Meetings took place in 2018 and 2019, primarily in person at the University of Melbourne, with some members joining remotely via zoom.
Meeting 8 (Nov 29, 2019)
Michelle Caswell, "Dusting for Fingerprints: Introducing Feminist Standpoint Appraisal", 2019, DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2016.1241207
Maryrose Casey: "Tales still to be told: Indigenous Australian theatre practice and the archive", in McGillivray, Glen (ed) Scrapbooks, Snapshots and Memorabilia: Hidden Archives of Performance, 2011, Peter Lang Publishing, pp 29-44.
In this session we combined with the Costume Research Reading Group at University of Melbourne. We chose one reading each from our respective disciplines, framed within Caswell's feminist appraisal paper. We also allocated time for 5 minute presentations about our work, including reflections on the Australian Society of Archivists 'Designing the Archive' Conference where Michelle Caswell delivered a keynote based on this article. We also about intersections between the two worlds of archives and costume/performance art archiving and preservation.
Meeting 7 (Sept 11, 2019)
Howard Zinn (1977), ‘Secrecy, Archives and the Public Interest’, The Midwestern Archivist, Vol. II, No.2, https://www.jstor.org/stable/41101382
Meeting 6 (July 10, 2019)
Jessica Hutchens (2017) 'Losing the Archive', in D Jorgensen & I McLean (Eds) Indigenous Archive: The making and umaking of Aboriginal Art, pp. 297-320.
(From the facilitator):
In this session I wanted to explore
archival silences and interpretations – is it the role of the archivist
or the user of the archive to address silences? Is this an issue for
data curation by archivists or a matter for the users/historians to work
on through their interpretive work? Is this a shared role? And if so,
what role does the archivist have in this process?>
I wanted to think about these questions alongside the work that Bruce Pascoe is doing to re-tell Australian history in a way that recognises silences but also reinterprets/contextualises what is said within the archive.
For those that are not familiar with Pascoe's work, his TedX talk is a fantastic summary: https://tedxsydney.com/talk/a-real-history-of-aboriginal-australians-the-first-agriculturalists-bruce-pascoe/ (under 13 minutes)
Or for those who want a little more depth - https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/view-discuss/bruce-pascoe-aboriginal-culture-history (41 minutes)
Meeting 5 (June 5, 2019)
Gina Watts (2018) “Queer Lives in the Archives: Intelligibility and Forms of Memory,” disclosure: A Journal of Social Theory 27, available at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1438&context=disclosure
Meeting 4 (April 24, 2019)
Eric Ketelaar (2018) ‘Archival turns and returns’, The Archival Multiverse, (eds Anne J Gilliland, Sue McKemmish, Andrew J Lau)., https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31429
Meeting 3 (March 27, 2019)
Gracen Brilmyer (2018), Archival assemblages: applying disability studies’ political/relational model to archival description, Archival science, 18: 95-118. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10502-018-9287-6
Meeting 2 (January 2019)
Kirsten Thorpe (2019): ‘Transformative Practice – Building Spaces for Indigenous Self-determination in Libraries and Archives’, In the Library with the Lead Pipe, URL: http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/transformative-praxis/.
Meeting 1 (August 2018)
Michelle Caswell and Marika Cifor (2016): ‘From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in Archives’, Archivaria no. 81, Spring pp. 23-43, URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0mb9568h