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A journalist before the Internet – Eric Rouleau

Éric Rouleau had a career many people can only dream of: both a renowned journalist with the French publication Le Monde & Le Monde diplomatique and a seasoned diplomat who served as France’s ambassador to Tunisia from 1985-1986 and to Turkey from 1988 to 1991. Born in Cairo in 1926 as Elie Raffoul, Rouleau grew up in a Jewish-Egyptian family during a time of rising nationalism and anti-colonial ferment. After emigrating to France in the early 1950s, Rouleau changed his name and became known for his leftist politics and anti-imperialist stance taking him as far as the French Communist Party. His Middle Eastern and French background gave him not only linguistic fluency in Arabic, English, and French but also a high degree of cultural adaptability. He could befriend political leaders, army generals, and religious leaders in an instant. His thousands of articles and hundreds of interviews of the decades prove this very ability. Continuer la lecture de A journalist before the Internet – Eric Rouleau

Mosul and Baghdad, frozen in time in the heat of an Iraqi summer

It was the summer of 1982. The Iran-Iraq war had been raging for almost two years. André Raymond (1925-2011), a French historian specialising in the Ottoman cities, set off for Iraq on a research mission. His aim was to visit Mosul and Baghdad. The result of this trip, which took place in the middle of the Iraqi summer heat (temperatures in both cities were approaching 40°C at the time), is a collection of some 240 colour slides of the two Iraqi cities. The slides bear no date;  traces of this trip have been found in a CV contained in the many boxes that make up André Raymond’s paper archive. On the CV, Raymond notes that he carried out a research trip in Iraq (Baghdad and Mosul), from 26 June to 11 July 1982. The historian, who did his doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford and was for many years a Professor at the Université de Provence Aix-Marseille (in 2012, the Université de Provence became Aix-Marseille Université – AMU), left a rich photographic archive assembled over the course of his career. The photographic collection comprises some 10,000 images of cities in Tunisia, Syria, Egypt, Algeria, Lebanon, Libya and Iraq. Almost 1,400 of these photos are currently online on the MediHAL open archive platform, and can be reused under the terms of the CC-BY open license. Of the 168 catalogued photos, 128 were taken in Mosul and 40 in Baghdad. The remaining 70 photos were excluded because they were either too dark, or were copyrighted shots and images photographed from printed books. Continuer la lecture de Mosul and Baghdad, frozen in time in the heat of an Iraqi summer

MedMus Summer School Call for Participation: Archive, Corpus, Creation

The call for participation for the summer school Archives, Corpus, Creation targets Master’s and doctoral students who wish to adopt a multidisciplinary approach to the creation of archival corpora traversed by sound creation. The school is being run over two sessions. The first will take place in Aix-en-Provence (1-3 July 2025), on the theme Collecting, centralising, classifying: how and why to create a music archive? The second in Lisbon (15-17 September 2025) on the theme Writing a history of the Mediterranean through the music archive: processes and issues involved in the patrimonialisation of music. The text below sets out the school’s objectives and explains how to respond to the call for entries. Please respond by 30 January.

Call registration extended to 7 February!

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Call for contributions, AFAS : Voices of the South

For issue 49 of Sonorités. Bulletin de l’AFAS, titled "Voices of the South (Guiana, Latin America, Caribbean, West Africa): When speech becomes authoritative and oral serves as a writing of history," a call for contributions is launched in both English and French. The dossier is directed by Jean Moomou, professor at the University of Guyana, and Anaskesa Apollinaire, professor at the University of the Antilles.

Voices of the South (Guyanas, Latin America, Caribbean, West Africa): When speech becomes authoritative and oral serves as a writing of history

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Oral History Training, Qatar National Library, Doha, 12-14 December 2023

From 12 to 14 December 2023, the Qatar National Library (QNL) is holding oral history training sessions drawing on the expertise of the Phonothèque/Research Archives Department of the MMSH Media Library in Aix en Provence, France.

