Archives for everyone!
To mark International Archive Week and Archive Day, the ETH Zurich Archives invite you to a week packed with insights and activities from 07 to 11 June 2022 – both within the archives themselves as well as outside their doors.
During Archive Week, you can expect a multifaceted programme at ETH Zurich. You will have the opportunity to attend various event formats, talk to staff members and guests, learn about the tasks and services performed by the ETH Zurich Archives, and also get involved yourself.
Come and pay us a visit!
Programme
Tuesday 07 June 2022: Eastern Europe at the ETH Zurich Archives (guided tour)
Wednesday 08 June 2022: Why Utopia? (panel discussion to accompany the exhibition)
Thursday 09 June 2022: Archiving absence (guided tour and panel discussion)
Friday 10 June 2022: “Screen test” – the stories told by corporate films (film screening)
Saturday 11 June 2022: Wiki Editathon – ETH Zurich Portraits (workshop) CANCELLED
Saturday 11 June 2022: Archive Open Day
Programme details
Eastern Europe at the ETH Zurich Archives
Switzerland was already hugely popular with students from Eastern Europe before 1900. Over the course of the 20th century, many ties were forged between ETH Zurich and the socialist states of Eastern Europe. Sources from the University Archives provide fascinating insights.
Organiser: ETH Zurich University Archives
Date: 07 June 2022, from 18.15–19.15
Location: ETH Zurich Zentrum, ETH main building, Rämistrasse 101, ETH Library Circulation (floor H)
Registration: please register here, maximum 40 participants
This guided tour is part of the Public Tours series. Additional information.
This guided tour is wheelchair-accessible and available in sign language on request. Please select the appropriate option when registering. We ask for your understanding that the registration deadline for sign language ends on 01 June 2022.
Organiser: Max Frisch Archive at the ETH Library
Date: 08 June 2022, from 18.30–20.00
Location: ETH Zurich Zentrum, ETH main building, Rämistrasse 101, Audi Max (HG F 30)
Registration: please register here
Panel discussion
With: Nora Bossong (writer), Flavia Kleiner (co-founder of Operation Libero) and Jonas Lüscher (writer)
Chair: former cantonal councillor Markus Notter
Afterwards: Apéro
Organiser: gta Archives/ETH Zurich
Datum: 09 June 2022, from 18.00
An archive for everyone? Although the gta Archives are open to everyone as a public research institution, the acceptance of personal papers during the respective author’s lifetime or posthumously seems to be a very selective affair. Who makes it into the archives and will therefore be included in future research as part of the canon? Diversity is a central issue when it comes to a representative selection from the world of architecture. Should the focus therefore not be on how to integrate those who have hitherto been excluded?
Guided tour: 18.00 at the gta Archives, HIL B 70 (in German and English)
Panel discussion: 19.00, HIL E 67 (in English)
Location: ETH Zurich Hönggerberg, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5
Registration: , maximum 25 participants
Guided tour
During this guided tour, we will question the gta Archives about the gaps in its collection and examine the issue of underrepresented, hidden and lost holdings.
Panel discussion
In the subsequent panel discussion, we and our guests will discuss strategies for greater inclusivity. We will address the challenges of acquisition and also question the institution’s social role so that the archives remain relevant for future generations.
Additional information on the gta Archives
“Screen test” – the stories told by corporate films
Is it true that only feature films tell interesting stories? From 1972 onwards, the Zurich-based company AVA Scheiner turns entertaining stories into films for advertising and training purposes on behalf of clients from the Swiss commercial sector. Take part in the external page quiz based on film excerpts and see the answers to the quiz during a film screening.
Organiser: ETH Zurich Archive of Contemporary History
Date: 10 June 2022, from 17.00–19.00
Location: ETH Zurich Zentrum, Archive of Contemporary History, Hirschengraben 62, main entrance
Registration: please , maximum 40 participants
To mark its 50-year corporate anniversary, the Zurich-based production company AVA Scheiner has gifted 87 audio-visual works (slide shows, multivision presentations and films) to the ETH Zurich Archive of Contemporary History, where they will be archived.
To mark Archive Week, you will have a first opportunity to delve into this interesting stock of productions commissioned by Swiss companies.
An online film quiz with excerpts from various productions invites you to engage with questions relating to target-group appeal, scriptwriting and the implementation on celluloid.
During a cinema session in the Archive of Contemporary History (Friday 10 June, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.), the films for solving the quiz will be shown in their entirety in the presence of Mr or Mrs Scheiner, and these pieces of Swiss commercial history will be discussed with the audience.
Organiser: ETH Library Image Archive
Date: 11 June 2022, CANCELLED
Location: ETH Zurich Zentrum, ETH main building, Rämistrasse 101, Reading Room Collections and Archives (floor H)
Would you enjoy writing biographical articles about the ETH Zurich professors for Wikipedia or adding images to existing articles? We have plenty of image material and writing resources for you.
During the Editathon, we will work together on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata as part of the external page Wiki project ETH-Portraits call_made.
Are you keen to prepare in advance? For inspiration, you can look at the external page Wikipedia tutorial call_made and the external page video tutorial by “Frauen für Wikipedia” (SRF) call_made.
Before the event, create a external page Wikipedia user account call_made, if you haven’t done so already.
Please bring along your own laptop.
Organiser: ETH Zurich Archive of Contemporary History
Date: 11 June 2022, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.