(Re)Presenting the Archive

The questions and responses in this 360° emerged from a May 2013 symposium held at the University of Sheffield, ‘(Re)Presenting the Archive’. Over 50 delegates attended this one-day event (including academics, archivists, librarians, performance artists and postgraduate students); and almost everyone attended all of the presentations (there were no parallel sessions). The diversity of experiences, approaches and interests in the archive made for lively, at times heated discussion throughout the day, and the primary motivation for editing this issue comes from our desire as organisers of the symposium to capture and disseminate some of this discussion. All of the contributors to this 360 attended and presented at the symposium; and their comments reflect on issues, questions and (in some cases) critiques of explicitly re-presentational practices such as scholarly editing and curating in the Higher Education context and beyond.