E. Haven Hawley
University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries, Chair, Special and Area Studies Collections Department
Specialties:
Archival and Special Collections Management
Artifact Analysis (and Forgery Detection)
Comparative Printing History and Techniques
Industry, Gender, and Political Economy
Technological Change and Social Marginalization
Programmatic Expertise in Community-Academic Coalitions
Educational Background
Ph.D., History and Sociology of Technology and Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005
M.S., History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001
B.A., Journalism and History, with honors, Baylor University, 1987
International Division Certificate, Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan, 1987
Other non-credit trainings through American Antiquarian Society, Rare Book School, Smithsonian Institution, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Archival and Special Collections Management
Artifact Analysis (and Forgery Detection)
Comparative Printing History and Techniques
Industry, Gender, and Political Economy
Technological Change and Social Marginalization
Programmatic Expertise in Community-Academic Coalitions
Educational Background
Ph.D., History and Sociology of Technology and Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005
M.S., History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001
B.A., Journalism and History, with honors, Baylor University, 1987
International Division Certificate, Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan, 1987
Other non-credit trainings through American Antiquarian Society, Rare Book School, Smithsonian Institution, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
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“Revaluing Mimeographs and Other Obsolete Things: An Introduction to Media Archaeology” was presented as a plenary address to the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section 2013 Preconference, Minneapolis, MN, on June 25, 2013. A portion of this talk was significantly revised and expanded into a spring 2014 article for RBM : a journal of rare books, manuscripts, and cultural heritage. This plenary address slightly revised the title written by the originally-scheduled speaker, Erkki Huhtamo of UCLA, and focused on print technologies rather than pre-cinematic forms. A UCLA Daily Bruin video titled “Artifacts of Media Archaeology: Inside Professor Erkki Huhtamo’s Office” preceded the presentation, which stayed close to prepared comments. Video available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks9ty aft7Gs.
E. Haven Hawley (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
The printed word, embellished by pencils, stippling or paper repair liquid, nourished the cultural and national aspirations of Ukrainian soldiers held as prisoners of war after the fall of Nazi Germany. Members of a Galician military force aligned with Germany in opposition to Soviets, the inhabitants of Camp Rimini in Italy sustained their identity through publications printed on office duplicating systems. Ukrainian soldiers of Camp Rimini embodied the contested terrains of geography and politics. The long dispute between Poles and Ukrainians over Galicia, largely in what is now western Ukraine, had conditioned them to oppose ambitious adjacent regimes. They joined with Germany as the 14th Waffen SS Division Galicia specifically to combat Soviet forces attempting to take control of their homeland. Though renamed the 1st Division of the Ukrainian National Army, the soldiers remained tainted by Nazi collaboration.
About 10,000 soldiers surrendered to the British in 1945 and lived for two years in the camp, visited often by Soviet representatives intent on their transfer to Soviet-controlled territory. Under suspicion by Anglo overseers and fearing return to Russian command, they regenerated their cultural identity through publishing and reading. Despite enervating conditions and material shortages, prisoners produced publications read widely in the camp, with a small number surviving along with the men who created them. The prospectus for Osa (The Wasp) reveals the cultural aspirations of a camp publisher intent on sharpening the intellectual climate, even as the spirits of those interned sometimes flagged under difficult conditions. Other publications such as Youth Surge, Our Way and Encampment exchanged hands among readers, multiplying the impact of each issue as a source of cohesion and solidarity.
Artifact analysis suggests that these prints were manufactured using office supplies and duplicating systems characteristic of British command. Artists and editors enlivened publications with Obliterine, ball point pens, colored pencils and markers. Carbon paper made a typewriter into a printing press. Techniques characteristic of different duplicating technologies suggest that some publications were printed in the hundreds and others in the thousands. British investigators eventually concluded that the Galician soldiers had fought primarily for their own independence rather than in support of Nazism. With the political control of Galicia also under dispute, the Ukrainians were released in 1947 to migrate to new lands. In Anglo-phone countries, many of the men continued advocating for Ukrainian independence, leaving Galicia and Rimini far away but maintaining cultural solidarity in diaspora.
“Revaluing Mimeographs and Other Obsolete Things: An Introduction to Media Archaeology” was presented as a plenary address to the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section 2013 Preconference, Minneapolis, MN, on June 25, 2013. A portion of this talk was significantly revised and expanded into a spring 2014 article for RBM : a journal of rare books, manuscripts, and cultural heritage. This plenary address slightly revised the title written by the originally-scheduled speaker, Erkki Huhtamo of UCLA, and focused on print technologies rather than pre-cinematic forms. A UCLA Daily Bruin video titled “Artifacts of Media Archaeology: Inside Professor Erkki Huhtamo’s Office” preceded the presentation, which stayed close to prepared comments. Video available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks9ty aft7Gs.
E. Haven Hawley (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
The printed word, embellished by pencils, stippling or paper repair liquid, nourished the cultural and national aspirations of Ukrainian soldiers held as prisoners of war after the fall of Nazi Germany. Members of a Galician military force aligned with Germany in opposition to Soviets, the inhabitants of Camp Rimini in Italy sustained their identity through publications printed on office duplicating systems. Ukrainian soldiers of Camp Rimini embodied the contested terrains of geography and politics. The long dispute between Poles and Ukrainians over Galicia, largely in what is now western Ukraine, had conditioned them to oppose ambitious adjacent regimes. They joined with Germany as the 14th Waffen SS Division Galicia specifically to combat Soviet forces attempting to take control of their homeland. Though renamed the 1st Division of the Ukrainian National Army, the soldiers remained tainted by Nazi collaboration.
About 10,000 soldiers surrendered to the British in 1945 and lived for two years in the camp, visited often by Soviet representatives intent on their transfer to Soviet-controlled territory. Under suspicion by Anglo overseers and fearing return to Russian command, they regenerated their cultural identity through publishing and reading. Despite enervating conditions and material shortages, prisoners produced publications read widely in the camp, with a small number surviving along with the men who created them. The prospectus for Osa (The Wasp) reveals the cultural aspirations of a camp publisher intent on sharpening the intellectual climate, even as the spirits of those interned sometimes flagged under difficult conditions. Other publications such as Youth Surge, Our Way and Encampment exchanged hands among readers, multiplying the impact of each issue as a source of cohesion and solidarity.
Artifact analysis suggests that these prints were manufactured using office supplies and duplicating systems characteristic of British command. Artists and editors enlivened publications with Obliterine, ball point pens, colored pencils and markers. Carbon paper made a typewriter into a printing press. Techniques characteristic of different duplicating technologies suggest that some publications were printed in the hundreds and others in the thousands. British investigators eventually concluded that the Galician soldiers had fought primarily for their own independence rather than in support of Nazism. With the political control of Galicia also under dispute, the Ukrainians were released in 1947 to migrate to new lands. In Anglo-phone countries, many of the men continued advocating for Ukrainian independence, leaving Galicia and Rimini far away but maintaining cultural solidarity in diaspora.