Editing Women in the Archives

Project: Research

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Description

Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)-funded archiving project aimed at enabling the Pakistan Association of Women Publishers and Editors (PAWPE) to begin to realise its aim of building a digital archive of women-led literary/art journal and magazine publications. This archive will preserve endangered material vital to understanding women’s historical investment in shaping an independent literary and artistic culture in a format accessible to current and future communities of readers, writers, and scholars within Pakistan and beyond. The current project, run in conjunction with Niilofur Farrukh of the Karachi Biennale Trust and Mehvash Amin of The Aleph Review, will begin to realise this ambition by mentoring four Pakistan-based women researchers with interests in independent literary and art magazine publishing over a 3-month period from February to May 2024. Key outcomes will include a digital handbook, webpages hosting digitised materials/interviews, and a knowledge exchange event at the Karachi Biennale in October 2024.

Co-researchers / participants: Hira Azmat, Mahnoor Jalal, Tazeen Hussain, and Veera Rustomji.

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Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)-funded archiving project aimed at enabling the Pakistan Association of Women Publishers and Editors (PAWPE) to begin to realise its aim of building a digital archive of women-led literary/art journal and magazine publications. This archive will preserve endangered material vital to understanding women’s historical investment in shaping an independent literary and artistic culture in a format accessible to current and future communities of readers, writers, and scholars within Pakistan and beyond. The current project, run in conjunction with Niilofur Farrukh of the Karachi Biennale Trust and Mehvash Amin of The Aleph Review, will begin to realise this ambition by mentoring four Pakistan-based women researchers with interests in independent literary and art magazine publishing over a 3-month period from February to May 2024. Key outcomes will include a digital handbook, webpages hosting digitised materials/interviews, and a knowledge exchange event at the Karachi Biennale in October 2024.

Co-researchers / participants: Hira Azmat, Mahnoor Jalal, Tazeen Hussain, and Veera Rustomji.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date8/01/2431/05/24

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