Rights in Records for Forcibly Displaced Persons
4:00pm - 6:30pm /
Monday 28th November 2016
/ Venue: Lecture Theatre 4, Rendall Building
Bedford Street South
University of Liverpool, L69 7ZQ
Rendall Building
Type: Seminar /
Category: Department
- 0151 794 9522
- Dr James Lowry
- Admission: Free of charge
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Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies presents a Seminar with Professor Anne Gilliland, University of California.
The United Nations identifies several categories of forcibly displaced people: refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, stateless persons and returnees. Drawing upon her work in the region of the former Yugoslavia, Professor Gilliland will contemplate several questions: What kinds of needs for records do the forcibly displaced have within these different statuses? What rights do they have in records about them that are held in regions and jurisdictions from which they have been displaced? What rights do they have in records created about them following their displacement by other nations, the United Nations, NGOs and other agencies, including DNA and biometric records? What are the personal and official consequences of using ‘irregular' records in the process of fleeing or moving between states? And how can wider recognition of these concerns make a positive contribution to the plight of displaced persons and the global refugee crisis?
Dr. Anne J. Gilliland is Professor and Director of the Archival Studies specialisation in the Department of Information Studies, Director of the Center for Information as Evidence, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She is also the director of the Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI), a global collaborative effort amongst academic institutions that seeks to promote state-of-the-art scholarship in archival studies, broadly conceived, as well as to encourage curricular and pedagogical innovation in archival and record-keeping education locally and worldwide.
She is a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists and recipient of numerous awards in archival and information studies. She is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Global Research, RMIT University in Melbourne and has served as a NORSLIS (Nordic Research School in Library and Information Science) Professor (with Tampere University, Finland; Lund University, Sweden; and the Royal School, Denmark), and as an Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow. She has taught courses as a visiting faculty member at Renmin University of China in Beijing and the University of Zadar, Croatia.
Her research and teaching relate broadly to the history, nature, human impact and technologies associated with archives, record-keeping and memory, particularly in translocal and international contexts. Her recent work has been addressing record-keeping and archival systems and practices in support of human rights, recovery and daily life in post-conflict and diasporic settings; the politics and nature of metadata; digital record-keeping and archival informatics; and research methods and design in archival studies.
The United Nations identifies several categories of forcibly displaced people: refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, stateless persons and returnees. Drawing upon her work in the region of the former Yugoslavia, Professor Gilliland will contemplate several questions: What kinds of needs for records do the forcibly displaced have within these different statuses? What rights do they have in records about them that are held in regions and jurisdictions from which they have been displaced? What rights do they have in records created about them following their displacement by other nations, the United Nations, NGOs and other agencies, including DNA and biometric records? What are the personal and official consequences of using ‘irregular' records in the process of fleeing or moving between states? And how can wider recognition of these concerns make a positive contribution to the plight of displaced persons and the global refugee crisis?
Dr. Anne J. Gilliland is Professor and Director of the Archival Studies specialisation in the Department of Information Studies, Director of the Center for Information as Evidence, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She is also the director of the Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI), a global collaborative effort amongst academic institutions that seeks to promote state-of-the-art scholarship in archival studies, broadly conceived, as well as to encourage curricular and pedagogical innovation in archival and record-keeping education locally and worldwide.
She is a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists and recipient of numerous awards in archival and information studies. She is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Global Research, RMIT University in Melbourne and has served as a NORSLIS (Nordic Research School in Library and Information Science) Professor (with Tampere University, Finland; Lund University, Sweden; and the Royal School, Denmark), and as an Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow. She has taught courses as a visiting faculty member at Renmin University of China in Beijing and the University of Zadar, Croatia.
Her research and teaching relate broadly to the history, nature, human impact and technologies associated with archives, record-keeping and memory, particularly in translocal and international contexts. Her recent work has been addressing record-keeping and archival systems and practices in support of human rights, recovery and daily life in post-conflict and diasporic settings; the politics and nature of metadata; digital record-keeping and archival informatics; and research methods and design in archival studies.