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MEMORY AND FORGETFULNESS
Section “Women and Minority’s Archives"
Blagoevgrad, 15 - 17 February, 2008
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WOMEN'S ARCHIVES - REALITIES, DESIRES, REFLECTIONS
WOMEN AND POLITICS
Vienna, November 30 - December 1, 2007
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WOMEN AND MINORITY DOCUMENTS IN THE SOCIAL MEMORY
OF SOUTH-EAST EUROPE
Belgrad, 26-27 October 2007
The aim of the Conference is to bring together historians from Austria, Serbia, Macedonia, Rumania and Bulgaria in order to share their experience in archive practices, elaboration of catalogues and inventories of regional and national archives as well the different policies of publications. This way we will start to define common gaps and deficits concerning women and minority documentation.
Our purpose to discuss ideas about future collaboration and research of women and minority documentation in our countries. We will discuss also the ways to improve the contacts, networks and the possibilities of thematic digital catalogues and data bases in this field.
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Workshop WOMEN AND MINORITIES: THE WAYS OF ARCHIVING
Razlog, 10 -12.09.2007
The archives took central place in the contemporary social memory. According to the French scholar Pierre Nora there are three types of archives according to their level of development: juridical or supplementary, historical – documental, of social memory and identity. The researcher who is interested in the political, social and cultural past of women and minorities finds information quite by chance working with the different archive funds of state institutions. The existence of such groups in the archives is hidden: in the inventory lists they miss because the inventories reflect the activities of the institutions not the subjects. This is the reason the information about such groups to be mostly about them not the one coming from them. Most often the proscribed information combines data of different official sources: police, public health, educational, political and cultural institutions. It is necessary to discover another sources for the past of such groups, to systemize and compare the fragmentized information about them and to encourage the digitalization of the information.
The aim of the Workshop in Razlog is to bring together specialists in Archive studies and Gender and Minority studies and to identify and to present the existing prescriptions and practices of preservation the documentation Women and Minority in Bulgaria.
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