Upcoming Workshops
Title: Climate change, archives, and digital preservation
Instructor: Eira Tansey
When: June 25th and 26th, 12:00 – 2:00pm EST
RSVP Deadline: Friday, June 21st
Notify By: Monday, June 23rd
Este evento contará con la interpretación simultánea de inglés al español
Workshop Description:
Climate change poses enormous challenges to archives and archivists. In the short term, climate change presents issues such as unpredictable weather and the potential for more frequent and severe disasters. In the long-term, climate change may reshape decisions around the geographic location, appraisal, and use of archives. In this workshop, archivists and cultural heritage professionals, regardless of their location, will learn about how climate change impacts our work and cultural heritage institutions.
Instructor Bio:
Eira Tansey is an archivist, researcher, and consultant based in her hometown of Cincinnati/the Ohio River watershed. She is the founder of Memory Rising, which provides research, consulting, and archival services with expertise in climate change, environmental and labor movements, and Ohio Valley regional history. Memory Rising’s clients have included the Council of State Archivists, METRO, DPOE-N, the Digital Preservation Coalition, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She previously worked as an archivist in academic libraries for fifteen years, at the University of Cincinnati and Tulane University. Eira’s research on archives and climate change has been profiled by Yale Climate Connections, VICE, and Pacific Standard, and has been honored by the Society of American Archivists. Her most recent publication is A Green New Deal for Archives, which received the 2024 Waldo Gifford Leland Award for writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the fields of archival history, theory, and practice. She is an elected Council member of the Society of American Archivists, the governing body for North America’s largest professional association of archivists. Eira is also the researcher and host of NO TIME FOR FEAR, a podcast about the history of the New Deal.
This workshop will not be recorded, but slides will be made available.
Suggested Pre-readings:
Tansey, Eira. “Archival adaptation to climate change.” Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 11, no. 2 (2015): 45-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2015.11908146
Goldman, Benjamin Matthew. “It’s Not Easy Being Green (e): Digital Preservation in the Age of Climate Change.” (2018). https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/381e68bf-c199-4786-ae61-671aede4e041
Pendergrass, Keith L., Walker Sampson, Tessa Walsh, and Laura Alagna. “Toward environmentally sustainable digital preservation.” The American Archivist 82, no. 1 (2019): 165-206. https://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081-82.1.165
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