Archival Research Conference

Friday, September 5, 2014

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

Notes

Notes

About this Conference

Each of the presenters at this conference was the recipient of one of

several different fellowship programs funded by the Provost’s Office.

These fellowships include: the Lost & Found Stipends Program, the

Provost’s Digital Innovation Grants, The Advanced Research

Collaborative Award for Archival Research in African American and

African Diaspora Studies, and The Advanced Research Collaborative

Knickerbocker Award for Archival Research in American Studies.

The organizers would like to thank the following people for their help in

making this event possible: Rachel Sponzo, Gayle Moynihan, Margarita

Nasr, Tamra Gayle, Polly Thistlethwaite, Shawnta Smith, Carolyn

Broomhead (NYPL), Michael Ryan (NYHS), and Khalil Gibran

Muhammad (Schomburg).

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