Tracing the Trace
The ‘Tracing the trace’ conference was held at the University of Edinburgh on 13 January 2017. There were just under 40 participants and short papers were given on a wide range of topics concerning the trace and its reverberations. The programme of papers on the day is replicated in the order of titles and abstracts below.
Welcome & introductions
Liz Stanley
Session 1: The Archive Project Revisited
Tracks and Traces: geographies, histories, memories
Maria Tamboukou
Where, what and who is s/he? Picture postcards from the archive, the collection and the trace
Liz Stanley
Making and erasing traces
Niamh Moore
Session 2: Dancing in Archival Minefields
Tracing the trace: What is an archive? What is a collection? What is a document?
Katharine Cockin
Tracing Dance – Dancing Traces: Participatory and embodied approaches to dance archives and archiving
Astrid von Rosen
Postcolonial Postscript: Restaging and Repurposing the Colonial Archive
Alexander Supartono
Comfort break
Session 3: The Archive of the Other Archive
Welcome to Motel Kerang: Pearl Jephcott’s Australia Notebook and the ‘Craft of Sociology’
John Goodwin & Henrietta O’Connor
Making Sense of the Mehew Collection: Uses of Scholars’ Archives
Lena Wånggren & Duncan Milne
Lunch break
Session 4: The Matrix: Digitising and Assemblage
David Livingstone in the Digital Age: Livingstone Online and the Ontology of the Archive
Kate Simpson
Indexing, metadata and archival discovery: the role of the digital ‘trace’ in online collections of government records
Fabio Antonini
The ‘Matriarchive of the Mediterranean’: Myth, Migration, Matter and Matrix
Silvana Carotentu
Session 5: Re/Claiming Memory
Lost local traces: How national and local narratives overlap in a town’s space
Agnieska Szurek
In the Footsteps of Zofia Moraczewska: Tracing Women’s History and Reclaiming Memory
Kamila Cybulska
Comfort break
Session 6: Relocating Archives
Tracing the Tracing of the Trace: Going round in circles in the archive
Jenny Bunn
Radical Archives
Anne Plumb
Tea and coffee break
Closing Session: Themes, Issues, What Now?
Last updated: 31 January 2017
