Memory Work as Care Work: Black Archives and Archival Practices

Name: Memory Work as Care Work: Black Archives and Archival Practices
Start: 2022-04-12T22:00:00+00:00
End: 2022-04-12T23:30:00+00:00
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April 12, 2022 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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New York

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Add To Calendar 2022-04-12 22:00 2022-04-12 23:30 UTC Memory Work as Care Work: Black Archives and Archival Practices Explore the ways Black archives and archival practices testify to the complexity of Black life and how it is documented and remembered Zoom @ New York Bard Graduate Center gallery.desk@bgc.bard.edu
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Memory Work as Care Work: Black Archives and Archival Practices
Tuesday, April 12 at 6 pm

Memory Work as Care Work explores the ways Black archives and archival practices During this conversation Zakiya Collier, a Brooklyn-based Black, queer archivist and memory worker; Steven G. Fullwood, archivist, writer and co-founder of the Nomadic Archivists Project; and Amy Sall, founder and editor-in-chief of SUNU: Journal of African Affairs, Critical Thought + Aesthetics (SUNU Journal) will discuss memory work as a practice that goes beyond archival labor.

Image courtesy of the Sall Collection.
Left: Takoradi, Ghana; 5 Jan 1961
Right: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; 3 Jan 1986

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Tue, Apr 12, 2022 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

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Bard Graduate Center

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