Women in the Archives 2011: Organizing Knowledge

On April 15-16, 2011 the WWP hosted Women in the Archives, a two-day conference focusing on systems of knowledge representation in relation to archival practices. The event was co-sponsored by the Women Writers Project and the Sarah Doyle Women's Center. This conference is part of the WWP's ongoing conference series.

Keynote lecture

Laurie Crumpacker, Simmons College: “Teaching the New American Renaissance and Margaret Fuller”

Paper session 1 (Chair: Amy Greer, Brown University)

Mary Caldera, Yale University. “The Lesbian in the Archive: A Brief Discussion of History, Themes, and Challenges”

Sherrill Redmon, Smith College. “Seventy Years of Preserving Women's Archives at Smith”

Respondent: Deborah Weinstein, Brown University

2:00-3:30 Paper session 2 (Chair: Jacqueline Wernimont, Scripps College)

Constance Crompton, York University, and Michelle Schwartz, Ryerson University. “What She Said: Women's Contributions to the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives”

Hannah Scialdone-Kimberley, Old Dominion University. “Breaking Annie Out of the Basement: Archival Materials as Systems of Knowledge”

Pecha-Kucha session (Chair: John Melson, Brown University)

John Melson, Brown University

Michelle Carriger, Brown University

Heather Dean, Yale University

Paper session 3 (Chair: John Melson, Brown University)

Tara Rodgers, University of Maryland. “Ephemerality and Resonance: Archives of Women in Electronic Music”

Dorothy Kim, Vassar College. “Networking Women in Early Middle English”

Jacqueline Wernimont, Scripps College. “Are Digital Archives Feminist?”

Paper session 4 (Chair: Julia Flanders, Brown University)

Elizabeth Vincelette, Old Dominion University. “Rendering the Archive”

Angela Todd, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. “Love's Labors Lost: Gender and Discipline in the Archives”

Vivian Wong, UCLA. “Documenting 'Home' in the Diaspora: Memory, Records, and Identities in the Archival Imaginary”

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