Archivalia: Veranstaltungen

Veranstaltungen

International congress about the importance of archives for human rights, good governance, formation of the nation state and national identity

Archives as silent witnesses for the Australian Aboriginals. The role archives play in a federal state: the case of Flanders. Archives and national identity in Indonesia. A selection from the topics up for discussion during the international archival conference at the Peace Palace in The Hague, The Netherlands, August 30-31, 2010. This congress focuses on the importance of archives for good governance in an international context. In the globalizing information society, the significance of archives increasingly transcends national boundaries.

The congress focuses on four themes:
• Archives as 'silent witnesses'. Archives particular relevance in international areas where human rights are at stake.
• Archives of international tribunals like the Yugoslavia Tribunal, or of international or supranational organizations like the European Commission and the Red Cross, transcend national boundaries. What happens to these archives, which are not subject to international archival laws?
• Archives play an important role in the development of a national identity and national states. Archival management is, for example, indispensable to land registry or the Right to Information of citizens. Conversely, the growth and the management of archives are directly influenced by the formation of states.
• How do archival professionals provide support to their colleagues in other parts of the world? Is there international archival solidarity?

Key note speakers are:
• Luc Huyse, sociologist of law, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and international authority on commissions of reconciliation and truth.
• Gabriela Salazar, president of the Mexican professional organization of archivists, member of the Section of Records Management and Archival Professional Organizations of the International Council on Archives, and an expert on archives and human rights.
• Antonio Gonzalez Quintana, Spanish expert in the field of archives, human rights and international organizations.
• Trudy Huskamp Peterson, former Archivist of the United States, current Chair of the Human Rights Working Group of the International Council on Archives.
• Eric Ketelaar, emeritus professor of Archivistics, University of Amsterdam.

Additional speakers come from but not limited to, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Italy, Morocco, The Netherlands, Spain, the United States of America and Switzerland.

Some of the papers on the programme are:
• The archives of the Khmer Rouge: justice and truth in Cambodia
• Documenting torture and truth in El Salvador after the civil war
• Managing the archives of international organizations
• The role of archives in the parliamentary investigation concerning Lumumba (Belgium)

The international congress is organised by KVAN, the Dutch association for archivists, and VVBAD, the Flemish association for archivists and librarians. The conference is supported by the Section of Professional Associations of the International Council on Archives (ICA/SPA) and the National Archives in The Hague, The Netherlands The congress commemorates the first international archives conference, which took place in Brussels a century ago in 1910.

More details concerning the congress and the programme is available at: http://www.archiveswithoutborders.org .
via Archivliste!
s.a. http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/6089996/

Wolf Thomas - am Mittwoch, 23. Juni 2010, 20:01 - Rubrik: Veranstaltungen

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Sonderausstellung der Stiftung "Topographie des Terrors"

Über die Ausstellung mit dem Titel "Das Gesicht des Gettos. Bilder jüdischer Photographen aus dem Getto Litzmannstadt 1940-1944" berichtet die Berliner Zeitung vom 23.06.2010:

http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2010/0623/feuilleton/0010/index.html

Weitere Informationen zur Ausstellung, die vom 23.06. bis 03.10.2010 zu sehen ist, gibt die Homepage der Stiftung:

http://www.topographie.de/topographie-des-terrors/ausstellungen/sonderausstellungen/

ingobobingo - am Mittwoch, 23. Juni 2010, 16:01 - Rubrik: Veranstaltungen

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"Mit der Möglichkeit gesehen zu werden. Dorothee und Konrad Fischer: Archiv einer Haltung"

Eine Ausstellung im Museum Kurhaus Kleve vom 14.11.2010 – 20.03.2011

"Konrad Fischer (1939-1996) hat mit seiner 1967 in Düsseldorf eröffneten Galerie international Kunstgeschichte geschrieben, insbesondere als früher Förderer der minimalistischen und konzeptuellen Kunst. Zahlreiche Künstler, die heute Weltgeltung besitzen, hat er „entdeckt“ und zu ihrer ersten Einzelausstellung in seine Galerie eingeladen. Seine Galerie war in Europa der entscheidende Ort für die Entwicklung der Kunst.

Erstmals wird mit dieser Ausstellung ein zentrales Kapitel der Kunstgeschichte des Rheinlands im 20. Jahrhundert beleuchtet. Sie zeigt die enorme Lebensleistung von Konrad Fischer anhand der Sammlung, die er gemeinsam mit seiner Frau Dorothee parallel zur Galeriearbeit aufgebaut hat und die in ihrer Gesamtheit bisher nicht bekannt ist. Sie umfasst eindrucksvolle Werkgruppen hochrangiger internationaler Künstler, u.a. von Carl Andre, Bernd und Hilla Becher, Hanne Darboven, On Kawara, Richard Long, Sol LeWitt, Mario Merz, Bruce Nauman, Robert Ryman, Gregor Schneider und Thomas Schütte.

