Program

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.