May 12- 13, 2025.
Archives and Traces of Migration Symposium
The ICARUS Convention #34 hosts the concluding activity of the Creative Europe AToM project.
Dates: May 12- 13, 2025.
Venue: Budapest, TBD
Format: hybrid
March 25, 2025.
Exhibition
TRACES OF EXILE
Archives hold stories that transcend time, accounts of lives that intertwine in the journey of memory. Thanks to the support of the Creative Europe programme and with the collaboration of the institutions that form part of the consortium, Spain, Croatia, Hungary and the Netherlands, this initiative highlights the fundamental role of archives in the preservation of memory. For three years, the project has been working on new ways of documenting migration, giving a voice to those who had to leave their homes in search of a new destination.
In the case of Spain, the exhibition immerses us in the stories of those who, during and after the Civil War, embarked on an uncertain path, accompanied by their families, their memories and their identity. Through documents, photographs, testimonies, and personal objects, we relive their trajectories, understand their challenges and recognize their contributions to their host societies.
The opening of the exhibition TRACES OF EXILE. Documented accounts of migration will take place on 25 March, at 11:15 a.m. in the Documentary Centre of Historical Memory in Salamanca.
September 26, 2024.
Archives and Traces of Migration exhibition in Croatia
The exhibition “Archives and Traces of Migration” opened on September 26 at the State Archives in Bjelovar. It will remain there until October 14, after which it will embark on its own journey, visiting other institutions and organizations throughout Croatia and beyond.
The exhibition was created through a collaborative effort of twelve archivists who involved communities from which the migration stories originated. The topics are highly diverse. Some stories highlight early migrations from the Dubrovnik and Korčula areas, as well as from the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Russia, and Poland to Croatia. Others focus on work-related migration from Croatia to Slovakia and the United States.
What unites all these stories is their personal perspective, presenting individual life experiences. None of this would have been possible without the records and other documentation preserved in archives and heritage institutions. The authors traced the paths of migration and presented them to underscore the crucial role of archives in migration research.
Photo: Helena Marušić Lazić and Petra Špoljarić (State Archives in Bjelovar)
June 14, 2024.
AToM partners annual meeting
ICARUS Croatia hosted the annual AToM partners’ meeting at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research on June 14th in Zagreb. Final preparations for the virtual and in-person exhibitions were made, and we began making arrangements for the final symposium in Hungary in 2025. The virtual exhibition will be published on July 12th, 2024. Check it out and let us know what you think!
October 26-27, 2023.
AToM Team Meeting
During the Spanish presidency of the EU, Spanish State Archives hosted second live AToM Transnational Steering Committee meeting in Salamanca. Beside working issues focused on Archival finding aid guide, collecting life stories and oral history materials, as well as discussing exhibitions and other planed deliverables, AToM team members also visited Historical Memory Documentary Centre, Cathedral, and other beautiful Salamanca cultural monuments.
June – July, 2023.
AToM Survey
One of the main objectives of the WP5 “Archival and documentary collections on migration” is to explore and define what constitutes a migration fond/collection from archival perspective. A clear and shared understanding of what constitutes a migration fond/collection is crucial for effective archival practice and scholarship in the field of migration studies. The aim of AToM is to harmonise the different perspectives of the European Archives on this matter. For that reason, we are launching a questionnaire among the European archives that can be found in the following link.
All European archives with migration collections are encouraged to participate.
June 28, 2023.
HR AToM Workshop
Archives and Traces of Migration (AToM) educational workshop
AToM project addresses how professionals can augment the existing societal record of migration by encompassing additional forms of documentary materials as well as the perspectives and experiences of those who have migrated. Its intent is to develop and support a multifaceted, best practices approach to appraising, preserving and providing access to the documentary heritage of historical and contemporary migration.
May 2, 2023.
AToM Team Meeting
Follow-up to the AToM workshop, AToM Transnational Steering Committee held its regular monthly meeting in Sittard. After many online meetings, planning and work on project deliverables, it was the first opportunity for in-person gathering of AToM team. Besides working agenda, partners also visited Archive De Domijnen and various local cultural institutions.
The programme book can be found on the website of ICARUS
May 1, 2023.
AToM workshop
Archive De Domijnen hosted AToM workshop, lead by professors Anna Gilliland and Elizabeth Mullins, organized for project partner organizations who will transfer this knowledge to their institutions and communities. Workshop objectives include preparation of AToM participants to explain the importance and value of enhancing and diversifying the documentary record of migration to a range of audiences; provide them with professional approaches that can be used to enhance the creation, collection, description and exhibition of documentary heritage of historical and contemporary migration & prepare them to train other documentary heritage professionals and community members in techniques and processes that will support the AToM project and other participatory activities.
January, 2023.
AToM Open Call
In January 2023 ICARUS Croatia published an open call for heritage experts and members of minority communities dealing with documentary collections to join the AToM activities. A collaborative team of experts and enthusiasts who deal with these topics will be actively involved in education programs, exhibitions and other project deliverables. See more at: ICARUS Croatia
October, 2022.
EDT transmedia exhibitions
Creative Europe European Digital Treasures project resulted with three transmedia exhibitions. The second one: Exiles, migratory flows and solidarity has brought together the Spanish State Archives and the State Archives of Hungary, Norway, Malta and Portugal, along with ICARUS (Austria) and the Munster University of Technology (Ireland). This exhibition is the outcome of the European cooperation, a clear example of the combination of the capacities, heritage, diversity, value, and inspiration that gathered participants to create narratives that combine different technological tools for meeting our past through multiple channels.
