The Graduate School is delighted to announce that Ferdinand de Jong from ART will be directing next year's Interdisciplinary Seminar.
Conventionally imagined as a place for the preservation of historical documents, critical theory has recently redefined the archive as the totality of institutions that produce knowledge – the archival complex - that constitutes society. The archive requires critical reflection and for that reason artists have started to revisit the archive as a place to rethink our past and present. Instead of conceptualising the archive as a place where time is arrested, this site is to be conceived of as a space where temporality is produced. In that respect, it is important to stress the archive’s materiality. Many contemporary artists have used the archive as a place 'to work in', both in a literal and metaphorical sense. The metaphor of the archive enables us to rethink the past through its very materiality and to act upon it creatively in order to imagine new futures. The archive can be imagined as a place to produce archaeologies of the present and utopias for the future.
The seminar is open to all the University's postgraduates and Faculty.
Lyndsey Stonebridge, HUM Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research comments: 'An interdisciplinary seminar on the archive offers a terrific opportunity to bring together work on memory, history and trauma from across the Faculty and beyond. I'm particularly pleased that the seminar will be held in our new Humanities Postgraduate Resources Room due to open in the summer. With a timing he might have appreciated, the room is to be (informally) named after the University's foremost interdisciplinary archivist, W.G. Sebald. I can't think of a better topic to inaugurate 'Max's Room' than 'the archive'.
Every Wednesday of the spring semester at 14:00 in Arts 01.06.
18 January 2012 - Introducing the Archive
Dr. Ferdinand de Jong, ART, University of East Anglia
25 January 2012 - Popular Memory, Literacy, and the Local Creation of Archives in the Early Modern Period
Professor Andy Wood, School of History, University of East Anglia
01 February 2012 - The Body in the Box: Archiving the Egyptian Mummy
Dr. Christina Riggs, ART, University of East Anglia
08 February 2012 - A Brief History of Archive Time
Dr. Ben Hutchinson, School of European Culture and Languages, University of
Kent
15 February The Archive - Site of Contestation and Resistance?
Dr. Andrew Flinn, Information Studies, University College London
22 February 2012 - Migrant Archives and Multidirectional Memory in Post-National Socialist Germany
Prof. Michael Rothberg, Department of English, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
29 February 2012 - Incomplete Archives ... Gaps, Silences and Fragmented Shards
Dr Karen Smyth, LIT, University of East Anglia
07 March 2012 - Special screening of 'The Specialist' and interview with the director Eyal Sivan
14 March 2012 - Reading (and) the Archive: Susan Howe’s American Poetics
Professor Nick Selby, AMS, University of East Anglia
21 March 2012 - Tracing the Path of a Sufi Saint: A Postcolonial Archive in Construction
Dr Ferdinand de Jong, ART, University of East Anglia
28 March 2012 - Man in a Suitcase: The Problem of an Unusual Archive
Dr Melanie Williams and Dr Keith Johnston, FTV, University of East Anglia
25 April 2012 - Archives and Decolonialisation
Dr. Paul Connerton, University of Cambridge (cancelled - to be replaced by the Archive Evaluation session)
The seminar is open to all the University's postgraduates and Faculty.
Lyndsey Stonebridge, HUM Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research comments: 'An interdisciplinary seminar on the archive offers a terrific opportunity to bring together work on memory, history and trauma from across the Faculty and beyond. I'm particularly pleased that the seminar will be held in our new Humanities Postgraduate Resources Room due to open in the summer. With a timing he might have appreciated, the room is to be (informally) named after the University's foremost interdisciplinary archivist, W.G. Sebald. I can't think of a better topic to inaugurate 'Max's Room' than 'the archive'.
Every Wednesday of the spring semester at 14:00 in Arts 01.06.
18 January 2012 - Introducing the Archive
Dr. Ferdinand de Jong, ART, University of East Anglia
25 January 2012 - Popular Memory, Literacy, and the Local Creation of Archives in the Early Modern Period
Professor Andy Wood, School of History, University of East Anglia
01 February 2012 - The Body in the Box: Archiving the Egyptian Mummy
Dr. Christina Riggs, ART, University of East Anglia
08 February 2012 - A Brief History of Archive Time
Dr. Ben Hutchinson, School of European Culture and Languages, University of
Kent
15 February The Archive - Site of Contestation and Resistance?
Dr. Andrew Flinn, Information Studies, University College London
22 February 2012 - Migrant Archives and Multidirectional Memory in Post-National Socialist Germany
Prof. Michael Rothberg, Department of English, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
29 February 2012 - Incomplete Archives ... Gaps, Silences and Fragmented Shards
Dr Karen Smyth, LIT, University of East Anglia
07 March 2012 - Special screening of 'The Specialist' and interview with the director Eyal Sivan
14 March 2012 - Reading (and) the Archive: Susan Howe’s American Poetics
Professor Nick Selby, AMS, University of East Anglia
21 March 2012 - Tracing the Path of a Sufi Saint: A Postcolonial Archive in Construction
Dr Ferdinand de Jong, ART, University of East Anglia
28 March 2012 - Man in a Suitcase: The Problem of an Unusual Archive
Dr Melanie Williams and Dr Keith Johnston, FTV, University of East Anglia
25 April 2012 - Archives and Decolonialisation
Dr. Paul Connerton, University of Cambridge (cancelled - to be replaced by the Archive Evaluation session)
