Critical Archives Reading Group

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Meeting 5 2024 (27 November)

Meeting 5 of 2024 will be held on 27 November, at 1pm AEDT. We will be reading Owen C. King, "Archival meta-metadata: revision history and positionality of finding aids", Archival Science , vol 24, pp 509-529, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-024-09443-z (on open access). Please RSVP by registering here: https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkd-igqjMiHNLrIYkYTch9j9_jvyPviVuf Also, please come with your ideas for articles you're interested in reading and discussing at future meetings. If you're super keen, you can add your suggestions to our Zotero library . If you would like more information, send us an email .

Meeting 4 2024 (25 September)

Meeting 4 of 2024 will be held on 25 September 1pm AEST. We will be reading Eira Tansey, A Green New Deal for Archives , Council on Library & Information Resources, 2023, https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/a-green-new-deal-for-archives/ Please RSVP by registering here: https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctcOCqrzIvHtfgagkPCocMQDPjzFScY8fe Also, please come with your ideas for articles you're interested in reading and discussing at future meetings. If you're super keen, you can add your suggestions to our Zotero library . If you would like more information, send us an email .

Meeting 3 2024 (16 August)

Meeting 3 of 2024 will be held on Friday 16 August, at 1pm AEST. We will be reading Ana Ndumu, Diana E. Marsh, Victoria Van-Hyning and Sydney Triola (2022), "Panopticism and Complicity: The State of Surveillance and Everyday Oppression in Libraries, Archives and Museums", in Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies Vol 4 No 1: https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/166 A supplementary reading for the discussion is: SAA Native American Archives Section and Human Rights Archives Section, "Towards Inclusive Reading Rooms: Recommendations for Decolonizing Practices and Welcoming Indigenous Researchers", https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=690860&article_id=3861876&view=articleBrowser We will be joined by author Diana Marsh for the discussion. Please RSVP by registering here: https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlcuCtqzorGd1bOzCWddCv4bQITI1YEa59 Also, please come with your ideas for articles you're inte...

Reminder: meeting next week

Just a reminder that the next meeting of the critical archives reading group will be held on Wednesday 10 April, at 1pm AEST. We will be reading Jordana Silverstein, "Files, Families and the Nation: An Archival History, Perhaps", Journal of Australian Studies Vol 47 Issue 4, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2023.2240344 We will be joined by author Jordana Silverstein for the discussion. Please RSVP by registering here: https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsc-mhqDkrGdNaoBUl-Vk7OL9fvU3hcyzT

Meeting 2 2024 (10 April)

Meeting 2 of 2024 will be held on Wednesday 10 April, at 1pm AEST. We will be reading Jordana Silverstein, "Files, Families and the Nation: An Archival History, Perhaps", Journal of Australian Studies Vol 47 Issue 4, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2023.2240344 We will be joined by author Jordana Silverstein for the discussion. Please RSVP by registering here: https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsc-mhqDkrGdNaoBUl-Vk7OL9fvU3hcyzT Also, please come with your ideas for articles you're interested in reading and discussing at future meetings. If you're super keen, you can add your suggestions to our Zotero library . If you would like more information, send us an email .

Meeting 1 2024 (12 February)

Meeting 1 of 2024 was held on 12 February, 1pm AEDT. We read Gracen M. Brilmyer, 2022, "Towards a Crip Provenance: Centering disablity in archives through its absence", Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol9/iss1/3/ Also, please come with your ideas for articles you're interested in reading and discussing at future meetings. If you're super keen, you can add your suggestions to our Zotero library . If you would like more information, send us an email .