AI and the Future of Archivists: Impacts on Work practices and Job Quality The archival profession has been exploring AI applications for over a decade through research, development, and experimentation. Today, AI supports a wide range of archival functions, including appraisal and selection, handwritten text transcription, entity extraction, metadata generation,…
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Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)
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 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 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 CommentSentirpensar as a Sites of Dialogue in the Andean Diaspora This submission in paper format, explores how sentirpensar, an ontological articulation that integrates feeling and thinking, can serve as a framework for rethinking archival practices within Indigenous and Indigenous-descendant Latinx diasporas. It argues that dominant Western notions of the archive,…
Leave a CommentLe Tirage: A Case Study in Mapping Archival Documents From March through May of 1865, the Union Army drafted over 8,000 men from the occupied city of New Orleans. The city had been an early target of the Anaconda Plan, and had fallen into Union hands three years prior. By…
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 CommentDisability Intersections: How Community Archives Document Disability & Navigate Accessibility Community archives have the power to represent the nuances of communities on their own terms. Community archives—typically smaller, grassroots archives that focus on minoritized communities documenting themselves and that reflect their values—have the power to be repositories of community empowerment,…
Leave a CommentRelational Archives: Family Photographs as Sites of Decolonial Pedagogy This paper conceptualizes family photographs as generative and relational sites for decolonial pedagogy and archival research. Positioned at the intersection of public history, visual culture, and critical archival studies, it advances a framework that approaches family photographs as transdisciplinary and transhistorical…
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