Die Ausstellung wird organisiert in Kooperation mit dem Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona ....."

Quelle: Ausstellungsvorschau Museum Kurhaus Kleve

"With a Probability of Being Seen. Dorothee and Konrad Fischer. Archives of an attitude". Notes by Friedrich Meschede, curator from MACBA on Vimeo.

Wolf Thomas - am Dienstag, 22. Juni 2010, 18:45 - Rubrik: Veranstaltungen

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4. Sitzung des Arbeitskreises Aktenkunde des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts im VdA in der VdA-Geschäftsstelle

Dr. Jens Heckl, Wolfgang Stetter, Dr. Karsten Uhde, Dr. Bodo Uhl, Dr. Christian Keitel, Dr. Holger Berwinkel (v.l.n.r.). Foto: VdA

Der Arbeitskreis Aktenkunde des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts im VdA ist am 14. Juni 2010 zu seiner 4. Sitzung in der VdA-Geschäftsstelle zusammen gekommen.

Zum Arbeitsprogramm gehörten u.a. die Weiterentwicklung des Terminologielexikons, ein erster Entwurf für die Gliederung des Schlusswerkes und Überlegungen zur weiteren Vorgehensweise.

Die nächste Sitzung wird am 17. November 2010 in der Geschäftsstelle statt finden.

Quelle: VdA, Aktuelles v. 14.06.2010

Wolf Thomas - am Freitag, 18. Juni 2010, 09:43 - Rubrik: Veranstaltungen

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I-CHORA 5: "Records, archives and technology: interdependence over time"

"Human societies have created records for more than four millennia. The shape and form of records and archives, methods for creating them and approaches to keeping and using them have always been determined by currently available technologies, and are inevitably affected by changes in technology over time.

Yet, while technological change has often brought innovation in the creation and management of records and archives and facilitated new ways of using them, it has also given rise to challenges for those seeking to preserve and maintain access to records; challenges that are particularly acute in our own era as a result of the digital revolution.

I-CHORA 5, organised by The National Archives of England, Wales and the United Kingdom, the Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies and the Department of Information Studies at University College London, will address the subject of 'Records, archives and technology: interdependence over time'. The conference will explore this subject from a historical perspective, but will interpret it as broadly as possible.

It will consider the evolving interrelationships between records, archives and any technology, not just the digital technology of our own time; and will embrace any kind of interdependence, including the role, challenges or opportunities of technology in creating, maintaining or using records. It will provide an opportunity to examine these topics from the standpoint of different disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, history, archival science, computer science, law and literary and cultural studies.

The conference will build on the success of the previous I-CHORA
conferences in Toronto (2003), Amsterdam (2005), Boston (2007) and Perth (2008). It will be held in London from Thursday 1 to Saturday 3 July 2010, immediately before the FARMER-NAET conference in Oxford.

Thursday 1 July 2010
10.45 am – 1.00 pm

Welcome: Professor Colin Jones, President of the Royal Historical Society

Keynote paper: Tying the Archive in Knots: recordkeeping in ancient Peru – Gary Urton (Department of Anthropology, Harvard University)

• A Historical Review of the Telegraph’s Impacts on Communication and Recordkeeping in Colonial Administration: the case of Britain and Hong Kong - Yui-tat Cheng (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

• Plus Ca Change … the salutary tale of the telephone and its implications for archival thinking about the digital revolution – Valerie Johnson (The National Archives)

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm Lunch

2.00 pm – 3.30 pm

• Medieval Commonplace Books: rhetorical devices, information technologies or merely sites of storage – Bethany Sinclair (Public Record Office of Northern Ireland)

• The Private Political Archives of the Venetian Patriciate: storing, retrieving and record keeping in the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries – Dorit Raines (Universita Ca’ Foscari, Venice)

• Maps as Recordkeeping Technology – Andrew Janes (The National Archives)

3.30 pm – 4.00 pm Tea

4.00 pm – 5.30 pm

• Narratives of Technology and Bureaucracy: contemporary images of office environments 1870-1940 – Barbara Craig and Heather MacNeil (University of Toronto)

• The Role of Furniture as a Personal Record Keeping Technology in the Late 19th Century – Heather Dean and Jennifer Meehan (Yale University)

• The Archives Reading Room: past, present and future – Sigrid McCausland (Charles Sturt University, Australia)

Friday 2 July 2010
9.00 am – 10.45 am

Keynote paper: Documents in Practice: supporting collaboration with material artefacts – Paul Luff and Christian Heath (Kings College, University of London)

• Making and Keeping: the function of psychiatric records between hospital administration and scientific knowledge – Volker Hess and Sophie Ledebur (Institute for the History of Medicine at the Charite Berlin)
Abstract:
The presentation focuses on how hospital records were invented in relation to the development of bureaucratic techniques. Such techniques, diffused from the writing desk of the hospital administration into the wards, and from there into the daily practice of the attending physicians. We will enfold this argument with a case study presenting the development of the hospital records at the Charité in Berlin, the largest hospital in Prussia in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.

