Teaching Undergraduates with Archives Symposium
University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library
November 7-9, 2018
Note that a 2019 publication/semi-proceedings came out of this symposium, freely available online: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11499242
This is just a preliminary, high-level, and unauthorized copy of the event’s program.
You should definitely visit the symposium website for the full picture.
(That’s a Dec 5, 2018 capture of the symposium website on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.)
Copyright © 2018 Bentley Historical Library
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
Registration
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
GERALD R. FORD PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, LOBBY
Welcome
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Auditorium
Speaker: Nancy Bartlett (University of Michigan)
Session 1
1:15 PM – 2:30 PM
Defining New Roles in Instruction and Outreach
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Auditorium
Moderator: Nancy Bartlett (University of Michigan)
More than Managing a Calendar: Reflections and Research on the Role of an Outreach Archivist
Cinda Nofziger (University of Michigan)
From the Outside Looking In: An Early Career Librarian Builds, and Then Brings a Seat to the Table
Ashleigh D. Coren (University of Maryland)
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Starting and Running an Archives-Centered Faculty Teaching Fellows Program
Jill Severn (University of Georgia)
Break
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM
Session 2
2:45 PM – 4:15 PM
Sensitivity and Silences in the Archives
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Auditorium
Moderator: Maria Cotera (University of Michigan)
Building Rhetorical and Archival Literacy through “Difficult Collections”: A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
Morna Gerrard (Georgia State University)
Jessica Alcorn Rose (Georgia State University)
Atrocity in the Archives: Collaborative Partnership between University of Texas at San Antonio Special Collections and Philosophy and Ethics Course
Agnieszka Czeblakow (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Session 3
2:45 PM – 4:15 PM
Workshop—New Instructional Ideas for Archives
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Classroom
Moderator: Kim Schroeder (Wayne State University)
Learning from Our Differences: Archival Instruction at the Reuther Library
Kristen Chinery (Wayne State University)
Meghan Courtney (Wayne State University)
Beyond the Document Analysis: Your New Instructional Playground!
Kristine Greive (University of Michigan)
Kate Hutchens (University of Michigan)
Juli McLoone (University of Michigan)
Archivists Are Creators Too! Finding Aid Exercises to Understand the Description-Object Relationship
Tal Nadan (New York Public Library)
Break
4:15 PM – 4:30 PM
Session 4
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Plenary—Engaging in Inquiry and Investigation with Sources: Lessons from Education Research
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Auditorium
Moderator: Terrence J. McDonald (University of Michigan)
Engaging in Inquiry and Investigation with Sources: Lessons from Education Research
Chauncey Monte-Sano (University of Michigan)
Reception
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Bentley Historical Library
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
Breakfast
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Assembly Hall
Welcoming Remarks
8:30 AM – 8:40 AM
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Amphitheatre
Speaker: Angela D. Dillard (University of Michigan)
Session 5
8:40 AM – 10:00 AM
Using Archives to Document and Inspire Activism
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Amphitheatre
Moderator: Emily Swenson (University of Michigan)
“Give Earth a Chance”: History and Environmental Activism in the Archives
Meghan Clark (University of Michigan)
Matthew Lassiter (University of Michigan)
Hannah Thoms (University of Michigan)
Documenting Protests in the Archive: Pedagogical Uses of the Los Angeles Women’s March Collection at the University of Southern California
Katherine Kapsidelis (University of Southern California)
Campus Revolution: Engaging in Critical Information Literacy through the Examination of Race, Gender, and Free Speech during the 1960s
Holly Luetkenhaus (Oklahoma State University)
David Peters (Oklahoma State University)
Matt Upson (Oklahoma State University)
Session 6
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Assessing Student Learning
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Amphitheatre
Moderator: Patricia Garcia (University of Michigan)
Applying Golinkoff and Hirsh-Pasek’s Science of Learning to Undergraduate Primary Source Instruction and Assessment
Jaime Marie Burton (University of Kentucky)
Matthew Strandmark (University of Kentucky)
