Word comes from Valerie Love, U Conn’s Curator of Human Rights Collections, that the petition to create a Human Rights Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists has been approved; Valerie made the case here last October. A huge thanks to Valerie and T-Kay Sangwand of U Texas for making this happen; they [...]
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February 10, 2010
New Tactics Dialogue follow-up
Earlier this month New Tactics in Human Rights hosted an online dialogue Documenting Human Rights Violations: Choosing the Right Approach featuring practitioners from a variety of fields. Although a bit hard to navigate, there’s a wealth of interesting commentary. Here are a few highlights:
January 27, 2010
New Tactics dialogue on human rights documentation
Documenting Violations: Choosing the Right Approach is an online dialogue being facilitated by New Tactics in Human Rights, beginning today and running through February 5, 2010. From NT:
“This dialogue will feature practitioners that have developed database systems to document human rights violations, organizations on the ground documenting violations, and those that are training practitioners [...]
January 4, 2010
‘Archives Power’ virtual reading group
I’ve mentioned the book Archives Power: Memory, Accountability and Social Justice by Rand Jimerson on this blog on a few occasions but haven’t had a chance to post about it at any length.
Luckily, Kate Theimer of ArchivesNext is convening a group read of the book beginning January 11, the site for which is [...]
December 10, 2009
International Outreach Session at AMIA
Last month I blogged about a session we attended at the Association of Moving Image Archivists’ conference in St. Louis. The session, “AV Preservation Exchanges: New York Accra, and Buenos Aires,” discussed two initiatives in which established institutions partnered with international moving image archives lacking in resources. The exchanges involved providing training workshops, knowledge [...]
December 7, 2009
New & of Note
An update on the disposition of the archives of the International Criminal Tribunals for former Yugoslavia and Rwanda is available; see The Documentalist for a good summary, courtesy of James Simon. The fate of the archives has been a matter of particular international controversy. Report S/2009/258 from May [...]
December 1, 2009
Voices of Rwanda video testimony project
Our series of video interviews relating to archives and human rights continues on the Hub, with Taylor Krauss, founder/director of Voices of Rwanda.
The project was created to record and preserve the testimonies and life stories of Rwandans, drawing significantly on the genocide but encompassing lives as a whole. To date over 500 hours [...]
November 19, 2009
Memory and Justice: ICTJ launches new website
The International Center for Transitional Justice has recently launched a new website, called Memory and Justice. The site includes a database of information about selected memory sites – public memorials, sites of memory/conscience, and similar accountability projects – and is also intended as a space for highlighting [...]
November 17, 2009
Reaching Out at AMIA
On November 4-7, I attended the Association of Moving Image Archivists’ (AMIA) Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. Since AMIA is based in the US, and most of its conferences are held here, most attendees are American or Canadian. A handful of participants from larger archiving institutions around the world also usually attend.
There are, however, many [...]
November 13, 2009
Copyright: three great new resources
The following new free resources on copyright have just come to my attention:
Copyright Watch: Hosted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, CW includes a user-friendly database of national copyright laws from around the world, and a blog; the site is intended to be a place to share information about copyright legislation and developments [...]
