As we reach the final weeks of the year, our groups and programmes continue to offer a fascinating variety of webinars on topics of interest to all our members. Read on to learn more:
EUreka3D Consortium and ICA-PAAG Webinar Series – Transforming Heritage: From 2D to 3D Digitisation
Friday 1 December 15:00 – 16:00 CET (Paris time)
The third and final session of a series of webinars organised by the ICA and EUreka3D consortium will discuss “3D Innovation and creativity in the cultural heritage sector”. This session concludes a fascinating programme that has focussed on the quality guidelines for cultural heritage digitisation, the use of 3D digitisation for cultural heritage reuse and research, and innovative initiatives in 3D and the cultural heritage sector.
ICA/SAR Online Talk – Problems, Challenges and Opportunities in the Personal Archives of Architects
Monday 4 December 18:00 – 19:00 CET (Paris time)
This talk, organised by the ICA Section on Architectural Records (SAR), will explore the countless problems and challenges posed by the personal archives of architects to the information services where they are located or to recipients intending to use them. Complexities ranging from variations in the size, format, and volume of such archives can have profound consequences for their accessibility and conservation. Paulo Batista, Senior Archive Technician at the Lisbon Municipal Archives, will lead this session in a discussion of the strategies that can be implemented to face the problems posed by the personal archives of architects, and how they can be transformed into opportunities.
SAHR Tuesday Talks – The use of the Khmer Rouge archives as judicial evidence, by Song Pheaktra and Helen Jarvis
Tuesday 5 December 16:00 – 17:00 CET (Paris time)
The Section on Archives and Human Rights (SAHR) Tuesday Talks closes another successful year with a session led by Mr Song Pheaktra, Head of the Archives Section of Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, and Dr Helen Jarvis, former Chief of the Victims’ Support Section at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Mr Song will introduce the various categories of documents left behind by the Khmer Rouge when they left the S-21 prison, which have now been digitised and made available on the museum’s web site. Dr Jarvis will go on to discuss how these archives provided crucial evidence of the crimes committed in two major trials: the world’s first genocide tribunal in 1979, later verified in more detail in the recently concluded hybrid ECCC. These archives were inscribed on both the regional and international registers of UNESCO’s Memory of the World, and Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum was the recipient of the 2020 UNESCO/MoW Jikji Prize for preservation of documentary heritage.
ICA/SAHR Webinar – Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Sunday 10 December 16:00 – 17:00 CET (Paris time)
On the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations, the ICA Section on Archives and Human Rights (SAHR) will be hosting a webinar that will feature a presentation by Trudy Huskamp Peterson on the close relationship between archival materials and selected articles of the Declaration. Trudy Huskamp Peterson is an ICA Fellow and former Chair or ICA/SAHR, and author of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Archival Commentary. This event will also feature a brief launch of a new knowledge base on archives and human rights.
ICA/PCOM Webinar – Archivists encountering trauma in archives: introducing the vicarious trauma template
Wednesday 13 December 7:00 AEDT (21:00 CET, Paris time on Tuesday 12 December)
The 2022 PCOM Project, Understanding the international landscape of trauma and archives survey results provided an important statistical overview of how trauma is currently experienced in archives. The resulting report found that over 50% of respondents identified as having experienced vicarious trauma in archives. In response, the 2023 PCOM Project, Resources to support archivists encountering trauma in archives, was developed to create a new resource that would acknowledge vicarious trauma is an issue for the archival profession and be modifiable to include the resources and support available at specific organisations. This webinar will use the survey results to explore the present understanding of trauma in archives and introduce the template that organisations can use to acknowledge and respond to vicarious trauma in archives.