ARA Section for Archives and Technology: Annual Review Meeting
Speakers: Jen Grasso, Rowan Rush-Morgan and Roni Guetta
Online - Tuesday 21st July between 11:30am - 1:00pm (BST)
The meeting will be held on Tuesday 21st July between 11:30am - 1:00pm (BST) via Teams. The event will be recorded for minute-taking purposes.
We will be starting with talks on digital projects by Jen Grasso from the University of Brighton Design Archives, Rowan Rush-Morgan and Roni Guetta from Queer Heritage South. We will then move to the formal part of the meeting, presenting an annual report and financial statement for the year and confirming officers for the coming period.
Agenda
Welcome & apologies for absence
Jen Grasso talk – The Glass Plates Project
Rowan Rush-Morgan and Roni Guetta talk – Queer Heritage South
Post-talk Q&A
Minutes of the AGM held on 26 June 2025
Chair’s report
Treasurer’s report
Election / re-election of officers
AOB
About the speakers:
Jen Grasso is the Digital Content Systems Co-Ordinator at the University of Brighton Design Archives. Her role focuses on the dissemination of the Design Archives’ collections as well as digital preservation. Her research is informed by archival and artistic practices and engages with topics such as the intersection between analogue and digital technologies, the use of technology to increase access to culture and heritage, community archives, oral histories, as well as fringe photographic media, in particular photobooth photography.
Rowan Rush-Morgan (he/him) is the Community Archivist at Queer Heritage South, a digital heritage learning project which celebrates, preserves, and shares LGBTQIA+ history in Brighton & Hove. His role involves managing the Queer Heritage South digital archive and supporting community engagement. Rowan will discuss how and why the Queer Heritage South archive was developed, alongside the benefits and challenges of collecting LGBTQIA+ history digitally, focussing on the lifecycle of born-digital LGBTQIA+ materials.
Roni Guetta (she/her) will be joining her colleague Rowan Rush-Morgan.
Booking costs: Free
The closing date for Eventbrite bookings is Tuesday 21st July 2026 by 11am. Joining instructions will be sent to you.
Please book your place here before Tuesday 21st July 2026 by 11.00am