Ask the Archivist!

SIEF Working Group on Archives will be presented at the poster session on Wednesday at 16.30–18.15, University of Santiago, Faculty of Economics and Business administration, Foyer. 

Instead of a usual poster, this year the WG will present  ‘Ask the Archivist’ poster. For this, in addition to board members present, we welcome volunteers to stand at the poster and answer archiving related questions. Please apply by e-mail traditionarchives@gmail.com or to WG's co-chairs Maryna Chernyauska or Ave Goršič during the Congress.

SIEF WG on Archives in SIEF2019, Santiago de Compostela

Dear Colleagues attending the SIEF 2019 conference,

we are happy to greet you all already on Sunday!
Here are a few points we'd like you to know beforehand:

Schedule and conference programme is available here: https://www.siefhome.org/doi/sief2019.shtml

Our WG panels are the following:

Panel and discussion: Arch01 ’Participatory archives in a transforming world [SIEF Working Group on Archives] [P+R]’ – April 15, 9:00, Aula 7. Convenors Sanita Reinsone, Ave Goršič.

Workshop-panel: Arch02 ’Keeping track of your field data [SIEF Working Group on Archives] [W]’ – April 16, 11:15, Aula 6. Convenors Maryna Chernyavska, Kelly Fitzgerald.

!Ask the Archivist! – Instead of a usual poster, this year we proposed an ‘Ask the Archivist’ poster. For this, in addition to board members present, we welcome volunteers to stand at the poster and answer archiving related questions. The official Working Groups poster session is on Wednesday at 16.30–18.15 (Faculty of Economics and Business administration, Foyer).

While answering the questions, we can also easily promote our working group!

Meeting of the WG will take place on April 16^th, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (main venue), Aula 5, at 13:00–15:00.

Lunch will be served on location!

With best wishes in the name of the board,

Ave Goršič

AFS awards "Visions and Traditions"

The American Folklore Society has announced the award of 2018 Brenda McCallum Prize which seeks to promote works of excellence and innovation that further the cause of preservation, organization, curation, or enhanced public access and use related to folklife archival collections.

The winner of the Brenda McCallum Prize in 2018 is the collective work "Visions and Traditions. Knowledge Production and Tradition Archives" edited by the Network's members Lauri Harvilahti,  Audun Kjus, Clíona O'Carrol, Suzanne Österlund-Pötzsch, Fredrik Skott, and Rita Treija. 

We congratulate the authors and editors on a work the Committee agreed was forward-looking, cutting edge, and tightly focused on central matters of folklore and folklife archiving, history, theory, and practice. Committee members also saw the work as propelling folklore archives into the modern era of disciplinary shifts by claiming a firm foothold in academic conversations accessible to archivists, folklorists, and folklore-archivists. It also offered numerous interesting case study examples for contemplation. – American Folklore Society / Archives & Libraries Section Prize Committee 

Congratulations!

Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World - 14th international SIEF Congress

SIEF2019 will take place in Santiago de Compostela, Spain from 14 to 17 April 2019. The Working Group on Tradition Archives will provide three panels in the congress: 

History, Memory, and Archives: Sensitive Issues

The conference is organized by the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore in cooperation of the Network of Nordic and Baltic Tradition Archives. Vilnius, 17–19 October 2018.

The conference is dedicated to the Centenary of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland. See PROGRAMME.

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