Indigenous Community Archiving and Collective Memory

Special Collections of UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library presents a conversation on community archiving projects within American Indian communities of Baltimore and Philadelphia. Addressing issues surrounding preservation, shared stewardship, and digitization of physical artifacts and audiovisual materials, this virtual event will underscore the importance of community collaboration and reflect upon ways archival research can contribute to collective memory. Speakers include Jessica Markey Locklear (doctoral student, Emory University), Siobhan Hagan (founding director, Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive), Tiffany Chavis (Consulting Archivist, UMBC), Ashley Minner (Assistant Curator for History and Culture, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian).

Free and open to the public. This program is supported by a Maryland Folklife Network Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.