Note: This presentation was part of a three-person panel entitled "Expanding Notions of Users and Use." With “Documenting Digital Knowledge Sharing in Indigenous Communities,” Diana Marsh (University of Maryland, College Park) examines the lack of Native and Indigenous perspectives on the circulation of digitized primary sources. Marsh asks probing questions in this study: How are... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was part of a three-person panel entitled "Expanding Notions of Users and Use." Donald Force (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) explores the use of digital archival collections by historians in “Digital Archival Collections: Understanding their Use by Academic Historians.” While highlighting the ubiquitous nature of digital collections and their importance to scholarly historical writing,... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was part of a three-person panel entitled "What the Archives Can(t) Give Us: Thinking Through Archival Disturbances." In “Archival Cures: Refiguring Provenance and the Desire for the Whole,” Gracen Brilmyer (McGill University) examines how to tell the history of disability with little or none archival evidence, specifically looking at the Field Museum... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was part of a three-person panel entitled "What the Archives Can(t) Give Us: Thinking Through Archival Disturbances." With “Provenancial Fabulation: Exploring Records Creation in Digital Archives of Feminist Activism,” Jessica Lapp discusses records creation and archival collection creation within the context of the feminist movement in Toronto. Lapp explains the concept of... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was part of a three-person panel entitled "What the Archives Can(t) Give Us: Thinking Through Archival Disturbances." Ayantu Tibeso (University of California, Los Angeles) presents findings from interviews of Oromo activists and activist scholars in “‘These Institutions Do Not Represent Us’: (Re) encountering and Resisting Symbolic Annihilation in Ethiopian Archives.” Tibeso’s findings... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was one of three Keynote Addresses delivered at ICHORA 2020. In the keynote address, “The Provenance and Perversion of Curation,” Margaret Hedstrom (University of Michigan) explores different meanings of the word “curation” and the ways in which the verb “curate” has been utilized in common parlance beyond its technical meanings. Asking what... Continue Reading →

First organized in 2003, the ICHORA (International Conference on the History of Records and Archives) returned in late October 26-30, 2020, with its 9th biennial incarnation, hosted by the University of Michigan School of Information. ICHORA 2020 was spectacularly well-attended (over 270 people registered!) and remained thoroughly engaging throughout its five half-days of programming. As... Continue Reading →