I’m back from a road trip with family through PA, WV, VA and KY (really not the summer to do this, although gas was a lot cheaper down south). Along with some hiking and biking and fabulous roadside dioramas, I had the pleasure of making a short visit to Appalshop, the legendary arts, media [...]
The Guardian online has an interview with Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraqi National Archive and Library. The former Kurdish resistance fighter returned to Baghdad in 2003 with a freshly minted Phd from the London School of Economics, and was appointed soon after. It is an almost unimaginable job under heartbreaking and terrifying conditions; he [...]
Now available on the Thomas J Dodd Research Center website are the proceedings of the meeting on human rights archives held March 3 & 4. Two notable outcomes of the conference include a new listserv, and the creation of a Human Rights Archives Information Portal. A prototype of the portal is currently being created by [...]
The Society of American Archivists (SAA) and the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) have released a joint statement calling for the return of five sets of records seized from Iraq during both Gulf conflicts and now in various US locations. They are (from the statement):
Records seized by the U.S. military and intelligence agencies during the [...]
This coming Monday April 14 at the New York Public Library:
“One of the most compelling issues explored by artists in recent years centers on the nature and meaning of the archive, that is, how we create, store, and circulate pictures and information.
Against the standard view of the archive which evokes a dim, musty place full [...]
The Archives and Human Rights Working Group of the International Council on Archives has published its first newsletter. According to the editorial,
“The newsletter will appear on a monthly basis until the ICA Congress in July 2008. A possible outcome of the Congress could be the establishment of a formalized Network, possibly within the ICA, on [...]
The Orphan Film Symposium made possible a fantastic convergence in NYC of archivists, filmmakers, scholars and students from around the globe this past week, with equal diversity represented in the film and video program. In addition to screenings of animated shorts, educational films, silents, newsreels and government sponsored films, we were pleased to [...]
WITNESS Media Archive staff will participate in the Orphans Film Symposium this week.
What is an orphan film?
From the Orphans website: Narrowly defined, it’s a motion picture abandoned by its owner or caretaker. [...]
Thanks to everyone at Duke for a great visit. I had the opportunity to meet and speak with a great group of archivists there, as well as to screen Missing Lives: Disappearances and Impunity in the North Caucasus to a more general audience. Produced with partner Human Rights Center Memorial, the video [...]
Next week I’ll be visiting and speaking at the Archive for Human Rights at Duke University. I’ll be screening a recent Memorial/WITNESS video, Missing Lives: Disappearances and Impunity in the Northern Caucasus, and talk about some of the production and archiving processes and challenges; the announcement is here. I’m looking [...]
