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Archiving from Below Discussion Series: dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Archiving from Below Discussion Series: dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
For the first Afb session we will be watching and discussing Johan Grimonprez’s dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, alongside archival videos from MayDay Room’s video archive Activist Media Project. We will explore how video, newsreels, television, and endless streams of moving images on social media of direct action can be archived in ways that create sites of production and can serve as […]
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Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity
Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity
We are very excited to welcome longtime friends and comrades of MDR, Valeria Graziano, Tomislav Medak and Marcell Mars, to discuss their new book Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity, in conversation with Susan Kelly and Janna Graham. In many places around the world, the freedom to simply care for one another is under attack […]
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Listening Event: No Fear! An oral history project on the Student Movement (2010-2012) with MayDay Rooms and On the Record.
Listening Event: No Fear! An oral history project on the Student Movement (2010-2012) with MayDay Rooms and On the Record.
Celebrating our newly trained Oral Historians! Over 8 sessions, the No Fear! cohort were equipped with archival resources and oral history training to build a new archive representing the experiences and insights of historic and current student activists both here in London and abroad. In light of recent waves of protests and encampments across universities […]
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Archiving from Below Discussion Series: All Knees and Elbows of Susceptibility and Refusal: Reading History From Below
Archiving from Below Discussion Series: All Knees and Elbows of Susceptibility and Refusal: Reading History From Below
In All Knees and Elbows, published in 2012 Tom Roberts and Anthony Iles attempted to recover and politically and critically survey the work of historians contributing to practices of reading and writing 'history from below'. If we articulate the 'below' as populated by creatures marked by material processes of differentiation through race, class and gender, then […]
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Archival Film Night for LGBTQ+ History Month: The Archivettes (2019)
Archival Film Night for LGBTQ+ History Month: The Archivettes (2019)
When a group of women in the Gay Academic Union founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives in the mid-1970s, they did so in explicit recognition that lesbian herstory ‘was disappearing as quickly as it was being made.’ For over fifty years, through many major milestones in LGBTQ+ history, this entirely volunteer-run organisation has quite literally […]