Last week Russian historian Mikhail Suprun was arrested by Russia’s FSB security service for – as Truthdig put it – daring to study Russian history; more specifically, Stalin’s gulags. Suprun’s archives were confiscated; a police official who provided access to archive documents about gulag victims was also arrested. Suprun faces up to four years [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘memory’
October 15, 2009
Mandela opens archives for new book
The personal archive of Nelson Mandela will be opened for a new memoir; rights the collection of diaries, letters and other writings were auctioned this week at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
From the Guardian UK:
“Mandela himself, who bestowed these “traces of my life and those who have lived it with me” on his eponymous foundation, hopes [...]
May 8, 2009
Archives as Medium
I recently stumbled upon Essays: Archives as Medium , on the web site Old Messengers, New Media: The Legacy of Innis and McLuhan (in turn part of Library and Archives Canada online.) From Lance Strate’s essay The Medium is the Memory:
May 2, 2009
Conference: Memory, Archives, Human Rights
In Copehagen Denamrk, and Malmö, Sweden, June 4-5, 2009: Archives, Memory and Human Rights.
December 19, 2008
“Treatment of History a Bellwether of Human Rights”
The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience has distributed this statement pertaining to the recent raid and seizure of Human Rights Center Memorial’s archive (thanks Bryan and Sam for forwarding):
December 2, 2008
Archives, power & memory
“There is no political power without control of the archive, if not of memory.” – Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever.
Clifford Levy’s November 26 NY Times article about renewed control and suppression of the archives in the Putin era chillingly illustrates Derrida’s thesis:
“TOMSK, Russia: For years, the earth in this Siberian city had been giving up clues: [...]
