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Spring 2023 Symposium<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>
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May 26 at 9:30am-5:00pm
\n<\/i><\/span><\/strong>CHASS Interdisciplinary South 1113 \/ Zoom<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Please join us for the\u00a0Unarchiving Blackness\u00a0Symposium on\u00a0Friday, 5\/26 at 9:30am, the final event in the Mellon Sawyer Seminar at UC Riverside on the creative reconsideration of archives in African & African Diaspora Studies.<\/p>\n

This free event<\/a> is\u00a0IN-PERSON\u00a0at\u00a0INTS 1113, with a Zoom option for the audience.<\/p>\n

Register to attend via Zoom<\/a><\/p>\n

Event Program<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u2af8 <\/span>9:15am\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Welcome from the director of the Center for Ideas & Society, Dylan Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong>\u00a0(Media & Cultural Studies\/Black Study)<\/p>\n

\u2af8 <\/span>9:30am<\/strong> –\u00a0 Restorative History<\/em>, a Keynote by Tsione Wolde-Michael<\/strong>, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Bearing Center.<\/p>\n

Tsione Wolde-Michael is an arts administrator, historian, and curator. She is the founding director of the Center for Restorative History at the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of American History. Her work focuses on redress and restorative justice in museums through innovative approaches to community engagement, collections management, cultural heritage, archival work, and exhibitions. Her international work in Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa, and the United Kingdom has focused on collaborating with local art and public history institutions to reinterpret colonial collections. Her shows include the landmark Slavery and Freedom exhibition at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, where she served as inaugural staff. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Women and Gender Studies from Macalester College and her Master\u2019s in History from Harvard University.<\/p>\n

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\u2af8 <\/span>11:15am<\/strong>\u00a0– \u00a0Roundtable on\u00a0Race, Technology, and Archival Futures<\/em><\/p>\n

Kim Butler\u00a0<\/strong>(Rutgers University)
\nKenton Ramsby\u00a0<\/strong>(University of Texas)
\nRa Malika Imhotep<\/strong>\u00a0(UC Berkeley)<\/p>\n

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\u2af8 <\/span>Lunch\u00a0on campus<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2af8 <\/span>1:45pm<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Emerging Scholarship\u00a0Panel<\/em><\/p>\n

Abdulbasit Kassim<\/strong>\u00a0(Religious Studies, Unarchiving Blackness postdoctoral fellow) on ecologies of knowledge in non-Europhone African archives
\nUtitofon Inyang<\/strong>\u00a0(Comparative Literature, graduate student fellow) on de\/fragmentation in African & Diaspora Art & Literature
\nGrecia\u00a0Perez<\/strong>\u00a0(Anthropology, graduate student fellow) on water as an archive in Indigenous and Afro-Mexican communities of Oaxaca<\/p>\n

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\u2af8 <\/span>3:15pm <\/strong>– \u00a0Reflections from the Seminar Faculty<\/em><\/p>\n

Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi\u00a0<\/strong>(UCR, History)
\nJody Benjamin<\/strong>\u00a0(UCR, History)
\nandr\u00e9 carrington\u00a0<\/strong>(UCR, English)
\nAyana Flewellen\u00a0<\/strong>(Stanford University, Anthropology)
\nJade Sasser<\/strong>\u00a0(UCR, Gender & Sexuality Studies)<\/p>\n

\u2af8 <\/span>Followed by a closing performance and catered reception<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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The Unarchiving Blackness Sawyer Seminar is funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation and administered through the Center for Ideas and Society. For more information, follow @unrchvngblcknss on Instagram<\/a> and Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":14532,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16140","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16140"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16167,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16140\/revisions\/16167"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}