Center for Information as Evidence

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CENTER FOR INFORMATION AS EVIDENCE

CENTER FOR INFORMATION AS EVIDENCE CENTER FOR INFORMATION AS EVIDENCE CENTER FOR INFORMATION AS EVIDENCE

CENTER FOR INFORMATION AS EVIDENCE

CENTER FOR INFORMATION AS EVIDENCE CENTER FOR INFORMATION AS EVIDENCE CENTER FOR INFORMATION AS EVIDENCE

CIE

The  Center for Information as Evidence (CIE) is located within UCLA's  iSchool, the Department of Information Studies. 


Contact: Professor Anne J. Gilliland, Director, gilliland@gseis.ucla.edu


CIE serves as an  interdisciplinary and critical forum for research, policy development, educational initiatives  and public discourse addressing the ways in which information objects and systems are created, used, and preserved as legal, administrative,  scientific, social, cultural and historical evidence. 


With a particular  emphasis on the preservation and use of recorded evidence and  memory in support of human rights, social justice and community  empowerment, CIE is committed to incorporating  community perspectives  from around the globe, working across boundaries and barriers on contemporary and historical concerns, and  creatively an

With a particular  emphasis on the preservation and use of recorded evidence and  memory in support of human rights, social justice and community  empowerment, CIE is committed to incorporating  community perspectives  from around the globe, working across boundaries and barriers on contemporary and historical concerns, and  creatively and rigorously implementing diverse methodological and  analytical approaches.

News and New Publications

  • András Riedlmayer, Harvard University Library, presents the 2020 Kenneth Karmiole Lecture in Archival Studies at UCLA, "Destroying and Preserving Cultural Memory in Time of War: Archives and Libraries in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s". Open to the public. Reservations can be made at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2020-kenneth-karmiole-lecture-in-archival-studies-andras-riedlmayer-tickets-86562148717


  • The R3 Project is now soliciting feedback on the draft Refugee Rights in Records Framework. Please email comments to Dr. Kathy Carbone kcarbone@g.ucla.edu. For further discussion of the Framework see  A.J. Gilliland and K. Carbone. "An Analysis of Warrant for Rights in Records for Refugees," International Journal for Human Rights (2019), https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2019.1651295


  • Brilmyer, Gracen, María Montenegro and Anne J. Gilliland, guest eds. [mis]representation, [dis]memory, & [re]figuring the archival lens,  special issue of InterActions, 51, no.2, May 2019. [selected papers presented at the 2018 symposium sponsored by CIE]


  • Position statement on recordkeeping research and global grand challenges adopted by AERI 2018, the tenth annual summer institute of the Archival Education and Research Initiative at the University of Alabama, July 9-13, 2018.  



Upcoming Events

  • Evidence in a Post-Truth World: A multidisciplinary series sponsored by the UCLA Arts Initiative, Center for European and Russian Studies, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Information Studies and Center for Information as Evidence, Law School Promise Institute for Human Rights and the The Re-thinking Justice Project:
    • January 16: András Riedlmayer, Harvard University Library, 2020 Kenneth Karmiole Lecture in Archival Studies
    • January 17: Workshop presenters: András Riedlmayer, Harvard University Library; Brad Samuels, SITU; Hariz Halilovich, RMIT University; Robert Farley, UCLA
    • February 21: Eyal Weizman, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths,University of London and Director, Forensic Architecture, Public Lecture
    • February 22: Workshop, speakers TBA.


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