Reimagining Primary Sources: Advancing multidisciplinary scholarship
Thursday 1 October | 9am PT | 12pm ET | 5pm BST
Academic libraries are under increasing pressure to help scholars advance vital multidisciplinary research in demonstrably impactful ways. At the same time, technology and AI advancements raise important questions around maintaining scholarly rigour, supporting critical thinking, and ensuring that innovation enhances rather than replaces the human skills at the heart of research.
Against this evolving backdrop, AM’s second virtual primary sources symposium shares best practice from across the academic community around the provision and instruction of primary sources.
- Library leaders will share the strategic case for investing in primary source collections.
- Discover how students are developing research and career-ready skills through working with primary sources.
- Explore innovative approaches to undergraduate teaching with primary sources in non-humanities disciplines.
- And learn how computational methods are helping researchers uncover new insights from historical sources.
Join us to learn from these examples of balancing innovation with critical enquiry and reimagine the role of primary sources in multidisciplinary scholarship at your institution.
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Speaking at AM's Reimagining Primary Sources symposium, Lewis Goode, University of Bristol graduate, and Foster Duckworth, University of North Carolina, Charlotte graduate, share perspectives on the skills developed through digital primary source research and their application beyond undergraduate study.
Hear from Bryony Dixon, Curator of Silent Film at the British Film Institute, alongside AM’s Alice Hone and Joe Young‑Perez, as they explore how audiovisual primary sources support critical thinking and enable interdisciplinary research.