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Understanding community archives within an international context
July 7, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm BST
Free3:00 pm – 4:30 pm GMT
Panel participants include:
Jeannette Bastian (USA) is a Professor Emerita at Simmons University, Boston where she directed their Archives Management program. She is the co-editor with Andrew Flinn of Community Archives, Community Spaces; Heritage, Memory, Identity (Facet, London 2020)
Andrew Flinn (panel organiser, UK) is a Reader in Archival Studies and Oral History at University College London and the vice-chair of the UK and Ireland Community Archives and Heritage Group. Along with Jeannette Bastian he is the co-editor of the recent Facet publication (London, 2020) Community Archives Community Spaces: Heritage, memory and identity which include contributions from the UK, North America, Australia, Thailand, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Croatia and relating to a variety of community-led archives and communities / peoples.
Hannah Ishmael (UK) recently completed her PhD on The Development of Black-led Archives in London at University College London and is the archivist at the Black Cultural Archives in London.
Li Mengqiu (China) is a Phd student at Renmin University of China in the School of Information Resource Management. Research area: Community archives, Archives governance.
Luisa Metelo Seixas (Brasília, 1986) is a Contemporary History PhD candidate at NOVA University of Lisbon (Institute of Contemporary History). Her present research (with the scientific supervision of Professor Fernanda Rollo, Maria Inês Queiroz and Professor Luis Baptista) focuses on History with and for Communities, more specifically on Portuguese contemporary projects and initiatives on the safeguarding of documentation and materials with the participation and collaboration of communities and the public. This encompasses grassroots and independent action, but also the importance of the phenomenon of community inventories and collections in museums and archives in the Portuguese Landscape. Since 2015 she collaborates on the management and development of the Memory for All Programme (www.memoriaparatodos.pt), fostering the identification, organisation and digital preservation of individual and community archival materials and heritage in Portugal.
Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak (panel organiser, Poland) is an Academic teacher and researcher from Poland, since 2018 employed at the Faculty of History, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Between 2016 and 2019 she was a PI in a research project “Community archives in Poland – multiple case study”, which was concluded with publication of her first book. Her research interests, apart from community archives, are archival research methodology and new trends in archival science. Website: www.wisniewska-drewniak.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9119-1372.
The session will discuss and consider ideas such as:
- Is an international perspective useful in considering community-led/community-based archives? How can we benefit from such a perspective as researchers and community archive practitioners?
- How can we connect the study of the practice of community archiving internationally to the critical questions we face today (discrimination and representation, climate change, social justice and equitable access to and distribution of rights and resources, democratisation of voice and narratives / histories, the sustainability of community-led resources and institutions, etc)
- Is there as much variety of independent and community-led archives within national contexts as there is across national boundaries?
- What problems manifest themselves when we want to talk about community-led/community-based archives internationally? How important are national contexts in discussing the subject (e.g. history and political context of the region / country, laws and legal framework governing archives (especially public archives), the general ‘archival landscape’ in the country, funding opportunities (state and non-state), role of public institutions (including archives) engaged in fostering independent archives, terminology (and different terminologies) used to describe the phenomenon, relationships between social movements and archives / memory activism, current trends/fashion, anniversaries of particular historical events, national ‘historical policy’/politics of memory)?
- How important in studying / community archives are regional/national traditions of archival studies, including as a scientific discipline (for instance research methodology of archival studies as a historical discipline vs as a social science)
- What tools can be used to facilitate international discussions about community-led/community-based archives (e.g. publications, traditional conferences, on-line seminar groups, Internet forums)?
Organizers: Andrew Flinn and Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak