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13-15 October in Zurich The annual conference was organised Schwulengeschichte Schweiz together with  Fachverband Homosexualität und Geschichte (FGH). The event began on Friday with an exchange about current developments at the QueerSearch member institutions after which board member Janika Seitz presented her master’s thesis on the state of metadata collection in German-language queer archives. On…

28-30 October in Amsterdam The annual meeting took place the premises of IHLIA, one of the largest archives for LGBTIQ+ history. The main topic of the event was diversity and difference in the historical records, and the difference between “monothematic” lesbian and gay archives and LGBTIQ archives. Theses topics were addressed in various lectures and…

22-23 October in Berlin The annual meeting was hosted by three Berlin institutions, the Research Centre for the Cultural History of Sexuality, FFBIZ – the Feminist Archive, and the Schwules Museum at Village in Berlin-Schöneberg. The main topic was ‘Access and Use: How our archives and collections are used.’ Over the two days, in four…

24-25 January in Vienna The annual meeting took place at the invitation of QWIEN at the Café Gugg in Vienna. On Friday evening, there was an informal welcome and tour of the archives at QWIEN. The main part of the meeting was dedicated to the founding of the umbrella association. First of all, various options…

27 June in Berlin The annual meeting took place during the international LGBTIQ+ ALMS Conference. The conference was organised by Berlin QueerSearch members Magnus Hirschfeld Society, FFBIZ – the feminist archive, Research Centre for the Cultural History of Sexuality at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Schwules Museum, and Spinnboden Lesbian Archive, at the HKW in…

23-24 November in Berlin The second annual QueerSearch meeting took place at the Archive of Youth Cultures and FFBIZ – the Feminist Archive in Berlin. The focus of the conference was on the necessary steps for building a joint database. The Digital German Women’s Archive, which has already built such a database for German-language women’s…

November 2017 in Berlin The first QueerSearch annual meeting took place under the title „Workshop for the networking of LGBTIQ* archives and collection institutions in German-speaking countries“ at FFBIZ – the feminist archive. The possibility of more intensive collaboration and a shared online platform were discussed for the first time. The institutions presented their work…