities, University of Dundee
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| 09.30-10.30 | Keynote Presentation
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| Speaker | Terry Cook, Visiting Professor, University of Manitoba, Canada
Shifting the archival paradigm for memory, identity and community
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| Chair | Professor Nicholas Davey, Dean, School of Humanities, University of Dundee
| | 10.30-11.00 | Tea and Coffee
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| 11.00-13.00 | Session 1: Value, Appraisal and Theories of Identity and Memory.
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| Chair | Terry Cook, University of Manitoba, Canada
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| Speakers | Trond E. Jacobsen, School of Information, University of Michigan
Invoking 'collective memory': mapping the emergence of a concept.
Daniel J. Caron, Librarian and Archivist of Canada and Andreas Kellerhals, Federal Archivist, Swiss Federal Archives
Archiving for self-ascertainment, identity building and permanent self questioning: archives between scepticism and certitude.
Elaine Penn, Archivist, University of Westminster, Doctoral student, University College London
An axiological approach to archives and archival appraisal.
Rachel Jones, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Dundee
In the absence of the archive: events in Lisbon and the construction of Enlightenment values.
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| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch
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| 14.00-15.30 | Session 2: The Impact of Description on the Archival Record. |
| Chair | Rachel Jones, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Dundee
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| Speakers | Norman Reid, Head of Special Collections, University of St Andrews
The role of the archivist: an historiographical conundrum
Jenny Bunn, Doctoral student, University College London
Describing identities: the importance of autonomy.
Lucia Maria Velloso de Oliveira, Archivist, Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, Brazil
Personal archives: when the memories of the few become the memory of all.
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| 15.30-16.00 | Tea and Coffee
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| 16.00-17.30 | Session 3: The Act of Display and Interpretation in the Creation of Memory. |
| Chair | Bryan Corbett, Manager, Private Records, Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta
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Rachel Hart, Muniments Archivist and Deputy Head of Special Collections, Department of Special Collections, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Archives enabling the imagination.
Susanne Belovari, Archivist for reference and collections, Tufts University, Boston, USA
It ain't quite so! The museum/ archival paradigm under close inspection. Evolution, race and culture.
Valerie Johnson, Research and Policy Manager, The National Archives, Kew
The value of documents: online versus onsite - the 'image' versus the 'reality'?
| | 18.00-19.30 | Evening Wine Reception, hosted by the College of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Dundee. Location: Ustinov Room, Bonar Hall, Park Place, Dundee
Greeting: Christopher Whatley, Professor of Scottish History and Vice-Principal, College of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Dundee
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Thursday 9th December
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| 9.00-9.30 | Registration and Coffee
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| 9.30-10.30 | Keynote Presentation
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| Speaker | Graham Dominy, Chief Director, National Archives of South Africa
Overcoming the apartheid legacy
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| Chair | Sarah Tyacke, Chair, International Records Management Trust
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| 10.30-11.00 | Tea and Coffee
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| 11.00-12.30 | Session 4: Records and Truth: the Creation of Community and National Identities |
| Chair | Victoria Borg O'Flaherty, Director, National Archives of St Kitts and Nevis
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| Speakers | Melissa Adams, Doctoral student, University College London
Recordkeeping, memory and Canada's Indian residential schools settlement.
Suzette Felton, Associate Librarian, Metropolitan Library System and Graduate student, University of Oklahoma
Fast forward the past to the recent: stories from members of a previous sundown town.
Mario Ramirez, Project Archivist, Hunter College, CUNY (The City University of New York)
Collective memory and evidentiary truth in post-civil war El Salvador.
