Author Archives: Sebastian Gurciullo

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About Sebastian Gurciullo

Webmaster, Section on Literary and Artistic Archives, International Council on Archives

Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Association – fellowships in Digital Humanities

Posted on 13 June 2017 by Sebastian Gurciullo

The Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Association is a consortium that brings together the research activities of three significant institutions: the German Literature Archive Marbach , the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel. Collectively these institutions are custodians … Continue reading →

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Art and activism producing new archives

Posted on 9 March 2017 by Sebastian Gurciullo

Artists, scholars and activists are leading the way in the creation of new archives that document important social and political events. Increasingly they are filling some important gaps in the documentation of such events, particularly those resulting from major and … Continue reading →

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Safe Havens for Archives at Risk

Posted on 30 January 2017 by Sebastian Gurciullo

As described in earlier posts, SLA has continued to support work being conducted on Archival Safe Havens (cases of archives in extreme danger which may, as a last resort, be physically moved to a safe location or be digitally copied … Continue reading →

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Basic principles in support of human rights

Posted on 7 September 2016 by Sebastian Gurciullo

At the ICA Congress in Seoul in September 2016, the Basic Principles of the Role of Archivists and Record Managers in Support of Human Rights was endorsed by the Programme Commission as an ICA working document for discussion, publicising and … Continue reading →

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Germaine Greer: evidence of Shakespeare

Posted on 1 June 2016 by Sebastian Gurciullo

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Dr Rachel Buchanan, Curator, Germaine Greer Archives, University of Melbourne Archives, explores the intriguing connections between Germaine Greer’s highly-influential The Female Eunuch and her early academic engagement with the works of William Shakespeare. The formation of Greer’s formidable public persona, … Continue reading →

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Archival Uncertainties – Workshop Programme

Posted on 7 March 2016 by Sebastian Gurciullo

International conference on literary archives, Monday, 4 April 2016, British Library Conference Centre. Download the full Archival Uncertainties Programme as PDF or Word document. This is a partnership event organised jointly by the Diasporic Literary Archives Network and the British Library. The Archival … Continue reading →

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Digitisation of the Gabriel García Márquez archive

Posted on 23 January 2016 by Sebastian Gurciullo

Back in January 2013, David Sutton wrote a blog post on the geographical destinies of literary manuscripts, and observed that the language of the author often determined whether they were likely to be acquired by a country other than their … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Archival Uncertainties – International Conference on Literary Archives – 4 April 2016

Posted on 17 December 2015 by Sebastian Gurciullo

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This upcoming conference to be held at the British Library Conference Centre,  London on 4 April 2016, represents an opportunity to explore the uncertain future of literary archival sources in the present age. While information technology is changing rapidly and … Continue reading →

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Literary Archives in Namibia

Posted on 23 October 2015 by Sebastian Gurciullo

In October 2015, a programme of workshops on literary manuscripts was hosted by the National Archives of Namibia and the National Library of Namibia, with presentations from several SLA members, under the auspices of the Diasporic Literary Archives Network. The … Continue reading →

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Sifting through Robert Creeley’s literary email archives with ePADD

Posted on 8 August 2015 by Sebastian Gurciullo

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A team at Stanford Libraries has developed an open-source software program to help manage email archives. The package known as ePADD was released in July 2015 and is available for free. Digital archivists at Stanford have already used the program … Continue reading →

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