The 2022-23 Society of Fellows programming brings together scholars, artists, activists, and archivists to explore the concept of the “archive” as a mode of inquiry, invention, and knowledge production. Troubling static notions of context and singular histories, the year’s Digital Dialogues and workshops provide an opportunity to explore established canons and conventions that sustain certain ways of knowing and remembering and the incompleteness of the historical record thereby engaging the power of archival practices as mechanisms of social justice.
The workshop will explore notions of archival temporalities and how time is racialized along axes of power. Registered attendees will be sent an excerpt from Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work, to read in preparation.
Workshop leader: Michelle Caswell (Associate Professor of Archival Studies, University of California-Los Angeles)
Moderator: Wendy S. Hesford (Professor of English, Ohio State)
