Discussing the Archive Series
Announcing an upcoming panel discussion at NYU:
“Embodied Archives”
Wednesday, April 7th, 5:30 pm
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
This event will feature an interdisciplinary conversation about the interplay between conceptions of bodies as “archives” and ideas of archives as institutions and technologies that render bodies intelligible in specific ways, with particular attention to how race, gender, and sexuality are collected, classified, and performed.
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This is the fourth event in a semester-long series:
Discussing the Archive: Ideas, Practices, Institutions
New York University, Spring 2010
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.
Full schedule: http://aphdigital.org/more/discussing-the-archive/
All events are free and open to the public; ID required for entry into campus buildings.
Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html