Join us for the next session of this Community–Coffee–Cultures (CCC) – an informal discussion group among archivists! We meet on the last Tuesday of every other month at 14:00 UTC, for anywhere between 45-60 minutes.
This upcoming CCC meeting will explore the theme: Archives and migration.
Although you are welcome to just show up, we invite you to read the 7 pages on migration and archives below, and, as an optional extra, to dip into the radio programme/catalogue entry from a migration-focused project.
Reading
Pages 34 – 40 (e-book pages 35-41) of the open access book Archives and Traces of Migration: A Handbook of Best Practices (sections titled: Different forms of migration documentation and The Importance of addressing migration in archival collections and services).
To access the book, visit https://projectatom.eu/ and see green button “ATOM E-BOOK”.
Listening
The Cork 2005 / ‘How’s it goin’, boy?’ project is an example of an oral history archival collection project celebrating one location (Cork City, Ireland) through interviews with ‘locals’ and ‘migrants’. The collection-level archival description is available here: https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/collections/show/2
The perspective of outward and inward migration, and individuals’ and communities’ relationship with place, is explored through a radio series, but most of all through the first episode ‘There and back again; the emigration experience’ https://corkfolklore.org/radio-series/.
KEY INFORMATION
Date
Tuesday, May 26, 2026. 14:00 UTC
Language
This session will be in English. While interpretation into other languages is not provided unfortunately, participants can help translate for each other! It's quite informal.
Date
Tuesday, May 26, 2026. 14:00 UTC
Language
This session will be in English. While interpretation into other languages is not provided unfortunately, participants can help translate for each other! It's quite informal.
What is Community–Coffee–Cultures (CCC)?
Some of you may remember the reading group we started in 2020. This year we’re continuing that tradition, although do not feel you need to read the suggested articles to come for the conversation! Community–Coffee–Cultures (CCC) is to build community, learn from varied cultures of practice around the world, and maybe have coffee (or other beverage of choice). We hope this will also be a way of fostering discussion and who knows, even collaboration. We are picking six broad themes to see how archives in different parts of the world think about these. Discussions are not structured, and they are not restricted to the theme during these meetings!
CCC is looking for volunteers to join and extend parallel sessions in timezones 6+ hours ahead of UTC (East Asia, Australia, Oceania, etc). If you live in a time zone where 14.00 UTC is not viable (or attractive) for you, please consider contacting us at c.ocarroll(at)ucc.ie to host parallel sessions.
Your CCC team:
- Clíona O’Carroll, PhD. Léachtóir/Lecturer, Béaloideas/Folklore and Ethnology, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh/University College Cork
- Venkat Srinivasan, Head, Archives at National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS)
- Ellen Engseth, Curator, Immigration History Research Center Archives and Head, Migration and Social Services Collections, University of Minnesota Libraries
- Carol Street, Undergraduate Research Archivist, University of Kentucky
