
This series of roundtable webinars features presentations and moderated conversations that foster cross-disciplinary exchange. Each roundtable showcases 2-3 members of the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme's post-MFA and postdoctoral cohort whose work shares disciplinary, methodological and/or topical alignment.
Roundtable Three: On Archive as Method
- RACHEL HOPKIN
Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Folklore Studies and Humanities Collaboratory
Project Title: Working with the OSU Folklore Archives
The OSU Folklore Archives (FAs) contain many important collections, including over 10,000 student ethnographic projects which have been gathered over five plus decades. Despite their value, the FAs have been under-resourced since their inception. I discuss some of the challenges of working with the FAs, and highlight recent initiatives, including the creation of course modules that facilitate use thereof, and the FAs’ newest collection, which records and contextualizes digital folklore shared among OSU students
- JULIA KEBLINSKA
Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Historical Research; Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies; East Asian Studies Center
Presentation Title: Pulpy Archives
Keblinska's project is a media archaeology that seeks to understand the transition from late socialism to early post-socialism in Poland and China through the “pulpy archive” — informal collections of cheap texts and obsolete media objects that they discovered and those that they assembled in their dissertation research on 1980s and 90s China and their postdoctoral comparative project on China and Poland in the same decades.
- (Moderator) Katherine Borland
Associate Professor, Comparative Studies; Director, Center for Folklore Studies - (Moderator) Angela Brintlinger
Interim Department Chair of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures & Director of the Center for Slavic and East European and Eurasian Studies)
About GAHDT’s post-MFA and postdoctoral program
This program supports post-MFA and postdoctoral researchers and creative practitioners and provides professional development opportunities with the goal of facilitating their entry into tenure-track positions in the academic marketplace and the public arts and humanities. The valuable presence of these researchers and practitioners adds intellectual energy and vitality to the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole, contributing to interdisciplinary collaboration between academic units and the development of innovative scholarship and curricula.