{"id":7,"date":"2017-12-24T14:23:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T14:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2018-01-30T16:20:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T21:20:54","slug":"readings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/readings\/","title":{"rendered":"Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vRws7T_MFOEZMJ16bI5njpgR45kbM0gvdSDxfK6d4t4fDZ7MGkQh42qG-nOoki4g31Wv3If6q1grlh5\/pub?embedded=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Download the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2017\/12\/Into-the-Archive-Syllabus-JanPlan2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Syllabus<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 1 \u2013 Archival Thinking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Monday, January 8, 2018:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Welcome and Introductions<\/p>\n<p>What is an Archive? Guiding Concepts and Questions<\/p>\n<p>Approaches to Primary Source Material<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tuesday, January 9, 2018: Power in the Archive<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Michel-Rolph <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2017\/12\/Trouillot-Preface-and-Ch-1.pdf\">Trouillot<\/a>, <em>Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History,<\/em>\u00a0Preface and Ch. 1, pp. xvii-xix, 1-30.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2017\/12\/Trouillot-Footnotes.pdf\">Trouillot Footnotes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joan Schwartz and Terry Cook, \u201cArchives, Records, and Power: The Making of Modern Memory,\u201d <em>Archival Science<\/em> 2, no. 1 (2002): 1-19.<\/p>\n<p>Francis Blouin and William Rosenberg, <em>Processing the Past: Contesting Authority in History and the Archives<\/em>, Introduction: \u201cOn the Intersections of Archives and History,\u201d pp. 3-10 (ebook).<\/p>\n<p>In-class exercise: Bring a source from your own personal archive to discuss<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wednesday, January 10, 2018: Silences and Omissions<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2017\/12\/Trouillot-Ch-3.pdf\">Trouillot<\/a>, <em>Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History,<\/em> Ch. 3, pp.70-107.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2017\/12\/Trouillot-Footnotes.pdf\">Trouillot Footnotes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Scott, &#8220;The Provincial Archive as a Place of Memory: The Role of Former Slaves in the Cuban War of Independence (1895-98),&#8221;\u00a0<em>History Workshop Journal<\/em>, no. 58 (2004): 149-66.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2018\/01\/Thomas-Ch-1-Enforced-Silences.pdf\">Thomas<\/a>, Fowler and Johnson, <em>The Silence of the Archive<\/em>, Ch. 1, pp. 1-34.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Thursday, January 11, 2018: Institutional Archives and Contestation<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Visit to the Colby College Archives \u2013 Miller Library, First Floor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earl <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2017\/12\/Smith-Mayflower-Hill-A-History-of-Colby-College-pp.-167-199.pdf\">Smith<\/a>, <em>Mayflower Hill: A History of Colby College<\/em>, pp. 167-199.<\/p>\n<p>Jarrett <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/on-archivy\/documenting-dissent-liberal-arts-e1c69e574ff8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drake<\/a>, \u201cDocumenting Dissent in the Contemporary College Archive,\u201d <em>On Archivy,\u00a0<\/em>November 7, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Chase <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.princeton.edu\/mudd\/2016\/03\/an-update-on-archiving-student-activism-at-princeton-asap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hommeyer<\/a>, \u201cAn Update on Archiving Student Activism at Princeton,\u201d <em>Mudd Manuscript Library Blog,<\/em> March 25, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Brian <a href=\"https:\/\/academicarchivist.wordpress.com\/2017\/11\/13\/documenting-student-activities-and-activism-on-campus-bringing-activist-alumni-into-the-fold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whitledge<\/a>, \u201cDocumenting Student Activities and Activism on Campus: Bringing Activist Alumni into the Fold,\u201d <em>Academic Archivist,<\/em> November 13, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Due: Friday, January 12 by 5:00pm via email: Source Analysis #1<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 2 \u2013 Archival Logics and Historical Memory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Monday, January 15, 2018: National and Colonial Logics in the Archive<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Blouin and Rosenberg, <em>Processing the Past: Contesting Authority in History and the Archives<\/em>, Ch. 1, pp. 13-31 (ebook).<\/p>\n<p>Kathryn Burns, <em>Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru, <\/em>Introduction, pp. 1-19 (ebook).<\/p>\n<p>Ann\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2017\/12\/Stoler2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoler<\/a>, <em>Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense,<\/em>\u00a0Ch. 2, pp. 17-53 (ebook).<\/p>\n<p>Dharma Ghosh, \u201cNational Narratives and the Politics of Miscegenation: Britain and India,\u201d in Burton, ed., <em>Archive Stories,<\/em> pp. 27-44 (ebook).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tuesday, January 16, 2018: Contesting Authority and Reconstituting Loss<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Blouin and Rosenberg, <em>Processing the Past: Contesting Authority in History and the Archives<\/em>, Ch. 2 and 4, pp. 32-49, 63-93 (ebook).<\/p>\n<p>Eric Ketelaar, \u201cArchival Temples, Archival Prisons: Modes of Power and Production,\u201d\u00a0<em>Archival Science<\/em> 2 (2002): 221-238.<\/p>\n<p>Read a chapter of your choice from Burton, ed., <em>Archive Stories\u00a0<\/em>(ebook).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wednesday, January 17, 2018: Holocaust Testimony and Oral History<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Primo <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2017\/12\/Levi.pdf\">Levi<\/a>, <em>The Drowned and the Saved<\/em>, Preface and Ch. 1, pp. 11-35 (Ch. 8 optional)<\/p>\n<p>Alessandro <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2017\/12\/Portelli.pdf\">Portelli<\/a>, <em>The Order Has Been Carried Out<\/em>, Introduction, pp. 1-20.<\/p>\n<p>Noah <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2017\/12\/Shenker-Introduction.pdf\">Shenker<\/a>, <em>Reframing Holocaust Testimony<\/em>, Introduction, pp. 1-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/opinion\/100000005201010\/116-cameras.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch<\/a>: \u201c116 Cameras,\u201d <em>New York Times Op-Doc with Eva Schloss\u00a0<\/em>(15 min.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Thursday, January 18, 2018: Holocaust Archives and Sites of Memory<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Trip to the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Leave campus at 9:00am and return by mid-afternoon.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2017\/12\/young.pdf\">Young<\/a>, <em>Texture of Memory<\/em>, Introduction and Ch. 11, pp. 1-15, 283-322.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2017\/12\/young-notes.pdf\">Young Footnotes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blouin and Rosenberg, <em>Processing the Past: Contesting Authority in History and the Archives<\/em>, Ch. 6, pp. 97-115 (ebook)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collections.ushmm.org\/search\/catalog\/irn506701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen<\/a>: Oral History Interview with Gerda Haas, a founder of HHRC (1998) (Listen to 0-5:00 and selections of your choice) and look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/collections.ushmm.org\/oh_findingaids\/RG-50.549.02.0025_trs_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transcript<\/a>\u00a0(especially pp. 57-66 &#8211; use search function to explore the interview further)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Due: Friday, January 19 by 5:00pm via email: Source Analysis #2<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 3 \u2013 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Archives of Dictatorship, Questions of Human Rights: <\/strong><strong>Studies from 20<sup>th<\/sup>-Century Latin America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Monday, January 22, 2018: Shifting Archival Logics: From Surveillance to Justice in Guatemala<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Weld, <em>Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala<\/em>, Introduction: \u201cThe Power of Archival Thinking,\u201d Part I and II (ebook)<\/p>\n<p>(OPTIONAL) Elena Danielson, \u201cPrivacy Rights and the Rights of Political Victims: Implications of the German Experience,\u201d <em>The American Archivist<\/em> 67, no. 2 (2004): 176-193.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tuesday, January 23, 2018: Guatemala Police Archives and the Cold War Context<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Weld, <em>Paper Cadavers, <\/em>Part III and IV (ebook)<\/p>\n<p>(OPTIONAL) Barbara <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2017\/12\/Zanchetta.pdf\">Zanchetta<\/a>, \u201cBetween Cold War Imperatives and State Sponsored Terrorism: The United States and \u2018Operation Condor,\u2019 <em>Studies in Conflict and Terrorism<\/em> 39, no. 12 (2016): 1084-1102.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wednesday, January 24, 2018: Archival Imperatives and Human Rights<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Louis Bickford, \u201cThe Archival Imperative: Human Rights and Historical Memory in Latin America\u2019s Southern Cone,\u201d <em>Human Rights Quarterly<\/em> 21, no. 4 (1999): 1097-1122.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Strauss, \u201cTreading the Ground of Contested Memory: Archivists and the Human Rights Movement in Chile,\u201d <em>Archival Science<\/em> 15 (2015): 369-397.