Events

Mar
14
Wed
4th Croatian ICARUS Days & EURBICA Conference @ Hotel Medena
Mar 14 – Mar 16 all-day

4th Croatian ICARUS days & EURBICA Conference

The European Archival Landscape: Reaching out for new Horizons

This conference is comprised of contributions presenting a variety of digitization activities focused on the protection of written heritage as well as contributions introducing current archival projects and programmes across Europe such as “community as opportunity (co:op)“, Monasterium, Matricula, the Topotheque and the Time Machine FET Flagship Project.

Ongoing joint archival activities, such as the Archives Portal Europe and EURBICA themes (“Safe Havens for Archives at Risk” and “Shared Archival Heritage”) will also be presented at conference, as well as further current topics regarding digital heritage, use and reuse of digital information, open GLAM, DARIAH activities and various cross-border portals and current programmes in the culture and science field.

Conference language: Croatian and English

Information on accommodation and registration

Conference programme

Conference material for download


Themes of the conference: Digitization and Protection of the Written Heritage  – European Archival Projects, Programmes and Activities – co:op –  ICARUS online platforms: Monasterium, Matricula, Topotheque – European Flagship project Time Machine – Archives Portal Europe – EURBICA – Safe Havens for Archives at Risk – Shared Archival Heritage – Mapire.eu – Cadastral Maps

Digital Heritage – Use and Reuse of Digital Information – Open GLAM initiatives – Digital Cultural Politics – Digital Humanistic – DARIAH

 

Sep
20
Thu
Archival Studies, Source Studies – Trends and Challenges @ National Archives of Georgia
Sep 20 – Sep 22 all-day

On behalf of our colleagues from the National Archives of Georgia in Tbilisi (GE) we would like to invite you to participate in 3rd international conference “Archival Studies, Source Studies – Trends and Challenges”.

Furthermore, proposals relating to the below mentioned topics may be submitted. Deadline for submitting proposals is 30 June 2018 (max. 500 words).

Conference themes

The conference is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the independence of Georgia, including the traditional blocks. Thematic emphasis will be put on 1918-21 Georgia and South Caucasus, the period preceding the declaration of independence of Georgia and the proclamation of the First Democratic Republic.

The goal of the conference is to present most recent scientific innovations, bring together the Georgian and foreign scientists to broaden communication networks, to promote the interdisciplinary and intercultural researches, to seek for adaptation ways of the modern requests of the Cultural Heritage Management and to share the novelties of the digital humanitarian sphere.

Scientific directions of the conference:
  • Georgia and the South Caucasus in 1918-1921 (period preceding the declaration of independence of the South Caucasus countries, the Transcaucasian Seimas, the first republics of Transcaucasia, Georgian government in emigration)
  • Archival studies
  • Source studies
  • Study of antiquities
  • History/art history/ Ethnography
  • Philology (textual criticism/study)
  • Political Science and law
  • Restoration/Conservation
  • Digital archives and databases
  • Cultural Heritage management
  • Intercultural communications

The conference package foresees small educational programs (informative lectures, electronic archives and others), which will be held within the framework of the plenary sessions.

Persons with academic degree, as well as with Master’s degree and Doctor’s degree are allowed to participate in the conference.

For more information please click here

Nov
8
Thu
Focal Point: Upcycling Cultural Heritage @ Archa Theatre
Nov 8 @ 09:00 – 17:00

2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage

During 2018, the European Year of Cultural Heritage, the national coordinators of the European Year such as civil societies organisations, small local initiatives, big European networks etc. organise a variety of events and activities on this occasion.

The European Year of Cultural Heritage draws attention to the significance of heritage sites, crafts, and intangible stories of our ancestors that are passed from one generation to another. Cultural heritage shapes our identities and has a profound impact on our everyday lives.
To understand that our history used to be someone else’s present and that our present will become someone else’s history is essential for the vision of a meaningful future. We are currently facing pressing questions related to the legacy of cultural heritage, which should be not only preserved and uncritically admired but also made alive.

The Creative Europe Desk of the Czech Republic invites to their international conference “Focal Point: Upcycling Cultural Heritage” to discuss the following key questions:

  • Why and for whom do we preserve cultural heritage?
  • What can cultural heritage organizations and sites offer to society?
  • What is the relationship between cultural heritage and contemporary art?

