Event Details
Attendees listening intently to proceedings at the workshop "Anticolonial Archiving as Method", at the London School of Economics, 10 March 2023. (Photo: Giuseppe Urso) |
| Workshop: | Anticolonial Archiving as Method |
| Description: | In this four-hour workshop, participants had an opportunity to enhance their understanding of the process of archiving, focusing on creative, anticolonial and resistance-based archives. This built on increasing interest in archives created by and for communities and social movements, as well as on archives that are more critical and creative in how they envision archiving and the role of the archive.
The workshop was structured around inputs and discussions from two practitioners: Roberta Bacic, Conflict Textiles; and Lukasz Risso, May Day Rooms.
Both speakers focused on working with archives more creatively and what the process itself looks like. Roberta explained indepth how Conflict Textiles – a live, evolving archive - has approached the archiving process. This was complemented by discussion and a Question & Answer session, framed around a selection of textiles displayed as part of the workshop.
Time: 13.00 – 17.00, 10 March, 2023
This is a closed workshop by invitation only.
For further information, email Sara Salem, Associate Professor in Sociology, London School of Economics (S.Salem3@lse.ac.uk)
London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Commissioned by: | London School of Economics |
| Date(s): | 10th March 2023 - 10th March 2023 |
| Venue: | London School of Economics
Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE, UK |
| Curator: | Roberta Bacic and Sara Salem |
| Facilitator: | Sara Salem, Mai Taha, Marral Shamshiri-Fard |
| Outcome: | The workshop on anticolonial archiving brought together students, archivists and observers to discuss, to think about and spend time with Conflict Textiles and May Day Rooms archives and experiences. Roberta Bacic discussed in detail questions of archiving, arpilleras, resistance, care, and political futures, as well as how we might think about archives in creative ways. There was a conversation between Conflict Textiles and May Day Rooms around practices of archiving resistance and why they matter. Overall it was a rich and moving event, and we have received excellent student feedback about it. |
| Documents: |
• Workshop invitation, 10 March 2023 - view
• Photo gallery, LSE workshop 10 Mar 2023 - view
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