History is only as good as the materials used to build it . . .
Archives, Documentation and the Institutions of Social Memory. Although one could say the seminar subject is history, organizers put that term aside, feeling it conveys too much assurance that we know what we're talking about when we use it. We use the term 'social memory,' because it implies that there are many pasts and that we can benefit front knowing as many of them as possible. Both the methods and motives used to construct archives are of importance to all of us, not just archivists, since social knowledge derived from social memory is the basis of education, mass media, culture, religion, science and other human practices. Blouin and Rosenberg ask in the seminar description.