Room: Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway (SBSG) 1517
10-10:15 Event Intro
10:15-10:45 People and their Archival Imaginations: Brief introductions – not duplicating collaboration biographies, so please read these in advance. Click on the questions here to see how people have responded to the collaboration biography questions. Dialogue about digital archives and installations demonstrating archival imaginations that we can draw on. Scan the examples shared so far here.
10:45-12:15 Conceptualizing Ethnographic Archives: Dialogue centered on the shared questions for conceptualizing ethnographic archives. Click on the questions to read responses so far here.
12:15 Lunch
1pm Leveraging PECE in Ethnographic Archives: Dialogue centered on the shared questions focused on ways to leverage PECE in ethnographic archives. Click on the questions to read responses so far here.
2pm Archive Technics: Dialogue centered on the shared questions for figuring out archive technics. Click on the questions to read responses so far here.
3pm Planning for Archive Ethics and Governance: Dialogue centered on the shared questions about archive ethics and governance. Click on the questions to read responses so far here.
4pm To follow up: Open dialogue about ways to support PECE archives and archive ethnography going forward.
Archive Ethnography is an emerging, experimental way to produce, curate, communicate and politically activate ethnographic knowledge. It involves the curation of purposefully diverse data for an ethnographer’s own analysis and interpretation; it enables collaborations with other ethnographers, with researchers in other disciplines and with the people and systems ethnographers study (with special interest in their data practices and infrastructures); it is mindful of its own encoded ideology and enables many different forms of ethnographic expression and engagement. \
Here is a still-under-construction Zotero bibliography supporting archive ethnography. Here’s a short essay about archive ethnography infrastructured by the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE): “Civic Community Archiving with the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography: Double Binds and Design Challenges.”
Here is a Google doc version of a sketchbook that can be copied to develop archive ethnography projects. sketches Here are examples of draft sketches (learn more about Margaux Fisher, and see her draft digital presentation of her archive.