ICA-SUV annual conference
Archives, Ethics and Society
Heidelberg, Germany
Welcome remarks
Caroline Brown, Chair ICA-SUV, Prof. Matthias W. Hentze, EMBL and Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Bernhard Eitel, University of Heidelberg
Session 1: Keynote 1
Chair: Caroline Brown
Archives, records and ethics: challenges and opportunities in the justice space
Professor Niamh Nic Daeid, Director Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science, University of Dundee
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Session 2: Ethics in Practice
Chair: Garfield Lam
Ethics in the archives: trauma-informed archival practice
Nicola Laurent and Kirsten Wright, University of Melbourne, Australia
The lives of others and the right to be (in)visible
Venkat Srinivasan, National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India
Starting from scratch: ethics questions & strategies on an unorganized university archive
Christos Chrysanthopoulos, Ioannis Drivas, Dimitrios Kouis and George Giannakopoulos, University of West Attica, Greece
Session 3: Keynote 2
Chair: Anne-Flore Laloë
Retention Periods for Personal Data and Ethical Aspects
Leena van der Made, Compliance & Data Protection Officer, European Space Agency, Paris
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Session 4: Ethics and the digital world
Chair: Anne-Flore Laloë
We’re closed. Welcome!: Covid19 and the changing contours of archival access
Adria Seccareccia and Anna Dysert, McGill University, Canada
Ethics and the balancing act: institutional requirements, access, and the challenges of web archives and social media
Virginia Hunt, Harvard University, USA
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Session 5: Ethics and communities
Chair: Gabriel Mohale
Surveying as unsettlement: the protocols alignment survey at the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
Jessica Maddox and Kimberley Anderson, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Collective Inheritance in Records of Diasporic Communities: Ethical and Archival Responsibilities
Tanis Franco, Daniela Ansovini and Mahdi Ganjavi, University of Toronto, Canada
Local cultures project: ethics of creating an archival description
Maryna Chernyavska, University of Alberta, Canada
Session 6: Codes of ethics and dealing with donors
Chair: Ingo Runde
The Portuguese Code of Ethics for Information Professionals and its applicability to university archives: the case of the University of Coimbra
Ana Margarida Dias da Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Codes of ethics: research, Co-creation and Implementation
Alexandrina Buchanan and David Mander, University of Liverpool, UK
Memento mori: donors, collecting, end-of-career, end-of-life
Rodney Obien and Taelour Cornett, Keene State College, USA
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Session 7: Archives, ethics and civil society
Chair: Bethany Anderson
Whose records are they anyway? Implications of public record keeping for civil society in South Africa
Gabriele Mohale, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Revolutionary remains: balancing archival access and discretion in post-2011 Egypt
Stephen Urgola and Ryder Kouba, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Session 8: Ethics and personal data
Chair: Elaine Penn
Comparing the implementation of Protection of Personal Information Act by the University of Venda and University of Witwatersrand in South Africa
Sidney Netshakhuma, University of Mpumalanga, South Africa
Accessing restricted records while protecting private data: an ethical balancing act
Cara Bertram and Jameatris Rimkus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
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Session 9: Managing and collecting ‘better’ archives: medical and care home records
Chair: Ellen Engseth
“We are all in this together:” legal and ethical challenges of collecting patient and community archives
Polina Ilieva, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Everyday records or living archives? Creating a new standard for record-keeping in residential care homes in Scotland and Germany
Karl Magee and Hugh Hagan, University of Stirling, UK
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Session 10: Panel discussion - Ethical approaches to working with communities
Njörður Sigurðsson, National Archives of Iceland, Forget Chaterera Zambuko, Sorbonne University, Abu Dhabi, Ranjani Prasad and Faisal Rehman, Keystone Foundation, India
Chair: Caroline Brown
Closing words
Caroline Brown, Chair ICA-SUV
Ingo Runde, University of Heidelberg
Anne-Flore Laloë, EMBL
The initial call for papers is available as an attachment below in English and German.
The abstracts of all presentations can be downloaded below.