Ambivalent Archives

Research network @crasshlive @Cambridge_Uni around affective & critical engagements with 'the archive'.

Mailing list:

[Ambivalent Archives @AmbArchNetwork]

🧵A thread of additional archive theory and practice events happening in Cambridge & elsewhere, to be updated thoughout this year:

[CRASSH, Cambridge @CRASSHlive]

The @AmbArchNetwork network are back this term with a number of really exciting events, starting with the participatory workshop 'Photo-Embroidery: Archiving the landscapes that we carry within'.

Find out more about the programme at https://t.co/900hfld613

[Sara Salem @saramsalem]

Wrote this piece on anticolonial archives, memory and time, thinking about how anticolonial pasts express themselves in the present, and what kinds of archives hold these expressions

https://t.co/J33xFqjV7i

[Ambivalent Archives @AmbArchNetwork]

@CRASSHlive @CamDigHum @CambridgeGender @lgbtQcam @englishunicam @CamSociology @cambtweetmml

[Ambivalent Archives @AmbArchNetwork]

THIS FRIDAY: Self-Deposit Data Repository: A workshop with artist Meera Shakti Osborne

14:00-17:00 GMT

Seminar room S1, 1st floor, Alison Richard Building
7 West Road, CB3 9DT

For this workshop we will be archiving our secrets.

Sign up required: https://t.co/b5oCQNlakr

[Ambivalent Archives @AmbArchNetwork]

Spaces are limited. Please sign up using this link: https://t.co/b5oCQNlakr

When signing up, please send in a recording of yourself that answers:

‘What is your name and how are you feeling?’

Send these to: [email protected]

It will be shared on the day.

[Siddharth Soni @_siddharthsoni]

*Job* I'm one of the leads on a major grant to study open research and alternative cultures (of peer review, collaboration, longform writing, and so on) and we're hiring a 36mo full-time postdoc. For all those invested in critical university studies (especially publishing)

[Ambivalent Archives @AmbArchNetwork]

Happening on Thursday!

[Ambivalent Archives @AmbArchNetwork]

Session 4: Resistant Archives/Archiving Resistance

with https://t.co/q672lFyN27 and @cam4palestine

28.11, 5-7PM GMT, SG1 Alison Richards Building

In person attendance highly encouraged!

Full details: https://t.co/ge33TJBJgN

[Ambivalent Archives @AmbArchNetwork]

Session 4: Resistant Archives/Archiving Resistance

with https://t.co/q672lFyN27 and @cam4palestine

28.11, 5-7PM GMT, SG1 Alison Richards Building

In person attendance highly encouraged!

Full details: https://t.co/ge33TJBJgN

[FilmScreenCam @FilmScreenCam]

We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Asian Film and Media (FT, permanent, starting Sep 2025). Please see details of the position here - and share widely with those who might be a suitable fit! https://t.co/EHybf0cFMk

[Ambivalent Archives @AmbArchNetwork]

"On Blackness, images and anti-racist work" with Professor Mónica G Moreno Figueroa

Happening tonight, 5-7pm GMT and online.

Details here: https://t.co/XY3TIQeR5c

Eventbrite registration for Zoom link if attending online: https://t.co/tjySzZ8qwD

[Ambivalent Archives @AmbArchNetwork]

Conference: Archiving Gaza in the Present

@ArabBritishCent and @SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies

Info here:

🗓️ 30 November – 1 December 2024 (in person)
🎟️Register here:
https://t.co/iuPeAP1HZF

[Ambivalent Archives @AmbArchNetwork]

🧵A thread of additional archive theory and practice events happening in Cambridge & elsewhere, to be updated thoughout this year:

[Ambivalent Archives @AmbArchNetwork]

On Thursday, 27th June, artist Rona Lee will be in conversation with Ayesha Landon-Browne, Liz Hide, and Rob Theodore to discuss her new installation, 'Lithic Entanglements', which collages together archival images in 2d and moving image. Details here: https://t.co/vzpBV5D99v 🪨

[Ambivalent Archives @AmbArchNetwork]

Happening this Thursday, 5-7pm GMT!

https://t.co/XY3TIQfoUK

[Rachel Randall @rach_randall]

Join us in Cambridge on Thursday for this @AmbArchNetwork event

[Ambivalent Archives @AmbArchNetwork]

Happening in 1 hour with Mai Taha (@mtaha1871) and Sarah Salem (@saramsalem) of https://t.co/27JdUDz4TW!

Details and readings: https://t.co/HmpKpVfb35

[Ambivalent Archives @AmbArchNetwork]

NEXT EVENT:

31.10.24 / in person & online: Archive Stories with @saramsalem and Mai Taha

Full details here: https://t.co/HmpKpVfISD

[Ambivalent Archives @AmbArchNetwork]

Encouraged pre-readings for the event:

https://t.co/sWWPl98zEK

https://t.co/d6puM1LChy

https://t.co/xex0QIv5i0

https://t.co/AyzVYPX5SZ

https://t.co/PRRCtztInI

https://t.co/TpTAAdp8Ms

https://t.co/9WxzTkyLpd

[Ambivalent Archives @AmbArchNetwork]

NEXT EVENT:

31.10.24 / in person & online: Archive Stories with @saramsalem and Mai Taha

Full details here: https://t.co/HmpKpVfISD

[Sara Salem @saramsalem]

We’re live!!!

https://t.co/1TWpSosFIr

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Archive Stories is a website about how to work with creative, community and anticolonial archives.

We invited people who already do this work to take us on their journey with archiving. Enjoy!

~

[Ambivalent Archives @AmbArchNetwork]

Happening tomorrow, 5-7pm (UK), in person & online. Email us at [email protected] for PDFS.

https://t.co/JGpU6s4Kz0

[Ambivalent Archives @AmbArchNetwork]

Our first session, featuring works-in-progress by convenors @ruarilpa and @lrynanderson, considers relationships in the archive. Email us at [email protected] to receive the readings!

https://t.co/JGpU6s4Kz0

[Publishers for Palestine @pubforpalestine]

📢🇵🇸🕊️ Join us on Oct 23rd for Ongoing Return: How To Re/Consider the Past in the Present with Dr. Rana Barakat, part of the Archives & Heritage for Palestine series. Explore return as a living practice of resistance. Register now! 🔗https://t.co/E3GMzi77Z9 #Palestine