There’s growing acknowledgement that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities have been “researched to death” since the early days of colonisation, yet given little control over or access to data that is collected.The emerging Indigenous data sovereignty movement asserts that Indigenous peoples across the globe have inherent and inalienable rights relating to the collection, ownership and application of data about them and their lands and lives.Read more here.
Is there an issue that really irks you and you have something to say? Is there something in the news that can benefit from an archival perspective? Did you work on an incredible project related to archives and human rights and you want to share you insights? See a conference session or other event related to archives and human rights that you'd like to cover?Send blog post pitches to hilary.h.barlow@gmail.com. Include a short summary of your idea and why you're the best person to write it....
In April 2015, Aaron Bryant rushed to be there when demonstrations swept through Baltimore on the day of Freddie Gray’s funeral. He filmed protesters angered by Mr. Gray’s death throwing rocks, watched the helicopters overhead and listened to marchers singing hymns.But Mr. Bryant was neither a police officer nor a participant in the protest. He was a curator for the National Museum of African American History and Culture, there to collect artifacts, testimony and footage as the events unfolded...
“There is an arc of history that is very dramatic when you put these documents together,” said Peter Kornbluh, the exhibition’s curator who is a senior analyst at the National Security Archive in Washington and director of its Chile Documentation Project. “They have provided revelations and made headlines, they have been used as evidence in human rights prosecutions, and now they are contributing to the verdict of history.”On view are documents revealing secret exchanges about how to prevent...
MDOS did not hold an election in 2017. Here are the current members with the date they were elected.
Chair: Martha Parker, University of Arkansas Libraries - 8/6/2016 - 8/18/2018
Steering Committee Member: Matthew McEniry, Texas Tech University Library - 8/22/2015
Steering Committee Member: Laurel Mcphee, University of California, San Diego - 8/6/2016
Steering Committee Member: Melissa Torres, University of Houston Downtown - 8/22/2015
Steering Committee Member: Blake...
Please join us in welcoming the incoming MDOR steering committee members. We are so pleased to have them on board!
Chair: Kari Smith - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Co-Chair: Martha Parker - University of Arkansas Libraries
Steering Committee Member: Laurel Mcphee - University of California, San Diego
Steering Committee Member: Blake Graham - University of Nebraska at Lincoln
And we would like to welcome Bertram Lyons to MDOR as the Council Liaison.
Meeting Notes –
GRS Section Meet and Greet - Oct. 18th, 12:00PM-1:00PM PST
Hosted by Ingi House – Chair
Jessica Knox – Jensen – Chair Elect
Agenda and Topics Discussed
Agenda
Introduction by Ingi and Jessica
Roll Call By State and Location
Went through previous meeting notes and discussed any ideas present in those.
How to Make GRS Better
-Anything that makes the list serve more active is a good thing. Using momentum and keeping it going – creating traffic so that people keep...
The results of the Future Initiatives Survey, conducted in fall 2017 are available in the attached PDF.
The Students and New Archives Professionals (SNAP) Roundtable is seeking nominations for the appointed ex-officio positions of Blog Coordinator, New Professionals Blog Editor, Junior Social Media Coordinator, and Student Chapter Coordinator (see descriptions below). Ex-officio positions are open to all SNAP members.
The term for each office is one year, beginning on January 1, 2018 and ending on December 31, 2018. A second year may optionally be considered after the end of the first year. If...
Please join your GRS Steering Committee for an informal Meet and Greet via conference call on October 18th, 2017 from 12:00 PM (PST) to 1:00PM (PST). We’ll introduce ourselves and our repositories, and discuss any suggestions that you may have for increasing participation in the Government Records Section. Feel free to drop in/out of the conference call at any time; participating for the full hour is not required. Instructions for joining the call are provided below.Access Information -...
Hello SAA Government Records Section Members,
Let’s try this again! Please join your GRS Steering Committee for an informal Meet and Greet via conference call on October 18, 2017 from 12:00PM (PST) to 1:00PM (PST). We’ll introduce ourselves and our repositories, and discuss what you would like to see from the Government Records Section. Feel free to drop in or out of the conference call at any time; participating for the full hour is not required. Instructions for joining the Meet and...
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Please submit newsletter items about archives and human rights (writ broadly) to hilary.h.barlow@gmail.com. These can be recent publications, upcoming events or exhibitions, opportunities and scholarships, or something else entirely as long as it connects to archives and human rights. For the October newsletter, please send you submission by October 24, 2017.
On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was officially appointed chancellor of Germany. His rise to power ushered in Nazi control of the country and led to the horrors of the Holocaust. Among those targeted by the Third Reich were lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. LGBTQ people would be sent to concentration camps alongside Jews, the disabled, and many more — but one of the Nazis's first shows of force against Germany’s LGBTQ community was an attack on information.
On May 6, 1933...
The Octavius V. Catto Memorial Fund was created in 2004 and among his champions is Mayor Jim Kenney, who has been determined to memorialize the South Philadelphia scholar, educator, and athlete. Born in 1839, Octavius V. Catto’s many accomplishments include the successful desegregation of horse-drawn street cars in Pennsylvania, the recruitment of Black soldiers for the Civil War and a get out the vote effort that had black men waiting in line at the polls to cast their ballot on Election Day...
In 1989 Redstockings established the Archives for Action to make the formative and radical 1960s experience of the movement more widely available. Below, Annie Tummino (organizer and archivist) and Carol Giardina (organizer and historian) reflect upon how the archives have contributed to their feminist work.
Read more of this article here. Read more of Acid Free, a quarterly publication of the Los Angeles Archivists Collective, here.
Forty-four years after the U.S.-supported military coup, the Santiago Museum of Memory and Human Rights has inaugurated a special exhibit of declassified CIA, FBI, Defense Department and White house records on the U.S. role in Chile and the Pinochet dictatorship. The unusual exhibit, which officially opened to the public on September 5, is titled Secretos de Estado: La Historia Desclasificada de la Dictadura Chilena—Secrets of State: the Declassified History of the Chilean Dictatorship.Curated...
France's top constitutional authority says presidential archives on Rwanda should remain secret, thwarting a genocide researcher.
In 1994 France backed Rwanda's ethnic Hutu leaders at the time of the genocide by Hutu militias. Some 800,000 people - mostly Tutsis - were killed.
The Constitutional Council says a 25-year block on ex-president François Mitterrand's documents is legitimate.
A researcher, François Graner, had sought permission to study them.
Read more here.
Archival work requires an ethics of care for the deeply personal and the deeply political. My former boss at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics often said that all art is political. The same can be said about archives and archival work. Record creation, keeping, obstruction, or misrepresentation are all acts of identity and power. Who gets to be remembered and historicized by way of record creation? Who is forgotten or purposefully silenced in history by way of omission or...
When the latest barrage of bad news out of Washington batters your hope for the future, it’s time to plan a trip to Interference Archive in Brooklyn.This place is the Smithsonian of dissent, the Louvre of political organizing—a vast treasure of pamphlets, posters, banners, flyers, photos, buttons, film clips, newspapers, t-shirts, ‘zines, audio recordings and other artifacts from movements that changed the world.You’ll find troves of boxes, files, stacks and shelves shining light on anti-...
Syria's civil war has been one of the modern world's most brutal conflicts and one of its most heavily filmed. Hundreds of thousands of amateur videos uploaded to YouTube document every heartbeat of the war over the past seven years, from momentous events like cities under bombardment to intimate scenes like a father cradling his dead children.Syrian activists fear all that history could be erased as YouTube moves to rein in violent content. In the past few months, the online video giant has...
