BRISMES Event | What’s in an Archive? The Colonial and Anticolonial Afterlives of MENA Archives

BRISMES’ Outreach and Pedagogy Committee is delighted to invite you to its next webinar, titled What’s in an Archive? The Colonial and Anticolonial Afterlives of MENA Archives. 

We will be joined by Dr James Downs FRHistS, Archivist of the Middle East Collection at the University of Exeter, and Mr Francis Gotto, Collections Discovery Archivist at Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections.

The webinar will provide an overview of MENA collections in each of Exeter and Durham and raise some of the practical challenges of managing these collections. The webinar will also delve into the ethics of archival keeping, notably the question of providing support for institutions in the region to enable them to improve professional standards and archive storage. Lastly, the webinar offers the opportunity to think critically about engagement with archives, as well as providing guidance in the practicalities of archive research. The event will be chaired by Sabiha Allouche.