Paper Work:
The Materials and Practices of Modern Information Cultures

 
Public Lecture

Thursday 23 May
Lisa Gitelman (New York University), ‘The Social Life of Paper’
5.30 pm, Burns 2

Research Symposium

Hocken Collections
Friday 24 May

9.20am

Welcome

9.30-11.45am

Barbara Brookes, Committed by Paper: Incoherence and Accountability in the Seacliff Asylum Files
Jane McCabe, The Kalimpong Files: Private and Confidential
Mark Seymour, Pursuing Paper to an Archival Silence: Same-Sex Acts in Nineteenth-Century Italy

1.30-3.00pm

Stephen Robertson (University of Sydney), Private Detectives and the Paper Work of Surveillance in the US, 1855-1939
Craig Robertson (Northeastern University), Handling Information: File Clerks, Efficiency, and the Emergence of the Modern Office

3.15-4.45pm

Tim Rowse (University of Western Sydney), Tabulating Indigenous Populations: Colonial Knowledge in Two Dimensions
Tony Ballantyne, Paper and the Work of Empire: Bureaucracy and British Colonialism

Any queries can be directed to: tony.ballantyne@otago.ac.nz