First we will follow the administrative techniques using forms and schemata for regulation of the hospital infrastructure (treating fees, food and diet, admission and discharge etc) from the early 18th century up to early 20th century. Second, we will elaborate on the interrelation between these administrative techniques and the development of patient record keeping. Following the development of the record schemes we will present the first forms from the early 19th century and focus then on the psychiatric records archived subsequently into the 1880s allowing us to gain a detailed perspective on the development of the files. A special aspect will be the fact that all medical records at the Charité existed in duplicate up to the First World War. The original – the archived version – stayed at the ward, and a copy was kept by the registration office. Third, we will look at the impact resulting from the schematizing of the patient history, as well as at the information used for treatment, teaching and knowledge production. All three points will help to understand the crucial function of hospital records as technology in administration and in knowledge.

• Management and Technology of Recordkeeping in the Archives of the GDR State Security Service () – Karsten Jedlitschka and Ralf Blum (Die Bundesbeauftragte fur die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen DDR)
Abstract:
The Office of the Federal Commissioner (Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen DDR, BStU) preserves the records of the former State Security Service of the German Democratic Republic (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS) and makes them available for various purposes. Its headquarters are in Berlin and it has branch offices with their own archives in the former capitals of the districts of the GDR.

The heart of the office are the archives with the Stasi legacy. They reveal the methods of the regime of the former Communist party and mirror the power and the knowledge of its secret police.
It is one of the largest archives in Germany with a total of more than 100 km of records. In addition to the written legacy, the MfS documents also include numerous audio-visual data media, such as photos, slides, videos, films and sound recordings.

On the one hand, the Stasi legacy consists of files already archived at the time of the MfS and on the other hand those materials, which the service units were working on up to the peaceful revolution of 1989/90.

In the four decades of existence the MfS archive division developed a sophisticated system to manage and store its records. The permanent growth of tasks and bureaucracy generated a steady urgency for further improvement of this system. The core of the Stasi archives administration was the card indexes. To make them more efficient, the archive division started in the 1960s to introduce new technical devices. Great hope was put on the new electronic data processing, starting in the 1970s.

10.45 am – 11.15 am Coffee

11.15 am – 12.45 pm

• Responding to Change through Technology: a case study from the National Monuments Record showing how technological innovation has changed the nature of the record itself – Martin Newman (English Heritage National Monuments Record)

• History and Continuity: the UK Government’s response to the challenges of the World Wide Web – Amanda Spencer (The National Archives)

• Making Sense of the Modern Email Archive: recordkeeping strategies and technological challenges – Jason R. Baron (US National Archives and Records Administration) and Simon J. Attfield (University College London Interaction Centre)

1.30 pm – 3.00 pm

• A Flip Side of Technological Advancement: the negative impact of technology on the preservation of the history of Queen’s University – Deirdre Bryden (Queen’s University Kingston)

• Machine Methods and the Development of the Student Information System: Two Canadian Universities, 1959-1965 – Tom Belton (University of Western Ontario) and Jim Suderman (City of Toronto)

• ‘These are My Records.’ The effect of technology on the changing relationship of the creator with institutional records – Heather Briston (University of Oregon)

3.00 pm – 3.30 pm Tea / Walk to the British Library

3.30 pm – 5.00 pm Talks at the British Library

7.00 pm - Drinks reception and conference dinner, UCL

Afternoon venue B: The National Archives (places limited to 47)

12.45 pm Travel to The National Archives by coach

1.30 pm – 2.15 pm Lunch at The National Archives

2.15 pm Welcome: Oliver Morley, Acting Chief Executive of The National Archives

2.25 pm – 3.55 pm

• Dismantling Bureaucracies and Technological Change: impacts on recordkeeping and the influence of organizational culture – Gillian C. Oliver (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) and Kurmo Konsa (University of Tartu, Estonia)

• Introduction of Electronic Registration in Danish Central Government Administration – Else Hansen (Danish National Archives)

• Drivers and Cars (1898-2009): traffic records management in Spain over time and procedures automation. Archival implications and consequences – Rosana de Andrés Diaz and Luis Casado de Otaola (Ministerio del Interior, Spain)

Saturday 3 July 2010
9.00 am –10.45 am

Keynote paper: Mapping the Terrain of the File: machines, methods, and notions of modernity in the British Civil Service, 1890-1956 (abstract) – Barbara Craig (University of Toronto)

• Printing the Archives: Oxford Archives c.1850-1950 (abstract) – Michael Riordan (St John’s and The Queen’s Colleges, Oxford)

• Towards a History of Recording Technologies: the damp-press copying process (abstract) – Michael Cook (Centre for Archive Studies, University of Liverpool)

10.45 am – 11.15 am Coffee

11.15 am – 12.25 pm

• Persistent Identifiers, the Docquet System and a Tudor Revolution in Government – James Currall and Michael Moss (HATII, University of Glasgow)

• Reflections on the Contributions of Historical Ideas about Metadata to Recordkeeping in a Global, Digital World – Anne Gilliland (Department of Information Studies, UCLA)

12.25 pm Summing up and close"
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Wolf Thomas - am Donnerstag, 17. Juni 2010, 21:53 - Rubrik: Veranstaltungen

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"Srebrenica -- Exhumation. A forensic reconstruction of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide"

"June 2-July 2, 2010 /

Opening remarks:
István Rév, Director, OSA Archivum
John Shattuck, President and Rector, Central European University
Csaba Szilágyi, Curator, OSA Archivum

OSA Archivum / http://www.osaarchivum.org
Arany János u. 32.
H-1051 Budapest
Hungary
"In a criminal investigation it is the forensic stuff that tells the story so compellingly... the science in it is frankly quite spectacular." (Louise Arbour, former Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia)

In the period of July 11-18, 1995, the Bosnian Serb Army massacred over 7,000 Muslim men and boys in and around the small Eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, a "safe area" under UN protection. The bodies were first dumped into mass graves; these were later reopened and the commingled remains reburied in secondary mass graves to make their identification more difficult. During the nearly 15 years of investigation, however, more than six thousand victims from 80 mass graves have been identified. The massacre was condemned as genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in a precedent trial, but many still refuse to recognize it as such despite the collected evidence.

The true scale, the military architecture, and the predetermined and careful organization of the genocide are best revealed in the documents which have been produced as the result of an enormous amount of meticulous investigative work. The map of war crimes created with the help of these "exhibits" provides compelling evidence as to the identity of the perpetrators and serves as a basis for their indictment. A clinically precise yet somewhat detached analysis of documents and data, however, reveals that it is as important for the victims, who, stripped of their identities, were shot down, blindfolded, hands tied behind their backs, into unmarked mass graves, and then were given only identification codes and numbers in the various exhumation records, to regain their identities and have a proper burial and final rest.

OSA's reconstruction builds primarily on records collected during forensic investigations, exhumations of mass graves and the identification of human remains. Military maps, site sketches and photos, aerial images produced by spy satellites, forensic reports, testimonies by survivors and excerpts from films will be presented partly in traditional forms and partly in computer installations in a reconstructed model of a mass grave, created with the tools of land art. In the gallery's two aisles adjacent to the main installation, additional archival sources describing the wider context of the story will be available: documents, books and audiovisual materials from OSA's extensive relevant collections will be displayed for consultation in the research room, and documentaries will be screened in the movie hall. Thus, visitors who wish to continue the exhumation by doing their own archival research become part of the exhibition themselves.

Our cooperating partners in this exhibition are one-time investigators, forensic anthropologists, journalists and photographers, as well as the Sense News Agency in The Hague, the International Commission on Missing Persons and the Missing Persons Institute in Sarajevo.

Warning! The documents on display are of a disturbing nature: the exhibition is recommended only for persons above the age of 16.

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Srebrenica exhumation -- Film program

http://www.osaarchivum.org/images/sto...

The film program features documentaries about the massacres, the criminal investigations, as well as the mass grave exhumations and identification procedures in the region. Court recordings, interviews with victims, investigators and perpetrators, as well as rare amateur footage provide perspective on the events, their orchestrators, and repercussions."

Wolf Thomas - am Donnerstag, 17. Juni 2010, 21:23 - Rubrik: Veranstaltungen

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Ausstellung: "Das im Entschwinden Erfasste. Videokunst im Museum Folkwang."

