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SUMMARY:Archive Fever
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DESCRIPTION:**Due to illness\, please note that the workshop element of t
 his event has been postponed until Semester 2. Katherine Verdery's talk 
 will continue as scheduled but will be an online only event. Please note
  that the Zoom for this presentation has been amended (https://zoom.us/j
 /98592709524).\n\nThis event\, organised by Professor Stefan Hanß\, expl
 ores the emotional resonance of archives for the fieldwork of researcher
 s. What does the physical encounter with archival materials mean? How do
 es it affect the stories that researchers tell in their work? How can we
  come to understand emotions as part of archive encounters? Unpacking th
 e personal\, emotional stories that make up researchers’ experiences in 
 the archive\, we will discuss archival research as a kind of anthropolog
 ical fieldwork\, situating emotions key within the field of the producti
 on of knowledge. This event will comprise a discussion and reading sessi
 on\, as well as a keynote.\n\n2-4pm: Workshop (in-person)\n\nPlease read
  (some of) the following texts:\n•	Natalie Zemon Davis\, Passion For His
 tory: Conversations with Denis Crouzet (University Park\, PA: Penn State
  University Press\, 2021)\, 1–29\, https://www.librarysearch.manchester.
 ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/bofker/alma992985651807601631\n•	Jacques Derr
 ida\, “Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression\,” Diacritics 25\, no. 2 (19
 95): 9–63\, https://www.jstor.org/stable/465144\n•	Arlette Farge\, The A
 llure of the Archives (New Haven: Yales University Press\, 2013)\, 1–17\
 , https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/1r887g
 n/alma992984372493401631\n•	Jill Lepore\, “Historians Who Love Too Much:
  Reflections on Microhistory and Biography\,” The Journal of American Hi
 story 88\, no. 1 (2001): 129–44\, https://www.librarysearch.manchester.a
 c.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/1rfd42k/cdi_proquest_journals_224900690\n•	Ann
  Laura Stoler\, Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Coloni
 al Common Sense (Princeton: Princeton University Press\, 2010)\, 17–53\,
  https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/1r887gn
 /alma992984086924701631\n\n4-5pm: Keynote Lecture (hybrid)\n\nKatherine 
 Verdery (New York)\, ‘An Ethnographer Encounters Her Secret Police File:
  The Place of Emotions in Creating Anthropological Knowledge’\nhttps://z
 oom.us/j/93089379928 (Meeting-ID: 930 8937 9928)\n\nShort bio: Professor
  Katherine Verdery is Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguishe
 d Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City Universit
 y of New York. She is the author of numerous books\, including My Life a
 s a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File (Duke University Press\,
  2018)—winner of the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing 2018 an
 d the 2020 ASEEES Distinguished Contributions to Slavic\, East European\
 , and Eurasian Studies Award.\n\nAbstract: For many decades\, anthropolo
 gists didn’t much do archives\, except to acquire a bit of “historical i
 nformation” to contextualize their field data. Their resort to history m
 ight be summary\, or it might be more extensive\, as in work done by the
  Manchester School so as to understand\, for example\, the development o
 f a labor market for work in Africa’s gold mines. While many anthropolog
 ists obtained historical information for their field sites\, that was ba
 sed not necessarily on extensive archival research but on reading govern
 ment reports and secondary sources. In a word\, the prevailing functiona
 list paradigm required relatively little time spent in archives.\n\nThe 
 turn to an anthropology informed by historical materialism\, among other
  things\, encouraged greater attention to historical process. This\, in 
 turn\, fostered excursions into archives of many kinds. The work of Amer
 ican anthropologists Ann Stoler and Valentine Daniel\, for example\, has
  shown how archival research can enhance both ethnographic understanding
  and the further development of anthropological theory concerning (for e
 xample) affect and emotions.\n\nVerdery’s lecture concerns archival enco
 unters of yet another kind: her confrontation with the archive of Secret
  Police reports about her during her sixteen years (1973–1989) of ethnog
 raphic research under Romania’s communist regime. This encounter produce
 d months of struggle with the emotions it produced\, which form the mate
 rial of her lecture.\n\nArchive Fever is co-funded by CIDRAL as part of 
 its 2023-2024 Archives series\, and by the John Rylands Research Institu
 te.\n\nImage © Stefan Hanß
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