The Croatian ICARUS days “Archives and cooperation in the Digital Age” will take a closer look at the Croatian archival landscape in the scope of international cooperation. The programme can be found Informational conference for PhD students
The event is directed towards those PhD students in the German speaking regions that currently complete their doctorates in a Basic Historic Sciences and/or can imagine to do research on this topic in the future.
Furthermore, the students will be informed on possible research funding programmes.
More information (in German) is available here.
The event will be held in German.
Public panel discussion: „Quo vadis?“
Within the framework of the colloquium for PhD students “Quo vadis? Neues aus den Historischen Grundwissenschaften”, topics such as how can Basic Historic Sciences be better anchored in academic structures, what can be learned from the past for the future and which role does digitization play in the future of didactic and research activities?
The leaflet can be viewed here (in German).
The public panel discussion will be held in German.
The Sound of Music – from music archives to Europeana Sounds
The conference aims at developing the topics of a previous conference, “Recondita Armonia – Musical archives” (June 2014) dealing with the hidden (recondita) harmony of music, disseminated in archieves and libraries all over Europe.
The Sound of Music – a title inspired by the famous 1965 musical film – starring Julie Andrews, now wants to focus on the already exhisting online resources for musical research and the opportunities offered by Europeana Sounds, the gateway to Europe’s sound and music heritage.
On the opening day of the conference, Beatrice Romiti (Univerity of Rome, La Sapienza) and Anna Maria Tammaro (IFLA, The Hague) will present the proceedings of Recondita Armonia.
This international conference will take place within the premises of Břevnov Archabbey and is co-organized by our colleagues from the Národní archiv in Prague.
The conference is being made possible as a final result of the activities and efforts that have been successfully accomplished within the EU-funded ENArC-project – the European Network on Archival Cooperation. Throughout the past few years, ENArC has advanced the network of archives and other cultural institutions that safeguard written European cultural heritage – while it simultaneously made exactly this heritage freely accessible via the internet as Europe’s Memory.
Here you will find all necessary information in order to register for the conference, view the programme, study the individual panel’s programmes and make accommodation arrangements.
The Power Point presentations of the conference are available via our ICARUS SlideShare account. Just click on the link below:
This time our meeting will take place within the premises of Břevnov Archabbey and is co-organized by our colleagues from the Národní archiv in Prague.
The entire conference is being made possible as a final result of the activities and efforts that have been successfully accomplished within the EU-funded ENArC-project – the European Network on Archival Cooperation. Throughout the past few years, ENArC has advanced the network of archives and other cultural institutions that safeguard written European cultural heritage – while it simultaneously made exactly this heritage freely accessible via the internet as Europe’s Memory. Thus, this event will also mark the final closing conference of our ENArC-project.
Here you will find all necessary information in order to register for the event, view the programme, study the individual panel’s programmes and make accommodation arrangements.
Registration has been closed. Please contact Kerstin Muff (kerstin.muff[at]icar-us.eu) in case of questions.
Project closing
“Archivum Rhenanum – Archives numérisées du Rhin superiéur / Digital Archives in the Upper Rhine region”
The closing of the Interreg IVa project “Archivum Rhenanum – Archives numérisées du Rhin superiéur / Digital Archives in the Upper Rhine region” will be celebtrated at the BNU in Straßbourg with a presentation by Dr. Laurence Buchholzer-Remy on the importance of online, cross-border portals which deal with historic topics and material.
Mrs. Laëtitia Brasseur-Wild from the Departementalarchiv Haut-Rhin will then introduce the Interreg project.
The day will be rounded off by an official reception in the evening.
Registration is requested until 22 June 2015 at the Archives Départementales du Haut-Rhin. Please see above for contact details.
Information on “Archivum Rhenanum”
“Archivum Rhenanum”, co-financed by the European Union / European Regional Development Fond (EFRE), enables public access to historic sources of the Upper Rhine region by means of modern annotations, persistent bilingualism and new media (digitization, online services, billingual communication platforms – blogs). Under the lead of the Stadtarchiv Freiburg / City Archives of Freiburg (DE), various German and French archives, academic institutions and Historical Societies have joined forces to virtually re-create the historic memories of the Upper Rhine region.
More information on the project can be found here.
