This panel honors the scholarly legacy of Dr. Ciaran Trace (1971-2024), whose significant research transformed archival studies and information studies. Dr. Trace’s intellectual contributions reshaped fundamental approaches to archival theory and practice. Panelists will examine Dr. Trace’s work on recordkeeping practices, archival literacy, and the social dimensions of documentation. Her…
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With the shift in archives towards person-centred archiving, affect and emotions in archives, there has been a focus on how these concepts can be reflected in archival education and training. This panel brings together four international perspectives, from Australia, Canada and the UK, on developing and delivering education and training…
Leave a CommentFinding aids continue to hold colossal sway over the work of archives. By purporting to facilitate access, finding aids reveal the deeply sociotechnical nature of archival labor. Advances in digital technologies, such as encoded archival description, help ensure that the work of finding aids is embedded within an increasingly interconnected…
Leave a CommentThis panel brings together 4 practitioner-scholars engaging with different community contexts to examine how archival practices can better reflect the lived realities, priorities and cultural logics of the communities they serve. By placing our distinct projects in conversation, this panel highlights both the common threads and the complexities of working…
Leave a CommentOur panel explores how those who seek to deny the truth of state-sponsored human rights violations represent official records as authoritative and exhaustive accounts of the past; how Survivors of human rights violations can nonetheless use these records in taking control over the representation of their own violation; and how…
Leave a CommentThrough case-study presentations this panel weaves together Filipino, queer, activist, feminist and trauma-informed perspectives to examine aspects of the relation between art and archives. Ringo Bunoan looks at artist-centred archiving in the context of Asian diaspora artists in London, introducing the Filipino concepts of kapwa and kutob as part of…
Leave a CommentRecordkeeping plays a significant role in the lives of people in every community, and it is essential that recordkeeping professionals understand the wider impact of their actions on others. At the same time, recordkeeping researchers need to understand the many challenges facing professionals working with records and people in multiple,…
Leave a CommentThe recently released publication by Kirsten Thorpe, Living Indigenous Archives challenges and addresses the colonial constructs that have shaped archival work and studies. Thorpe’s research centres Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, placing Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing at the forefront. Drawing on case studies, academic and community…
Leave a CommentThis panel, comprising members of the interdisciplinary team of the ERC ArchLabour project, adopts the concept of archival pace as a guiding lens for understanding historical archives inherited from the Portuguese colonial administration in Africa. By combining critical analysis of these archives with interdisciplinary approaches, from archival description practices to…
Leave a CommentCommunity archives create spaces for marginalized people to preserve their materials and share their stories. Their existence further allows for our communities to solidify their place in history, in a time where community building and survival can be increasingly challenging. Coming together and into the conversation around current community archives…
Leave a CommentThis round-table discussion is composed of four presenters, who together will explore the intersection of place, memory, and identity through the lens of community-centered and place-based archives. Presenters will share insights from their experiences working with community-based archives that reflect the cultural, historical, and social dimensions of place, and how…
Leave a CommentQueer community archives have long emerged in response to institutional neglect, misrepresentation, and erasure. In the current moment—marked by renewed attacks on LGBTQ+ lives, histories, and public memory—these archives function not only as repositories of the past, but as living, relational spaces that mobilize memory as political evidence and community…
Leave a CommentCommunity archives in North America are usually developed around historically underrepresented cultures and groups, including ethnic, racial, and religious identities, as well as sexual and gender orientation, economic status, and geographic locations. Yet, these categories are often porous, especially when these organizations are situated in highly multicultural locations. These intersections…
Leave a CommentRecent scholarship in archival studies has increasingly attended to affect and emotion, yet love remains insufficiently theorized and difficult to accommodate within dominant archival frameworks. Archival practices, particularly those surrounding personal, family, and community archives, are often deeply shaped by love as a motivating force, a form of labor, and…
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