BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5067-cf0b090d9d8a086ee7814bab900008d4@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260514T213702Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210402T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210402T160000 SUMMARY:Archival Imaginaries symposium DESCRIPTION:\nScholars in archival studies have challenged rightly those in the humanities and social sciences who theorize the archive as a met aphor while paying little attention to practicing archivists\, archival theory\, or what Ann Cvetkovic calls &ldquo\;actually existing archives. &rdquo\; At the same time\, and especially in the last decade\, the post -modern turn in archival studies has significantly destabilized the foun dational concept of &ldquo\;authenticity&rdquo\; as a core function of a rchival labor. In a theoretical moment when scholars have embraced the i dea of the archive as a historically conjured construct\, as opposed to a representational reality\, how can archival theorists reimagine the ar chive as a tool for social justice and accountability?\n\nEnvisioning th e future of the archive as a medium for critical inquiry\, our issue tur ns to the transdisciplinary work in feminist\, queer\, postcolonial\, an d critical race studies in order to engage more fully with what Anne J. Gilliland and Michelle Caswell frame as &ldquo\;archival imaginaries&rdq uo\; and &ldquo\;imagined records.&rdquo\; Diverse thinkers such as Jean Bessette\, Saidiya Hartman\, Kwame Holmes\, Marí\;a Elena Mart&ia cute\;nez\, Jacqueline Jones Royster\, Rebecka Taves Sheffield\, and Gab riel Daniel Solis have engaged imaginatively with existing collections\, imagined alternative records of the past\, and envisioned new ways to e ngage in archival labor and study archival imaginaries for the future.\n \nThe Archival Imaginaries symposium will take up questions suggested by this rich body of work: How do archivists sustain archives as a tool fo r accountability in a moment when the proliferation of disinformation ha s critically undermined authenticity? How do archivists reclaim a libera tory future for both their users and their repositories? How can scholar s utilize imaginative methods to navigate archival absences and failures ? Exploring these questions\, we confront archival collusions with power while asking how to transform popular imaginaries of the archive&mdash\ ;from a static representation of reality\, to dynamic conjectures that d epict a past that never was\, a present that cannot be\, and a future th at is always-already lost at the moment of conceptualization.\n\nFor mor e details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/archival_imaginaries_symposiu m/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Scholars in arc hival studies have challenged rightly those in the humanities and social sciences who theorize the archive as a metaphor while paying little att ention to practicing archivists, archival theory, or what Ann Cvetkovic calls “actually existing archives.” At the same time, and es pecially in the last decade, the post-modern turn in archival studies ha s significantly destabilized the foundational concept of “authenti city” as a core function of archival labor. In a theoretical momen t when scholars have embraced the idea of the archive as a historically conjured construct, as opposed to a representational reality, how can ar chival theorists reimagine the archive as a tool for social justice and accountability?

Envisioning the future of the archive as a medium for critical inquiry, our issue turns to the transdisciplinary work in f eminist, queer, postcolonial, and critical race studies in order to enga ge more fully with what Anne J. Gilliland and Michelle Caswell frame as “archival imaginaries” and “imagined records.” D iverse thinkers such as Jean Bessette, Saidiya Hartman, Kwame Holmes, Ma ría Elena Martínez, Jacqueline Jones Royster, Rebecka Tave s Sheffield, and Gabriel Daniel Solis have engaged imaginatively with ex isting collections, imagined alternative records of the past, and envisi oned new ways to engage in archival labor and study archival imaginaries for the future.

The Archival Imaginaries symposium will take up q uestions suggested by this rich body of work: How do archivists sustain archives as a tool for accountability in a moment when the proliferation of disinformation has critically undermined authenticity? How do archiv ists reclaim a liberatory future for both their users and their reposito ries? How can scholars utilize imaginative methods to navigate archival absences and failures? Exploring these questions, we confront archival c ollusions with power while asking how to transform popular imaginaries o f the archive—from a static representation of reality, to dynamic conjectures that depict a past that never was, a present that cannot be, and a future that is always-already lost at the moment of conceptualiza tion.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/archival _imaginaries_symposium/

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