Please join us for our first meeting!
September 21, 2018, 6 PM
King Juan Carlos I Center (53 Washington Square Park South), Room 701
RSVP here.
Our guests will be Nyssa Chow and Ada Ferrer. Our goal is to try and have a fluid conversation about our archival practices—come with questions, thoughts, or anything else you feel like sharing. This is less a lecture and more a space to comfortably share ideas, an experimental discussion over food and drinks.
Nyssa Chow is a writer, new media storyteller, and educator. She is the current Writer in Residence at Fordham University, and a professor in the Oral History Masters program at Columbia University. She is the 2018 recipient of the PEN/Jean Stein for literary oral history, won for her book project, Still.Life. The project also won the Columbia University Jeffrey H. Brodsky Oral History Award. She is a graduate of the Columbia University’s MFA program, and the Columbia University Oral History Masters Program. Check out some of Chow’s work at tellinghistories.com
Ada Ferrer is the Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean History at NYU. Ferrer is a specialist in the history of Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America, as well as on the comparative and transnational histories of slavery, freedom, and revolution. She is co-curator (with Édouard Duval Carrié) of Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom, a contemporary art exhibition based in part on Chapter 7 of Ferrer’s 2014 book, Freedom’s Mirror, as well as co-curator (with Linda Rodríguez) of the digital humanities website Digital Aponte.