The PublicsLab will host two events with Brian Jones (Urban Ed, ’18), Associate Director of Education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, on the topic of “Activism, Archives, and Education”

Activism, Archives, and Education: Workshop

Wednesday, 10 March

4:15-6:15pm

 

Activists and historians both attempt to revise popular narratives about our collective past in order to inform and expand our collective imaginations in the present. Historians rely on archives, but they can also be useful to activists. Using the archives to explore the history of activism presents one way to engage students in formal educational settings, and to make useful historical knowledge accessible to activists and a broader public. In this workshop, Brian Jones will discuss several ongoing projects in which he is involved in connecting archives, educators, and activists.

 

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Activism, Archives, and Education: Panel

Friday, 12 March

2:00-4:00pm

 

Panelists will talk broadly about the ways in which scholars, archivists, and activists can and do use activist archives in formal and informal educational spaces to make historical information accessible and useful to the public.

Moderator: Brian Jones, Associate Director of Education, Schomburg Center

Panelists:

Anthony Arnove, Director, Voices of a People’s History of the United States

Zakiya Collier, Digital Archivist, Schomburg Center

Ansley Erickson, Historian, Teachers College, Columbia University

Dominique Jean-Louis, Public Historian & doctoral student, New York University

 

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