Looking Back to Move Forward is an opportunity to hear from some of AERI’s founders who aimed to build the archival studies discipline in significant ways as well as next generation scholars who have continued this work locally and internationally. Panelists include Anne Gilliland, Beth Yakel, Jeannette Bastian, Joanne Evans,…
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This 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 CommentSystematic Reviews as Digital Archives: Expanding the Archival Landscape Archival scholars continue to debate what constitutes an archive in digital contexts. This presentation proposes that systematic reviews, scoping reviews, and evidence maps can be productively understood as a form of digital archive. Many researchers who conduct systematic reviews are focused on…
Leave a CommentThis 3-hour workshop is based on an Open Educational Resource developed by the researchers on uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the processing of digitized Audio Records in the context of the InterPARES Trust AI Project. It introduces a framework for AI applications to the processing of audio records, case…
Leave a CommentArtist’s Archives in Portugal: Content Curation and Study of Daciano da Costa’s Legacy (2003-2022) The distinctiveness of artist archives resides in the significance of their elements/documents/objects collecting and assembling role, considering both the creative process and the subsequent information curation practices. Those mechanisms should be observed in the existence and…
Leave a CommentA Literature Review of Digital Capture of Oral Cultures and Community Perspectives on Effectiveness As archives increasingly digitize Indigenous oral histories and cultural heritage materials, a critical literature has emerged examining what community members identify as effective versus inadequate in digital preservation approaches. This literature review synthesizes scholarly and community-generated…
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 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 CommentFunding Landscape for Community Archives in Australia Mainstream GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) institutions, along with various community archives, play a crucial role in preserving Australia’s diverse heritage. Many community organisations, including dedicated community archives and local history associations, are actively involved in documenting and maintaining local histories that…
Leave a CommentAs the lingua franca of our time, the English language exerts a strong influence over the framing of the global world. By using English unreflexively in research, education, and professional cross-cultural exchanges, we may unwittingly support unequal power structures, the homogenization of research, and the marginalization of traditions and knowledge…
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…
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…
Leave a CommentAt once, our proposed workshop looks forward and back in time. We consider the future of personal and community archiving amidst the rise of fickle technology, generative AI for text and image generation, and constant pushes for content rather than intentional preservation and creation. For instance: the ouroboros of “AI…
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