Archival Interventions: Tracing Knowledge, Power, and Memory through the Archives

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This course will examine the ways that power, knowledge, and memory are instantiated through a variety of record keeping practices. Through an exploration of analog and digital storage media, the institutions in which they reside, and an engagement with social justice approaches, feminist theory and queer theory, this course will seek to answer the questions: how are categories formed and what are the social ramifications of these choices? How do records enter certain institutions? Who is represented, in what ways, and who is excluded? This course will include guest lectures and field trips to local archives and libraries.