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ONLINE: ‘Collections of Collections’: Building Common Ownership and Shared Archival Practices
25 June 2024, 3:30 pm–4:45 pm
Sloane Lab and HDSM Darmstadt are pleased to welcome Sloane Lab Community Fellow, Rosemary Grennan. Rosemary is the Co-Director of MayDay Rooms - an archive dedicated to the history of social struggles, resistance campaigns and experimental culture.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Marco Humbel, UCLDH Associate Director (ECR)
This presentation will explore some of the themes around Rosemary's ongoing Community Fellowship at the Sloane Lab. Her fellowship aims to redefine the concept of shared ownership ‘national collection(s)’ by integrating them with community collections to explore often contested histories. With a focus on community-led archiving, the project develops digital tools and workflows based on peer-to-peer protocols to democratise access and management of collections, encouraging a decentralised approach to cataloguing and record annotation.
This talk will summarise the progress of the project so far, as well as some of the thinking behind the work, by outlining historically other archives and projects that have dealt with the idea of a "collection of collections."
Register for the Zoom event and view the full seminar series programme: https://critical-creative.eventbrite.co.uk
The Sloane Lab Seminar Series is convened by Marco Humbel (Sloane Lab & UCLDH), Nadezhda Povroznik (TU Darmstadt), Julianne Nyhan (TU Darmstadt & UCL) and Andrew Flinn (UCL). Administrative support is provided by Lucy Stagg (UCLDH & UCL IAS).
This joint virtual seminar is co-hosted by University College London, TU Darmstadt, the British Museum and the Natural History Museum.
The symposium is funded by the Towards a National Collection programme (Arts and Humanities Research Council) as an activity of the Sloane Lab Discovery Project.
About the Speaker
Rosemary Grennan
Rosemary Grennan is the Co-Director of MayDay Rooms - an archive dedicated to the history of social struggles, resistance campaigns and experimental culture. She is also the co-founder of AGIT, a residency space in Berlin focusing on social movement history and culture. She is currently a Community Fellow at the Sloane Lab, at UCL.
As a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham on the ‘CLiC Dickens’ project, she conducts corpus linguistics research to advance scholarly understanding, enrich pedagogical methods, and foster creative exploration of the long nineteenth century. She is also working as a Collections Assistant at Strawberry Hill House & Gardens, home of renowned collector Horace Walpole.