The ICA Section for Archival Education and Training (SAE) is excited to extend an invitation to all its members to participate in a series of four virtual workshops titled “Archival Pedagogies,” scheduled to take place between May and June.
Building upon the achievements of the 2022 PCOM funded project “Archival Pedagogies,” which organized workshops on archival education led by prominent international archivists and educators, this phase of the project aims to engage a wider audience of archival educators by addressing barriers related to language and disability.
Globally, opportunities for archival educators to convene and discuss the intricacies of preparing the next generation of archivists for the complexities of record-keeping in today’s ever-changing landscape are limited. The previous “Archival Pedagogies” workshops in 2022 covered topics such as archival education and climate change, digital preservation education in resource-constrained environments, trauma-informed archival education, and education on information cultures. In the upcoming series, the project will expand its focus to include discussions on disability and archival education, education in Spanish-speaking regions, equitable labor practices in practical education, and anti-colonial archival education.
This ICA/SAE project is supported by the ICA through the Programme Commission (PCOM).
Would you like to participate in these workshops?
The target audience for these workshops includes archival educators worldwide who are members of ICA/SAE. In the 2024 series, we aim to enhance the international dimension of the series by focusing on Spanish-speaking educators, educators with disabilities, and those advocating for justice in archival education.
If you are an ICA member but not yet a member of ICA/SAE, you can easily join us by following these steps: Go to your profile, select “edit profile,” navigate to the “Professional Sections” section, and choose SAE as one of your Sections. Don’t forget to save the updates at the bottom of the page!
If you are not an ICA member, visit the following page to learn more about how to be part of our international professional network: https://www.ica.org/become-an-ica-member/
Virtual Workshops 2024
Facilitator: Alexandra Pucciarelli
Despite constituting the largest minority group globally, the disabled community has long been marginalized within archival theory, practice and education. This workshop underscores the importance of equipping the next generation of archivists with an understanding of disability justice to foster equitable archival practices.
Facilitator: Magdalena Wisniewksa-Drewniak
The aim of this workshop is to reflect on ways we teach (or can teach) about community archives. Participants will learn: what are the challenges of teaching this subject; how to present the local and international context of community archives; how to make the complex phenomenon of community archives easier to grasp; what opportunities this subject present to the teacher and what actually we can teach through the topic of community archives.
Facilitator: Maria Cristina Betancur Roldan
The workshop aims to acknowledge the conceptual shifts in archival studies driven by recent academic research, particularly within critical archival studies. It seeks to explore methods of integrating these evolving theoretical perspectives into archival education curricula, emphasizing the relevance of addressing contemporary issues such as archive plurality, social justice, and the political dimensions of archiving. Through virtual discussions and collective reflections, participants will engage in dialogue to propose strategies for incorporating these concepts into classroom teaching, fostering critical thinking and encouraging research to address pressing societal challenges.
Facilitator: Kirsten Thorpe
This workshop will consider how archival educators can engage with anti-colonial and de-colonial paradigms to support Indigenous self-determination, cultural safety and transparency in the archives. Given the calls to dismantle white privilege and to increase Indigenous voices in the archives, new archival frameworks are needed to address tensions of power and representation in the archives. Drawing on experiences of Indigenous Archives in an Australian context, the workshop will introduce new topics and teaching methods for educators to challenge the colonial foundations of the archives.