Archive Fever

Clare Wright and Yves Rees
Archive Fever

Archive Fever is a new Australian history podcast featuring intimate conversations with writers, artists, curators, fellow historians and other victims of the research bug. Each episode, co-hosts Clare Wright and Yves Rees talk to archive addicts about what kind of archives they use, how often they use them, when they got their first hit. Join us as we ask: what madness is this?

  1. 12/20/2024

    50 | Archiving with my Authentic Voice

    Clare and Matt speak to historian, author and fellow podcaster Yves Rees, author of the new book ‘Travelling to Tomorrow The modern women who sparked Australia’s romance with America’ (UNSW Press).

    43 min

  2. 12/12/2024

    49 | The Fire of Speculation

    Don your rainbows (and beards) and get ready for the lavender haze of Australian history: Danielle Scrimshaw, author of She and Her Pretty Friend: The Hidden History of Australian Women Who Love Women (Ultimo, 2023), is in the studio to offer a queer eye for the straight historian. Why is queer history so important for the LGBTQIA+ community in the present? Can archive fever spark the fires of romance? And how can we uncover queer lives in heteronormative archives—is the answer ‘speculation as method’?

    33 min

  3. 12/06/2024

    48 | Wotcher Cock

    It’s complete carnage as Clare and Yves attempt to wrangle the phenomenon that is journalist, editor, historian, screenwriter, novelist and award-winning author Mark Dapin into the Archive Fever hot seat to discuss his latest venture in investigative crime writing, Carnage. We talk about growing up Jewish and working-class in a British army town, the stratified landscape of male violence, The Troubles, Chinese restaurants, what happens when your archives can shoot you in the knees and why researching true crime is the archival equivalent of crack cocaine. A wild and hilarious ride.

    41 min

  4. 11/29/2024

    47 | We Must Be Heard

    Today on Archive Fever the tables are turned, and interviewer turns interviewee. Co-host Clare Wright jumps in the hot seat to tell Yves and producer Matt Smith about the research journey behind her latest book Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions (Text, 2024)—the final work in her Democracy Trilogy, an award-winning series that uses the material heritage of Australian democracy to retell how the people acquired a voice. How to incorporate Yolngu ways of being and knowing into a linear historical narrative? What does it mean to practice truth telling a year on from the unsuccessful Voice referendum? Where did Clare uncover a long-lost fourth copy of the bark petition? And what does Joan Didion have to do with any of this?

    42 min

  5. 11/21/2024

    46 | A Hundred Women on the Bed

    A legend walks into the studio, as Yves and Clare are joined by queer royalty, Joan Nestle. In 1974, Joan founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives in her home in New York. Fifty years later, Yves and Clare ask: how DO you start an archive from scratch, especially when so much of the history you are documenting has been lived underground? Why are archives the counter-narrative to a nation’s institutional history? Can an archival collection be both narrowly defined and broadly inclusive? How did a hundred women end up on Joan’s bed? And is it ever kosher to disguise your identity to steal photos of Eleanor Roosevelt and her lover?

    41 min

  6. 11/15/2024

    45 | The Bomb Thrower

    Recorded in May 2024, seven months after the deadly 7 October Hamas attacks on Israel, Clare and Yves are joined by Walkley Award-winning investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein, whose book The Palestine Laboratory was first published in May 2023. The dates matter, as numbers of Palestinian casualties grow and the genocide in Gaza continues to unfold. Where did Antony’s instinct to be an irritant germinate? How does researching against the grain of hegemonic power put him in the literal firing line? Why is WikiLeaks his go-to archival ground zero? And how do you document a genocide that is being livestreamed while the archives of a people are being reduced to rubble in an act of ‘politicide’?

    38 min

  7. 11/08/2024

    44 | Everyone is Our Ancestor

    Clare and Yves are joined by Jazz Money, a queer Wiradjuri filmmaker, poet and artist whose debut feature film WINHANGANHA (2023) uses archival footage by or about First Nations people from the National Film and Sound Archive to ‘make sense of the archival inheritances that shape our present realities’. What does it mean for First Nations creators to speak back to the colonial archive? How can we honour the archive of the body? And why is it essential to foreground love and joy and sexiness and strength, alongside violence and suffering?

    35 min

  8. 10/31/2024

    43 | Language as Archive (Live at the Canberra Writers Festival)

    Before British colonisation, there were more than 250 languages spoken on this continent. Less than half survive today, and most of them are under threat. In a live episode of their hit podcast, Archive Fever, historians Yves Rees and Clare Wright are joined by special guests Cheryl Leavy and Paul Girrawah House to discuss orality as archive: how language helps us know the past and why the work of language revitalisation – bringing languages back to life – is so vital to the future.

    1h 2m
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About

Archive Fever is a new Australian history podcast featuring intimate conversations with writers, artists, curators, fellow historians and other victims of the research bug. Each episode, co-hosts Clare Wright and Yves Rees talk to archive addicts about what kind of archives they use, how often they use them, when they got their first hit. Join us as we ask: what madness is this?

Information

  • Creator
    Clare Wright and Yves Rees
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2024
  • Episodes
    50
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2019 La Trobe University
  • Show Website
    Archive Fever

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