The Pembroke Center Archives hosts recurring symposia questioning the relationship between archives and the production of knowledge.
Our next symposium, exploring oral history, will be held on Friday, February 5, 2016.
Past symposia
The Colonial Archive Symposium is dedicated to the question of the relationship between colonialism and the order of knowledge.
Friday, September 19, 2014
2:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Pembroke Hall, 305
172 Meeting Street
Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto
Seeking Slaves in the Colonial Archive
Itohan Osayimwese, Brown University
Colonialism and the Archive of Modern Architecture in Germany
Ann Laura Stoler, The New School
Retracking Colonial Archives: On Political and Conceptual Labor
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University
Respondent
Artists as Archivists, The Radha May Collective:
Nupur Mathur, Artist/Researcher
Bathsheba Okwenje, Artist/Researcher
Elisa Giardina Papa, Brown University/RISD
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October 25, 2013
Marc Giai-Miniet, Ascenseur"Material Encounters in the Archive" frames a dialogue between four interdisciplinary feminist scholars whose research addresses the potential, as well as the limits, of the archive as a theoretical and physical site of knowledge production. Our speakers will reflect on how engaging with archival objects -- as collectors, curators, and researchers -- has shaped their understanding of the archive, not only as a repository for extant documents but as a productive apparatus that shapes the contours of what is valued as legitimate information and scholarship. The presentations will be followed by a moderated discussion, Q&A, and reception.
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Participants:
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The Kala of the Archive: Anjali Arondekar is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz. She is author of For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive, winner of the 2010 Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for best book in lesbian, gay, or queer studies in literature and cultural studies. |
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Sov-Reign/Sub-Reign Archives: Ariella Azoulay is a scholar, curator and documentary filmmaker who joined the Brown faculty in Modern Culture and Media in 2013. Her recent books include The Civil Contract of Photography (2008), From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950 (2011), and Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography (2012). |
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The Archive Function: Kate Eichhorn is Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at The New School, Eugene Lang College. Her book The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order, was released by Temple University Press in 2013. |
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Comment Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg is Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies at Brown. Her publications include Sublime Surrender: Male Masochism at the Fin-de-Siecle (1998), The Pinocchio Effect: On Making Italians (2007), and Impious Fidelity: Anna Freud, Psychoanalysis, Politics (2012). |