The Political Life of Documents: Archives, Memory and Contested Knowledge

Keynote speakers

Ann Stoler (Anthropology, New School NY)

Christopher Andrew (History, Cambridge)
The use and non-use of classified archives with particular reference to MI5

Invited speakers

Marc Aymes (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
Archive Trouble: Documentary Currencies Counterfeited in the 19th-Century Ottoman Empire

Brendan Donegan (Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS)
Marginal notes, truth, and power: Mapping document careers in the Community-based Monitoring of Health Services scheme, India

Conor Galvin (UCD College of Human Sciences)
Creatures of an outward digitality: documenting the self as transigent product & project – an elision of commitment to truth?

Thushara Hewage (Anthropology, Columbia)
Secrecy and Authority: Archives of the 1971 Insurrection in Sri Lanka

Peter Jackson (International Relations, Aberystwyth)
Working with the archival material of intelligence and security agencies of Britain, France and the US: comparative perspectives

Gemma John (Anthropology, Edinburgh)
Reading the life in documents: Freedom of Information Legislation in Scotland and Decisions over Public and Private

Christopher Kaplonski (Anthropology, Cambridge)
Archived relations: repression, rehabilitation and the secret life of documents in Mongolia

Nayanika Mathur (Anthropology, Cambridge)
Paper tigers

Sas Mays (English and Linguistics, Westminster)
Documents and their Accumulation: the Unfinishedness of Unfinishedness

Christopher Moffat (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

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

Yael Navaro-Yashin (Anthropology, Cambridge) (Discussant)

Carlos Osorio (National Security Archives, GWU)
Paraguay’s Archive of Terror: discovery, preservation, justice, memory and public access

Silvia Posocco (Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck)
Expedientes: fissured legality and affective states in the transnational adoption archives in Guatemala

Anita Prazmowska (History, LSE)
Oskar Lange – a multifaceted biography

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

Catherine Trundle (Anthropology, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ)
Searching for culpability in the archives: Commonwealth nuclear test veterans’ claims for state compensation

Mark Turin (Anthropology, Cambridge)
Digital Documents and Himalayan Heritage: the Politics of PDFs, Collaborative Collections and Vanishing Videos

Jie Yang (Anthropology, Simon Frasier University)
The dang’an ‘personal dossier’


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