Friday October 4. Humanities Institute. (Humanities Building, room 1008)
10:30am: Coffee and pastries.
11:00am: Welcome remarks.
Session 1: Affects, Politics and the Archive
Moderator: Aurélie Vialette (Stony Brook University)
11:20am-12:00pm: Judith Revel (Université Paris Nanterre: “Affects, Archives and Truth: from Pierre Rivière to Frans Carl Valck and Back.”
Respondents: Ann Stoler (The New School for Social Research) and Robert Harvey (Stony Brook University)
12:00-12:20pm: Discussion
12:20-12:40pm: Jesús R. Velasco (Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, Law Studies, Columbia. University / Yale University): “Post-it”
Respondent: Sara Martínez (Stony Brook University)
12:40-1pm: discussion
1-2:30pm: Lunch
Session 2: Voices and Silences in the Archives.
Moderator: Isabel Murcia Estrada
2:30-3pm: Benjamin Tausig (Stony Brook University): “Anonymity and the Archive: The Quiet Death of Maurice Rocco in Bangkok”
Respondent: Matías Hermosilla (Stony Brook University)
3-3:30pm: Mona Gérardin-Laverge (Université Paris-Lumières): “Collecting polyphonic archives: a feminist oral history project.”
Respondent: Joseph Pierce (Stony Brook University)
3:30-3:50pm: discussion
3:50-4:20pm: Coffee break
Session 3: Family Archives
Moderator: Paul Firbas (Stony Brook University)
4:20-4:50pm: Claudio Lomnitz (History, Anthropology, Columbia University): “Everything that is Human is Ours: Subjective Process and Collective Identity.”
Respondent: Ximena López Carrillo (Stony Brook University)
Saturday October 5. Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library. Special Room Collection, 2320.
10h30am: Coffee and pastries.
Session 4: Digital Humanities Archives
Moderator: Sara Martínez (Stony Brook University)
11:00-11:30am: Alex Gil (Digital Humanities, Columbia University): “Black Victory in the Speculative Archive: A Reconstruction of the Typescript of “…..et les chiens se taisaient” by Aimé Césaire.”
Respondent: Daniel Menzo (Stony Brook University)
11:30am-12pm: Adrián Pérez-Melgosa (Hispanic Languages and Literature, Stony Brook University): “The Map of Latino Long Island: Documenting an Identity of the Future.”
Respondent: Lori Flores (Stony Brook University)
12-12:20pm: Discussion
12:20-2pm Lunch.
Session5: Literature, autobiographies and Archival Truths
Moderator: Ignacio Arellano (Stony Brook University)
2-2:30pm: Laetitia Blanchard-Rubio (History, Université de Paris IV – Sorbonne): “Julia Pabon’s “Autobiographical Notebook”. Composition, Transmission and Posterity of a Private Archive”
Respondent: Isabel Murcia Estrada (Stony Brook University)
2:30-3pm: Alvaro Santana Acuña (Withman College): “The Making of García Márquez as a Global Writer: The View from His Personal Archives”
Respondent: Martha Chavez Negrete (Stony Brook University)
3-3:30pm: Marie-Jeanne Zenetti (Literature, Université de Lyon 2): “Gender, authority and authorship: how literary inquiry troubles archival truth”.
Respondent: Régulo Silva (Stony Brook University)
3:30-3:50pm: Discussion
3:50-4:20pm: Pause
Closing session: On Archival Truths
Moderator: Aurélie Vialette (Stony Brook University)
4:20-4:40pm: Annick Louis (Université de Reims, EHESS Paris): “Archival Truth and Disciplinary Borders: for an Epistemological Redefinition of the Literary Studies Summary”
Respondent: Evelyn Cruise (Stony Brook University)
4h40-5h: Discussion
6h: Reception-Dinner in the Humanities Building, Room 2036.