This closed workshop will bring together a small group of archivists, activists and academics to discuss the pragmatics of setting up an LGBTQ+ archive. What knowledge is needed before such an undertaking? What hurdles and challenges (unexpected or otherwise) have to be faced along the way? People from the Queer Muzeum in Warsaw, HomeSpace in ... Read more

Location: Centre Cultural La Nau, C/ de la Universitat, 2. 46003 Valencia, Spain A pdf of this call for papers can be found here! The PERCOL conference 'Stirring Queer and Trans Memory' intends to explore counter-archival queer theories and practices as they rise from, and apply to, peripheral locations and experiences. Because of their oblique ... Read more

This two-day workshop will explore both tricky objects which present challenges to collections for a variety of reasons (they can't be kept; they don't fit classification systems; their provenance is dubious...), and difficult histories (the things we might not want to archive; the histories we're scared to confront; the lack of fit between different subaltern ... Read more