Category: Archiving Collective Memory

N. C. Christopher Couch (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Religious materials in New England created by John Eliot and his informants are believed to have played a role in extending secular literacy in indigenous languages in Massachusetts and beyond. Printed and manuscript materials are studied as preserved materials in repositories, but they circulated in various spheres…

Carol Chiodo, Michael Lotstein, Monica Ong, Douglas Duhaime (Yale University) How do you build consensus around establishing an institutional archive which seeks to record voices of discord? How might multiple stakeholders strongly disagree, and still work together to record that disagreement?  This presentation outlines the blueprint of a distributed knowledge model used to create the…

Rob Sieczkiewicz, Ryan Ake, Rachel Baer, and Jess Deibert (Susquehanna University) If history is written by the victors, what can students learn from hearing the stories of the other side? When an institution changes its identity to reflect contemporary values, how does a community preserve its discarded traditions? In 2015, Susquehanna University’s Board of Trustees decided…