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AERI2019: Archival Education and Research Institute

Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies

Liverpool, UK, July 8-12, 2019

Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeri2019
Abstract registration deadline	February 28, 2019
Submission deadline	February 28, 2019

Topics: archival studies archival science records management information studies

2019 Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI 2019)

Call for applications

The Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies (LUCAS), together with the UK and Republic of Ireland’s Forum for Archives and Records Management Education and Research (FARMER) is proud to host the eleventh annual Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI), and the first to be held outside of North America.

AERI will be held from 8 – 12 July 2019 in Liverpool, UK.

Applications for AERI are now being accepted.

Previous institutes were held at UCLA (2009, 2012), the University of Michigan Ann Arbor (2010), Simmons College (2011), the University of Texas at Austin (2013), the University of Pittsburgh (2014), the University of Maryland, College Park (2015), Kent State University (2016), the University of Toronto (2017) and the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa (2018).

These week-long annual working institutes are designed to strengthen education and research and support academic cohort-building and mentoring. Institutes are open to all academic staff and students at all levels working in archival studies, as well as archival professionals and others engaged in archival education, research and scholarship, broadly conceived.

AERI seeks to advance the field of archival studies by:

Creating a dynamic community of researchers, teachers and students to help mentor doctoral students and academic staff in areas such as thesis preparation, grant writing, publishing, and career development.
Advancing curriculum development in archival studies at all levels—undergraduate, graduate/postgraduate and continuing education.
Furthering current research development inside the academy and in practice through paper presentations, posters and workshop activities.
Fostering interest in future collaborations intra- and internationally.

We invite proposals for contributions that fit within AERI’s goals. These could include short papers (15 minutes), panels (1.5 hours, with 3 or more speakers), pedagogical, curricular, methodological, and technological workshops (half day or full day), performances, posters, works in progress or plenary sessions. Proposals should include an abstract of between 300 and 500 words, plus a short biographical note about the presenter(s). For panels or group activities, one proposal should be made by a lead applicant. Since this is a working institute, all participants, with the exception of students who are about to commence their studies, are expected to contribute in some way to the working meeting. This might be in a variety of roles including, but not limited to presenters, instructors, mentors, chairs, and AERI initiative leaders.

Timeline for Applications

28 February 2019 - Deadline for submissions

15 March 2019 - Applicants notified of admission / registrations open

1 June 2019 - Registrations close

8 - 12 July 2019 - AERI

Following AERI, participants will be invited to submit full papers for publication in a special issue of a refereed journal.

An additional tours of post-conflict archives and heritage initiatives in Northern Ireland is being planned for after AERI. More information about the tour will be published in due course.

Programme Committee

Kathy Carbone, Lecturer and Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles

Andrew Flinn, Reader in Archival Studies and Oral History, University College London

Anne Gilliland, Professor, Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Pekka Hennttonen, Associate Professor, Information Studies and Interactive Media, University of Tampere

James Lowry (Chair), Lecturer, Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies

Mpho Ngoepe, Associate Professor: Department of Information Science, University of South Africa

Alex Poole, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science, Drexel University

Lorraine Richards, Assistant Professor, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University

Rebecka Sheffield, Senior Policy Advisor, Archives of Ontario

Tonia Sutherland, Assistant Professor, LIS Program, University of Hawai'i

Proscovia Svard, Senior Lecturer, Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Science, Technology and Media, Department of Information systems and Technology, Forum for Digitalization

Student members:

Kirsty Fife, PhD candidate, University College London

Rebecca Grant, PhD candidate, University College Dublin

Ashleigh Hawkins, PhD candidate, University of Liverpool

Please send inquiries to jlowry@liverpool.ac.ukAdditional information about the conference will be available soon and watch #aeri2019 for news and discussion.

We look forward to welcoming you to Liverpool in 2019.