Programme
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Scottish Executive Arts & Humanities Awards
Investigating the Archive project
The Philosophy of the Archive
Hilton Caledonian Hotel, Edinburgh, 10-11 April 2008
Thursday 10 April | |
| 8.30 - 9.30 | Registration and coffee |
| 9.30 - 9.45 | Welcome and Introduction Professor Nicholas Davey, Dean, School of Humanities, University of Dundee |
| Keynote speaker | |
| 9.45 - 10.45 | Terry Cook, University of Manitoba, Canada Along the grain: assumptions and voices of archivists from the inside |
| 10.45 - 11.15 | Coffee |
| Session 1: Recording and Representation | |
| 11.15 - 12.45 | Geoffrey Yeo, University College London, Records and representations Jim Burant, Library and Archives, Ottawa Archives and absences: the graphic records of disorganisation, disorder and dissidence James Girdwood, University of Glasgow The ontology of recording and memory |
| 12.45 - 1.30 | Lunch |
| Session 2: Collecting and Representing | |
| 1.30 - 3.20 | Andrew Flinn, University College London Democratising the archive. Representing diversity: an agenda for a 21st century profession Sarah Jones, AHDS Performing Arts, HATII, University of Glasgow Redefining the Performing Arts archive Gail Chester, Royal Holloway, University of London When is an archive not an archive? The experience of saving the Feminist Library Sue Breakell, Tate London and Victoria Worsley, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Context is half the work: activating the Artist Placement Group archive |
| 3.20 - 3.40 | Coffee |
| Session 3: Memory and Identity | |
| 3.40 - 5.00 | Heather Home, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario Aspects of memory Craig Gauld, University of Glasgow From things to experience: relativism, identity and the archive Nick Barratt, Founder, Nation's Memory Bank Memory, history and social networks |
| Evening reception | |
| 6.30 - 8.30 | Wine reception, hosted by the National Archives of Scotland George MacKenzie, Keeper of the Records of Scotland and Professor Chris Whatley, Royal Society of Edinburgh and Vice Principal and Head of the College of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Dundee |
Friday 11 April | |
| 8.30 - 9.30 | Registration |
| Keynote speaker | |
| 9.30 - 10.30 | Elizabeth Shepherd, University College London Culture and evidence: conflict or continuum? |
| 10.30 - 10.50 | Coffee |
| Session 4: Social Memory and Evidence | |
| 10.50- 12.40 | Andreas Litschel, Universität Bielefeld, Germany Perpetuating replacement. Representing archives and the imaginary of social history Jennifer Meehan, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University The archival nexus: re-thinking the interplay of ideas about the nature, value and use of records Ineke Deserno, Monash University, Melbourne The value of business archives: the importance of the archives of large businesses in shaping cultural identity Mareike Menne, Universität Stuttgart, Germany Archives, power and knowledge |
| 12.40 - 1.25 | Lunch |
| Keynote speaker | |
| 1.25- 2.25 | Verne Harris, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Johannesburg Against the grain: archive(s), discourse(s) and outside(s) |
| 2.25 - 2.45 | Coffee |
| Session 5: Representation, Justice and Power | |
| 2.45 - 4.45 | Giulia Barrera, Italian Archives Directorate, Rome Of condors and judges: archival musing over a judicial investigation Tom Connors, University of Maryland, Maryland The tainted archive: political, moral and philosophical considerations Tom Adami, United Nations Mission, Sudan Peacekeeping and archives: The United Nations in Sudan Alistair Tough, HATII, University of Glasgow The philosophy of the archive and the social creation of knowledge |
| 4.45 - 5.00 | Concluding remarks Caroline Brown, University of Dundee |