Interesting spring forum & diverse panelists on archives @ New York University / kw

A collaboration space for the M.A. program in Archives and Public History at NYU

Sponsored by the Humanities Initiative, the Departments of English, History, and Social and Cultural Analysis, the Archives and Public History Program, the Working Group on Slavery and Freedom, and the Colloquium on American Literature and Culture, New York University.

Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, 1st Floor Screening Room

Jeannette Allis Bastian, Associate Professor and Archives Program Director, Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Stephen M. Best, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley.

Saidiya Hartman, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Women's and Gender Studies, Columbia University.

Natasha J. Lightfoot, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University.

Moderated by Jennifer L. Morgan, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History, NYU.

Tina M. Campt, Associate Professor of Women's Studies and History, Duke University.

Kate Eichhorn, Assistant Professor of Culture and Media, The New School.

Meredith McGill, Associate Professor of English, Director of the Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University.

Moderated by Lisa Gitelman, Associate Professor of English and Media Culture and Communication, NYU.

Brent Hayes Edwards, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University.

Steven G. Fullwood, Manuscripts Librarian, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Jacqueline Goldsby, Visiting Associate Professor of English, NYU.

Nikhil Pal Singh, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History, NYU.

Moderated by Elizabeth McHenry, Associate Professor of English, NYU.

Location: 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor (Humanities Initiative)

Ann Fabian, Professor of American Studies and History, Dean of Humanities, Rutgers University.

Anne Golomb Hoffman, Professor of English, Fordham University

Deb Levine, Doctoral Candidate in Performance Studies, Instructor of Drama, NYU.

Marvin J. Taylor, Director, Fales Library and Special Collections, NYU.

Moderated by Michele Mitchell, Associate Professor of History, NYU.

Graduate Student Workshop with Thomas Blanton (National Security Archive)

Moderated by Peter J. Wosh, Director, Archives and Public History Program and Clinical Associate Professor of History, NYU.

Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, Room 527

Archives and the Security State: Implications for Archival Research

Thomas Blanton, Director of the National Security Archive, George Washington University.

Khaled Fahmy, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, NYU.

Jennifer Milligan, Associate Professor of History, Marymount Manhattan College.

Yvette Christiansë, Associate Professor of English, Fordham University.

Moderated by Jack Tchen, Director of Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute, Associate Professor of History and Individualized Learning, NYU.

All events are free and open to the public; ID required for entry into campus buildings.

For questions, contact laura.helton[at]nyu.edu or dylan.yeats[at]nyu.edu

Karen Weaver, MLS, Adjunct Faculty, Cataloging & Classification, The iSchool at Drexel University, College of Information Science & Technology, Philadelphia PA email: [log in to unmask] / Electronic Resources Statistician, Duquesne University, Gumberg Library, Pittsburgh PA email: [log in to unmask]