Processing 2020/21: Community Reflections

Processing 2020/21: Community Reflections

Timely, online programming presented by the ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ Library’s Special Collections and Archives in Collaboration with Queens Memory.

Scroll down to view the live stream recordings of each event. 

Art and Archives: Creativity During COVID-19

Tuesday November 16 from 4:00pm-5:30pm

How do art and archives intersect? In this roundtable discussion, participants will discuss creative projects undertaken during COVID-19, and their connections to primary sources and archival repositories. Livestreamed on .

Chair: Annie Tummino, Assistant Professor, Head of Special Collections and Archives, ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ

Panelists:

  • Edisa Weeks, Director of DELIRIOUS Dances and Acting Chair of the ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ Department of Drama, Theatre & Dance;
  • Members of the What Will the Neighbors Say? Investigative Theatre Company, Artists-In-Residence at ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ;
  • Joyce LeeAnn, Certified Archivist, Interdisciplinary Artist, and founder of Archival Alchemy®.

Co-sponsored by the Kupferberg Center for the Arts, the ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ Department of Drama, Theater, and Dance, and Social Practice CUNY.

 

Surviving & Thriving: Black and Latinx Faculty, Staff, and Students on Campus

Tuesday, October 19th from 4:00pm-5:30pm

What does it take for Black and Latinx faculty, staff, and students to not only survive but thrive in higher education? Join us for a roundtable discussion and presentation of oral history clips from the archives. Livestreamed on 

Co-sponsored by the ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ SEEK Program and Black Latinx Faculty Staff Association. 

Chair: Obden Mondesir, Associate Director, Barnard Archives and Adjunct Instructor in the ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ Graduate School of Library and Information Studies.

Panelists:

  • Norka Blackman-Richards, Director of the ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ Percy E. Sutton SEEK Program;
  • Marco Navarro, Lecturer in English and Director of The Writing Center, ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ;
  • Nathaniel Smith, Director of NYC Men Teach at The City University of New York, ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ.
  • Jessica Alejandro, ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ Graduate student majoring in Special Education 1-6

Documenting a Pandemic: What We’ve Learned

Tuesday, October 5th from 4:00pm-5:30pm

Members of the Queens Memory Project will discuss lessons from the COVID-19 Project, and how they worked together as a team to incorporate the diverse voices of our borough and campus into the archives during this momentous period in history. Livestreamed on .

Chair: Annie Tummino, Assistant Professor, Head of Special Collections and Archives, ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ

Panelists:

  • Meral Agish, Queens Memory Community Coordinator;
  • Obden Mondesir, Associate Director of the Barnard Archives and Adjunct Instructor, ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ Graduate School of Library and Information Studies;
  • Dacia Metes, Queens Public Library Digital Archives Manager;
  • Jo-Ann Wong, Librarian, Queens Public Library, Hunters Point.