The Graduate Center’s first Archival Research Conference features student recipients of one of several different fellowships funded by the Provost’s office: the Lost & Found Stipends Program, the Provost’s Digital Innovation Grants, The Advanced Research Collaborative Award for Archival Research in African American and African Diaspora Studies, and The Advanced Research Collaborative Knickerbocker Award for Archival Research in American Studies. Panels moderated by Graduate Center faculty are followed by an afternoon roundtable featuring New York Public Library and New-York Historical Society archivists discussing the collections they curate.
The conference is free and open to all, and it includes a complimentary lunch and reception.
The schedule for the day is below. For detailed panel descriptions, see the full program.
Friday, September 5th
9:30am – 3:30pm
Graduate Center Concourse Level
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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
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Elebash RecitalHall | |
| 2:30-3:30 | F R E E R E C E P T I O N | Elebash Lobby | |
Yes, Questioner! The event is open to all. Bring a local archivist who might be interested. We will see you there.
Can people from outside CUNY attend? As a CUNY student, can I bring a local archivist who might be interested?