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Lives of Letters Workshop: Ethical and Interpretative Issues

Dates:16 February 2018
Times:09:30 - 15:00
What is it:Workshop
Organiser:John Rylands Research Institute
How much:FREE
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This workshop will engage participants in interdisciplinary conversation on the theme of the ethical and interpretative challenges of working with correspondence containing private or sensitive information. The sessions will reflect on issues relating to the handling of this information in the writing of history, whether as used sources for personal or institutional biography or as part of the history writing of larger communities and movements.

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9.30-12.00: Session 1: 'Correspondence Networks and Biography" 12.00-13.00: Lunch 13.00-15.00: Session 2: 'Sensitive Materials, Sensitive Archives'

Price: FREE

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