Author: masara
Adrián Pérez-Melgosa (Stony Brook University)
What would a map look like if it aimed at empowering the territory it represents and its people? How can a cartographic gesture allow its referent to speak on its own terms? How can we map Long Island... Read More
Judith Revel, Université Paris Nanterre
Pendant longtemps, mon rapport aux archives, s’il ne s’est pas limité à étudier des fonds d’auteurs – fonds passionnants, mais qui posent des problèmes méthodologiques différents de ceux... Read More
Alex Gil (Columbia University)
We are living through the planetary construction of a hybrid cultural and historical record: parts analog, parts digital. Even our books are now born-digital, usually in Microsoft Word, before they ev... Read More
Annick Louis (Université de Reims, EHESS Paris): “Archival Truth and Disciplinary Borders: for an Epistemological Redefinition of the Literary Studies Summary”
For the last two decades, archives have been present on fictional and non-fictional literature as well as in the literary discipline, a phenomenon that leads us to interrogate their epistemological in... Read More
Alvaro Santana Acuña (Withman College):“The Making of García Márquez as a Global Writer: The View from His Personal Archives”
This paper will analyze the professional trajectory of García Márquez through the information provided by his personal archives. The Harry Ransom Center acquired the archives in 2015. This presentat... Read More
Benjamin Tausig (Stony Brook University): “Anonymity and the Archive: The Quiet Death of Maurice Rocco in Bangkok”
“American jazz pianist Maurice Rocco, a major concert performer and minor film star of the 1940s, began fading from fame in the 1950s, while still only in his 30s. By 1960, he had moved to Thail... Read More
Mona Gérardin-Laverge (Université Paris-Lumières): “Collecting polyphonic archives: a feminist oral history project”
In that paper, I present my postdoctoral research on archives and gender. An important part of my project consists in collecting interviews with feminist activists to produce oral archives and online ... Read More
Jesús R. Velasco (Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, Law Studies, Columbia. University / Yale University): “Post-it”
It happened here. Democracy was upended, and started walking as a ghost-name, rather than a political model of government, on November of 2016. We know how the machinery of misinformation, foreign int... Read More