Engagement with an archive
film, new conversations based on archives
reanimating the stories, bring data back to location
look for themes in the data
compare change, exploring data creatively, groups, surprising connections, decentering the researcher
Keynote Address: Dr. Rachel Thomson
Dr. Rachel Thomson shares some of the learning, experiences, and creative outputs from Reanimating Data: experiments with people, places and archives. This project sought to secure, digitize, and share a landmark feminist social research study (the Women, Risk & AIDS Project 1988-90) with new audiences in new times. Through the research, Thomson and her team have worked with ideas from queer theory (operationalizing Freeman’s concept of time binds) and from indigenous and feminist archiving and activism (Muthien’s notion of rematriation and Moore’s conceptualisation of careful risk-taking). They have also developed a method of reanimation that includes practices of re-asking, collaging, re-voicing, and re-collecting. Dr. Thomson's aim in this keynote is to share insights from the study and to show the potential of working with the archives of qualitative research as a starting point for collaborative and creative enquiry that places time at the center. The presentation includes sharing a short film that showcases their collaborative work.
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