I am looking very forward to speaking about my research alongside colleagues at the British Library, as part of the upcoming British Library PhD Research Spring Symposium: Global Voices in the Archive. Past and present British Library PhD students will explore new research drawing on the British Library’s archives and collections. I will speak about the process of creating and depositing a life history archive at the British Library.
Speakers will explore the theme of ‘translation’ – both in a literal sense, investigating the hidden lives and work of translators and interpreters as revealed in the archive, and more broadly in terms of how languages, values, beliefs, histories and narratives are communicated and understood within, between, and across different cultures and contexts.
The keynote speaker is Dr Tom Overton, addressing the theme of migration in the archive as explored in the first chapter of his forthcoming book, The Good Archivist. Currently Writer in Residence at Jerwood Visual Arts, Tom completed a British Library/King’s College London collaborative PhD on the writer, critic and painter John Berger in 2014. Subsequent panels, chaired by British Library curators, will feature collaborative PhD students at various stages of their research at the Library, as well as early-career postdoctoral researchers.
The event will take place on March 21, 2016, 10:00 - 17:30, at The British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB.
For further details and to book a place to join us, click here.