(c) Bildungshaus St. Hippolyt
Our second network meeting of 2015 will take place in St. Pölten (AT) at the Bildungshaus St. Hippolyt within the frame work of the project “co:op – community as opportunity. the creative archives’ and users’ network“. The programme of the meeting offers a special event counting on our network’s active input:
Archive material in the Middle East between menace and solidary
Almost every week the public – likewise experts and laypersons – are alarmed by terrifying news coming from the crisis-shaken Middle East region, regarding the repeating barbaric destructions of the oldest cultural heritage of mankind by fanatic and ideologically blinded forces. But not only the archaeological finds are endangered. The archival treasures of the region are facing similar threats and the erasement of millennia-long traditions seems to be possible.
ICARUS recognises its responsibility in this matter and wants to contribute by giving information and offering help, where it is needed mostly. Beside others P. Najeeb Michaeel (Dominican Fathers Church, Paris) and professor Andreas Schmidt-Colinet (Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna) will give an overview about the current situation of the archives in Iraq and our colleague István Kenyeres from the City Archives in Budapest will share his practical experiences during a recent helping mission in the Ukraine. One of the main aims of the workshop is to find out the most urgent needs of the colleagues on-site and how to organise the most effective help.
It is furthermore a special honor to have Patriarch Louis Raphaël Sako (Chaldean Catholic Church, Baghdad) and Bishop Shlemon Warduni (Chaldean Catholic Church, Baghdad) with us during the meeting.
Travel
You can reach St. Pölten easily from Vienna airport via train. There is a direct ICE with no changes. Please visit the official site of the ÖBB (Austrian Federal Railway) for more details.
Registration
Registration was open until 15 November 2015. Please register via kerstin.muff[at]icar-us.eu
Accommodation
Deadline for making reservations at the Bildungshaus St. Hippolyt was 25 October 2015. If you wish to inquire about available rooms, please contact Kerstin Muff at kerstin.muff[at]icar-us.eu directly.
International workshop
The current act of wars in Syria and Iraq post a devastating threat to the region’s cultural heritage, thus to the written archival records.
The ICARUS network consisting of more than 170 archival and academic institutions from all over the world shows solidarity with the colleagues that are relentlessly working on safe-guarding this cultural heritage in the current menacing circumstances.
This workshop aims at facilitating exchange between representatives from the ICARUS network and colleagues from Iraq on current developments and possibilities for future projects and cooperation. Engaging the latter into the activities of ICARUS and its members will offer the opportunity to become part of this community and thus profit from and take part in international knowledge and experience exchange as well as specific projects.
Keynote:
- Najib Michael (Dominican Fathers Church, Paris): The rescue of archives and libraries in Mosul
Co-keynotes:
- Patriarch Louis Sako (Chaldean-catholic church, Baghdad)
- Bishop Shlemon Warduni (Chaldean-catholic church, Baghdad)
- István Kenyeres (Budapest City Archives, HU)
- Patricia Engel (Danube University Krems, AT)
Following the conferences in Speyer (DE) in 2012 and in Stuttgart (DE) in 2014, the third part of this conference series will take place at the Kulturhaus LYZ. Organizers will again be the City Archives Speyer (Stadtarchiv Speyer), ICARUS and the Regional Archives Siegen-Wittgenstein (Kreisarchiv Siegen-Wittgenstein). The LWL-Archivamt für Westfalen has joined this time around as further co-organizer.
Further information on the conference and the programme will be made available here (in German) in due time.
The second conference of the task force „En route to a shared Identity“ will take place from 15-16 February 2016 at the University of Vienna (AT) under the title “New or unknown sources of the History and Cultural Heritage of Central Europe in the digital Age”.
The conference is conceptualized by Adelheid Krah and organized by the Institute for History and the Institute for Austrian History of the University of Vienna, the Archives of the Diocese of Passau, the Archives of the Diocese of St. Pölten and ICARUS – the International Centre for Archival Research.
Please click here for the programme.
Within the framework of the conference, the “double” conference “Original and Digital Represenation in the era of media change” will take place in the evening of 15 Feburary.
Speakers: Patricia Engel, Georg Vogeler.
Conference language: German & English
The following institutions will be present at the conference:
- City Archives of Budapest (HU)
- Czech National Archives (CZ)
- Archives of the Republic of Slovenia (SLO)
- Archives of the Diocese of Passau (DE)
- Archives of the Diocese of St. Pölten (AT)
- Archive of Wiener Neudorf (AT)
- University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (CZ)
- Comenius University of Bratislava (SK)
- Danube University of Krems (AT)
- University of Vienna (AT)
- ICARUS