Archival Conversations (A Two-Part Series): Realities of Archival Diaspora

Date: 6 November 2024
Time: 2:00–3:30 p.m. ET
Location: Zoom
Presented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage at Rare Book School

“What happens to our collections when we move?”

The goal of this panel is to highlight the afterlives of archival collections and family ephemera when people experience varying degrees of uprooting or displacement. Panelists will discuss the value and labor behind community archives, family histories, and kinkeeping across generations and continents in the larger shadow of institutions. Curators, archivists, and community members will break down the causes of archival dispersion (e.g., slavery, intentional migration, home foreclosure, urban renewal, &c.) and consider ways in which institutions, if possible, can handle those collections with respect and dignity.

This event was held on 6 November 2024. See below for a link to the You Tube recording.

Shakti Castro, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University

N’Kosi Coates, Curator of African American Collections, Stuart Rose Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University

GVGK Tang, Philadelphia-based Public Historian, Digital Humanist, Media Scholar & Community Organizer

Patrice Green (moderator), CHF Fellow, Curator for African American and African Diasporic Collections, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard Radcliffe Institute

Click here to learn more about the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage at Rare Book School.

You are invited to watch the November 2024 recording of the event below via our RBS YouTube channel.