‘Transforming Archives’ is an online series of workshops organised by the Intersections, Feminism, Technology and Digital Humanities (IFTe) networking project that seek to examine the nature of archives from an intersectional feminist perspective.
‘Transforming Archives’ is an online series of workshops organised by the Intersections, Feminism, Technology and Digital Humanities (IFTe) networking project, funded by the Irish Research Council (IRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
This set of workshops seeks to examine the nature of archives from an intersectional feminist perspective, looking to explore and understand archives, curation, and archiving practices that reflect these principles. The workshops will bring together archivists, artists, curators, community organisations, and academics to identify the issues associated with digital archiving and to explore alternative models of curation, collection, storage, expression, and interaction for these practices. The IFTe network sees feminist archiving as a means to amplify, record, and safeguard marginalised voices, and as a method that pushes the boundaries of what we think archives are and what they should consist of.
The first two workshops will showcase various alternative archives based on two themes – the first on community and institutional collaboration and the second on activist archiving practice. The workshops will consist of talks by the speakers, followed by a comfort break, a Q&A session, breakout rooms, and group discussion and wrap-up. The third workshop will be a hands-on feminist archiving activity. The series will conclude with a public talk hosted by the IFTe network partner organisation, the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA).
Registration is free but tickets are limited so advance registration in advised.
Workshop 1: Community and Institutional Collaboration
Monday 8 Feb, 2pm-5pm (approx)
Chair: Kylie Jarrett – IFTe project
Speakers:
Veronica McKenzie – Haringey Vanguard – BAME LGBTQ+ Community Heritage Project
Aileen O’Carroll – Digital Preservation of Reproductive Health Resources: Archiving the 8th project
Hannah Tiernan – Queer-in-Progress Timeline
Margaretta Jolly and Eleanor Careless – Business of Women’s Words
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Workshop 2: Archivism
Tuesday, 9 Feb, 2pm-5pm (approx)
Chair: Natalie Harrower – Digital Repository Ireland
Speakers:
Orla Egan – Cork LGBT Archive
Leon Diop – Black and Irish
Seamus Nolan – Traveller Community Archives
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Workshop 3: Community Archiving Workshop – What is feminist archiving?
Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2pm-4:30pm
DIY feminist archival practices for researchers, with Niamh Moore and Sharon Webb and other team members from the Reanimating Data project.
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Workshop 4: Public Talk – hosted by Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
Thursday, 11 Feb, 8pm
Speaker: Dr. Tonia Sutherland – University of Hawaiʻi at Māno
Talk: Digital Remains: Reflections on Race and the Digital Afterlife
Respondent: Dr. Sharon Webb – IFTe project, University of Sussex
See IMMA website for details on the talk and to register for tickets.
This research/project was funded by UKRI-AHRC and the Irish Research Council under the ‘UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Networking Call’ (grant numbers AH/V00199X/1 and IRC/V00199X/1)
