EXPLORING THE ARCHIVE IN THE DIGITAL AGE CONFERENCE
Programme
Anatomy Theatre and Museum, King’s College London
6 – 8 May 2010
Keynote speakers:
Prof Diana Taylor, Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University
Prof Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing at King’s College London
Dr Claire Taylor, Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Liverpool
Dr Thea Pitman, Lecturer in Latin American Studies at the University of Leeds
Thursday 6 May
5.00 – 6.00 Welcome wine reception and registration (Anatomy Museum)
6.00 – 7.00 Performance: ‘Thorn in the Flesh’: the Letters of Luisa de Carvajal (1566-1614)
Translation by David McGrath (Manchester University/King’s College London)
Rehearsed Readings by Sophie Louise Stevens (King’s College London)
Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza, the aristocratic “jesuitina” carrying the counter-reformation into the heart of Gunpowder Plot London, affected poverty in her garb, lifestyle and demeanour, while never missing an opportunity to influence events through her lofty connections. An inveterate letter-writer, she discarded her surnames but eventually found her true voice as a political lobbyist – a perpetual irritant to those of her compatriots she judged to be appeasers of the heretical English and Dutch.
In ‘Thorn in the Flesh’ the audience is invited to hear an account in her own words of Luisa’s tribulations and imprisonment, based on her letters as translated by David McGrath and performed by King’s post-graduate student Sophie Louise Stevens, who has co-devised and edited the text.
Friday 7 May
10.30 Tea and coffee (Green Room)
11.00 – 12.00 Panel 1 (Anatomy Museum) Chair: Pablo Calderón Martínez
Maite Usoz de la Fuente and Gabriela Mejan (King’s College London)
Archiving Archives: the status of serialised publications as archives and within the Archive
12.00 – 1.00 Panel 2 (Anatomy Museum) Chair: Carmen Artime
Paul Spence and John O’Neill (King’s College London)
Performance, edition and archive: scholarly challenges in digitising Hispanic theatre materials
1.00- 2.30 Lunch
2.30 – 3.30 Keynote address by Claire Taylor (University of Liverpool) and Thea Pitman (University of Leeds) (Anatomy Museum) Chair: Lorna Dillon
Approaches to Latin American Cyberculture
3.30 – 4.30 Panel 3 (Anatomy Museum) Chair: Rachel Scott
Ernesto Priego (University College London)
The Tell-Tale of Burning Paper: Traditional and Digital Archival Research in Comics Scholarship
Sophie Kelsall (King’s College London)
Using Facebook as a Dynamic and Participatory Archive
4.30 Tea and coffee (Green Room)
5.00 Keynote address by Diana Taylor (New York University) (Anatomy Theatre) Chair: Kate Averis
Archiving Memory in the Age of Digital Technologies
6.00 Wine reception
7.00 Conference dinner
Saturday 8 May
9.30 Tea and coffee (Green Room)
10.00 – 11.00 Panel 4 (Anatomy Museum) Chair: Gwendolen MacKeith
Carlos Fernández and José Valentino Gianuzzi Armijo (University College London)
A Digital César Vallejo
11.00 – 12.00 Panel 5 (Anatomy Museum) Chair: Maite Usoz de la Fuente
Ana Belén Rodríguez Fontecha (Universidad de Oviedo/King’s College London)
La musicología en España
Fernando Gómez Herrero (Oberlin College, USA)
Do “Digital” and “Humanities” Go Well Together?: A Virilian Reflection
12.00 – 12.15 Break
12.15 – 1.15 Panel 6 (Anatomy Museum) Chair: Gabriela Mejan
Ana Gorría Ferrín (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, España)
¿La Biblioteca de Babel? Crítica literaria: memoria, autonomía y autoridad en algunas bitácoras literarias en lengua española
Chus Martínez Domínguez, Xurxo Pantaleón Cadilla, Antonio Somoza Cayado, A Navalla Suíza, Xavier Cid (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, España)
Aplicación Web para el tratamiento, conservación y divulgación de la Historia actual: El caso del Proyecto de Investigación Interuniversitario “Nomes e Voces”.
1.15 – 2.30 Lunch
2.30 – 3.30 Panel 7 (Anatomy Museum) Chair: John O’Neill
Gerben Zaagsma (University College London)
The politics of digitisation? Exploring the online digital sources in Jewish history
Harriet Deacon (www.archivalplatform.org)
The Role of Digital Tools in Networking the Archive and Heritage Sector: The Case of the Archival Platform in South Africa
3.30 Tea and coffee (Green Room)
4.00 Keynote address by Willard McCarty (King’s College London) (Anatomy Theatre) Chair: Alicia Kent
In the Age of Explorations
5.00 Closing address by the conference organisers
