Women in the Archives Conference Program
Friday, April 15
Sessions will be held in the Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall
9:30-10:00 Registration and breakfast
10:00-11:00 Keynote lecture: “Teaching the New American Renaissance and Margaret Fuller”
Laurie Crumpacker, Simmons College
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 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
12:30-2:00 Lunch on our own
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”
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:00 Pecha-Kucha session (Chair: John Melson, Brown University)
- John Melson, Brown University
- Michelle Carriger, Brown University
- Heather Dean, Yale University
5:00 Reception
Saturday, April 16
9:00-9:30 Breakfast
9:30-11:00 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?”
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 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”
