Schedule
All readings are available either through the links on this website, or through canvas.
Calendar
Date | Reading | Activities | Assignment |
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September 6, 2018 (Unit 1) | 1. Caswell, Michelle. “Owning Critical Archival Studies: A Plea.” Archival Education and Research Institute (2016). 1-9. | Lib Guide Workshop | None. |
2. "Protocols for Native American Archival Materials." First Archivist Circle. | |||
3. Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. “Chapter 1: The Power in the Story.” Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995. 1-31. | |||
4. Stoler, Ann Laura. "Chapter 1: A Prologue in Two Parts.” Along the Archival Grain. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. 1-16. | |||
5. Lazo, Rodrigo. “Migrant Archives.” In States of Emergency. Russ Castronovo and Susan Gillman, ed. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 36-54. | |||
September 13, 2018 (Unit 1) | 1. Burns, Kathryn. "Introduction." Into the Archive. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. 1-19. | 10:30: Benson orientation with AJ Johnson | None. |
2. Aguirre, Carlos and Javier Villa-Flores. “Los archivos y la construcción de la verdad histórica en América Latina.” Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas, Volume 46, Issue 1 (2009). 5–18. | |||
3. Fuentes, Marisa. “Introduction.” In Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. | |||
4. Tortorici, Zeb. "Introduction." In Sins Against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. See also the digital appendix (CW sexual violence, colonial violence). | |||
September 20, 2018 (Unit 1) | 1. Lara Putnam. "The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast.” American Historical Review 2016 121 (2): 377-402. | Lib-Guide Workshop 2 | None. |
2. Anderson, Jane. “Anxieties of Authorship in the Colonial Archive.” In Media Authorship. Taylor and Francis, 2013. 229-246. DOI: 10.4324/9780203136010 | |||
3. Mak, Bonnie. “Archaeology of a digitization.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Volume 65, Issue 8. | |||
4. Klein, Lauren F. "The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings." American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 661-688. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2367310 | |||
5. DACS statement of principles. | |||
September 27, 2018 (Unit 2) | 1. Weld, Kirsten. Paper Cadavers. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. | Digital AHPN Workshop | None. |
October 4, 2018 (Unit 2) |
1. Jeanette A. Bastian. "Taking Custody, Giving Access: A Postcustodial Role for a New Century." Archivaria 53 (2002). 76-93. | Guest Speaker: Theresa Polk, Director of Digital Initiatives, LLILAS Benson | None. |
2. Christian Kelleher. “Archives Without Archives.” Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies. Volume 1, Number 2. | |||
3. Kim Christen. "Does Information Really Want to be Free? Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Question of Openness.” International Journal of Communication. 6 (2012). | |||
4. Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez. Invisible Defaults and Perceived Limitations: Processing the Juan Gelman Files.” Medium.October 30, 2016. | |||
October 11, 2018 (Unit 2) | Library Guide Work Day: No Readings. | None. | |
October 12, 2018 (Unit 2) | Library Guide due by 5pm. | ||
October 18, 2018 (Unit 2) | 1. Ghaddar, JJ. “The Spectre in the Archive: Truth, Reconciliation, and Indigenous Archival Memory.” Archivaria 82 (Fall 2016). | None. | |
2. Harris, Verne. “Antonyms of our remembering.” Archival Science. Volume 14, Issue 3-4. 215-229. | |||
3. Ramirez, Mario. “On "Monstrous" Subjects and Human Rights Documentation.” In Emerging Trends in Archival Science. Karen F. Gracy, Ed. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2017. | |||
