Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Keynote speaker
5-6:30 pm
Dexnell Peters, Lecturer in Caribbean and Atlantic History at the University of the West Indies
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Legacies of Colonial Era Archival and Recordkeeping Practices
9:30 – 11:15 am
Chair: Sparkle Ferreira
Sherwood McCaskie, Department of Library and Information Studies, University of the West Indies:Ship Ahoy: A Case Study in Decolonising Archival Thought
Daniel Rankadi Mosako, Department of Information Science, University of South Africa: Recontextualising historical figures in archival repositories on colonial practices in the acquisition of Historical Objects
Andrew Williams, Department of History and Archaeology, University of the West Indies: Tracing the Lineage of the ‘Deeds Libers’: Colonial origins and modern realities in Jamaican recordkeeping
Henria Aton, Archivist, The Archive of the Jesuits in Canada; François Dansereau, Director of The Archive of the Jesuits in Canada; Kate Nugent, Archivist, Tio’tia:ke/Montreal, QC: Creating Knowledge, Creating Worlds: Archival Description, Land, and Settler Colonial Logics in the Jesuit Collection des archives du College Sainte-Marie
Break: 11:15 am – 11:30 am
Colonizing and Decolonizing Archival Thought
11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Chair: Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski
Sindiso Bhebe, School of Communication and Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Australia: Ideological Locus Standi of the African Archivist
James Lowry, City University of New York: Notes on an Imperial Discourse Network
Patrick McGee, City University of New York: Archival Destruction and the Antinomies of the Enlightenment
Lunch: 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Reckoning with Marginalized Histories
2:00 – 3:45 pm
Chair: Dominique Luster
Mpho Ngoepe, University of South Africa: a historical treatment of strangers and formation of cultural identity of Bakone ba Makgabeng in South Africa
Ayantu Tibeso, School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles: Unveiling Archival Hegemonies: The Struggle for Indigenous Voices in Ethiopian History
Suanmuanlian Tonsing, School of Information, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA: On colonial archival order of evidence and Indigenous oral traditions
Carine Zaayman, Research Centre for Material Culture, Wereldmuseum, The Netherlands: Viva Absence, Viva! Engaging the Potentiality of Absences in Colonial Archives
Break: 3:45 – 4:00 pm
Keynote
5:00-6:00 pm
Jamila Ghaddar, Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Science at Dalhousie University
Friday, November 8, 2024
Creating alternative archival spaces
9:30 – 11:15 am
Chair: Norman Malcolm
Sparkle Ferreira, Department of Library and Information Studies, University of the West Indies: Landmarks Through Time: Calypso as an oral and performance archive
Kelly A. Kolar, Middle Tennessee State University, USA: Bolsheviks as the First Anti-Colonial Archivists: Reshaping the Archival Record in 1920s Soviet Union
Jessica Lapp, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto: Nothing Much Was Lost:Tracing Archival Creation at the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA) Archives
Sandra Stubbs, Department of Library and Information Studies, University of the West Indies: Beyond the Colonial Shadow: Reimagining Caribbean Archival Spaces (physical & virtual) for the Digital Age
Break: 11:15 – 11:30 am
Colonizing and Decolonizing Archival Language and Terminology
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Chair: Daniel Arbino
Fiorella Foscarini, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto: Translation in archival studies: can we do better?
Francis Garaba, Information Studies Department, University of KwaZulu-Natal: The need for archival lexicography in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of the East and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (ESARBICA)
Lunch: 12:30 – 1:15 pm
Epistemic Sovereignty and Post-Custodial Archival Praxis: Digitizing the Lloyd Best Archive in Trinidad and Tobago
1:15 – 2:45 pm
Chair: Sherwood McCaskie
Christina Bleyer, College Librarian, Associate Vice President of Libraries and Digital Learning and Director of Special Collections and Archives, Watkinson Library at Trinity College, USA
Amanda Matava, Digital Archivist and Head of the Digital Asset Management Department at Trinity College, USA
Sariyah Mohammed, digital archivist at the Lloyd Best Institute of the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago.
Break: 2:45 – 3:00 pm
Structures of Colonialism
3:00– 4:30 pm
Chair: Peta-Gaye Richards
Jackson Anderson, University of Manitoba, Canada: The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and Residential School Records
Greg Bak, University of Manitoba, Canada: Good Intentions: The Long-Term Management of the Records of Canada’s Indigenous Residential School System
Jordan Bass, University of Manitoba, Canada: Last-Mile Reconciliation: The Digital Divide and its Impact on Archival Engagement with First Nations Communities
