Sunday, February 7, 2010

Lecture - series, Discussing the Archives

COLLOQUIA: "Discussing the Archives" - starting Feb. 4, 2010 (New York, New York, U.S.)

The Archives and Public History Program at NYU, in conjunction with a generous grant from the NYU Humanities Initiative, will be sponsoring a series of multidisciplinary programs this spring around the theme of "Discussing the Archive." Our first program will be held on Thursday, February 4th, and the series is outlined below. All are invited.

"Problems and Productivities of Archival Silence"

Thursday February 4th, 2010. 5:30 - 7:30pm.
King Juan Carlos Center, 1st Floor Screening Room
53 Washington Square South.

Jeannette Allis Bastian, Associate Professor and Archives Program Director, Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science

Stephen M. Best, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

Saidiya Hartman, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Women's and Gender Studies, Columbia University

Natasha J. Lightfoot, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University

Moderated by Jennifer L. Morgan, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History, NYU.

http://aphdigital.org/more/discussing-the-archive/

Part of the larger series "Discussing the Archive: Ideas, Practices, Institutions."

Problems and Productivities of Archival Silence February 4th, 2010. 5:30 - 7:30pm.
King Juan Carlos Center, 1st Floor Screening Room
53 Washington Square South.

Archival Materialities
March 3rd, 2010. 6-8pm.
The Great Room (1st Floor)
19 University Place.

Collecting and Collectivities
March 11th, 2010. 5:30-7:30pm.
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (4th Floor) 20 Cooper Square.

Embodied Archives
April 7th, 2010. 5:30-7:30pm.
Humanities Initiative (5th Floor)
20 Cooper Square.

Archives and the Security State: Implications for Archival Research April 22nd, 2010. 5-7pm.
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (4th Floor) 20 Cooper Square.

http://aphdigital.org/more/discussing-the-archive/

Sponsored by the Humanities Initiative, the Departments of English, History, and Social and Cultural Analysis, the Archives and Public History Program, the Working Group on Slavery and Freedom, and the Colloquium on American Literature and Culture, New York University.


Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program History Department New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html