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The conference has been designed for people who work with personal archives of children and families, or the archives of organisations and services concerned with children and their families, including social workers, lawyers, administrators, researchers and care leavers.The aim of the conference is to give an overview of the issues involved in the use of records for research, teaching purposes, litigation, and review by the people who were the subjects of the records. A wide range of speakers will provide inputs from different areas of expertise. It is intended to explore the issues, opportunities and complexities involved in the location, accession, retention, management and use of child care archives.

The conference will also include a workshop session in which delegates can contribute their own areas of expertise or concern, with a view to identifying any action which may need to be undertaken concerning child care archives.

You are cordially invited to take part in a graduate seminar exploring 'Spinoza and the Radical Enlightenment', led by IAS Visiting Fellow Professor Margaret Jacob.  Prof. Jacob is Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA and a renowned scholar of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.  The seminar will explore the topic through selected readings from Spinoza's Tractates and Ethics.  It will take place on Tuesday, 2 March, 3-5 in the IAS Seminar Room, Millburn House.

 

The reading can be collected, free of charge, from the English Department office.  I would also draw your attention to Prof. Jacob's lecture, 5:00, Wednesday 3 March, H545: The Radical Enlightenment Reconsidered.  This lecture will be followed by a wine reception in the Graduate Space.

 

Please mark these events in your diaries and I hope many of you will be able to attend this rare opportunity to explore some formative ideas of the early modern period with our IAS Visiting Scholar.

 

If you have any questions, please contact j.m.labbe@warwick.ac.uk.