AERI History
AERI 2009
AERI 2010
AERI 2011
AERI 2012
 Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI) 2012
University of California, Los Angeles
Monday July 9 to Friday July 13, 2012
AERI 2012 will be hosted at the University of California, Los Angeles from July 9-13, 2012. This year's institute will bring together incoming and continuing doctoral students, faculty and professionals from across the United States and worldwide. There will be a Digital Curation pre-conference, led by University of North Carolina Chapel Hill researchers, held at UCLA on July 8, 2012. Then, from July 9 to 13, plenaries will generate discussion on Grand Challenges in the Archival Field, Technology and Archives, AER Doctoral Fellows research agendas, Archival Literature Analysis, and lastly, a reflection on what AERI has accomplished these past three years to guide our community into the future. We will also feature workshops, paper and poster presentations by U.S. and international archival scholars.

Scholarship support was available to untenured ladder faculty and doctoral students whose major focus is Archival Studies and employed by or attending U.S. academic institutions. In addition, we launched the Emerging Archival Scholars Program (EASP) (2011-2015) to encourage minority students at the undergraduate and graduate levels to consider undertaking doctoral education in Archival Studies through a scholarship opportunity to attend AERI 2012.  

This year's AERI is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.  This will be the fourth of the week-long Archival Education and Research Institutes (AERI) that were previously held in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Read the biographies of this year's Research Participants.

Visit our local arrangements blog at aeri2012.wordpress.com which holds information on:

The Conference Schedule
Paper Presentation
Poster Presentation
Accommodations
Maps
Sightseeing
Travel
Reimbursement

Contact us with questions, comments & suggestions.

The goals of AERI aim to advance the field of Archival Studies by:

   1. Creating a dynamic community of researchers, teachers, and students to help mentor doctoral students and faculty in areas such as thesis writing, grant writing, publishing, and career development.
   2. Advancing curriculum development in Archival Studies.
   3. Furthering current research development through presentations, posters, and workshop activities.
   4. Fostering interest in future collaborations both nationally and internationally. AERI will provide a dynamic venue for archival researchers and teachers to interact in an intensive, collegial collaborative environment.