ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2018: 202 - Finding Transparency in Records of...

202 - Finding Transparency in Records of Refugee Displacement and Resettlement

Panelists explore examples of work with refugee records as it is performed at three archival repositories in the United States and Europe. Complex and often difficult issues of reconciling different cultural and language backgrounds, privacy protection, access, linking records related to individuals on the move located in multiple repositories while maintaining transparency of practices and records themselves, using archives to promote cultural understanding?all will be discussed by panelists and the audience.

Daniel Necas: Finding Transparency in Records of Refugee Displacement and Resettlement
Montserrat Canela Garayoa: Managing Refugee Records Globally: Perspectives from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Archives
Katharina Hering: Facing Challenges of Transparent Work with Refugee Records

Moderator: Daniel Necas

Chair

Daniel Necas

Archivist, Immigration History Research Center Archives, University of Minnesota

Daniel has in the past 16 years worked at the Immigration History Research Center Archives with collections documenting immigrant and refugee experiences in the United States of the last 150 years. In recent years, he has been on the team developing the Digitizing Immigrant Letters... Read More →

Speakers

Montserrat Canela Garayoa

Chief of Section, Records and Archives, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Archives

Montserrat Canela Garayoa, Chief of UNHCR Records and Archives Section in Geneva (Switzerland), 17 years of experience working in UNHCR as archivist and records manager, and 16 years of previous experience in Barcelona, Spain also in both capacities.

Sarah Patton

Public Services Archivist, Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Public Services Archivist at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University. Prior to transitioning to this position, worked as a processing archivist, focusing on the Hoover Institution's records.

Commentator

Katharina Hering

Digital Project Librarian, German Historical Institute in Washington, DC

Co-chair, International Archival Affairs Section. MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh and PhD in history from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. DC based freelance historian and archivist. Draws on research on ethics of access to refugee records and archives. Digital Project... Read More →

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Thursday August 16, 2018 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Marriott Salon 1, [Lobby Level] Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, DC 20008