Séminaire hybride – lundi 18 mai – The archivist, the researcher and the activist: challenges of collaboration from a historical and comparative perspective

Chères et chers collègues nous avons le plaisir de vous adresser ci-dessous le programme du séminaire hybride qui se tient le lundi 18 mai prochain à la Fondation Feltrinelli à Milan. Ce séminaire est organisé dans le cadre du [ https://activate-horizon.eu/ | projet européen Marie Curie Staff Exchange ACTIVATE ] consacré aux archives de l’engagement politique et social en Europe du XIXe au XXIe siècle. Cette journée vise à faire dialoguer archivistes, activistes et chercheuses/chercheurs autour de leurs pratiques et discours dans une perspective comparative. Pour recevoir le lien et y assister en distanciel il est nécessaire de s’enregistrer via ce lien: [ https://forms.gle/hu1qmn2NTNqqQkRc8 | https://forms.gle/hu1qmn2NTNqqQkRc8 ]

The archivist, the researcher and the activist:
challenges of collaboration from a historical and comparative perspective
ACTIVATE WP2 Hybrid Seminar #2
Monday, May 18, 2026
Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (Milan) and online
Viale Pasubio 5, 20154 Milano

To register please fill up the form: [ https://forms.gle/hu1qmn2NTNqqQkRc8 | https://forms.gle/hu1qmn2NTNqqQkRc8 ]

9:30 Welcome

10:00-10:10 Opening remarks
– Francesco Grandi (Fondazione G. Feltrinelli)
– Francesca Furst (Soprintendenza Archivistica e Bibliografica della Lombardia)

10:10-10:20 Introduction
Serena Rubinelli (Fondazione G. Feltrinelli), Caroline Moine (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines/CHCSC) and Eric de Ruijter (International Institute of Social History)

10:30-12:15 Starting and keeping the dialogue alive
Chair: Eric de Ruijter (IISH)
– Ron Augustin : Rote Armee Fraktion Collection and related collections of the internationalist Left of the 1960s-1990s at the IISH
– Virginia Gg Niri : Historymakers. Voices from Active Participation in the Archivio dei Movimenti, Genoa
– Alice Giglia (Fondazione G. Feltrinelli): How to (not) archive struggles? Archivi del presente project and its challenges
Open discussion

12:15-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:15 Blurring and shifting roles
Chair: Caroline Moine (UVSQ/CHCSC)
– Camila Sapp (CONICET) : Beyond the repository: The experience of building the Digital Center for Historical Documentation – CEDIDH of Córdoba (Argentina)
– Innocent Oling (Makerere University): Activating Dissent under Constraint. Methodological Challenges of archiving struggles in Contemporary Uganda
– Csaba Szilagyi (Blinken OSA Archivum, Central European University): Activating archives in support of human rights and social justice
Open discussion

15:15-15:45 Break

15:45-17:30 Rethinking participatory archiving in present day
Chair: Federico Mazzini (University of Padua)
– Carlo Giacon (University of Macerata): Resistant Archiving: participatory practices for past and present memories
– Per Backhuis and Rosemary Grennan (IISH): From transfer to knowledge sharing. Rethinking the collection development of activism and social movements in the digital age
– Jeroen Fernandez-Alonso ( Amsab-Institute of Social History): Preserving the presence of activists on social media. The challenges of participatory archiving with hyperlocal groups
Open discussion
17:30-17:45 17:45-18:30 Final discussion with [ https://jeffreyschnapp.com/ | Jeffrey Schnapp ] (Harvard Metalab) and guest contributors, coordinated by Vittore Armanni (Fondazione G. Feltrinelli)

8:30 -18:40 18:30-18:40 Closing remarks
18:40-1
Bien cordialement Caroline Moine
———————- Caroline MOINE Professeure en histoire culturelle et politique des XXe et XXIe s. Directrice du Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines (CHCSC) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines 47 Boulevard Vauban F-78047 Guyancourt Cedex T: 01 39 25 56 98 Bureau: 601 [ https://www.chcsc.uvsq.fr/mme-caroline-moine | https://www.chcsc.uvsq.fr ] Chercheuse principale du projet européen ACTIVATE (MSCA SE) [ https://activate-horizon.eu/ | https://activate-horizon.eu/ ]