{"id":298,"date":"2013-05-17T15:06:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T03:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/?p=298"},"modified":"2013-05-17T15:06:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T03:06:31","slug":"paper-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/paper-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Tony Ballantyne (Otago) and Associate Professor Craig Robertson (Northeastern University), who is spending his sabbatical in the Department of History and Art History, have organised two events that explore the history and meaning of paper work.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday evening 23 May (5.30 Burns 2) the distinguished media historian Professor Lisa Gitelman (NYU) will deliver a public lecture entitled the &#8216;The Social Life of Paper&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday 24 May there will be a one day research symposium at the Hocken Collections on &#8216;Paper Work: The Materials and Practices of \u00a0Modern Information Cultures&#8217;. The programme is below. Please email Tony if you would like to attend: \u00a0<a href=\"mailto:tony.ballantyne@otago.ac.nz\">tony.ballantyne@otago.ac.nz<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\">Paper Work:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\">The Materials and Practices of \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\">Modern Information Cultures<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\">9.20am:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\">Welcome<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\">9.30-11.45am<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\">Barbara Brookes, Committed by Paper: Incoherence and Accountability in the Seacliff Asylum Files<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\">Jane McCabe, The Kalimpong Files: Private and Confidential<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\">Mark Seymour, Pursuing Paper to an Archival Silence: Same-Sex Acts in Nineteenth-Century Italy<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\">1.30-3.00pm<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\">Stephen Robertson (University of Sydney), Private Detectives and the Paper Work of Surveillance in the US, 1855-1939<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\">Craig Robertson (Northeastern University), Handling Information: File Clerks, Efficiency, and the Emergence of the Modern Office<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\">3.15-4.45pm<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\">Tim Rowse (University of Western Sydney), Tabulating Indigenous Populations: Colonial Knowledge in Two Dimensions<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\">Tony Ballantyne, Paper and the Work of Empire: Bureaucracy and British Colonialism<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Tony Ballantyne (Otago) and Associate Professor Craig Robertson (Northeastern University), who is spending his sabbatical in the Department of History and Art History, have organised two events that explore the history and meaning of paper work. 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