Presentations

ICFA conducts outreach to expand access to our holdings and build a larger audience for ICFA’s collections, particularly among scholars in Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, and Garden and Landscape Studies, as well as colleagues within the library, archives, and information communities. To this end, ICFA staff have presented papers and organized panels and workshops for the Dumbarton Oaks community, as well as at the following scholarly and professional conferences:

2015

• Cultural Heritage Information Management Forum, Cultural Heritage Collections: Content and Access in the Digital Era, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC (June 2015)
  • Session: Organizing Cultural Materials for Access
    • Speaker: Shalimar Fojas White, “IC [+] FA: Using Metadata to Reunite Photograph and Archival Collections”
• 43rd Annual Conference of Art Libraries Society of North America, New Frontiers on the Old Frontier, Fort Worth, TX (March 2015)
  • Session: Known Unknowns and Unknown Knowns: Privacy, Secrets, and the Limitations of Archives
    • Speaker: Shalimar Fojas White, “Spies Like Us? Scholars, Spies, and Secrets in ICFA’s Archives”
    • Moderator: Shalimar Fojas White
  • Session: Found in Translation: Controlled Vocabularies in Other Languages
    • Speaker: Shalimar Fojas White, “Cracking the Moche Code: Expanding Access to a Scholarly Photographic Archive”

2014

• Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Baltimore, MD (October 2014)
  • Session: Finding Aid Award Winners
    • Speaker: Rona Razon, “The Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks Fieldwork Records and Papers Finding Aid”

• 78th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, Archives * Records: Ensuring Access, Washington, DC (August 2014)
  • Session: Related But Separated: Managing and Representing Collections of Separated Materials
    • Organizers: Rona Razon and Anne-Marie Viola
    • Speaker: Rona Razon, “Managing and Representing Dispersed Collections in ICFA”
    • Commentator: Anne-Marie Viola

• The Digital World of Art History, Standards and Their Application, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (June 2014)
  • Speaker: Shalimar Fojas White, “AtoM@DO: Metadata Migration and Integration at Dumbarton Oaks“

• 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 2014)
  • Session: Moving Image as a Means of Documenting and Promoting Byzantine and Medieval Culture
    • Organizers: Rona Razon and Fani Gargova
    • Speaker: Rona Razon, “Capturing Byzantium through Film by the Byzantine Institute”
    • Moderator: Fani Gargova

• 42nd Annual Conference of Art Libraries Society of North America, Art+Politics, Washington, DC (May 2014)
  • Session: Capitol Projects: Three Washington Image Collections Go Digital
    • Speaker: Shalimar Fojas White, “IC + FA: Using Metadata to Unite Photograph and Archival Collections“
  • Session: Photographic Collections as Artifacts: Materiality, Digitization, Access
    • Speaker: Shalimar Fojas White, “Objectifying the Archive: Preserving the Physicality of Photographic Collections for Enhanced Access“

• Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Rochester, NY (April 2014)
  • Session:  Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One: Reformatting Audiovisual Collections
    • Speaker: Rona Razon, “Re-Discovery and Transformation of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens Film“

• Digital Preservation Workshop at Dumbarton Oaks, Digital Preservation at Dumbarton Oaks: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Technology at Work, Washington, DC (March 2014)
  • Speaker: Heidi Dowding

• 32nd Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, A Visual Approach, Milwaukee, WI (March 2014)
  • Session: Moving Images, Moving Targets: Video and Film as Visual Resources
    • Speaker: Shalimar Fojas White, “Turning Vinegar into Gold: Reformatting Moving Image Collections for Preservation and Online Access”
  • Session: Back to Basics: Cataloging Workflows and Solutions
    • Speaker: Shalimar Fojas White, “AtoM@DO: Metadata Migration and Integration at Dumbarton Oaks“

2013

• Screening of the Byzantine Institute Films at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC (December 2013)
  • Commentators: Fani Gargova and Rona Razon

• Dumbarton Oaks Conversations Series, “OpenContext.org & Data Sharing as Publication,” Washington, DC (November 2013)
  • Speakers: Sarah Whitcher Kansa and Eric Kansa
  • Commentator: Anne-Marie Viola

• Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Philadelphia, PA (November 2013)
  • Session: Ghosts of Careers Past: Bringing Previous Experience into the Archives
    • Speaker: Anne-Marie Viola

• 39th Byzantine Studies Conference, New Haven, CT (November 2013)
  • Session: Appropriating Image and Identity Through Time
    • Speaker: Anne-Marie Viola, “Assembling a Corpus of Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts: Sirarpie Der Nersessian’s Travels to Jerusalem and Erevan”

• Linked Open Data and Digital Humanities Workshop at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC (October 2013)
  • Organizers: Anne-Marie Viola and Scott F. Johnson
  • Speakers: Tom Elliott and Sebastian Heath

• Dumbarton Oaks Conversations Series, “Linked Open Data 101,” Washington, DC (October 2013)
  • Speakers: Anne-Marie Viola and Scott F. Johnson