5.Juni - 1. August 2010

Marcel Odenbach
Abwarten und Tee trinken, 1978, s/w, Ton, 16:47 Min., Mastertape, U-matic.
© Marcel Odenbach

"Die Auswahl der Werke der Ausstellung Das im Entschwinden Erfasste geht auf die Anfänge der Videokunst in der Sammlung Folkwang zurück. Zu Beginn der 1970er Jahre wurde unter Leitung des damaligen Direktors Paul Vogt ein Videostudio im Museum Folkwang eingerichtet, in dem junge Künstler direkt produzieren konnten. Seit den 1970er Jahren fanden regelmäßig Videoausstellungen und -festivals statt. Diese Tradition greift das Museum Folkwang 2010 wieder auf. Neben den zwei Ausstellungen stellen regelmäßige, thematische Screenings unter dem Titel Video Folkwang junge Videoproduktionen vor.

In der Ausstellung werden mehrere Arbeiten gezeigt, die im Videostudio Folkwang produziert wurden, so von Ulrike Rosenbach Frauenkultur – Kontaktversuch von 1977. Erstmals seit 1981 ist die Installation 100 Intellektuelle beten einen Öltank an von Marcel Odenbach zu sehen, die damals entstand. Neben Klassikern der Videokunst (Nam June Paik, Klaus vom Bruch und Jean-Francois Guiton) werden Neuerwerbungen von aktuellen Künstlern wie Darren Almond, Deimantas Narkeviĉius, Kimsooja, Michal Rovner, Jana Sterbak und Gästen wie Romeo Grünfelder, Erik Lanz oder Patrick Borchers zu entdecken sein. Der poetische Titel benennt die verschiedenen Facetten des Mediums, dessen Bilder zeitlich und flüchtig sind. Das Moment des „Entschwindens“ ist zugleich Metapher und Leitmotiv der Videoarbeiten.

Seit 2009 wird der Sammlungsbestand Video des Museum Folkwang systematisch aufgearbeitet und wissenschaftlich erforscht, digitalisiert und restauriert. Er umfasst annähernd 300 U-matic Bänder und andere Trägermaterialien. Die Digitalisierung der Sammlung wird gefördert mit Mitteln des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen. Für die nähere Zukunft ist eine Publikation zur Videosammlung ebenso geplant wie weitere Sammlungspräsentationen.

Ein Kurzführer zur Ausstellungen mit Texten der Kuratorin Sabine Maria Schmidt ist für 2 Euro an der Kasse im Foyer des Museum Folkwang erhältlich.

Um auch zukünftig Videokunst auf "alten Geräten" zeigen zu können, sucht das Museum Folkwang derzeit hochwertige und voll funktionsfähige Röhrenfernseher. Wer spenden möchte, wende sich bitte an die Kuratorin Sabine Maria Schmidt unter der e-mail Adresse: sabine.maria.schmidt@museum-folkwang.essen.de."

Quelle: Museum Folkwang, Homepage der Ausstellung

Wolf Thomas - am Samstag, 5. Juni 2010, 19:57 - Rubrik: Veranstaltungen

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Werbevideo für den Internationalen Kongress des ICA in Brisbane 2012

International Council on Archives Congress Brisbane Australia 2012 from National Archives of Australia on Vimeo.

Wolf Thomas - am Freitag, 4. Juni 2010, 14:51 - Rubrik: Veranstaltungen

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Künstlergespräch zur Ausstellung Anja Klafkis "T E R R A C O G N I T A. Radierungen"

Am Samstag, den 05. Juni von 13.00 bis 18.00 Uhr im Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg.

"Seit vielen Jahren beschäftigt sich Anja Klafki in ihren großformatigen Radierungen mit dem Thema Landschaft. Dabei geht es der Künstlerin vor allem um das Erforschen der Darstellung von Landschaft. Wie nehmen wir Landschaft wahr und welches minimale Bildrepertoire reicht aus, um Landschaft visuell zu definieren?
Angeregt durch historische Landkarten und Landschaftspläne aus dem Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg schuf die Künstlerin eigens für diese Ausstellung eine Reihe von neuen Werken in ihrer charakteristischen druckgrafischen Manier. Maßgebend war hier die Auseinandersetzung mit der Region und mit dem Phänomen des Erfassens und Vermessens von Landschaft.
Im Dialog mit den Kunstwerken werden in der Ausstellung Karten und Pläne aus den Beständen des Staatsarchivs Ludwigsburg und des Hohenlohe Zentralarchivs Neuenstein gezeigt."

Mehr Informationen und Bilder: Homepage der Künstlerin (PDF)

Wolf Thomas - am Freitag, 4. Juni 2010, 13:19 - Rubrik: Veranstaltungen

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International Archives Day am 9. Juni 2010

- und keine Veranstaltung in Deutschland?

Link zur ICA-Seite

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