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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This is a final call for early bird pricing
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(ends March 15)</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> to</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 20.925px;"> join
us for the <a href="https://crossingfonds.com/" id="OWA58f38162-a90f-27f8-2880-e503ebaf15d7" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://crossingfonds.com/" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="0" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">
Crossing Fonds symposium</a> in Metro Vancouver and online from April 25-28, 2024. Crossing Fonds will explore trends in digital archival practice, including the Crossing Fonds platform for collaboration between archives; critical digital archives practices
including an ethics of care; Indigenous data sovereignty; collaborative tools and methods, community-centered collections created for and with equity-deserving communities; and media arts conservation. Featured case studies that “cross fonds” are
<i>Black Labour and Culture History in the Greater Vancouver Area</i>, <i>Women’s Labour History: Restaurant Work in the Greater Vancouver Area</i>,
<i>and the Indigenous Media Arts Group and IMAGeNation Aboriginal Film and Video Festival Archive</i>. Panels feature archival projects from IBPOC, queer and trans, and disabled communities and digital technology leaders. Evening receptions, exhibitions, and
film screenings will take place at </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134); line-height: 20.925px;"><a href="https://www.vivomediaarts.com/" id="OWAbbf52984-8ec9-91c3-a21a-432bec2c9fbb" class="x_x_x_Hyperlink x_x_x_SCXW238498295 x_x_x_BCX0 x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-linkindex="1" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">VIVO
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px;">Building on a two-year SSHRC Partnership Development grant, producing partners are OCAD University; Simon Fraser University Archives,
Library, Special Collections and Rare Books; City of Vancouver Archives; VIVO Media Arts Centre; and BLAC. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px;">Pre-symposium workshops (in person only) will include hands-on training in collaborative annotation, visualization, and cataloguing
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134); line-height: 20.925px;"><a href="https://mariandoerk.de/" id="OWA30ad3393-45a5-f7c3-78f0-72cda70e05c4" class="x_x_x_Hyperlink x_x_x_SCXW238498295 x_x_x_BCX0 x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-linkindex="4" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">Dr.
Marian Dörk</a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px;"> (Fachhochschule Potsdam University of Applied Sciences) </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134); line-height: 20.925px;"><a href="https://www.labourheritagecentre.ca/south-asian/" id="OWAea40364e-cc6c-52ba-0f40-25c3e07ad23f" class="x_x_x_Hyperlink x_x_x_SCXW238498295 x_x_x_BCX0 x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-linkindex="5" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">Donna
Sacuta</a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px;"> (BC Labour Heritage Centre) </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134); line-height: 20.925px;"><a href="https://irshdc.ubc.ca/2023/11/14/the-indian-residential-school-history-and-dialogue-centre-congratulates-kristin-kozar-as-our-executive-director/" id="OWAb3a9bed1-14e4-536b-d62d-7e6482c950d9" class="x_x_x_Hyperlink x_x_x_SCXW238498295 x_x_x_BCX0 x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-linkindex="6" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">Kristin
Kozar</a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px;"> (UBC Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre) </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134); line-height: 20.925px;"><a href="https://seis.ucla.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-directory/michelle-caswell" id="OWA27c4ae72-474e-6007-806b-b9bf74417feb" class="x_x_x_Hyperlink x_x_x_SCXW238498295 x_x_x_BCX0 x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-linkindex="7" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">Dr.
Michelle Caswell</a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px;"> (UCLA School of Education and Information Studies) </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134); line-height: 20.925px;"><a href="https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2022+libraries-podcast+media-release" id="OWAbf27dfeb-47b4-7d7e-e383-0fa6b070255b" class="x_x_x_Hyperlink x_x_x_SCXW238498295 x_x_x_BCX0 x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-linkindex="8" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">Ry
Moran</a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px;"> (U Vic Libraries Executive, Reconciliation) </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px;"><i>This symposium is generously supported by funds from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Simon Fraser University
and Office of the Provost SFU, OCAD University, VIVO Media Arts Centre and the Internet Archive.</i></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Lead Symposium Organizer,
<i><a href="https://crossingfonds.com/" id="OWA97fe2514-176e-392c-125b-8371de152566" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Crossing Fonds</a></i>, OCAD U</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">PhD Candidate, English Language and Literatures, UBC</span></p>
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