Critical Archives Reading Group

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Reminder - meeting next week

A reminder that we are meeting next Wednesday the 19th of November at 12 noon AEDT (please note different time). We will be reading Kelly A. Wooten, "'Things People Gave Me': the Leslie Feinberg Archives", Journal of Lesbian Studies , 2025, https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2025.2551414 We will be joined by author Kelly Wooten for the discussion. If you need a copy of the article, please send us an email and we will send it to you. Please RSVP by registering here: https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/m3muMErIRw28WsHSqXeX3A See you next week!

Reminder: RSVP for next meeting to be sent the reading

Please RSVP for meeting 3, 2025, to be held on 17 September at 1pm AEST, by Friday 5 September to be sent the book chapter. We will be reading Benedict Salazar Olgado, "Wading in Erasures" book chapter to be published in 2026. We will be joined by author Benedict Salazar Olgado for the discussion. Please RSVP by registering here: https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/D0FCQ3joQXylZV2WM1g9rw Many thanks to those who have already signed up, and looking forward to the discussion on the 17th.

Meeting 3 2025 (17 September)

Meeting 3 of 2025 will be held on 17 September, at 1pm AEST. We will be reading Benedict Salazar Olgado, "Wading in Erasures" book chapter to be published in 2026. We will be joined by author Benedict Salazar Olgado for the discussion. Please RSVP by registering here: https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/D0FCQ3joQXylZV2WM1g9rw Please RSVP by Friday 5 September to be sent the book chapter. Also, please come with your ideas for articles you're interested in reading and discussing at future meetings. If you're super keen, you can add your suggestions to our Zotero library . If you would like more information, send us an email .

Reminder - meeting this week

Meeting 2 of 2025 will be held on Wednesday 28 May at 1pm AEST. We will be reading Tom Nesmith, "The cloud, the public square, and digital public archival infrastructure", Archival Science , Vol 23, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-023-09417-7 If you need a copy of the article, please send us an email and we will send it to you. Please RSVP by registering here: here: https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/AG5qOklmTEO1tyQkSHKHyQ Looking forward to the discussion on Wednesday!

Meeting 2 2025 (28 May)

Meeting 2 of 2025 was held on Wednesday 28 May at 1pm AEST. We read Tom Nesmith, "The cloud, the public square, and digital public archival infrastructure", Archival Science , Vol 23, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-023-09417-7 If you need a copy of the article, please send us an email and we will send it to you. Please RSVP by registering here: https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/AG5qOklmTEO1tyQkSHKHyQ Also, please come with your ideas for articles you're interested in reading and discussing at future meetings. If you're super keen, you can add your suggestions to our Zotero library . If you would like more information, send us an email .

Meeting 1 2025 (19 March)

Happy New Year to all! Meeting 1 of 2025 will be held on 19 March, at 1pm AEDT. We will be reading: Jillian Cuella, Audra Eagle Yun, Jennifer Meehan and Jessica Tai, "Defining Archival Debt: Building New Futures for Archives", Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies , Vol 10 2023, Article 8, available at https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol10/iss1/8 . and June Chow, Jennifer Douglas and Rebecka Sheffield, "Paying Our Archival Debt: Envisioning New Relationships for Sustainable Community Archiving", 2024, available at https://archivists.ca/Blog/13410913 Please RSVP by registering here: https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/vsqLYXUOQoGQVGJDW-Mxcw Also, please come with your ideas for articles you're interested in reading and discussing at future meetings. If you're super keen, you can add your suggestions to our Zotero library . If you would like more information, send us an email .