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Thursday, January 25, 2018: Stories of a Dirty War<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Verbitsky, <em>Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior. <\/em>(PDF <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2018\/01\/Verbitsky-I-and-II.pdf\">1<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2018\/01\/Verbitsky-III-and-IV.pdf\">2<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Due: Friday, January 26 by 5:00pm via email: Source Analysis #3<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 4 \u2013 Archival Turns<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Monday, January 29, 2018: Archiving Secrets<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Howard <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2017\/12\/Zinn-SAA.pdf\">Zinn<\/a>, \u201cSecrecy, Archives and the Public Interest,\u201d Address to the Society of American Archivists, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Cullather, <em>Secret History: The CIA\u2019s Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954<\/em> (selections &#8211; PDF <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2018\/01\/Cullather.pdf\">1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2018\/01\/Cullather2.pdf\">2<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Kate Doyle, \u201cThe End of Secrecy: U.S. National Security and the Imperative for Openness,\u201d <em>World Policy <\/em>16, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 34-51.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2012-05-15\/kate-doyle-documenting-latin-americas-painful-past\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen<\/a>: PRI Podcast with Kate Doyle: Documenting Latin America&#8217;s Painful Past<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tuesday, January 30, 2018: Politics of Archival Custody<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/intothearchive\/files\/2017\/12\/LILAS-Postcustodial.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LILAS<\/a> Benson Latin American Studies Collection, \u201cIdentifying Post-Custodial Partners in Latin America,\u201d (April 2016): 1-7.<\/p>\n<p>Theresa <a href=\"http:\/\/llilasbensonmagazine.org\/2016\/08\/05\/archiving-human-rights-documentation-the-promise-of-the-post-custodial-approach-in-latin-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polk<\/a>, \u201cArchiving Human Rights Documentation: The Promise of the Post-Custodial Approach in Latin America,\u201d <em>Portal Magazine<\/em> (August 2016).<\/p>\n<p><em>Explore the <a href=\"http:\/\/ladi.lib.utexas.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latin American Digital Initiatives<\/a>\u00a0archive mentioned in the first two articles.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/24\/books\/gabriel-garca-mrquezs-archive-goes-to-university-of-texas.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=Arts&amp;module=RelatedCoverage&amp;region=EndOfArticle&amp;pgtype=article#slideshow\/100000003251290\/100000003251313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schuessler<\/a>, \u201cSouvenirs of a Literary Alchemist,\u201d <em>The<\/em> <em>New York Times<\/em>, November 24, 2014.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.archivists.org\/news\/2015\/saa-response-to-member-request-re-university-of-texas-acquisition-of-garcia-marquez-archiv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Society of American Archivists<\/a> Statement on Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez Archive (December 2014).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.utexas.edu\/press\/releases\/2015\/garciamarquez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Press Release<\/a>, \u201cGarc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez Archive Opens,\u201d The University of Texas at Austin (October 2015).<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/11\/arts\/gabriel-garcia-marquez-archive-online.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schuessler<\/a>, \u201cGabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez\u2019s Archive Available Freely Online,\u201d <em>The<\/em> <em>New York Times<\/em>, December 11, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><em>Explore the <a href=\"https:\/\/hrc.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/p15878coll51\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez Digital Archive.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wednesday, January 31, 2018: Digital Complications<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Roy Rosenzweig, \u201cScarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era,\u201d\u00a0<em>American Historical Review<\/em> 108, no. 3 (June 2003): 728-762.<\/p>\n<p>Lara Putnam, \u201cThe Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast\u201d <em>American Historical Review<\/em> 121, no. 2 (2016): 377-402.<\/p>\n<p><em>Final take home exam will be distributed\u00a0<\/em><em>after class.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Thursday, February 1, 2018: Archiving the Future<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Final exam is due by 12:00pm (submit by email).\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>All JanPlan work is due on February 1, according to Colby policy.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Class will meet as usual. No required reading for today.<\/p>\n<p>OPTIONAL:<br \/>\nBlouin and Rosenberg, <em>Processing the Past<\/em>, Ch. 11, pp. 207-215 (ebook).<br \/>\n\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/loc\/2017\/12\/update-on-the-twitter-archive-at-the-library-of-congress-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Update<\/a> on the Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress,\u201d December, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Download the Syllabus (PDF) &nbsp; Week 1 \u2013 Archival Thinking &nbsp; Monday, January 8, 2018: Welcome and Introductions What is an Archive? 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