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Please join us for the second public online talk of 2023 of the Society of American Archivists' (SAA) Crisis, Disaster, and Tragedy Response Working Group [archivists.org] (CDTRWG). <u1:p></u1:p>
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CDTRWG maintains and updates SAA's Documenting in Times of Crisis: A Resource Kit [archivists.org]; develops and provides immediate and ongoing resources and response assistance to archivists, allied cultural heritage professionals, and their communities in times of tragedies, disasters, or other crises; and builds partnerships with organizations focused on relief efforts and cultural stewardship and preservation. As part of that partnership building, we are conducting a series of public talks in 2023 to hear about related work. <u1:p></u1:p>
Understanding the need for trauma-informed practice in archives
Nicola Laurent, Senior Project Archivist, University of Melbourne and <u1:p></u1:p>
Kirsten Wright, Program Manager Find & Connect web resource, University of Melbourne <u1:p></u1:p>
28th June 2023, 5pm (BST)<u1:p></u1:p>
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This talk will consider what is trauma-informed archival practice and why we need to implement the practice in archives. It will provide an overview of the 2022 survey Understanding the international landscape of trauma and archives [ica.org] [opens PDF], which sought to obtain quantitative data to identify how widespread experiences of trauma in archives were, what support was available and what education, training and resources were needed. The survey received a significant response with over 1100 respondents from 100 countries, highlighting the importance the archival community places on gaining a stronger understanding of trauma and archives. This talk will consider our professional response to the survey and what steps we need to take to ensure archives become safer places for all to engage with. <u1:p></u1:p>
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Nicola Laurent (she/her) is the Senior Project Archivist, Find & Connect web resource at the University of Melbourne. Nicola advocates for trauma-informed archival practice and discusses the impact of vicarious trauma on archivists and received International Council on Archives (ICA) Programme Commission funding to undertake the Understanding the international landscape of trauma and archives project. Nicola is the President of the Australian Society of Archivists, the ICA New Professionals Programme Coordinator, and co-founder of the Trauma-Informed Archives Community of Practice. <u1:p></u1:p>
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Kirsten Wright (she/her) is the Program Manager, Find & Connect web resource, University of Melbourne. Prior to this, she held a number of roles at Victoria University (Australia), including University Archivist, and also worked at the Public Record Office Victoria. She has previously published and presented on topics including archives and power, historical language and archival description, trauma-informed archival practice, and out-of-home care records. She is a co-founder of the Trauma-Informed Archives Community of Practice. <u1:p></u1:p>
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The recording of this talk will be made available after the event on the Working Group's webpages [archivists.org]. <u1:p></u1:p>
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