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‘Archives Power’ virtual reading group
I've mentioned the book Archives Power: Memory, Accountability and Social Justice by Rand Jimerson on this blog on a few occasions but haven't had a chance to post about it at any length.
WITNESS
January 4, 2010
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New & of Note
An update on the disposition of the archives of the International Criminal Tribunals for former Yugoslavia and Rwanda is available; see The Documentalist for a good summary, courtesy of James Simon.
WITNESS
December 7, 2009
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Reaching Out at AMIA
On November 4-7, I attended the Association of Moving Image Archivists’ (AMIA) Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. Since AMIA is based in the US, and most of its conferences are held here, most attendees are American or Canadian.
Yvonne Ng
November 17, 2009
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AMIA 2009: random notes
We are back from the 2009 Association of Moving Image Archivists conference in St Louis, which concluded Saturday. By we I mean myself, my WITNESS co-archivist Yvonne Ng, and our phenomenal interns Michele DeLia, Teague Schneiter and Valentina Catena.
Yvonne Ng
November 11, 2009
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Khmer Legacies: Interview with Socheata Poeuv
The Hub is currently featuring a video interview with Socheata Poeuv, a visiting fellow at the Yale University Genocide Studies Program. Poeuv is the founder and director of Khmer Legacies, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the history of the Cambodian genocide by recording video testimonials of its survivors.
WITNESS
November 2, 2009
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Non-custodial archiving: U Texas and Kigali Memorial Centre
Non-custodial archival practices and the UT Libraries Human Rights Documentation Initiative partnership with the Kigali Memorial Centre
WITNESS
October 30, 2009
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Building a Network for Human Rights Archives and Archivists
In recent years, archival institutions and organizations have become increasingly concerned with issues regarding human rights records and archival collections.
WITNESS
October 28, 2009
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World Day for Audiovisual Heritage: Archiving for Human Rights
Today is World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, started in 2005 by UNESCO in order to help "build global awareness of the various issues at stake in preserving audiovisual heritage." These issues include deterioration and loss due to time, handling, improper storage, format obsolescence, and poor documentation, and they continue to threaten much of the world’s moving image heritage.
Yvonne Ng
October 27, 2009
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The magic of documenting documentation
Guest post from Sarah Van Deusen Philips: As the project coordinator for human rights at the Center for Research Libraries-Global Resources Network, my primary task is to engage with the life-cycle of human rights documents, which I do through our Electronic Resources Study. In this study, I am busy speaking to human rights field workers, […]
WITNESS
October 20, 2009
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Re-Stalinization and revisionism in Russia
Last week Russian historian Mikhail Suprun was arrested by Russia's FSB security service for - as Truthdig put it - daring to study Russian history; more specifically, Stalin's gulags. Suprun's archives were confiscated; a police official who provided access to archive documents about gulag victims was also arrested. Suprun faces up to four years in jail if convicted.
WITNESS
October 20, 2009
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Archival access: ethics, rights, obligations
Access is a primary archival value, driven by many things: legal or organizational mandates, copyright, available technology and resources, a deep-seated belief that access to information is the foundation of a free and educated society, and, in fact, a right. With human rights materials the challenges are particularly acute, sometimes pitting personal safety, security and […]
WITNESS
October 12, 2009
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Archives Month: Focus on Human Rights
“The recognition that archives and archivists play a central role in undergirding human rights has grown over the last decade.”
WITNESS
October 1, 2009
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Recommended: new book, new blog
I am reading, with great pleasure, Randall Jimerson’s newly published Archives Power: Memory, Accountability and Social Justice (2009; Society of American Archivists). The book addresses the role of archives and archivists in society, and evolving perspectives on their relevance to larger issues of social justice. SAA’s blurb: “Grounded in historical and social theory, this analysis […]
WITNESS
September 9, 2009
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SAA 2009 highlights
I unfortunately will not be in Austin next week for the 2009 Society of American Archivists meeting. But if I were, these are some of the sessions I would be sure not to miss:
WITNESS
August 7, 2009
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Human rights archives/archivists at SAA 2009
From the ICA Archives and Human Rights blog, for archivists of human rights collections: Dear colleagues, Hello, my name is T-Kay Sangwand and I’m the new Human Rights Archivist at the University of Texas Libraries. I am writing to see if any list members will be attending the Society of American Archivists annual meeting taking […]
WITNESS
May 27, 2009
