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Free online archives conference info below.

International Conference on the History of Records and Archives
https://ichora2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Theme of conference is decolonization of archives thought.

Schedule time zone is EST. Registration links for each day are the forwarded email at the bottom.

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

  *   Keynote speaker
5-6:30 pm
Dexnell Peters, Lecturer in Caribbean and Atlantic History at the University of the West Indies
https://ichora2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/keynotes-and-presentations/

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Thursday, November 7, 2024

Legacies of Colonial Era Archival and Recordkeeping Practices
9:30 - 11:15 am

  *   Chair: Sparkle Ferreira
  *   Sherwood McCaskie, Department of Library and Information Studies, University of the West Indies: Ship Ahoy: A Case Study in Decolonising Archival Thought
  *   Daniel Rankadi Mosako, Department of Information Science, University of South Africa: Recontextualising historical figures in archival repositories on colonial practices in the acquisition of Historical Objects
  *   Andrew Williams, Department of History and Archaeology, University of the West Indies: Tracing the Lineage of the 'Deeds Libers': Colonial origins and modern realities in Jamaican recordkeeping
  *   Henria Aton, Archivist, The Archive of the Jesuits in Canada; François Dansereau, Director of The Archive of the Jesuits in Canada; Kate Nugent, Archivist, Tio'tia:ke/Montreal, QC: Creating Knowledge, Creating Worlds: Archival Description, Land, and Settler Colonial Logics in the Jesuit Collection des archives du College Sainte-Marie

Break: 11:15 am - 11:30 am

Colonizing and Decolonizing Archival Thought
11:30 am - 1:00 pm

  *   Chair: Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski
  *   Sindiso Bhebe, School of Communication and Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Australia: Ideological Locus Standi of the African Archivist
  *   James Lowry, City University of New York: Notes on an Imperial Discourse Network
  *   Patrick McGee, City University of New York: Archival Destruction and the Antinomies of the Enlightenment

Lunch: 1:00 - 2:00 pm

Reckoning with Marginalized Histories
2:00 - 3:45 pm

  *   Chair: Dominique Luster
  *   Mpho Ngoepe, University of South Africa: A historical treatment of strangers and formation of cultural identity of Bakone ba Makgabeng in South Africa
  *   Ayantu Tibeso, School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles: Unveiling Archival Hegemonies: The Struggle for Indigenous Voices in Ethiopian History
  *   Suanmuanlian Tonsing, School of Information, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA: On colonial archival order of evidence and Indigenous oral traditions
  *   Carine Zaayman, Research Centre for Material Culture, Wereldmuseum, The Netherlands: Viva Absence, Viva! Engaging the Potentiality of Absences in Colonial Archives

Break: 3:45 - 4:00 pm

Keynote
5:00-6:00 pm

  *   Jamila Ghaddar, Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Science at Dalhousie University. https://ichora2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/keynotes-and-presentations/

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Friday, November 8, 2024

Creating Alternative Archival Spaces
9:30 - 11:15 am

  *   Chair: Norman Malcolm
  *   Sparkle Ferreira, Department of Library and Information Studies, University of the West Indies: Landmarks Through Time: Calypso as an oral and performance archive
  *   Kelly A. Kolar, Middle Tennessee State University, USA: Bolsheviks as the First Anti-Colonial Archivists: Reshaping the Archival Record in 1920s Soviet Union
  *   Jessica Lapp, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto: Nothing Much Was Lost: Tracing Archival Creation at the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA) Archives
  *   Sandra Stubbs, Department of Library and Information Studies, University of the West Indies: Beyond the Colonial Shadow: Reimagining Caribbean Archival Spaces (physical & virtual) for the Digital Age

Break: 11:15 - 11:30 am

Colonizing and Decolonizing Archival Language and Terminology
11:30 am - 12:30 pm

  *   Chair: Daniel Arbino
  *   Fiorella Foscarini, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto: Translation in archival studies: can we do better?
  *   Francis Garaba, Information Studies Department, University of KwaZulu-Natal: The need for archival lexicography in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of the East and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (ESARBICA)

Lunch: 12:30 - 1:15 pm

Epistemic Sovereignty and Post-Custodial Archival Praxis: Digitizing the Lloyd Best Archive in Trinidad and Tobago
1:15 - 2:45 pm
Chair: Sherwood McCaskie

  *   Christina Bleyer, College Librarian, Associate Vice President of Libraries and Digital Learning and Director of Special Collections and Archives, Watkinson Library at Trinity College, USA
  *   Amanda Matava, Digital Archivist and Head of the Digital Asset Management Department at Trinity College, USA
  *   Sariyah Mohammed, digital archivist at the Lloyd Best Institute of the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago.

Break: 2:45 - 3:00 pm

Structures of Colonialism
3:00- 4:30 pm

  *   Chair: Peta-Gaye Richards
  *   Jackson Anderson, University of Manitoba, Canada: The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and Residential School Records
  *   Greg Bak, University of Manitoba, Canada: Good Intentions: The Long-Term Management of the Records of Canada's Indigenous Residential School System
  *   Jordan Bass, University of Manitoba, Canada: Last-Mile Reconciliation: The Digital Divide and its Impact on Archival Engagement with First Nations Communities

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From: James Lowry via Society of American Archivists <Mail at ConnectedCommunity.org>
Sent: Monday, November 4, 2024 6:01 PM
To: Carleton, Janet (she/her) <carleton at ohio.edu>
Subject: [SAA announcements] : Register for ICHORA - Now fully online

With a possible tropical storm approaching Jamaica later this week, Kingston on flood watch, and the possibility of flight cancellations, out of... -posted to the "Announcements" community
[James Lowry]<https://connect.archivists.org/network/members/profile?UserKey=89bf5088-ff40-4083-b12b-eb995d3f0aca>
Nov 4, 2024 5:01 PM
James Lowry<https://connect.archivists.org/network/members/profile?UserKey=89bf5088-ff40-4083-b12b-eb995d3f0aca>
With a possible tropical storm approaching Jamaica later this week, Kingston on flood watch, and the possibility of flight cancellations, out of an abundance of caution, the organisers of ICHORA<https://ichora2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/> have decided to move the conference fully online.
To register for the online conference, please use the following links:
Register for Wednesday<https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUocumhqjMsEtDoexqv0dHZBlVnH0OcywLa>
Register for Thursday<https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckcOGvpzItHNamqgdP5oeLvdKBSyUPZ3YU>
Register for Friday<https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkd-ivrD4rH90S1_w72pyCDX__ggl2Y84P>
There is no registration fee. The schedule will remain the same<https://ichora2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/schedule/>, with all times expressed in Eastern Standard Time.
We're very sorry that we won't have the opportunity to meet in person, and we apologise for the disruption to travel plans, but the organisers believe this is the safest course of action given the unpredictable weather.

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Dr. James Lowry
Queens College, The City University of New York
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