Activity

Conferences and Talks

Participants at the Creating, Documenting and Using Archives of Spontaneous Memorials: Building an International Network International Workshop

Dr Kostas Arvanitis, “Developing a digital archive of a spontaneous memorial: the case of the Manchester Together Archive”
University of Graz, 11th February 2019

Dr Kostas Arvanitis and Amanda Wallace, “Archiving the spontaneous memorials of the Manchester Arena bombing”
DCDC
Birmingham, UK, 21st November 2018

Creating, Documenting and Using Archives of Spontaneous Memorials: Building an International Network, International Workshop
Manchester Art Gallery, UK 20-21 September 2018

Dr Kostas Arvanitis, “Collecting the public response to the Manchester Arena bombing”
The ethics of collecting trauma: what is the role of museums in recording and displaying contemporary events, International Workshop
Doha, Qatar, 7-9 May 2018

Kajsa Hartig, Bente Jensen, Anni Wallenius and Elisabeth Boogh, “Collecting The Ephemeral Social Media Photograph For The Future: Why Museums And Archives Need To Embrace New Work Practices For Photography Collections“
Museums and the Web 2018
Vancouver, Canada, 18-21 April 2018

Dr Gérôme TRUC and Maëlle Bazin, Workshop “De la rue aux archives: les hommages aux victimes des attentats“ 
Paris, 18 January 2017

Funding

“The written messages of the Manchester Arena bombing’s spontaneous memorials: memory, resilience and healing”, AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, 2019-2022

“Developing, digitising and interpreting the Archive of the Manchester Arena Spontaneous memorials”, Heritage Lottery Fund, UK, 2018-2020 (£99,700)