Archived (2023)
Location
Saturday, February 11th, 2023
Online via Zoom
Schedule
The following seminar schedule is tentative and will be updated as details continue to be confirmed. The order of speakers within panels is subject to change.
| Start Time | End Time | Theme | Title | Speakers | ACA@UBC Moderators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | 9:10 | Welcome Remarks | Jennifer Douglas | ||
| 9:10 | 9:25 | Session 1: Student Voices | The Work of Curating the Archives | Kawmadie Karunanayake | Eleanor (live) and Kailey (chat) |
| 9:25 | 9:40 | Session 1: Student Voices | Gardens and Kitchens as Decolonial Archival Spaces | Joel Saldaña Perez | Eleanor (live) and Kailey (chat) |
| 9:40 | 9:55 | Session 1: Student Voices | SIMSArchive: Digitizing Half a Century of Student Association Records | Maddie Hare | Eleanor (live) and Kailey (chat) |
| 9:55 | 10:10 | Session 1: Student Voices | Beyond Ancestry.com: Researching African American Genealogy using Archives | Shawnne McMillion-Jackson | Eleanor (live) and Kailey (chat) |
| 10:10 | 10:30 | Break | |||
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Session 2: Archives and Activism | "Do it in the dark!" | Harrison Apple | Emma (live) and Elizabeth (chat) |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Session 2: Archives and Activism | Community-based Video Archiving for Human Rights | Yvonne Ng | Emma (live) and Elizabeth (chat) |
| 11:30 | 1:00 | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 | 2:00 | Session 3: Records and Memory | Planting Trees, Growing Records: Reimagining Memory Praxis for Sustainable Societies | Stanley H. Griffin | Dharani Persaud (live) and Grace (chat) |
| 1:30 | 2:00 | Session 3: Records and Memory | For Whom: The Role of Collective Memory in Struggles for Liberation | Lara Maestro | Dharani Persaud (live) and Grace (chat) |
| 2:00 | 2:15 | Break | |||
| 2:15 | 2:45 | Session 4: Truth, Reconciliation, and Archives | More Than Just Records: Moving toward Decolonial Archival Futures in Reclaiming Archival Power and Spaces | Skylee-Storm Hogan-Stacey | Kailey (live) and Linnet (chat) |
| 2:45 | 3:15 | Session 4: Truth, Reconciliation, and Archives | Getting to the Truth: Challenging Archival Practices for the Purpose of Furthering Indigenous Voices | Kristin Kozar | Kailey (live) and Linnet (chat) |
| 3:15 | 3:20 | Wrap-up | Emma Moros and Cameron Welsh | ||
| 3:20 | 3:30 | Closing Remarks | Emma Moros and Cameron Welsh |
Symposium Descriptions
STUDENT VOICES
In this first symposium session, library, archival, and information studies students will present on their past, present, and planned archival projects and research. These include subjects regarding archival processes, new archival spaces, and challenges to existing archival paradigms. Presentations in this session will take the form of brief and engaging lightning talks followed by question-and-answer periods dedicated to each student presenter.
ARCHIVES AND ACTIVISM
In this session, Harrison Apple and Yvonne Ng will share with us about their experiences working with archives related to and/or in activist contexts, as well as their experiences of working as activists within the archival field.
RECORDS AND MEMORY
This session explores the multiplicity of ways that archival records are defined, conceptualized, and used to remember. This session features two presenters, Stanley H. Griffin and Lara Maestro, who will speak about their approach to memory work and their engagements with archival records that challenge dominant paradigms of knowledge.
TRUTH, RECONCILIATION, AND ARCHIVES
This session creates space for discussing the roles of archives and archivists in truth and reconciliation efforts. Kristin Kozar and Skylee-Storm Hogan-Stacey will share their perspectives on the responsibilities of archivists and memory workers to support communities accessing their records, and how to work in the pursuit of truth, reconciliation, and anti-colonialism within existing information systems.
Presentation Abstracts
Presentation abstracts for all non-student presenters will be made available in advance of the symposium. They can also be found on the Abstracts page of this website and in the Seminar and Symposium Program.