Summary:

In this episode, I welcome Dr. Meredith D. Clark, Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. Meredith joins us to speak about her project Archiving Black Twitter, which seeks to empower Black Twitter users to create their own “small histories” from their data.

Episode Resources:

Juana Summers, Sarah Handel, Jonaki Mehta (May 26, 2023). She's trying to archive Black Twitter. It's a delicate and imperfect task. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/26/1178262041/archiving-black-twitter-elon-musk-meredith-clark

Archiving Black Twitter (n.d.). Meredith D. Clarke, PhD. Retrieved January 2, 2024, from https://www.meredithdclark.com/archivingblacktwitter

Archiving the Black Web (2021). https://www.archivingtheblackweb.org

Donovan X. Ramsey (April 10, 2015). The Truth About Black Twitter. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/04/the-truth-about-black-twitter/390120/

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Summary:

In this episode, I welcome Kelann Currie-Williams, lens-based artist and doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program at Concordia University. Kelann joins us to speak about the poetics of the archives.

Episode Resources:

Kelann Currie-Williams. (2021). “Prolonging the Afterimage: Looking at and Talking about Photographs of Black Montreal.” Concordia University. https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/988140/13/CurrieWilliams_MA_S2021.pdf

Kelann Currie-Williams (2021). “Makers and Keepers: Two Lives, Through Photographs.” Canadian Journal of History, 56(3). https://utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/cjh.56-3-2021-0044

Patrick Lejtenyi (September 29, 2020). Concordia undergrads explore Montreal's Black history through the Negro Community Centre Archives. https://www.concordia.ca/news/stories/2020/09/29/concordia-undergrads-explore-montreals-black-history-through-the-negro-community-centre-archives.html

Tina M. Campt. (2017). Listening to Images. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/listening-to-images

Saidiya Hartman. (2019). Wayward lives, beautiful experiments: Intimate histories of riotous Black girls, troublesome women, and queer radicals. WW Norton & Company. https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393357622

Melissa J. Nelson. (November 9, 2023) Black Sound and the Archives. https://melissajnelson.com/explore/information-management/black-sound-and-the-archives/

Vance Woods. (Jan 16, 2023). “There is a tangible tension between what is held in Caribbean archives and what is remembered in Caribbean communities”: Interview with Stanley H. Griffin, of the University of the West Indies (pt. 1). https://www.archivozmagazine.org/en/interview-with-stanley-h-griffin-pt-1/#:~:text=marketing%20marketing-,%E2%80%9CThere%20is%20a%20tangible%20tension%20between%20what%20is%20held%20in,1

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Summary:

Welcome to the opener for season 3! In this episode, I welcome Dr. Elizabeth Shaffer, a critical archives scholar and Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Information. Elizabeth joins us to speak about her research on the intersections of Black memory production and technology.

Episode Resources:

Association of Canadian Archivists. “Archives Spotlight Melissa J. Nelson: Black Memory Collective.” https://archivists.ca/Blog/13316265  

Dr. Cheryl Thompson. MOBA: Artists and Archivists in Dialogue. Toronto. September 21-22, 2023. https://drive.google.com/file/d/176y5F7mX6PIFbK-EXS-fP5b4fTQqJaNX/view?usp=sharing 

Transformative Memory Digital Archive. https://omeka.irshdc.ubc.ca/s/Transformative-Memory/page/welcome 

Melissa J. Nelson. “Reclaiming the Narrative: Black Archives at the Archives of Ontario.” Niagara Falls Museums. February 8, 2024. https://youtu.be/TDmrmDgaE68?si=pCt6pBEHzB-zUfhn 

Christina Sharpe. “In the Wake: On Blackness and Being.” Duke University Press. 2016. https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-wake 

Katherine McKittrick. “Dear Science and Other Stories.” Duke University Press. 2021. https://www.dukeupress.edu/dear-science-and-other-stories 

Tonia Sutherland. “Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife.” University of California Press. 2023. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520383876/resurrecting-the-black-body 

Ehiko Odeh. Golden Beauty Supply. 2024. https://designto.org/event/golden-beauty-supply/ [video: https://www.instagram.com/p/C3sinahtTDr/]

Ehiko Odeh. Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow. 2024. https://www.rhpl.ca/hair-today-gone-tomorrow-exhibit [video: https://www.instagram.com/p/C22JkX_Lg_q/]

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