Join us for the Winter 2023 edition of the open classroom series on
antiracism and decolonization in the information professions, with a focus
on archival and records management in this academic term. The first session
takes place on Wednesday, March 15 and features a lecture by Jesse Boiteau,
Head of Archives, National Centre for Truth & Reconciliation.


Check out the full details here:
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Registration is free and open to all!
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The Winter 2023 open classrooms are co-hosted at Dalhousie’s School of
Information Management (SIM) and the University of Manitoba’s Archival
Studies M.A. Program at the History Department. They are taking place as
part of graduate courses taught by Dr. Jamila Ghaddar and Krystal Payne,
which are: INFO6370 Records Management (Winter 2023) at Dal’s SIM and the
HIST7372 History of Archiving & Archival Records (2022-2023) at the UofM’s
Archival Studies M.A. Program.

Contact: Dr. Jamila Ghaddar at [log in to unmask]


Winter 2023 Schedule:



Wed 15 March @ 1pm ADST (Halifax, NS) / 11am CDST (Winnipeg, MB):
“Community connections: plural provenance theory & the role of archives and
records in Indigenous community-led research,” a lecture by Jesse Boiteau,
Head of Archives, National Centre for Truth & Reconciliation. Co-hosted
with Dr. Greg Bak, Associate Professor, Archival Studies M.A. Program,
History Dept., University of Manitoba. Register today!
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jesse-boiteau-lecture-community-connections-plural-provenance-theory-tickets-563943669697>


Abstract: It is no longer a secret or revelation in the wider archival
community that western or colonial archives and records played a role in
the colonization of Indigenous peoples around the globe. The process of
reconciling this fact has been handled differently by archives in various
regions, and for the most part has been a tentative and slow process in
fear of not engaging the right way or making a misstep in connecting with
the Indigenous communities and peoples represented in their holdings. In
May of 2021, this tentativeness changed forever. When the 215 potential
gravesites of children were identified by Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc at the
Kamloops Residential School site, the urgency for archives and records to
build meaningful relationships with Indigenous communities was sent into
overdrive. Read more
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Wed 22 March 22 @ 1pm ADST (Halifax, NS) / 11am CDST (Winnipeg, MB): “When
there is no archives: decolonial archiving and oral records in Mau Mau
history,” a lecture with Rose Miyonga, PhD Candidate, University of
Warwick. Co-hosted with Cameron Welsh, student in the Master of Archival
Studies program, School of Information, University of British
Columbia. Register
today!
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Abstract: In the 1950s, the British colonial government launched a brutal
counterinsurgency against the revolutionary Mau Mau movement in Kenya. In
an effort to quash the anticolonial uprising, British colonialists
imprisoned over 150,000 people without trial in detention camps where
torture and murder were commonplace. In the early 1960s, as the British
began their exit from empire in Kenya, they took with them the evidence of
this brutality. Hundreds of thousands of archival documents detailing their
atrocities were destroyed, and many more were stolen away to a secret
archive in the United Kingdom. Read more
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Wed 29 March @ 1pm ADST (Halifax, NS) / 11am CDST (Winnipeg, MB):
“Digitality, crowdsourcing and the photographic record: archival losses and
alternatives in Kenya in the shadow of repatriation,” a roundtable with
Chao Tayiana (co-founder of Digital Heritage, Museum of British Colonialism
and Open Restitution Africa); Maureen Mumbua (Digitisation Coordinator,
Book Bunk) and Max Pinckers (Artist and Guest Lecturer, School of Arts KASK
& Conservatorium) in conversation with Rose Miyonga (PhD Candidate, History
Dept., University of Warwick). Register today!
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roundtable-on-archival-losses-and-alternatives-in-kenya-tickets-563957079807>


Abstract: In conversation with Rose Miyonga, this roundtable brings
together trailblazing and innovative practitioners and scholars working to
address the many gaps, silences and erasures in Kenyan archival memory and
documentary heritage due to the history and legacies of British colonial
rule and its brutal counterinsurgency practices in the country. With a
focus on resistant and marginalized histories and perspectives,
participants will share their experiences with a range of alternative
approaches to address the archival gaps and silences, from crowdsourcing
and “imagined records” to living archives and participatory documentary
projects. Read more
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