Beyond Primary Sources: A Pedagogical Approach to Building at a Teaching and Learning Program in Special Collections
Julie M. Porterfield (Penn State University)
Kate Dion Town (Penn State University)
Break
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Session 7
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM
Faculty Perspectives on Primary Source Collaboration
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Amphitheatre
Moderator: Cinda Nofziger (University of Michigan)
Faculty Perspectives on Teaching Undergraduates with Primary Sources
Sean Noel (Simmons University)
The Bentley Story: Archivists, Faculty and Primary Sources
Kristin Hass (University of Michigan)
Susan Juster (University of Michigan)
Stephen Ward (University of Michigan)
Session 8
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM
Archivists and Librarians Teaching Together
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, West Conference Room
Moderator: Maura Seale (University of Michigan)
Teaching towards the Whole: Integrating Archives and Secondary Sources through Collaborative Instructional Design Practices
Elizabeth Call (University of Rochester)
Kimberly Hoffman (University of Rochester)
Kristen Totleben (University of Rochester)
Archivists and Librarians: Co-Teaching Connections with Primary Sources
Laura Hibbler (Brandeis University)
Chloe Morse-Harding (Brandeis University)
Session 9
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM
Initiatives and Innovations in Teaching
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, East Conference Room
Moderator: Max Eckard (University of Michigan)
Putting SAA’s Workshop “Teaching with Primary Sources: How to Design for Active Learning” into Practice
Christine Cheng (University of California, Davis)
If We Build It, They Will Come: Designing Undergraduate Archival Projects from Existing Syllabi
Lizette R. Barton (Cummings Center for the History of Psychology)
Jodi Kearns (Cummings Center for the History of Psychology)
Like Tango and Cash: Successful Partnerships to Increase Special Collections Instruction
Jennifer Brannock (University of Southern Mississippi)
Lunch
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Assembly Hall
Session 10
1:30 PM – 4:15 PM
Workshop—Active Learning with Primary Sources: The Dartmouth Method (LALI-ASC) *Please register in advance.
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, East Conference Room
Moderator: Sarah McLusky (University of Michigan)
Active Learning with Primary Sources: The Dartmouth Method (LALI-ASC)
Peter Carini (Dartmouth College)
Morgan Swan (Dartmouth College)
Session 11
1:30 PM – 2:45 PM
Student Collaborations: Focusing on the Local
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Amphitheatre
Moderator: Liz Gadelha (University of Michigan)
Lasting Synergies: Engaging Students with the Ann Arbor Film Festival Archives at the Bentley Historical Library
Terri Sarris (University of Michigan)
Journeys in the Archives: Collaborative Knowledge Production at Wilmington College
Bryn Kelley (Wilmington College)
Tanya Maus (Wilmington College)
Mikaela Prescott (Wilmington College)
Teaching In Tandem with the Archives—A Sustained Source
Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo (University of Michigan)
Session 12
1:30 PM – 2:45 PM
Students as Creators and Collaborators
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, West Conference Room
Moderator: Daniel J. Linke (Princeton University)
Researching the Black Experience at Yale
Shelby Daniels-Young (University of Michigan)
Camila Tessler (Yale University)
Christine Weideman (Yale University)
Mentoring Undergraduates through Archival and Special Collections Research Fellowships: Houghton Library’s Undergraduate Fellowship Program
Emilie Hardman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Constructing the Digital Archive through Student-Faculty Collaboration
Naomi J. Stubbs (LaGuardia Community College, CUNY)
Break
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Session 13
3:00 PM – 4:15 PM
Participatory Session—Ethically Teaching Histories of Violence, Racism, and Oppression in Special Collections Classrooms
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Amphitheatre
Moderator: Gary Krenz (University of Michigan)
Ethically Teaching Histories of Violence, Racism, and Oppression in Special Collections Classrooms
Andi Gustavson (Harry Ransom Center)
Rhae Lynn Barnes (Princeton University)
Lae’l Hughes-Watkins (Kent State University)
Analú López (Newberry Library)
Elizabeth Smith-Pryor (Kent State University)
Session 14
3:00 PM – 4:15 PM
Course Applications and Outcomes Across Disciplines
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, West Conference Room
Moderator: Terri Sarris (University of Michigan)
Cooking the Archives
Daniel Silliman (Valparaiso University)
Teaching Studio Art and Art History Students with Archives
Aliza Elkin (San José State University)
Studying Urban Renewal through Archival Sources
Ella Howard (Wentworth Institute of Technology)