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Matera, 5:45 pm: presentation of a book and a collection of recorded interviews

On Monday, October 9, 2023, at 5:45 PM, at the University of Basilicata, the MMSH Phonothèque (Sound Archives) will be in Matera to promote the book Sassi e memoria : etnografie per un archivio delle voci (2022) edited by Ferdinando Mirizzi and Vita Santoro. This event provides an opportunity to highlight the oral testimonies collected for the project I-DEA – Matera 2019.

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Escuchar para leer a la sociedad – Listening to read society, May 2023, Mexico City

El Seminario de lnvestigación de Estudios de la Información sonora, violencia acústica y educación de la escucha (SIEIS)  del lnstituto de lnvestigaciones Bibliotecológicas y de la lnformación (11B1) de la UNAM invita a participar en las actividades abiertas los días 12, 19 y 26 de mai.

The workshop on Sound Information Studies, Acoustic Violence and Education in Listening (SIEIS) of the Library and Information UNAM Research Institute (11B1) welcomes you to join us for the open activities on May 12, 19 & 26. Continuer la lecture de Escuchar para leer a la sociedad – Listening to read society, May 2023, Mexico City

RESAW2023 Registration – Explorer le web archivé dans une période de bouleversements / Exploring the Archived Web During a Highly Transformative Age

RESAW Conference 2023 : Explorer le web archivé dans une période de bouleversements

Inscriptions ouvertes jusqu’au 30 avril

Conférence RESAW 2023: Exploring the Archived Web During a Highly Transformative Age

Registration is now open

5 & 6 juin/June 2023

What will remain in thirty years’ time of the satirical videos published online during the imprisonment, the websites of the NGOs mobilised in Ukraine, the student groups on social networks or the academic journals? How can we study, preserve and transmit this native digital heritage at a time when technological, environmental and political changes are disrupting the production and dissemination of knowledge and shaking up certainties about ethics and democracy? Continuer la lecture de RESAW2023 Registration – Explorer le web archivé dans une période de bouleversements / Exploring the Archived Web During a Highly Transformative Age

Polyvocality of the archives, May 25th, Aix-en-Provence, MMSH

Polyvocal Interpretations of Contested Colonial Past

Many memory institutions across Europe contain holdings connected with its colonial past which for many years has been a focus of contestation from both communities of origin, ethnic minorities and civil society at large. At the same time challenging questions are being asked by professionals in the field as to what to do with this problematic cultural heritage, from returning items when appropriate, to rewriting the historical context surrounding them in a more critical and inclusive way (…). The overall outcome of PICCH is to engender a polyvocality that can be incorporated into the archive itself providing new ways to enter and explore the past via a contemporary interpretative frame. To this effect advanced technologies will be used to study how to bridge archival and contemporary languages, and to support transnational exploration of multiple archives via a single interactive user interface.

First workshop in Aix-en-Provence, on May 25th pm (2:00-4:00) – Online by Zoom and Salle Seurat (MMSH) Continuer la lecture de Polyvocality of the archives, May 25th, Aix-en-Provence, MMSH

Il est encore temps pour participer au 10e anniversaire de FRAME !

Il y a 10 ans, l’INA organisait la toute première édition du programme de formation professionnelle FRAME, avec le soutien de la Fédération Internationale des Archives de Télévision – FIAT/IFTA,  European Broadcasting Union – EBU Academy, et des partenaires associés1. FRAME est cofinancé par le programme Europe Créative – MEDIA de l’Union européenne.

Depuis 2010, 18 sessions de formation de FRAME ont été organisées à l’INA ou dans les locaux de ses partenaires européens – le Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision en 2017, RTÉ – Raidió Teilifís Éireann – Radio Television of Ireland en 2018 et TVR – Televiziunea Româna – Télévision publique de Roumanie en 2019, 177 professionnels ont été formés par 121 formateurs venus de 44 pays.

Pour la première fois, FRAME Tech 2021 se tiendra e ligne pendant 6 demi journées du 17 au 24 novembre. Il est encore temps pour vous de vous inscrire en ligne : https://www.ina-expert.com/consulting/frame-tech-2021-online Continuer la lecture de Il est encore temps pour participer au 10e anniversaire de FRAME !

  1. Le Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision et meemoo. []