The Political Life of Documents: Archives, Memory and Contested Knowledge
Friday, 15 January 2010 to Saturday, 16 January 2010Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge
| Friday, 15 January |
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| 08:45 - 09:30 |
Registration and Welcome |
| 09:30 - 13:15 |
Panel I: Documents as Political Struggle |
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Greg Rawlings (Anthropology, Otago, NZ) Statelessness, Citizenship and Annotated Discriminations: Meta Documents, the United Nations and the Aesthetics of the Subtle in Colonial Contestations of Human Rights |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Catherine Trundle (Anthropology, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Chris Moffatt (Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, LSE) Creating a 'Ché for India': Transnational Libraries and Post-Colonial Trajectories in the Prison Diary of Bhagat Singh |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15 - 11:45 |
Sas Mays (English and Linguistics, Westminster) Documents, Accumulation, and the Politics of Unfinishedness |
| 11:45 - 12:15 |
Discussant: Hildegard Diemberger (Social Anthropology, Cambridge) |
| 12:15 - 12:45 |
Questions and answers |
| 12:45 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 17:15 |
Panel II: Documents as Testimonies, Truth and Affect |
| 13:30 - 14:00 |
Nayanika Mathur (Anthropology, Cambridge) Paper tigers |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Fiona Murphy (Anthropology, National University of Ireland) Archives of sorrow: A discussion of the relationship of the archive to trauma, memory, loss and reconciliation in an Australian context |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Marc Aymes (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris) Archive Trouble: Documentary Currencies Counterfeited in the 19th-Century Ottoman Empire |
| 15:00 - 15:15 |
Coffee break |
| 15:15 - 15:45 |
Anita Prazmowska (History, LSE) Oskar Lange – a multifaceted biography |
| 15:45 - 16:15 |
Silvia Posocco (Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck) Expedientes: fissured legality and affective states in the transnational adoption archives in Guatemala |
| 16:15 - 16:45 |
Discussant: Yael Navaro-Yashin (Social Anthropology, Cambridge) |
| 16:45 - 17:15 |
Questions and answers |
| 17:30 - 19:00 |
Keynote address at Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 9 Note different venue for this lecture! |
19:00 - 19:45 |
Drinks reception, CRASSH For conference participants and delegates only |
| Saturday, 16 January |
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| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Keynote address at CRASSH |
| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Questions and answers |
| 10:15 - 13:00 | Panel III: Working in Sensitive Archives: the Art of Access, Creation and Use |
| 10:15 - 10:45 |
Christopher Kaplonski (Anthropology/MIASU, Cambridge) Archived relations: repression, rehabilitation and the secret life of documents in Mongolia |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 - 11:30 |
Peter Jackson (International Relations, Aberystwyth) Working with the archival material of intelligence and security agencies of Britain, France and the US: comparative perspectives |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Thushara Hewage (Anthropology, Columbia) Secrecy and Authority: Archives of the 1971 Insurrection in Sri Lanka |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Discussant: David Sneath (Social Anthropology, Cambridge) |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Questions and answers |
| 13:00 - 13:45 |
Lunch |
| 13:45 - 17:30 |
Panel IV: Rethinking Archives, the Public Sphere and Databases |
| 13:45 - 14:15 |
Mark Turin (Museum of Arch. and Anth., Cambridge) Digital Documents and Himalayan Heritage: the Politics of PDFs, Collaborative Collections and Vanishing Videos |
| 14:15 - 14:45 | Conor Galvin (College of Human Sciences, University College Dublin) Creatures of an outward digitality: documenting the self as transigent product & project – an elision of commitment to truth? |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Gemma John (Anthropology, Edinburgh) Reading the life in documents: Freedom of Information Legislation in Scotland and Decisions over Public and Private |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Jie Yang (Anthropology, Simon Frasier University) The dang’an ‘personal dossier’ |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Noel Lobley (Ethnomusicology, University of Oxford) Recording the Vitamins of Music - Hugh Tracey's 'The Sound of Africa' Series and the International Library of African Music |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Discussant: Christopher Kaplonski (Social Anthropology University of Cambridge) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Questions and answers |
