Sponsored by: California Rare Book School

Moderators: Jocelyn Karlan, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies

Archives, Action, AIDS: Archival Collaborations with Visual AIDS
This paper examines a series of archival collaborations between activists, artists, and archivists with Visual AIDS, a community-based arts organization committed to raising AIDS awareness by producing and presenting visual art projects…
Speaker: Marika Cifor, Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Archives Power to the People: Documenting Police Violence in Cleveland
This presentation will trace the origins of A People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland and situate the archive within the context of contemporary U.S. freedom movements opposing state violence…
Speaker: Melissa Hubbard, Case Western Reserve

Diasporic Interventions: Human Rights, Civil War and the Archives of El Rescate
This paper focuses on the human rights archives of El Rescate, a community based organization in Los Angeles. Founded by refugees from the Salvadoran civil war in 1981…
Speaker: Mario H. Ramirez, Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles