The Center for Information as Evidence (CIE) is located within UCLA's iSchool, the Department of Information Studies.
Its director is Professor Anne J. Gilliland.
CIE serves as an interdisciplinary and critical forum for research, policy development and public discourse addressing the ways in which records and archives and other information objects and systems are created, used, and preserved as legal, administrative, scientific, social, cultural and historical evidence.
With a particular emphasis on addressing the preservation and use of recorded evidence and archives 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, and creatively and rigorously implementing diverse methodological and analytical approaches.
**New Report**
Alalawi, Sakena, ‘Struggles with Documents’: A Review of Documentation Issues Affecting Refugees and Displaced Persons from Arab Middle East Countries, Rights in Records for Refugees Project, June 2018.
Rights in Records for Refugees Symposium sponsored by CIE, the University of Liverpool Centre for Archive Studies (LUCAS) and the Vera and Donald Open Society Archives at Central European University was held January 10, 2018, Budapest. Information about the symposium, presentors and discussion can be found here.
[Dis]memory, [Mis]representation, & [Re]figuring the Archival Lens: Kenneth Karmiole Symposium on Visual Archives, was held on January 26, 2018, UCLA Department of Information Studies.
AERI 2018, the tenth annual summer institute of the Archival Education and Research Initiative will be held at the University of Alabama, July 9-13, 2017.
Refugee Rights in Records Symposium, School of History, University College Dublin, 9 August, 2018.
Refugee Rights in Records Symposium, USC Middle Eastern Rights Association and UCLA Center for Information as Evidence, University of California, Los Angeles, October 19, 2018.
Refugees and Records Symposium, Malmö Rescue Archives, Sweden, 21 November, 2018.