• WebWise Reprise 2013, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Putting the Learner at the Center (June 2013)
  • Webinar: Using Collections Images in Online Exhibits
    • Speaker: Shalimar Fojas White, project demonstration of The Nicholas V. Artamonoff Collection

• Dumbarton Oaks Conversations Series, “New Pre-Columbian Collections in ICFA,” Washington, DC (April 2013)
  • Speaker: Lisa Trever, “Assessment of the Moche Archive at Dumbarton Oaks“
  • Speaker: Dylan Clark, “Appraisal of the Kerr Archive,” Phase I and Phase II
  • Commentator: Rona Razon

• 41st Annual Conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America, Crafting Our Future, Pasadena, CA (April 2013)
  • Session: Archaeology Archives: Excavating the Record
    • Speaker: Shalimar Fojas White, “Surveying the Survey: Archival Processing, Buildings Archaeology, and Online Outreach”
      (For more information, see NYU IFA’s Archaeology Archives)

• 31st Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, Capitalizing on Creativity, Providence, RI (April 2013)
  • Session: Archaeology Archives: Excavating the Record
    • Speaker: Shalimar Fojas White, “Surveying the Survey: Archival Processing, Buildings Archaeology, and Online Outreach”
      (For more information, see NYU IFA’s Archaeology Archives)

• WebWise 2013, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Putting the Learner at the Center, Baltimore, MD (March 2013)
  • Project Demonstration: The Nicholas V. Artamonoff Collection
    • Speaker: Shalimar Fojas White

2012

• Dumbarton Oaks Conversations Series, “Metadata 101,” Washington, DC (November 2012)
  • Speakers: Anne-Marie Viola, Wendy Johnson, and Jessica Hollingshead

• Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Richmond, VA (October 2012)
  • Session: Beyond Boutique: Building a Sustainable Digital Infrastructure
    • Moderator: Rona Razon

• Dumbarton Oaks Conversation Series, “Screening of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens Film,” Washington, DC (July 2012)
  • Speaker: Rona Razon, “Dumbarton Oaks Gardens Film“
  • Commentators: James Carder and Gail Griffin

• Dumbarton Oaks Conversations Series, “Archival Practices for the Rest of Us,” Washington, DC (April 2012)
  • Speakers: Rona Razon, Clare Moran, Günder Varinlioğlu, Laurian Douthett, Shalimar Fojas White, and Anne-Marie Viola

• 30th Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, Broadening Horizons, Albuquerque, NM (April 2012)
  • Session: Archival Collections Case Studies
    • Speaker: Shalimar Fojas White, “The Artamonoff Business: Using Collections Research for Outreach and Strategic Communication“

• 40th Annual Conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America, Colouring Outside the Lines, Toronto, Canada (March-April 2012)
  • Session: Snapshot: A Look at Today’s Photo Archives
    • Speaker: Shalimar Fojas White, “The Artamonoff Business: Using Collections Research for Outreach and Strategic Communication“

• Turkish Embassy Lecture Series, American Friends of Turkey, Washington, DC  (January 2012)
  • Speaker: Günder Varinlioğlu, “Monuments, Cityscapes, and People: Turkey in 1930-1945 through the Lens of Nicholas V. Artamonoff”

2011

• 37th Byzantine Studies Conference, Chicago, IL (October 2011)
  • Session: Capturing Byzantium through the Lens: Photography and Byzantine Studies, Past and Present
    • Speaker: Günder Varinlioğlu, “Photographers, Archaeologists, and Tourists: The Photography of Nicholas V. Artamonoff, 1935-1945”

2010

• Digital Humanities Workshop at Dumbarton Oaks, Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives in a Digital Age, Washington, DC (December 2010)
  • Organizers: Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives and Byzantine Studies
  • Speakers: Susan Noakes (University of Minnesota); Doug Reside (Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland); Lioba Theis (Digitales Forschungsarchiv Byzanz (DiFaB), Universität Wien); Gareth Darbyshire, Alessandro Pezzati, and Gabriel Pizzorno (Gordion Project, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology); Jeremy Boggs (Center for History and New Media, George Mason University); Joseph Gilbert (Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia Library); and Günder Varinlioğlu and Deborah Maron (Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives, Dumbarton Oaks)

• 36th Byzantine Studies Conference, Philadelphia, PA (October 2010)
  • Session: History of Archaeology
    • Speaker: Günder Varinlioğlu, “The Contribution of Robert W. and Mildred B. Bliss to Kirsopp and Silva Lake’s Expedition to Van in Eastern Turkey”

2009

• 35th Byzantine Studies Conference, Sarasota, FL (November 2009)
  • Session: Digitizing Byzantium
    • Organizers: Günder Varinlioğlu and Lioba Theis
    • Speakers: Gerrianne Schaad and Günder Varinlioğlu

• Workshop (Digitale) Archive, Werkzeuge und Methoden zur Wissensverwaltung, Vienna, Austria (September 2009)
  • Speaker: Günder Varinlioğlu, discussion on workflow at the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives