Archival Research Conference

Friday, September 5, 2014

featuring History PhD. Students Katie Uva, Alisa Wade Harrison, Megan Brown, Gordon Randolph Barnes Jr., Nora Slonimsky, Aídah Gil, and Micki Kaufman

9:00AM – 3:30PM

 

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Schedule

9:00-9:20       Welcoming Remarks

Duncan Faherty (English and American Studies)

 

Provost Louise Lennihan

 

9:20-10:20     Panel Session I

10:20-10:30   Break

10:30-11:30   Panel Session II

11:30-12:15   Lunch

12:15-1:15     Panel Session III

1:15-1:30       Break

1:30               NYC Archivists Roundtable

Elebash Recital Hall

 

2:30              Reception

 

 

Panel Session I

9:20-10:20AM

 

1.    Aesthetics, Politics, and Difference

Chair: Kandice Chuh (English)                               Room: C205

 

Denisse Andrade (Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geography)

The Black Radical Movement and the Poetics and Politics of Land

 

Paul Fess (English)

Slavery and Anti-slavery: Sound and Text

 

Tonya M. Foster (English)

Umbra Writers’ Workshop: Archives and Extensions–Tom Dent

 

Saisha Grayson (Art History)

Cellist, Catalyst, Collaborator: The Work of Charlotte Moorman, 1963-1980

 

Stefanie A Jones (Theatre)

Acts of Provocation: Racial Formation and Twenty-First Century U.S. Commercial Theatre

 

 

2.     Print Culture and Canon Formation in the Early Republic

Chair: William Kelly (English)                                Room: C203

 

Brian Baaki (English)

The Black Criminal in Early American Print Culture

 

Courtney Chatellier (English)

Archival Research in Early American Literature

 

Nora Slonimsky (History)

“The Engine of Free Expression” [?]: The Political Development of Copyright in the Colonial British Atlantic and Early National United States

 

Nicole Zeftel (Comparative Literature)

“The Economics and Poetics” of the Nineteenth Century Dime Novel

 

 

3.     Mining Alternative Geographies of Race and Labor

Chair: Herman Bennett (History)                           Room: C197

 

Hector Agredano (Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geography)

Railroads, Railroad Workers and Geographies of the Mexican Revolution of 1910

 

Gordon Randolph Barnes Jr. (History)

Imperial Fears: Planter Ideology, Violence, and the Post-Emancipation Experience in the British Empire, 1800-1900

 

Megan Brown (History)

Which Integration for Algeria? Eurafrica and the Treaty of Rome

 

Jenny LeRoy (English)

Capitalizing on the Global South: Eliza McHatton’s Hemispheric Plantation Economy

 

Frances Tran (English)

Traces of the Coolie: An Archival Encounter

 

 

4.     Sexuality, Politics, and the Archive

Chair: Alyson Cole (Political Science)                    Room: C201

 

Meredith Benjamin (English)

Engaging Feminism’s Archive

 

Elizabeth Decker (English)

Recovering Edith Summers Kelley

 

Margaret Galvan (English)

Watching Out for Dykes in Activist Archives and Special Collections

 

Alisa Wade Harrison (History)

An Alliance of Ladies: Power, Public Affairs, and Gendered Constructions of the Upper Class in Early National New York City

 

Wen Liu (Psychology)

Untying the Knot: Archiving the Marriage Equality Movements in Taiwan, China, and the US as Recent History

 

10:20-10:30   Break

 

Panel Session II

10:30-11:30AM

 

5.    Cultures of Political Economy

Chair: Jessie Daniels (Psychology)                          Room: C201

 

Flannery Amdahl (Political Science)

Big Brother’s Keepers: Liberal Religious Organizations and the Development of the American Welfare State

 

Velina Manolova (English)

Queer Interventions in Racial Liberalism in the Writings of Lillian Smith, Carson McCullers, James Baldwin, and Lorraine Hansberry, 1944-1970

 

David McCarthy (Historical Musicology)

The Appearance of the Comedy LP (1957-1973)

 

Adam McMahon (Political Science)

President-Led American State Unbuilding 1953-2013

 

Sara Rutkowski (English)

The Federal Writers’ Project and its Influence on African American Literature

 

 

6.    Critical Pedagogies: Rewriting of Knowledge Production

Chair: Steve Brier (Urban Education)                    Room: C203

 

Nolan Chessman (English)

A Pedagogy of Possibility: Adrienne Rich in the Age of Open Admissions

 

Diana L. Epelbaum (English)

‘I own I love the vegitable world extremly’: The Gender of Genre and Women’s Natural History Writing, 1688-1808

 

Naja Berg Hougaard (Psychology, Human Development)

The Past is Not Dead: Resuscitating the Forgotten History of Danish Colonialism in the U.S. Virgin Islands

 

Laura Kaplan (Urban Education)

The History and Development of P.S. 25

 

7.    Representing Geographies of the Urban and the Rural

Chair: Cindi Katz (Earth & Environmental Sciences) Room: C197

 

Jacob Cohen (Music)

Experiences of New England: Urban and Rural in the Music of Chadwick, Ives, Ruggles and Crawford Seeger

 

Nicholas Gamso (English)

Race, Cities, and American New Wave Documentary of the 1960s and 70s

 

Marjorie Gorsline (Anthropology)

An Archaeology of Accountability: Race, Power, and Privilege in the Rural Northeast

 

Cara Jordan (Art History)

Joseph Beuys and Social Sculpture in the United States: Rick Low and Ongoing Residency

 

Katherine Uva (History)

Dawn of a New Day: New York City Between the Fairs

 

 

8.    Forum on Digital Initiatives and Fellowships

Chair: Matthew K. Gold (English)                          Room: C205

 

Amanda Licastro (English)

The Writing Studies Tree

 

Natascia Boeri (Sociology)

Community IT Centers and Organizing Women Workers in Gujarat, India

 

11:30-12:15   Lunch

 

Panel Session III

12:15-1:15PM

 

9.    Diasporic Cultures and Identity Formation

Chair: Sujatha Fernandes (Sociology)                     Room: C197

 

Anahí Douglas (English)

African American Ex-pats and Exiles in Mexico

 

Aídah Gil (History)

Arthur, Arturo, and the Archive: A History of a Historical Imagination
Abigail Lapin (Art History)

Afro-Brazilian Art, Architecture and the Civil Rights Movement in Brazil, 1960s-80s

 

Rocío Gil Martínez de Escobar (Anthropology)

Bordering States, Bordering Race: Afro-Indigenous Struggles for Recognition in the Coahuila-Texas Borderland

 

 

10.  The Performances of Citizenship and National Belonging

Chair: Eric Lott (English)                                         Room: C203

 

Devora Geller (Musicology)

Mamele on the Yiddish Stage and Screen

 

Sissi Liu (Theatre)

Monkey King Performances as Alternative Discourse of Asian Americanness

 

Kristin Moriah (English)

Dark Stars of the Evening: Performances of African American Citizenship and Identity in Germany, 1890-1930

 

Melissa Phruksachart (English)

Cherry Blossoms in Bryant Park: Mediating Asiatic Racialization on Cold War Television

 

Hallie Scott (Art History)

The Driftwood Village and the Truckin’ University: Experimental Architecture Education on the West Coast, c. 1970

 

11.  The Long Project of Abolition & Black Radical Resistance

Chair: Donald Robotham (Anthropology)             Room: C205

 

Laura Bini Carter (Anthropology)

Embodied & Inscribed—Gwoka: Guadeloupan Social Movement and UNESCO Immaterial Heritage of France

 

Sean Gerrity (English)

Uncovering the Literature and History of U.S. Slave Marronage: An Archival Study in Virginia and North Carolina

 

Timothy M. Griffiths (English)

Other Black Households: The Archives of Queer Black Affective Formations

 

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs (Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geography)

The Consolidation of the Louisiana Carceral State, 1970-1995

 

Wendy Tronrud (English)

Buried Alive: Researching William Walker and Thomas Gaines

 

 

12.  Lost and Found

Chair: Ammiel Alcalay (English)                            Room: C201

Lauren Bailey (English)

Philip Griffith (French)

Gabrielle Kappes (English)

Kai Krienke (Comparative Literature)

Megan Paslawski (English)

Alex Wermer-Colan (English)

 

1:15-1:30       Break

 

 

 

NYC Archivists Roundtable

Elebash Recital Hall

1:30-2:30

 

Welcoming Remarks by President Chase Robinson

 

Chair: Polly Thistlethwaite, Chief Librarian CUNY Graduate Center

 

Panelists:

Steven G. Fullwood – Assistant Curator, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

 

Bob Kosovsky – Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

 

Marilyn Satin Kushner – Curator and Head, Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections New-York Historical Society

 

Thomas Lannon – Assistant Curator, The New York Public Library Manuscripts and Archives Division

 

Edward O’Reilly – Curator and Head, Manuscript Department, Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, New-York Historical Society

 

Mary M. Yearwood – Curator, Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,  New York Public Library  (tentative)

 

 

Reception

Elebash Lobby

2:30-3:30