Critical Archives Reading Group Meeting

94 George Street- Please use the Caspersen Entrance.

For Zoom attendees: https://brown.zoom.us/j/95313676017?jst=2

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Many members of our community are thinking about the topic of critical archives. In view of this, we created an Archives Reading Group during the 2024-25 academic year as part of Monumental Archives, a larger collaborative project. Archives Reading Group participants read and discuss key classic and new texts from a variety of disciplinary and professional perspectives on the making, unmaking, challenges and potential in "archives." 

The readings for this session are:

  • Jessica Marie Johnson, “Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads.” Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 57–79.

  • Dorothy Berry, “The House that Archives Built.” up//root zines 2021.

  • Ilaria Scaglia and Valeria Vanesio. Eds. Archives and Emotions: International Dialogues Across Past, Present, and Future. Bloomsbury, 2024.

  • Focus on “Introduction: Why Archives and Emotions? and "Conclusion: Anne Gilliland, Future Perfect? Affect-Aware, History-Informed, Future-Oriented Archive-Making."

Interested? Please complete the Archives Reading Group Google form.