CANB Presents: Archivist Mental Health with Dr. Michael Marlatt

Warning: Discussions on mental health can be distressing and can include conversation about difficult collections material. This workshop will be centered around care and understanding.

Dr. Michael Marlatt leads this 90-minute collaborative workshop that addresses archivist mental health and comes off of his recently published article “Supporting the 36%: A Teaching Guide on Student Mental Health in Media Archival Education “ in Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies. Michael will share some statistics, define concepts, and look to examine some of the current mental health concerns faced by archivists in New Brunswick. Attendees are welcome to share their own experiences as strategies are developed that we as a community can do to support each other working in New Brunswick area archives in 2025.

Note that attendees do not have to work in archival education or with media archives specifically to participate. Additionally, this webinar will be held in English.

More about the presenter:

Dr. Michael Marlatt is a disabled archival and museum accessibility consultant based in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. Michael graduated from Toronto Metropolitan University’s (Formerly Ryerson University) Film + Photography Preservation and Collections Management MA program in 2017. In 2024, Michael received his PhD in the Communication & Culture program at York University where he wrote his dissertation “No one said anything about driving in Film Preservation 101!”: The Lived Experience of Disability, Chronic Illness, and Neurodiversity in Moving Image Archival Education. Michael hosts archival accessibility/mental health workshops, speaks at conferences, and publishes on accessibility barriers that exist within archives and how to address them. His work focuses not only on inaccessibility for users but also for archivists, volunteers, donors, students, and interns. His workshops have been held in multiple countries and hosted by film archives, broadcast media archives, government archives, museums, medical archives, universities, archival professional organizations, and more.”