4. Guberek, T. and Hedstrom, M. On or off the record? Detecting patterns of silence about death in Guatemala’s National Police Archive. Arch Sci (2017), pp. 1-28. | |||
October 25, 2018 (Unit 2) | Humanities Media Project Proposal Work Day (no class). | None. | |
November 1, 2018 (Unit 3) | 1. American Philosophical Society, “Protocols for the treatment of indigenous materials” (2013). | Guest Speaker: Dr. Mario Garza and María Rocha Miakan-Garza Band of Coahuiltecans, founders of Indigenous Cultures Institute. | None. |
2. Eric Hemenway (Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians), “Trials and tribulations in a tribal NAGPRA program,” Museum Anthropology 33.2 (2010): 172-179. | |||
3. Joshua A. Bell, Kimberly Christen, and Mark Turin, “After the Return: Digital Repatriation and the Circulation of Indigenous Knowledge Workshop Report,” Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 6 (2013): 195-203. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. | |||
NEW: 4. Kevin Michael Foster, “Taking a Stand: Community-Engaged Scholarship on the Tenure Track,” Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship June 19 2012. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. | |||
*Optional*: 5. Willie Ermine (Cree), “Ethical Space of Engagement,” Indigenous Law Journal 6.1 (2007): 193-203. | |||
*Optional*: 6. D.A. Smith, “From Nunavut to Micronesia: Feedback and Description, Visual Repatriation and Online Photographs of Indigenous Peoples,” Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research 3(1) (2008): 1-19. | |||
*Optional*: 7. Loriene Roy (Anishinaabe), “Indigenous Cultural Heritage Preservation: A Review Essay with Ideas for the Future,” IFLA journal 41.3 (2015): 192-203. | |||
November 8, 2018 (Unit 3) | 1. Jane Anderson and Kim Christen, ‘‘Chuck a Copyright on it’: Dilemmas of Digital Return and the Possibilities for Traditional Knowledge Licenses and Labels,” Museum Anthropology Review 7.1-2 (Spring-Fall 2013):105-126. | Guest Speaker: Patrisia Gonzales | |
2. Bolfy Cottom, “Patrimonio cultural nacional: el marco jurídico y conceptual,” (2001): 79-107. | |||
3. G. Pigliasco, “Intangible cultural property, tangible databases, visible debates: The Sawau project,” International Journal of Cultural Property 16, no. 3 (2009): 255-272. | |||
4. Jenny Newell, “Old Objects, New Media: Historical collections, digitization and affect,” Journal of Material Culture 17, no. 3 (2012): 287-306. | |||
5. Suggested Reading: Special Issue of Museum Anthropology Review, 7.1-2 (2013): After the Return: Digital Repatriation and the Circulation of Indigenous Knowledge. | |||
November 9, 2018 (Unit 3) | Humanities Media Project Proposals due by 5pm. | ||
November 15, 2018 (Unit 3) | 1. Williams, Stacie M. and Jarrett M. Drake, “Power to the People: Documenting Police Violence in Cleveland,” in “Critical Archival Studies,” eds. Michelle Caswell, Ricardo Punzalan, and T-Kay Sangwand, Special issue, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 1, no. 2 (2017): 1-27. | Guest Speaker: Itza Carbajal, LLILAS Benson Metadata Librarian | |
2. Jarrett M. Drake, “Seismic Shifts: On Archival Fact and Fictions,” medium.com. August 20, 2018. | |||
3. Michelle Caswell, Marika Cifor, and Mario H. Ramirez, “‘To Suddenly Discover Yourself Existing’: Uncovering the Impact of Community Archives,” The American Archivist 79, no. 1 (2016): 56-81. | |||
4. Anthony Cocciolo, “Community Archives in the Digital Era: A Case from the LGBT Community,” Preservation, Digital Technology and Culture 45, no. 4 (2017): 157-165. | |||
5. OPTIONAL: Steven High, “Telling Stories: A Reflection on Oral History and New Media,” Oral History 38, no. 1 (2010): 101-112. | |||
November 18, 2018 | Final Project Proposals due by 5pm. | ||
November 22, 2018 | No Class: Thanksgiving | ||
November 29, 2018 | Work Day and Consultations | ||
December 6, 2018 | Final Projects due; action steps implemented. |