Archives Research Workshops

Jason Camlot & Linda Morra

The Archives Research Workshops (ARW) is a three-day series of plenary lectures, hands-on workshops, and panel discussions.

Concordia University - Loyola Campus

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Developing archival research skills is essential to the study of literary and cultural texts—and yet, there are few venues by which to prepare students in archival practices, methods, and theory, or for researchers and archivists to gather and share archival research concepts and strategies with each other.The Archives Research Workshops (ARW) is a three-day series of plenary lectures, hands-on workshops, and panel discussions designed to provide training opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students in archival research and to build a lively forum for researchers and archivists to share methods and concepts that frame their scholarly work. Supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Connection grant, and funding from Concordia University and Bishop’s University, these events bring students into vital conversation with scholars and archivists about the best practices in relation to archival endeavours and its uses in ethical practices around, and application to humanities research. Scheduled for September 14-16 across both campuses of Concordia University in Montreal, the events will consist of two workshops situated in Concordia’s Special Collections, five presentation and discussion panels featuring fifteen established scholars and archivists, and two public plenary lectures. All scheduled activities promise to engage participants in the consideration of an exciting array of considerations concerning archival research, methods, and questions.Territorial AcknowledgementWe wish to acknowledge that Concordia University, the site of this year’s Archives Research Workshops, is located on unceded Indigenous lands. We recognize Kanien’kehá:ka Nation as the custodians of the lands and waters on which our events take place. Tiohtià:ke/Montréal is historically, and continues to be, a gathering place for many First Nations. We respect the continued connections with the past, present and future in our ongoing relationships with Indigenous and other peoples. We are sensitive to the diverse ways in which knowledge may be preserved, transmitted, and brought to light through a careful engagement in the use and consideration of archival institutions and practices.Thursday, September 14, 20236:15 pm - Welcoming Remarks - Jason Camlot and Linda Morra6:30 pm - Plenary Lecture - Ann Laura Stoler, Room: VA-114, Visual Arts Building, 1395 René-Lévesque Blvd W, Montreal, Quebec H3G 2M5. Moderated by Steven High.&quot;On Archiving as Politics and Praxis&quot;In this keynote lecture, Ann Laura Stoler will address the changing terrain of archival labor and the transformed processes that inform it. She will focus on what she sees as the &quot;conceptual methodologies&quot; that can address new ways of approaching those documents and objects already collected and, as importantly, the principles and practices brought to the project of gathering new materials, of archives in formation. Thinking about archiving as always an unfinished process and project, these two kinds of initiatives each have political potential and force of their own.Z﻿oom link : https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/s/892161634347:45 pm - Opening Reception, Room: VAV Gallery, Visual Arts Building, 1395 René-Lévesque Blvd W, Montreal, Quebec H3G 2M5Friday, September 15, 2023(All events on this date will take place on Concordia University&#x27;s Loyola Campus 7141 Sherbrooke St. W. Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4B 1R6. Limited access workshops will take place in the Vanier Library Building, 1st floor (VL). Afteroon panels and book launch/reception will be in the Loyola Jesuit Hall, RF-100 and adjacent rooms.Students who will be participating in the hands-on workshops are asked to visit the Concordia University Special Collections website and browse the many informative pages that discuss what archives are and how to use them, in particular the series: What are archives? and Visiting Special Collections.Z﻿oom link : https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/s/8348284035510:00 am – 11:30 am - Morning Workshop Session A: Archives 101 (Workshop Facilitated by Natalia Diaz, with the assistance of Jason Camlot, Linda Morra, Nathalie Cooke), Room: VL-126Offered twice, this workshop will induct students into the fundamentals of how to approach working with archival materials, raising the most elemental questions and concerns that arise in this context.10:00 am – 11:30 am - Workshop Session B: Working Between Digital and Physical Archives (Steven High), Room: VL-122Also offered twice in a day, this session is a more complex version of Archives 101. Introduced and facilitated by archivists and a scholar, it will serve as a hands-on exercise about how to handle materials, and about the kinds of research questions one might formulate in relation to what one finds in an archival box.11:30 am – 12:30 pm - Lunch Break, Loyola Jesuit Hall, RF-12012:30 pm – 2:00 pm - Afternoon Workshop Session A: Archives 101 (Workshop: Jason Camlot, Linda Morra, Natalia Diaz), Room: VL-12612:30 pm – 2:00 pm - Afternoon Workshop Session B: Working Between Digital and Physical Archives (Steven High), Room: VL-1222:00 pm – 2:15 pm - Break, Room: Loyola Jesuit Hall, RF-1002:15 pm – 3:45 pm - Panel: Working with Audio-Visual Materials Co-moderated by Jazmine Aldrich and Jody Robinson, ETRC (Patrick Feaster, Jason Camlot, Katherine McLeod, Annie Murray), Room: RF-110This round-table will present the various layers of complexity in dealing with materials that are not in paper form but are archives of time-based media, such as sound and video recordings. How does one plan to engage with materials that one must play to activate? How does one work to situate and contextualize analog media artifacts with adjacent documentation and materials? What are the implications of digitization for such collections?3:45 pm – 4:00 pm - Break, Room: RF-1104:00 pm – 5:30 pm - Panel: Reconstructing the Past in the Archive Moderated by David Webster , Bishop&#x27;s University (Linda Morra, Karis Shearer, Eli MacLaren), Room: RF-110This panel will involve three scholars using their own research to instruct students about how to approach and probe past materials, to consider problems of representation and research, and to suggest how archives are also generated from one&#x27;s own research.5:30 pm – 7:00 pm - Book Launch &amp; Event Reception, Room: RF-100Launch of Collection Thinking: Within and Without Archives, Libraries, and Museums (Routledge 2023), edited by Jason Camlot, Martha Langford, and Linda Morra, followed by a reception.Saturday, 16 September, 2023(All events on this date will take place on Concordia University&#x27;s downtown Sir George Williams campus, on the 11th floor of the Engineering and Visual Arts (EV) Building, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W, Montreal, Quebec H3G 2W1.Z﻿oom link : https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/s/842342489619:30 am – 11:00 am - Plenary Lecture, Karina Vernon (University of Toronto), Room: EV-11.705. Moderated by Jason Camlot and Linda Morra.&quot;Encounters with the Black Prairie Archive&quot;Dr. Vernon&#x27;s keynote lecture will address what editorial and archival practices are necessary for working respectfully and ethically in Black archives. Her talk will weave together first-person narrative accounts of her archival research on the Black prairies and her encounters with members of that community, and integrate these with primary creative writing by Black authors meditating on archives in order to theorize key issues of permission, relationship, and responsibility in Black archives.11:00 am – 11:15 am - Nutritional Break, Room: EV-11.72511:15 am – 12:15 pm - Panel: Ethics In and Outside of the Archives Moderated by Eli MacLaren, McGill University(Monika Kin Gagnon, Felicity Tayler, Deanna Reder, Michael Nest), Room: EV-11.705Four scholars experienced in matters related to Indigenous or independent communal archives will speak to the specific kinds of preparation and the research methods and protocols necessary for these kinds of archives. They will highlight the ethical and moral considerations that bear upon such research.12:15 pm – 1:30 pm - Lunch Break. Off campus, please enjoy lunch on your own at one of the numerous restaurants and cafés in the immediate area.1:30 pm – 2:45 pm - Panel: A Start-Up Guide to Working Archives (culminating event), Room: EV-11.705This last panel of the ARW events will involve all scholars and archivists to provide and highlight the top ten practices they consider essential to working in archives and how to prepare in advance for such research.2:45 - 3:15 pm - Closing Remarks and Thanks, Room: EV-11.705

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