Archival Research Conference, Sept 5th

Join us for the 1st Graduate Center Archival Research Conference Friday, Sept 5, 2014. GC students will present and discuss their archival research conducted over the past two years, funded by the GC Provost’s Office.

The conference will feature three sessions of student panels moderated by GC faculty, plus a roundtable featuring archivists and curators from the New York Public Library and the New-York Historical Society discussing their collections and the opportunities for GC students to explore them. Students will have a chance to meet fellow researchers over lunch and to chat with archivist-curators at the reception following the conference.

The full schedule is listed below; for detailed panel descriptions, see the full program. The conference is open to all, and no registration is necessary.

Sponsored by the Provost’s Office, The Advanced Research Collaborative, the American Studies Certificate Program, and the Graduate Center Library.

Archival Research Conference — Friday, September 5, 2014, 9am – 3:30pm

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9:00-9:20	Welcome GC Concourse Graduate Center Provost Louise Lennihan, Prof. Duncan Faherty	Free coffee in Graduate Center Concourse Lobby	concourse lobby
9:20-10:20	Aesthetics, Politics, and Difference Chair: Prof. Kandice Chuh	Tonya Foster (English), Saisha Grayson (Art History), Denisse Andrade (EES), Paul Fess (English), Stefanie Jones (Theatre)	1 c205
	Print Culture and Canon Formation in the Early Republic Chair: Prof. Bill Kelly	Nicole Zeftel (Comp Lit.), Brian Baaki (English), Nora Slonimsky (History), Courtney Chatellier (English), Nicole Berkin (Theatre)	2 c203
	Mining Alternative Geographies of Race and Labor Chair: Prof. Herman Bennett	Frances Tran (English), Gordon Barnes (History), Jenny LeRoy (English), Hector Agredano (EES), Megan Brown (History)	3 c197
	Sexuality, Politics, and the Archive Chair: Prof. Alyson Cole	Meredith Benjamin (English), Alisa Wade Harrison (History), Elizabeth Decker (English), Margaret Galvan (English), Wen Liu (Psychology)	4 c201
10:20-10:30 B R E A K
10:30-11:30	Cultures of Political Economy Chair: Prof. Robert Reid-Pharr	David McCarthy (Music), Flannery Amdahl (Political Science), Adam McMahon (Political Science), Sara Rutkowski (English), Velina Manalova (English)	5 c197
	Critical Pedagogies and the Rewriting of Knowledge Production Chair: Prof. Steve Brier	Nolan Chessman (English), Naja Berg Hougaard (Psychology), Laura Kaplan (Education), Diana Epelbaum (English),	6 c203
10:30-11:30	Representing Geographies of the Urban and the Rural Chair: Prof. Cindi Katz	Marjorie Gorsline (Anthropology), Jacob Cohen (Music), Katherine Uva (History), Nicholas Gamso (English), Cara Jordan (Art History)	7 c197
	DH – Featuring Winners of Provost’s Digital Innovation Grants Prof. Matt Gold	Amanda Licastro (English), Natascia Boeri (Sociology), Micki Kaufman (History)	8 c205
11:30-12:15	L U N C H		CONCOURSE LOBBY
12:15-1:15	Diasporic Cultures and Identity Formation Chair: Prof. Sujatha Fernandes	Aidah Gil (History), Anahi Douglas (English), Abigail Lapin (Art History), Omar Ramadan-Santiago (Anthropology), Rocio Gil Martinez de Escobar (Anthropology)	9 c201
	The Performances of Citizenship and National Belonging Chair: Prof. Eric Lott	Kristen Moriah (English), Melissa Phruksachart (English), Hallie Scott (Art History), Sissi Liu (Theatre), Devora Geller (Music)	10 c203
	The Long Project of Abolition and Black Radical Resistance Chair: Prof. Don Robotham	Sean Gerrity (English), Wendy Tronrud (English), Timothy Griffiths (English), Lydia Pelot-Hobbs (EES), Laura Carter (Anthropology)	11 c205
	Lost and Found Chair: Prof. Ammiel Alcalay	Lauren Bailey (English), Phillip Griffith (French), Gabrielle Kappes (English), Kai Krienke (Comp Lit), Megan Paslwaski (English), Alex Wermer-Colan (English)	12 c201
1:15-1:30 B R E A K
1:30-2:30	NYC Archivists Roundtable Welcome: Chase Robinson, President, CUNY Graduate Center Chair: Polly Thistlethwaite, Chief Librarian, CUNY Graduate Center Steven G. Fullwood – Assistant Curator, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Bob Kosovsky – Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Marilyn Satin Kushner – Curator and Head, Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections New-York Historical Society Thomas Lannon – Assistant Curator, NYPL Manuscripts and Archives Division Ted O’Reily – Curator and Head, Manuscript Department, Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, New-York Historical Society Mary F. Yearwood – Curator, Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture		Elebash Recital Hall
2:30-3:30	F R E E R E C E P T I O N		Elebash Lobby