Speaking of Africatown: A Case Study in Art, Conversation, and Community
Deborah Gurt (University of South Alabama)
4:15 PM – 4:30 PM
Break
Session 15
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Plenary—Actualizing the Pedagogical Promise of Teaching and Learning with Primary Sources
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Amphitheatre
Moderator: Elizabeth Yakel (University of Michigan)
Actualizing the Pedagogical Promise of Teaching and Learning with Primary Sources
Patricia Garcia (University of Michigan)
Dinner
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
University of Michigan Museum of Art
NOVEMBER 9, 2018
Breakfast
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Assembly Hall
Session 16
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Workshop—Introducing Historical Thinking Through the Archives
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, East Conference Room
Moderator: Susan Juster (University of Michigan)
Introducing Historical Thinking Through the Archives
Caroline Boswell (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay)
Jonathan Hagel (University of Kansas)
Session 17
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Participatory Session—Where Do We Go from Here? Constructing a Community of Archives Educators
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, West Conference Room
Moderator: Martha O’Hara Conway (University of Michigan)
Where Do We Go from Here? Constructing a Community of Archives Educators
Anne Bahde (Oregon State University)
Matt Herbison (Drexel University)
Robin M. Katz (University of California, Riverside)
Heather Smedberg (University of California, San Diego)
Marissa Vassari (Rockefeller Archive Center)
Session 18
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Opportunities and Successes in Student Learning
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Amphitheatre
Moderator: Matthew Lassiter (University of Michigan)
Teaching with Diverse Collections: A Case Study of the Native American Women Playwrights Archive at Miami University
Lance Ingwersen (Denison University)
William Modrow (Miami University)
Students as Documentary Editors: Using the Seward Family Papers in the Classroom
Lauren Davis (University of Rochester)
Michelle Furlano (University of Rochester)
Archive As Disciplinary Disruptor: Rethinking Pedagogy in a Literary Studies Class
Rebecca Wingfield (Stanford University)
Break
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM
Session 19
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM
Digital Tools and Primary Sources
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, East Conference Room
Moderator: Justin Joque (University of Michigan)
Discovering and Visualizing the Invisible: Identifying African American Students at the University of Michigan, 1853-1970
Brian A. Williams (University of Michigan)
“Decoding” with Encoding: Digital Tools in the Special Collections Classroom
Rachel C. S. Duke (Florida State University)
Sarah Stanley (Florida State University)
Integrating Digital Humanities into Primary Source Literacy Instruction
Marcus C. Robyns (Northern Michigan University)
Session 20
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM
Workshop—Slippery Slopes & Ethical Nopes: Historical Empathy as a Framework for Inquiry
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, West Conference Room
Moderator: Olga Virakhovskaya (University of Michigan)
Slippery Slopes & Ethical Nopes: Historical Empathy as a Framework for Inquiry
Elliott Earle (Drexel University)
Session 21
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM
Growth and Sustainability for Instruction Programs
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Amphitheatre
Moderator: Robin M. Katz (University of California, Riverside)
Oh, It’s You Again: Growing Archives Instruction through Sustainable Relationships
Joshua Youngblood (University of Arkansas)
Reclaiming My Time: Scaling Back and Scaling Up to Sustain Special Collections Instruction
Shira Loev Eller (George Washington University)
Leah Richardson (George Washington University)
Student Success: Rediscovering the Purpose of the East Texas Research Center
Kyle Ainsworth (Stephen F. Austin State University)
Linda Reynolds (Stephen F. Austin State University)
Lunch
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Assembly Hall
Session 22
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Plenary—The Archive as History Lab: The Princeton & Slavery Project
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Amphitheatre
Moderator: Terrence J. McDonald (University of Michigan)
The Archive as History Lab: The Princeton & Slavery Project
Martha A. Sandweiss (Princeton University)
Daniel J. Linke (Princeton University)
Closing Remarks
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Amphitheatre
Speaker: Terrence J. McDonald (University of Michigan)
Contact Email: teachingwitharchives@umich.edu
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