[Anthropgrad] Friday Forum - Hidden Treasures on Campus - 29 May

[Sharon Komidar]

The Research School of Humanities presents,
Friday Forum
1- 2.30 pm, Friday 29th May, Theatrette, Old Canberra House

Hidden Treasures on Campus: from the local to the Global

Maggie Shapley, University Archivist and head, Noel Butlin Archives
Centre

Ewen Maidment, archivist, Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

Kylie Maloney, archivist, Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

Facilitator: Dr. Mary Hutchison, RSH

 

Few realise that local archives on the ANU campus house items of global
significance. Three archivists discuss how these treasures - a single
artefact, a text, an image, a data entry - can permit researchers to
explore big questions and the wider world.

 

Global warming is a major issue for us all; however people living in
low-lying atolls of the Pacific are the first to experience its dramatic
consequences. Two archivists in The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau will
discuss the significance of Ellice Islands land records as they relate
to rising sea levels.

Kylie Moloney is the Archivist for the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau in
November 2008. She has an academic background in music, librarianship,
education and museum studies with professional interests in Pacific
archives and material culture.

Ewan Maidment is the Executive Officer in the Pacific Manuscripts
Bureau. He has specialist professional interests in Australian
industrial archives, archives and rare printed material documenting the
Pacific Islands, and in preservation reformatting techniques.

 

Moving from Tristan da Cunha to Spain, to the Pacific and all parts of
Australia, and from the eighteenth-century to the recent past the
University Archivist will present ten treasures held on campus.

Maggie Shapley is the ANU's University Archivist. She is currently a
member of the Assessment Committee for the Australian Register of the
UNESCO Memory of the World Program, and of the Management Committee of
the Australian Women's Archives Project.

 

Convenors: Carolyn Strange & Mary Hutchison

For general enquiries please contact: 
Phone: 6125 2434
Email: administration.rsh at anu.edu.au 
Web: http://rsh.anu.edu.au/
All Welcome