ARCHIVAL AFFINITIES. ADAPTING AND ADOPTING ARCHIVAL CULTURES
Second International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (I-CHORA 2), Amsterdam, 1-3 September 2005
Call for Papers

The University of Amsterdam and the Archiefschool, the Netherlands Institute for Archival Education and Research, are jointly organizing the Second International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (I-CHORA 2), to be held September 1-3, 2005 in Amsterdam. The first I-CHORA took place in Toronto, October 2-4, 2003 (see http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/research/i-chora/home.html).

The theme of the conference is “Archival Affinities. Adapting and Adopting Archival Cultures.” The conference will focus on intercultural and cross-national influences on record-keeping and archival theory, the dissemination and reception of theories and ideas on archives and record-keeping etc. Topics within this framework include:

• recordkeeping by colonizers and colonized, occupants and occupiers, etc.
• post-colonial and post-communist recordkeeping in relation to former recordkeeping regimes
• merging of indigenous and foreign theories, methodologies and practices
• national influences on recordkeeping of international and multinational governmental and non-governmental organizations
• records professionals and recordkeeping systems immigrating into other countries and cultures
• cross-national networks of records professionals and archivistics scholars and their impact on globalization of archival systems, theories and cultures

We invite proposals for papers for I-CHORA to explore work in progress, and present completed research on the history of record-keeping, archives management, and the development of archival theory and methods, in any time frame in any geographical area within the scope of the conference theme. We encourage cooperation between researchers from different countries to carry out original research within the conference theme.

Proposals for papers and projects should be made in the form of an abstract of 750 words. The working language of the conference is English. Proposals in Dutch, French, German, Spanish, and Italian are accepted, but the final paper should be in English.

We anticipate that selected papers from the conference will be submitted for peer review, to be published in a special issue of Archival Science.
Please submit proposals as an e-mail attachment to Peter Horsman, Archiefschool p.j.horsman@archiefschool.nl

The deadline for submission of proposals is April, 1, 2004

The organising committee, consisting of Eric Ketelaar, Agnes Jonker, and Peter Horsman, will meet in April to finalise the draft programme. Proposers may expect to hear from us no later than May 1, 2004.

The conference will include one poster-session, where work in progress in the field of the history of records and archives but not fitting the conference theme can be presented.

The organising committee