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| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch
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| 13.30-15.00 | Session 5: Everyone their Own Archivist - an Eternal Verity or a Digital Virtue |
| Chair | Caroline Williams, Independent Archival Consultant
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Beverley Butler, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Cultural Heritage Studies Masters Programme, University College London
Post archival paradigms: postmemory, conflict and care
Andrew Flinn, Senior Lecturer and Director of Archives and Records Management Programme, University College London
Disintermediating the archive: lay challenges to the heritage professions in the digital age
Michael Moss, Research Professor in Archival Studies, HATII, University of Glasgow and Susan Stuart, Senior Lecturer and Director for Technology and Phenomenological Research, University of Glasgow
Transvaluation, Inactivism and Monumentalism: non-reductive moral naturalism
| | 15.00-15.30 | Tea and Coffee
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| 15.30-17.00 | Session Six: Activating the Archive: A Site for Creative Exploration. |
| Chair | Professor Stephen Partridge, Dean of Research, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee
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Rachel Bracha, Archivist, World ORT Archive
Artists and the Film Archive: recreation - or archival replay
Edwin Janssen, Lecturer, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design and Tracy Mackenna, Personal Chair of Contemporary Art Practice, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee
Against the boredom of order: artists and archives
Stefanos Pavlakis, Doctoral Student, Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee
Into the archive: artists' practices un-silencing the past
| | 19.00-20.00 | Evening Wine reception, hosted by the National Archives of Scotland and the Centre for Archive and Information Studies, University of Dundee. Location: Mezzanine floor, Apex City Hotel
Guests and delegates will be led into the conference dinner by piper, Euan Guthrie
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| 20.00 | Conference dinner. Location: City Quay Suite, Apex City Hotel
After dinner speaker: George McKenzie, Keeper of the Records of Scotland, National Archives of Scotland
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Friday 10 December
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| 9.00-9.30 | Registration and Coffee
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| 9.30-10.30 | Keynote Presentation
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| Presenter | David Lowenthal, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Honorary Research Fellow, University College London
Pandora's plenitude: archives for all forever?
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| Chair | Christopher Whatley, Professor of Scottish History and Vice-Principal, College of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Dundee
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| 10.30-11.00 | Tea and Coffee
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| 11.00- 13.00 | Session 7: Beyond the Written Word: Recording Memory and Identity |
| Chair | Caroline Brown, Programme Leader, Archives, Centre for Archive and Information Studies, and Deputy Archivist, University of Dundee
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| Speakers | Jeannette Bastian, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston
The records of memory, the archives of identity; celebrations, texts and archival sensibilities
Kelvin White, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Oklahoma
Remembrance in the Costa Chica: Afro-Mexican communities and non textual records
Shira Peltzman, Archivist, Karsten Schubert Gallery, London
A place without a place: (re)imagining the archive in a national context
Elizabeth Hull, Photographic archivist, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Family pictures 'out of place': race, resistance and affirmation in the Pope family photograph collection
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| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch
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| 14.00-15.30 | Session 8: The Making of History: Archives and the Historian |
| Chair | Charles McKean, Professor of Scottish Architectural History, University of Dundee
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Sonia Yaco, Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA and Beatriz Hardy, Interim Dean of University Libraries, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Making archivists into historians, making historians into archivists and making both social activists: the desegregation of Virginia Education (DOVE) project
Meung-Hoan Noh, Professor of the Department of History and the Department of Archival Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign studies, Seoul, Korea
Creating the memory of the Alumni of the University
Thomas Connors, Head of Teamsters Archives project, George Washington University, Washington DC
(Mis)Remembering the Alamo: re-writing history in Texas - some implications for archivists and users of archives
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| 15.30-16.30 | Closing Remarks
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| Presenter | Caroline Brown, Programme Leader, Archives, Centre for Archive and Information Studies, and Deputy Archivist, University of Dundee
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| Chair | Patricia Whatley, Director, Centre for Archive and Information Studies and University Archivist, University of Dundee
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This event has been organised by the Centre for Archive and Information Studies, University of Dundee.
Web pages updated 6 August 2010 by Michael Bolik. Feedback or questions relating to the webpages are welcome - please email archives@dundee.ac.uk
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