The discussion event, Community-driven Archives: Local Needs/Global Practices in Safeguarding Living Cultural Heritage, will be held online on Friday, September 8th, 2023 from 10:30am – 2:30pm Eastern Time (GMT-4). See updated post with detailed event information here.
REGISTER HERE FOR THE EVENT
Hosted by the American Folklife Center, home to one of the oldest and largest ethnographic archives in the world, Community-driven Archives comprises two roundtable discussions, bringing together scholars and professionals to share and discuss examples of community-guided documentation and archival preservation work, foregrounding issues of ethics and equity, community self-representation and ownership, as well as access, from international perspectives.
Guiding questions include: What roles can archives play in uplifting and safeguarding people’s cultural knowledge, living traditions and expressions? And in what ways can cultural documentation, through archival preservation and access processes, be community led?
The event is facilitated with support from the American Folklore Society and the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore.
Schedule and Participants
More detailed information can be found at this updated post here.
10:30am Eastern Time: Welcome and introduction to the American Folklife Center
Roundtable 1) 11:00am – 12:30pm ET: Documenting living traditions and the changing roles of archives: a global view
Moderator: Robert Baron, Goucher College
Anthony Seeger, Professor Emeritus UCLA and Curator Emeritus Smithsonian Institution
Shubha Chaudhuri, Associate Director General (Academic), Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies
Maryna Chernyavska, Digital Archivist, University of Alberta Archives, Libraries and Museums
Andy Kolovos, Associate Director and Archivist, Vermont Folklife Center
Roundtable 2) 1:00pm – 2:30pm ET: Community-driven Archives in Action: Approaches and Impacts
Moderator: Michelle Stefano, American Folklife Center
Michelle Caswell, Professor, UCLA, Co-Director, UCLA Community Archives Lab
Ashley Minner Jones, Artist, Folklorist, Assistant Curator for History and Culture, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Patrick Maundu, Kenya Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge, National Museums of Kenya
Junious Brickhouse, Founder and Executive Director, Urban Artistry, Inc.
You can register for the event by clicking here. And find the updated event information here.
Comments (2)
Is there still a plan to post the recording for those who registered or for the public? Thank you!
Yes, once it’s ready, the recording will be made available via this blog and the Library’s YouTube channel. Thank you!