
The workshop will be a space in which participants can engage critically with materials under their care, as well as develop strategies for their mobilisation. Instead of approaching archival collections as inert sources, the workshop will consider how various affective encounters with archival materials can inform such ethics of care. It is conceived to provide an opportunity for participants to share the challenges they face and learn from one another’s experiences. We do not seek to preclude methodologies for working with challenging material, but rather, the workshop endeavours to help us imagine creative and practical ways whereby to re-see and reframe them, as well as for recognising and dealing with the emotional valences they carry.