Cultural Heritage Terminology Network

From Lebanon to Palestine: Fighting Erasure, Archiving against Genocide - Hybrid Event, 19 May 2025 #critcat #heritage #palestine #archives #libraries #museums www.archiveslab.org/events/pales...

Statement on IMLS Staff Administrative Leave IMLS is responsible for distributing Federal Funding for libraries. This action will interrupt IMLS's vital, congressionally funded work. We cannot allow IMLS to be dismantled by executive action.

www.everylibrary.org/statement_im... #libraries #museums #heritage

Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave Monday morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

www.npr.org/2025/03/31/n... #libraries #museums #heritage

Catch the next Archives & Heritage for Palestine seminar on 26 Feb at 4pm (GMT): us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #heritage #palestine

A Knowledge Graph of Contentious Terminology for Inclusive Representation of Cultural Heritage Cultural heritage collections available as linked open data (LOD) may contain harmful stereotypes about people and cultures, for example, in outdated textual descriptions of objects. Galleries, librar...

Nesterov, Andrei, et al. “A Knowledge Graph of Contentious Terminology for Inclusive Representation of Cultural Heritage.” In The Semantic Web, 13870:502–19. Switzerland: Springer, 2023. doi.org/10.1007/978-...

The term “half-caste” was not coined in 1758 Here’s why the Oxford English Dictionary is wrong about the term’s first usage.

medium.com/@carissatarm... #history #empire #mixedrace #etymology #oxfordenglishdictionary #britishempire #colonialism

Statement on the Destruction of the Edward Said Library in Gaza, 22 January 2025 by Mosab Abu Toha @mosababutoha.bsky.social #libraries #archives #heritage www.instagram.com/p/DFJjwY1PA3...

Lloyd’s Register apologises for its role in trafficking enslaved people from Africa The maritime group, founded in 1760 by merchants and underwriters, issued the apology after commissioning research into its links to slavery

Lloyd’s Register apologises for its role in trafficking enslaved people from Africa

The maritime group, founded in 1760 by merchants and underwriters, issued the apology after commissioning research into its links to slavery

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

#History #EnslavedHistory 🗃️

On 27 January, the archives & digital media lab will be hosting the virtual online classroom Cataloguing Palestine: Cultural Imperialism in Subject Headings with Rula Shahwan, Ghada Dimashk and Basma Chebani; co-convened by Kelsey Morgan and Dr. Jamila Ghaddar www.archiveslab.org/events/open-...

Breaking the Dead Silence:
Engaging with the Legacies of Empire and Slave-Ownership in Bath and Bristol’s Memoryscapes (2024), edited by Christina Horvath and Richard S. White, is available for free download: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Hidden Bradford - Rediscovering Bradford's Somali Village - BBC Sounds Dr. Fozia Bora delves into the captivating story of Bradford's 1904 Somali Village

Fantastic short radio programme about the Somali village in Bradford's Lister Park in 1904 (Bradford's earliest known Muslim community!), featuring my brilliant Leeds colleague Dr Fozia Bora: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Graphic with text: Call for abstracts: The Relationships of Description: Experiencing the Power & Politics of Language. Editors: Jamie A. Lee, Gracen Brilmeyer, Joyce Gabiola, & Sandy Littletree. Abstract submissions: 500 words, February 1, 2025. Final submissions, if invited: 3,000 words, September 1, 2025. Info session: January 13, 2025. 11 am Eatstern on Zoom.

New call for chapter proposals: "The Relationships of Description: Experiencing the Power & Politics of Language," edited by Jamie A. Lee, Gracen Brilmeyer, Joyce Gabiola, & Sandy Littletree. Proposals due Feb. 1. #critcat www.linkedin.com/posts/slittl...

New zine drop on geoz.one! "The Words They'll Use Against You: A Glossary for Navigating White Cishetero Institutions" provides resistant definitions of the keywords of straight white academia: diversity, inclusion, professionalism, civility, progress, etc.