[Personal_archives] Institute on Personal Archives Oct. 2010

[Rodney Carter]

Good morning,

I am very happy to report that the Registration Form for the ACA Institute
on Personal Archives, to be held Oct. 29-30th in Toronto is now available on
the ACA's website.

http://www.archivists.ca/sites/default/files/Attachments/professional_development/Registn_Institute10.pdf

Spaces are limited so sign up soon. I look forward to seeing you in Toronto
in October.

Rodney

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Hobbs, Catherine <
catherine.hobbs at lac-bac.gc.ca> wrote:

> Good afternoon,
>
> The following is a draft announcement for the ACA Institute on Personal
> Archives to be held in the week of October 22nd, 2010.  I hope that this
> opportunity for discussion and expansion of our theory and practice for
> personal archives interests you and that you'll consider attending the
> professional institute.  The final details will follow.  For now, I hope
> that this description will spark your interest.
>
> Warm Regards,
>
> Catherine Hobbs (SISPA Chair)
>
>
> ACA Institute on Personal Archives
>
> Oct. 2010
> Toronto, Canada
>
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> ACA Institutes offer an intense learning experience featuring topics or
> curriculum at an advanced level. Institutes typically last two to three days
> and involve preparatory readings and case studies.
>
> The Institute on Personal Archives examines current and emerging issues
> surrounding the archives of individuals and families.  This professional
> institute promotes dialogue among archivists about the unique requirements
> of personal archives, as well as existing theory and new strategies for
> tackling challenges.
>
> The topics covered in the seminar include: past approaches to personal
> archives, appraisal and acquisition, arrangement and description, and
> personal digital archives.
>
> Session facilitator: Catherine Hobbs
> (SISPA Chair and Literary Archivist [English], Library and Archives Canada)
>
> The Institute will incorporate presentations and discussion with two
> special guests:
>
>                Sally Newman (Faculty of Education, Monash University and
> co-author of The Intimate Archive)
>
>                Laura Carroll (Salman Rushdie Born Digital Archives Project,
> Emory University)
>
> (for bios see below)
>
> Participants will be asked to complete preparatory readings in current
> thinking about personal archives and to prepare a case study from a finding
> aid for a personal fonds.
>
> Archivists and students in the field are encouraged to participate, to
> debate, and to expand avenues for theory and practice where personal
> archives are concerned.
>
> Participants will receive a copy of The Intimate Archive: Journeys Through
> Private Papers by Maryanne Dever, Sally Newman and Ann Vickery (National
> Library of Australia, 2009).
>
> Details for registration and exact dates to follow.
>
>
>
> Sally Newman bio
> Dr. Sally Newman is a research fellow in the Faculty of Education at Monash
> University in Melbourne. Sally's research focuses on the history of
> sexualities and emotions. Specifically  on the ways in which the archive (as
> a material and conceptual entity), is deployed to provide 'evidence' of
> desire, sex, love, relationships and/or identity, and how this shapes
> particular historical narratives in different national contexts. Her book,
> The Intimate Archive (co-authored with Maryanne Dever and Ann Vickery), was
> published in 2009 and her articles have appeared in the Journal of the
> History of Sexuality, Women's History Review and Australian Feminist
> Studies.
>
> Sally is currently working on the first critical edition of the literary
> correspondence between poet A. Mary F. Robinson Duclaux (1857-1944)-whose
> salon in Paris was the meeting place for writers and artists travelling
> between Britain and Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
> centuries-and intellectuals Vernon Lee (pseudonym of the British writer
> Violet Paget,1856-1935), and John A. Symonds (1840-1893)--who was co-author
> of Sexual Inversion (1897) with Havelock Ellis. The letters offer invaluable
> insight  into emerging discourses of sexuality at this time. The project is
> funded by an Embassy of France in Australia Humanities Travelling Fellowship
> with the Australian Academy of the Humanities that will enable Sally to
> undertake research at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris.
>
> Laura Carroll bio
> Laura L. Carroll is a manuscript processing archivist at the Manuscript,
> Archives and Rare Book Library at Emory University, where she most recently
> served as the lead archivist on the Salman Rushdie born digital archives
> processing project.  Prior to joining the staff at Emory in January 2008,
> Laura was the archivist at the American Medical Association in Chicago,
> Illinois.  She has also worked at the Newberry Library and Loyola
> University's Women and Leadership Archives.  She holds a master's degree in
> Public History from Loyola University, in addition to a M.L.I.S. from
> Dominican University, both located in the Chicago region.
>
> Catherine Hobbs bio
> Catherine Hobbs is the Literary Archivist (English-language) at Library and
> Archives Canada.  Prior to its merger , she was the Literary Manuscript
> Archivist (English) at the National Library of Canada.  Catherine is the
> Chair of the Special Interest Section on Personal Archives (SISPA) within
> the Association of Canadian Archivists and was a member of the programme
> committee for the Archives in Canada Conference Series.  She has a
> particular interest in issues surrounding artistic producers of archives, as
> well as individuals' understandings of their own documentation.  She has
> published articles and chapters on literary archives and on personal
> archives.
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