Schedule
Schedule
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All times listed below are in central daylight time (CDT). Here is a tool to convert to your local time.
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Day 1 (Thursday, October 29)
10:00-10:30 Welcome and Introduction
- Why Archives Now? Mark Canuel (UIC, Institute for the Humanities)
10:30- 12 Keynote 1
- Kellee E. Warren (UIC Library, Special Collections): “Collecting Against the Grain: Collaboration to Sustain a Public Institutional Archives”
- Introduction: Mark Canuel (UIC, Institute for the Humanities)
12-12:30 Break
12:30–2:00 Panel 1: Value, Politics, and the Archive
- Moderator: Raphael Magarik (UIC, English)
- Katharine Gerbner (University of Minnesota, History & Religious Studies): “Selling the Archives of Slavery: Profit, Reparations, and the Economic Value of Knowledge Production”
- Meredith L. McGill (Rutgers University, English): “Black Bibliography and Linked Data: Recovering Stories that are Hidden in the Archive”
- T-Kay Sangwand (UCLA Library, Digital Library Program)
2-2:30 Break
2:30-4:00 Keynote 2
- Marisa J. Fuentes (Rutgers University, Africana Studies & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies):“’Attending to Black Death:’ Black Women’s Bodies in the Archive and the Afterlife of Captivity”
- Introduction: by Kellee E. Warren (UIC Library, Special Collections)
4:00-4:15 Break
4:15-5:30 Online Mixer
Special Guests:
- Zeina Zaatari (UIC Arab American Cultural Center)|
- Megan E. Keller Young (UIC Library, Special Collections)
- Leanna Barcelona (UIC Library, Special Collections and University Archives)
Day 2 (Friday, October 30)
9-10:30 Panel 2: Ephemerality and Preservation
- Moderator: Janet Swatscheno (UIC Library, Assessment and Scholarly Communication)
- Kishonna L. Gray (UIC, Gender and Women’s Studies & Communication): “streaming, digital storytelling, and black praxis in digital gaming”
- Jane Rhodes (UIC, Black Studies): “Blackness in the Archive–The Promise and Peril of Media Texts”
- Deborah Gray White (Rutgers University, History & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies): “Ar’n’t I a Woman? and the Changing Historical Archive”
- Stacie Williams (University of Chicago Library, Center for Digital Scholarship): “Forest > Tree: Collecting for Social and Environmental Justice”
10:30-11 Break
11-12:30 Keynote 3
- Roderick A. Ferguson (Yale University, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies & American Studies): “The Sonic Life of the Bookshop of Black Queer Diaspora”
- Introduction: Mark Canuel (UIC, Institute for the Humanities)
12:30-1:00 Break
1:00-2:45 Roundtable: The Archive in/of the Community
- Moderator: Marcia Walker-McWilliams (Black Metropolis Research Consortium)
- Jennifer Brier (UIC, Gender and Women’s Studies & History)
- Skyla Hearn (Manager of Archives, Cook County)
- John D’Emilio (UIC History, Gerber/Hart Library and Archives)
- Tisa Matheson (Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, American Indian Collections)
- Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. (Washington University, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies & African American Studies)
2:45-3:15 Break
3:15-4:45 Keynote 4
- Avery F. Gordon (UC Santa Barbara, Sociology): “Archives of Flight”
- Introduction: Atef Said (UIC, Sociology)