Category Archives: Messages from SLA’s Chair

Rescheduling of ICA Abu Dhabi Congress

Posted on 16 May 2020 by

The ICA four-yearly Congress, to be held in Abu Dhabi, has been rescheduled to October 2021. The new dates for the Abu Dhabi Congress are 19-22 October 2021, and the venue is as previously announced: at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition … Continue reading →

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SLA Committee / Bureau / Comité Directeur, 2020-2024: decision / décision

Posted on 14 December 2019 by

Dear SLA Colleagues, I am pleased to announce, after the closure of nominations, that the following Committee has been elected for the period 2020-2024: Leonor Calvão Borges Fatoumata Cissé Diara Heather Dean André Derval Sebastian Gurciullo Veno Kauaria Annantonia Martorano … Continue reading →

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SLA projects, 2010-2020

Posted on 23 August 2019 by

The ICA 2020 four-yearly Congress will be held in Abu Dhabi (mid-November 2020). It usually happens in ICA bodies that there are changes of personnel and priorities following the Congress, so this may be an opportune time to begin to … Continue reading →

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Archives and Human Rights

Posted on 20 June 2019 by

Congratulations to our ICA colleagues Jens Boel, Perrine Canavaggio and Antonio González Quintana, who have signed an agreement with Routledge to produce a collection of essays on the subject of Archives and Human Rights, for publication next year. Within ICA, … Continue reading →

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ICA Annual Conference, Adelaide, October 2019

Posted on 25 May 2019 by

The Annual Conference of ICA for 2019, to be held in Adelaide, South Australia, will be a joint conference with the Australian Association of Archivists, the Archives & Records Association of New Zealand, and PARBICA (ICA’s Regional Pacific Branch), 21-25 … Continue reading →

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Promoting SLA in Croatia

Posted on 13 December 2018 by

A new issue of the Croatian archives journal @rhivi has just appeared, and includes an article in Croatian about the work of ICA’s Section for Archives of Literature and Art. Croatian-speakers can access the article here: @rhivi article: → Essay … Continue reading →

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Like London Buses …

Posted on 12 December 2018 by

(There is a saying in London which runs “You wait for ages for a bus and then two come along together”.) 2018 has been a good year for our subject-area of Literary Archives. At the start of the year there … Continue reading →

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