AUTUMN 2022 

Archive Violence and Justice
October 11, 3:30-5 p.m. (Zoom)

In the first dialogue, scholar-archivists offered key concepts and framing questions to advance our conversation about public history, archiving multi-voiced and community collections, the ethics and politics of memorialization, and governmentality and surveillance in documentation, among other topics.
Featuring: Sine Hwang Jensen (Asian American and Comparative Ethnic Studies Librarian—Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library, University of California- Berkeley); Tara Hart (Managing Archivist—Whitney Museum of American Art;  Visiting Assistant Professor—School of Information, Pratt Institute); Jennifer R. O’Neal (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde; Archivist and Assistant Professor of Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon)
Moderator: Michelle Wibbelsman (Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Ohio State) 

Queer Archives: Let the Record Show
November 1, 3:30-5 p.m. (Zoom)

In this dialogue, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, AIDS historian and journalist, Sarah Schulman, discussed her groundbreaking oral history research and award-winning book, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, NY 1987-1993. This dialogue focused on the possibilities and challenges of qualitative research in building an archive of LGBTQ experience and the impact of such work for creating new entry points to LGBTQ public health and wellness. 
Featuring: Sarah Schulman (Distinguished Professor of the Humanities—CUNY) 
Moderator: Amy Fairchild (Dean—College of Public Health, Ohio State)

SPRING 2023

Performing Archives: Bodies, Histories, Memory
February 8, 3:30-5 p.m. (Zoom)

Digital Dialogue Three acknowledged the role of the embodiment in the creation and pluralization of archives. Panelists considered the body as a living archive — as a site of knowledge production and cultural memory. Sharing their artistic and scholarly practices, panelists activated the memories of marginalized bodies and cataloged the stories of intentional community building. In addition to expanding notions of the archive, panelists considered the limitations of the construct of the archive for thinking about memory work and for imagining new futures. 
FEATURING: Brian Harnetty (Interdisciplinary artist and member of the current Society of Fellows' faculty cohort), Crystal Michelle Perkins (Assistant Professor, Dance), Michelle Wibbelsman (Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese) MODERATOR: Harmony Bench (Associate Professor, Dance

Archives as Pedagogical Practice
March 30, 3:30-5 p.m. (Zoom)

The Reclaiming Our Histories and Picturing Black History projects exemplified the value of engaging students and society in public humanities recovery work. Scholar-teachers will offered strategies for integrating digital humanities projects into courses and co-curricular learning opportunities. FEATURING: Leigh Bonds, Digital Humanities Librarian (Ohio State), Nick Breyfogle, Associate Professor of History, Mytheli Sreenivas, Professor of History and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (Ohio State)

AUTUMN 2022

WORKSHOP | Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work
September 8, 10-noon, Barbie Tootle Room (Ohio Union)

The workshop explored notions of archival temporalities and how time is racialized along axes of power.
Workshop leader: Michelle Caswell (Associate Professor of Archival Studies, University of California-Los Angeles)
Moderator: Wendy S. Hesford (Professor of English, Ohio State)

WORKSHOP | Queer Archives and "Gay Propaganda" Laws
November 17, 3:30-5 p.m. (Zoom)

This workshop imagines strategies for building and operationalizing archives of the present for a queer future.
Workshop leader: Alexander Sasha Kondakov (Assistant Professor of Sociology, University College Dublin, Ireland)
Moderator: Philip Gleissner (Assistant Professor of Slavic and Eastern European Languages and Literature)

SPRING 2023

OPEN HOUSE | Rare Books and Manuscripts Zine Collection
January 27, 11 a.m. to noon
105C Thompson Library

During the first half of this session, curator Jolie Braun discussed developing the Rare Books and Manuscripts Zine Collection, highlighting particular strengths and explaining how to use zines in teaching and research. At the end, attendees had the opportunity to explore some of the collections’ holdings.

WORKSHOP | Producing the Archival Body, with Jamie A. Lee
February 24, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Zoom)

This workshop reconsidered how archives are defined, understood, deployed and accessed to produce subjects. Professor Lee introduced new understandings of archival bodies that interrogate how power circulates in archival contexts to builds critical understandings of how archives shape production of knowledges and human subjectivities. FEATURING: Jamie A. Lee, Associate Professor of Digital Culture, Information and Society (University of Arizona) MODERATOR: Wendy S. Hesford, GAHDT Faculty Director and Professor of English (Ohio State)

WORKSHOP | Community Archives: Zine-Making for Social Justice and Comunidad
April 5, noon to 1:30 p.m.
Barnett Center Collaboratory, Sullivant Hall

This workshop explored zines as sites of knowledge production that disrupt conventional ways of knowing, learning, remembering, and documenting. Participants created zines and had the option of producing per-zines (personal narrative zines) or collaborative zines that reflect personal and collective interests and urgencies. FEATURING: Adela C. Licona, Associate Professor Emeritus of English (University of Arizona) and Founder of The Art of Change Agency, Susana Sepulveda (aka Susy Riot), PhD student in Gender and Women’s Studies (University of Arizona)

This resource is an unofficial archive of archives at The Ohio State University. This resource was compiled by the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme to champion and promote these invaluable resources in accordance with our 2022-23 Society of Fellows theme: Archival Imaginations.

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