[Hum-DIS] FW: Talks

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Dear students

Please find below a number of events for the diary. Please note the first one has been advertised, however, the second and third, you may not be aware of – one is in Canberra at the Australian War Memorial and the other at Katoomba’s Carrington Hotel.  Both Toby and Joanna are excellent, experienced and entertaining presenters. They will bowl you over with their research!

Kind regards
Bec

Rebecca (Bec) Shillington
BA, GradDipLibStud (Curtin)
Practicum Coordinator | Department of Information Studies
School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts

Curtin University
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Can you circulate information on these talks, all of which are HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, to the students. The topics being discussed relate directly to different parts of their course and it is an excellent opportunity to hear from experienced professionals discussing their research and thinking in an accessible manner.
PERTH STUDENTS
 Toby Burrows. Computing the History of Cultural Heritage Collections
This presentation will focus on the re-use of data relating to collections in libraries, museums and archives to address research questions in the humanities. Large-scale research into the history and characteristics of cultural heritage materials is heavily dependent on the availability of collections data in appropriate formats. Until recently, this kind of research has been seriously limited by lack of access to suitable data.
Toby will be discussing four major projects. The first two relate to medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, and involve using data from a range of digital and non-digital sources to reconstruct the histories of large numbers of manuscripts, both from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps and more generally.  For the third project, “Collecting the West”, I am working with the British Museum to evaluate their ResearchSpace software, which is designed to integrate heterogeneous collection data into a cultural heritage knowledge graph. The final project is HuNI – the Humanities Networked Infrastructure – which is endeavouring to build a “virtual laboratory” for the humanities by reshaping collections data into semantic information networks.”
Speaker: Dr Toby Burrows, Library Manager - Research Publication and Data Services, University of Western Australia
 Toby Burrows’ research interests focus on the history of cultural heritage collections and the use of digital humanities techniques and methodologies. He has held research fellowships at King’s College London, Churchill College Cambridge and the Free University in Amsterdam. He is about to return to the UK on a highly prestigious EU grant so this is your last chance to catch him before he goes.
When: Tuesday, 30th May, 2017
Time: 4:00 to 6:00 pm
Venue: SROWA, James St, Perth WA 6000
RSVP: Please register at the link below to help with planning for this event by Friday, 26th May ’17.  If you have any questions please email Pauline Joseph at p.joseph at curtin.edu.au<mailto:p.joseph at curtin.edu.au>
https://www.archivists.org.au/events/event/wa-branch-event-presentation-by-dr-toby-burrows<https://www.archivists.org.au/events/event/wa-branch-event-presentation-by-dr-toby-burrows>
Cost: No charge for ASA members (ASA sponsored event), gold coin donation for others on the day.
Refreshments: Light refreshments will be available.

Curtin staff member Joanna Sassoon will be talking about archives and photography – drawing on her recently published book Agents of Empire. How E.L. Mitchell’s photographs shaped Australia, at the Australian Society of Archivists meetings.
For nearly 100 years E.L. Mitchell’s emblematic photographs of several Australian states have shaped how Australia was seen internationally. Many will recognize Mitchell’s images from having seen them published in Australian school textbooks, government publications, postcards, lantern-slides, international pictorial encyclopedia and museum exhibitions. But who was Mitchell, why did he succeed above his competitors, and how did his archive survive?
 In this illustrated talk, Joanna will bring together three biographies – of the photographer, his photographs, and his archive. In doing so, Joanna will discuss this innovative approach to thinking with photographs and open a conversation about the way institutions document and digitize photographs and how this shapes the way they can be used.
CANBERRA on 1st June
When: Thursday 1 June, 6.00 pm – 7.00 pm.
Where: Australian War Memorial (Room Booking TBC)
RSVP Craig.Tibbitts at awm.gov.au<mailto:Craig.Tibbitts at awm.gov.au>

SYDNEY on 8 June.
Details here https://www.archivists.org.au/events/event/nsw-june-2017-branch-meeting-camels-cockerels-and-governors<https://www.archivists.org.au/events/event/nsw-june-2017-branch-meeting-camels-cockerels-and-governors>.
And if you live in the Blue Mountains, Joanna is speaking more generally at the Carrington Hotel, Katoomba on Tuesday 30th May at 1.30pm http://www.varuna.com.au/varuna/index.php/varuna-sydney-writers-festival<http://www.varuna.com.au/varuna/index.php/varuna-sydney-writers-festival>
Thanks!

Joanna

Agents of Empire. How E.L. Mitchell’s photographs shaped Australia. http://scholarly.info/book/544/<http://scholarly.info/book/544/>

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