September 20 | Caswell, Michelle, Ricardo Punzalan, and T-Kay Sangwand. “Critical Archival Studies: An Introduction.” Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 1, no. 2 (June 27, 2017). Cook, Terry, and Joan M. Schwartz. “Archives, Records, and Power: From (Postmodern) Theory to (Archival) Performance.” Archival Science 2, no. 3 (September 1, 2002): 171–85. Trouillot, Michele-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995). |
October 18 | Hartman, Sadiya. “Venus in Two Acts” small axe 26 (June 2008) , p 1–14. Muñiz, Wendy. “Critical Archival Theory and the Caribbean’s Neoliberal Archival Turn.” Archival Science 22, no. 2 (June 1, 2022): 239–57. Stoler, Ann Laura. “Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance.” Archival Science 2, no. 1 (March 1, 2002): 87–109. |
November 7 | 1. Article from Nora Zahn https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/cultural-adaptation/ 2. Introduction to this special issue (optional) https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/issue/view/8 We can discuss this article from the issue in particular https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/107/61 And of course participants are encouraged to choose one other article from the special issue of interest to them. |
November 15 | Bastian, Jeannette Allis. “Reading Colonial Records Through an Archival Lens: The Provenance of Place, Space and Creation.” Archival Science 6, no. 3 (December 1, 2006): 267–84. Popper, Nicholas. The Specter of the Archive: Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britain (2023). |
January 24 | Berry, Dorothy. “Take Me into the Library and Show Me Myself: Toward Authentic Accessibility in Digital Libraries,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (2022). Farmer, Ashley. “Archiving While Black,” AAIHS Black Perspectives (2018). Fuentes, Marisa. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (2016). |
February 14 | Frage, Arlette, The Allure of the Archive (excerpt) Watson, B.M., “Please Stop Calling Things Archives” Perspectives (2021) Pierson-Smith, Anne and Ben Peirson-Smith, “Fashion Archive Fervour: The Critical Role of Fashion Archives in Preserving, Curating, and Narrating Fashion,” Archives and Records (2021) |
March 14 | Brilmeyer , Gracen, et al., “Reciprocal Archival Imaginaries: The Shifting Boundaries of “Community” in Community Archives” Archivaria (year) Ilerbaig, Juan. “Archives as Sediments: Metaphors of Deposition and Archival Thinking.” Archival Science 21, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 83–95. |
April 18 | Prescott, Andrew and Alison Wiggins, eds. Archives: Power, Truth, and Fiction(Oxford UP, 2023), Introduction and selection of your choice. |