12th Annual Archives Lecture
Presented by
ANU Archives & The Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre
Jeannette A. Bastian
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston
Whose memories, whose records: when the archival legacy of a colonial past meets the cultural records of a post-colonial future
Wednesday 25 September 5.30–6.30pm, followed by light refreshments
Coombs Lecture Theatre Fellows Road, The Australian National University
Islands, specifically the former colonial islands of the Caribbean
and the Pacific, share many similar archival and records issues.
Questions around the repatriation and custody of colonial
documents mingle with the archiving and preserving of the oral and
performative records of indigenous communities. Drawing on her
own island experiences, Jeannette Bastian explores the concept
of a cultural archives as a fruitful and productive path towards the
documentation of these dynamic island communities.
Jeannette A. Bastian is a Professor at the Graduate School of
Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston where
she directs their archives education program. She was Territorial
Librarian of the United States Virgin Islands 1987 to 1998 and
received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1999. She has
published widely in the areas of collective memory, post-colonialism
and archives education. Her books include Owning Memory: How
a Caribbean Community Lost Its Archives and Found Its History
(2003), Archival Internships (2008), and Community Archives: The
Shaping of Memory (2009).
Enquiries
W archives.anu.edu.au
E butlin.archives [at] anu.edu.au
T 02 6125 2219
This lecture is free and open to the public
ANU Public Lecture Series information:
news.anu.edu.au/for-the-public