A variety of internationally renowned experts with different professional backgrounds and disciplines will share their thoughts, experiences and expertise on the given topics, inter alia, Thomas Aigner (President of ICARUS).

More information (in Czech) on the programme and registration can be found here.


 

 

Jun
5
Wed
3rd Archival Congress in Bosnia and Herzegovina @ Hotel “San” Laktaši
Jun 5 – Jun 7 all-day

The Oranizing Committee of the 3rd Archival Conrgess in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Archival Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina are convening the third congress of archival professionals and scholars in a 3-day conference. Next to paper presentations divided in three thematic sessions, the congress will also feature other events. The congress location is the Hotel “San” in the town of Laktaši.
The dates are 5th to 7th June 2019, Wednesday to Friday, several days before the International Archives Day.

The three themes and their concpetual framework are these:

  1. Archives and education
  2. Records on and from Bosnia and Herzegovina beyond its borders
  3. Archives in the post-truth era

Deadline for submitting applications: 15 April 2019

Call for Papers

Sep
26
Thu
Archival Studies, Source Studies – Trends and Challenges @ National Archives of Georgia
Sep 26 – Sep 28 all-day

International conference on “Archival Studies, Source Studies – Trends and Challenges”

The National Archives of Georgia welcome the submission of proposals for the Fourth International Conference “Archival Studies, Source Studies – Trends and Challenges”.
The goal of the conference: to collect the scientific innovations, to bring together the Georgian and foreign scientists for further broadening of communication, to promote the interdisciplinary and intercultural researches, to seek for the adaptation ways of the modern requests of the Cultural Heritage Management, to share the novelties of the digital humanitarian sphere.

More detailed information can be found here.

Deadline for submitting abstracts is June 28, 2019.

Oct
10
Thu
Time Machine Conference 2019 @ Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden
Oct 10 @ 09:00 – Oct 11 @ 17:00

Hear speakers from Europe’s leading science, technology and cultural institutions discuss the potential of cultural heritage data for education, creative and media industries, entertainment, urban planning, policymaking and more.

Meet and connect with companies and academics from throughout Europe who are actively working to realise the vast potential of our cultural heritage across fields and industries.

Further details and continuos updates on the conference´s programme can be found on the corresponding website.

Website Time Machine Conference 2019

Nov
4
Mon
Open Archives – 5th Conference including “ArchivCamp” @ The Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records (BStU) Stasi headquarters. Campus for Democracy
Nov 4 – Nov 5 all-day

The opening of the Stasi Records was a unique act following the Peaceful Revolution of 1989 turning the archive into a role model for many post-dictatorial societies. With the enactment of the Stasi Records Act on January 2, 1992, citizens for the first time were able to view their files in order to clarify the influence the Stasi had on their fate. The former Stasi headquarters meanwhile was turned into an educational site addressing issues of dictatorship and resistance, as well as a learning space for democracy. This unique location will be host to the fifth edition of the “Open Archives” conference in Berlin on 4th and 5th of November 2019, on the 30th anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution.

Keynotes and lectures

Part of the programme are thought-provoking keynotes and short lectures and a panel discussion on archives, digital and cultural policy on November, 4th :

  • Roland Jahn (Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records)
  • Gerald Maier (President of the State Archives of Baden-Wuerttemberg)
  • Helene Hahn (Wikimedia Germany)
  • Erhard Grundl (MdB, spokesman for cultural policy of the Alliance90 / The Green party’s parliamentary group)
  • Martin Rabanus (MdB, spokesman for culture and media, SPD parliamentary group)

BarCamp

But the programme has more to offer! A BarCamp allows participants on both days of the conference the opportunity for low-threshold, but also intense discussion. Topics can be contributed spontaneously. Established ways of thinking in the traditional world of archiving can be challenged!


For further information and regular updates, please visit the event website.

Open Archives Conference flyer

Conference language: German

Nov
14
Thu
Conference: The art of preserving culture @ Wien
Nov 14 @ 14:30 – Nov 15 @ 16:00

The event is at the same time the closing conference (fourth conference) of the international research initiative ‘En route to a shared identity. Sources on the history of Central Europe in the Digital Age’, led by Adelheid Krah (University of Vienna/AT).The international team, whose members are renowned scholars working at universities and archives in the field of research and teaching in Austria as well as in neighbouring countries of Austria, has existed since 2014 and is explicitly addressing the question of conservation and preservation of culture in the Central European and European area.

As it apparently becomes more difficult, despite the digitization and the opening of borders, to preserve the right of people on culture, cultural networking and the traditionally connecting construction of a shared identity, within this final conference also the study of music as another discipline as well as the dimension of the art of the interpretation of a piece will be included. To the existing co-operations of the working team comes a further collaboration with the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. We are looking forward to this!

At the conference, next to numerous talks on new topics and issues also two pieces will be presented:

  •  the in the Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht publishers as well as in the Böhlau publishing house issued edited volume of the conference in November 2017 ‘Sources, neighbourhood, community. En route to a shared cultural history of Central Europe’, ed. A. Krah (Wien, Köln, Weimar 2019, 302 p.),
  • the new CD ‘postscriptum B. – Beethoven-Katzer-Kontraste’ with cello sonatas by L. v. Beethoven and G. Katzer (interpreters J.-U. Krah, B. Parz) in a concert at the MKU Vienna at the occasion of the coming Beethoven year.

All contributions of the conference will again be released in an edited form on the blog ‘En route to a shared identity’, link: https://dighist.hypotheses.org/ and published until February 2020 online. At this point, the team will lay down its collaborative work until further notice.

Conference language: GERMAN

 

Registration

 

Mar
25
Wed
Cancelled – 6th Croatian ICARUS Days @ Rijeka
Mar 25 @ 10:00 – Mar 27 @ 11:00

— CANCELLED —

 

… due to the current pandemic crisis, the following conference has been cancelled:

 

6th Croatian ICARUS days  

Archives – borders, identities, reflections”   

Rijeka/HR, March 25th to 27th 2020

ICARUS Hrvatska in cooperation with ICARUS, the University of Rijeka (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) and other partners, organize the 6th Croatian ICARUS days under the topic “archives – borders, identities, reflections – intending to emphasize the current importance of archival institutions and records for societies.

The conference will take place in Rijeka, Croatia, on the premises of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, from March 25h to 27th 2020 and we are happy to invite all scholars, students, professionals and archival fans to join us in the promotion of archives in the European Capital of Culture 2020.

At the conference, ICARUS and its members will present various activities concerning networking, digitization and protection of written heritage, as well as current archival projects and programs across Europe, such as CREARCH, Digital Treasures, Store the future and international digital platforms for cultural heritage such as Topotheque, Mapire, Archives Portal Europe and others. The conference program will also focus on up-to-date issues emerging from the archival and heritage preserving community, with emphasis on IT themes, information on, presentation and interpretation of historical sources, use in the digital world and open access to GLAM institutions, like Time Machine activities, DARIAH topics and interdisciplinary projects such as Rijeka in Flux, Frankostrukcija, Znameniti.hr etc.

Participation in the conference is free of costs. The conference languages are Croatian and English.

We kindly invite potential speakers to present a paper (15 min.) corresponding with one of the proposed topics. Applications with specified name, surname, institution of employment and a proposal for a presentation should be sent by e-mail to info.icarushr@gmail.com until January 15th. More information will be available at https://www.icarushrvatska.hr/ where you can see previous ICARUS days-conference material.

We invite you to join us in Rijeka as well as to spread the news about the 6th Croatian ICARUS days among your colleagues and friends.

If you have any additional questions, do not hesitate to contact us at the abovenamed e-mail-address.

Looking forward to meeting you in Rijeka!

Call for Papers

Sep
24
Thu
Archival Studies, Source Studies – Trends and Challenges @ National Archives of Georgia
Sep 24 – Sep 26 all-day

International conference

Archival Studies, Source Studies – Trends and Challenges

The International Conference is dedicated to 100 years since the establishment of the National Archives of Georgia and 300 years since the birth of the King Erekle II.

The goal of the conference is to collect the scientific innovations; to bring together Georgian and foreign scientists for further broadening of communication; to promote the interdisciplinary and intercultural researches; to seek for the adaptation ways of the modern requests of the Cultural Heritage Management; to share the novelties of the digital humanitarian sphere.

The National Archives of Georgia calls for proposals until 28 June 2020.

For more information on the call, please click the link below.

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