This document summarizes an archival research conference taking place on September 5, 2014 at the Graduate Center, CUNY. It includes the schedule, descriptions of 12 panel sessions on various topics related to archival research, and details of a roundtable discussion with archivists from several New York institutions. The event brings together recipients of different fellowship programs for archival research.

1. Archival Research Conference
Friday, September 5, 2014
9:00AM – 3:30PM
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2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Notes

11. Notes

12. 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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