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Here's the general announcement:
Proudly Announces
GLBT ALMS Conference 2008
Archives, Libraries, Museums, & Special Collections
CLAGS, CUNY Graduate Center Concourse Level, 365 Fifth Ave, @ 34th St., Manhattan
$10 per event, free with CUNY ID
Complete program & registration information: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/clags/glbtalms/
selected highlights (including our program--how sweet!):
Thursday May 8 |
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| 7.30 - 9.30 p | Drag Show Video Vérité |
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| An archive-based video documentary essay that captures 35 plus years of the changing faces, places and fashions of male and female impersonation in New York City. From Rollerena to RuPaul, Jackie Curtis to Jackie Beat, the rare clips of over 60 some performers gathered here make Drag Show Video Vérité the ultimate New York City drag show… on videotape. |
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| Joe E. Jeffreys, drag performance historian/archivist |
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| Friday May 9 |
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| 9.15 a | Conference Introduction & Tribute |
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| 9.30a - 10.45a | Keeping Current: China's LGBT Information Networks |
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| The Aibai Library/Archive is modest in size, but in China where GLBT information is hard to come by and misinformation is plentiful, it has served to combat prejudice. Combining acquisition, translation, and the creation of original material, Beijing's Aibai Library/Archive serves GLBT activists and scholars interested in GLBT issues. |
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| Bing Lan, LGBT Archive Founder, Aibai Culture & Education Center, Beijing |
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| Damien Lu, ICCGL President, Aibai Culture & Education Center, Beijing |
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| 11a – 12.15p | Building Queer Communities, Building Queer Websites: CLAGS New Digital Resources |
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| The International Resource Network (IRN) is a dynamic international website that links teachers and researchers sharing knowledge about sexuality. OutHistory.org, is a wiki-style site on U.S. LGBTQ history from pre-colonial times to the present. |
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| Jonathan Ned Katz, OutHistory.org |
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| Sarah E. Chinn, CLAGS |
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| Lynley Wheaton, CLAGS OutHistory.org |
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| Nomvuyo Nolutshungu, CLAGS/IRN |
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| 11a – 12:15p | Film+talk Nitrate Kisses Experimental cinema pioneer Barbara Hammer explores footage from the first gay film made in the U.S., Lot in Sodom (1933) and from 1930s German documentaries interwoven with recent images of desire in this erotic and haunting documentary. |
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| Barbara Hammer, filmmaker |
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| 1.30 - 2.45 p | Memory in Action: Documenting Same-sex Experience in an African Context |
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| Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action's heritage project combines archival records with story-telling to produce film, exhibitions, comics, books, tours, and theater to educate the public about same-sex and transgender experience in South Africa since pre-colonial times. Presenters discuss glbt public education activism in South Africa and the region. |
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| Busi Kheswa, Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action, Johannesburg |
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| Anthony Manion, Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action, Johannesburg |
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| 3 – 4.15p | Reclamation: The Politics of Collecting Black Queer Culture |
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| Preservers of black same-gender-loving histories discuss the development of the Black Gay and Lesbian Archives project (BGLA); its potential impact on the black, LGBTQ and general research communities; and the challenges of saving endangered and under-documented cultures. |
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| Steven G. Fullwood, Schomburg Center/Black Gay & Lesbian Archive, moderator |
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| Lisa C. Moore, Redbone Press |
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| Kevin McGruder, CUNY Graduate Center PhD candidate |
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| 4.30 - 5.45 p | Queer Material Culture |
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| Representatives from the Museum of Sex, Boston's The History Project, The Velvet Foundation, and an archivist of AIDS graphics discuss the challenges of collecting and exhibiting queer stuff. |
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| Sarah Jacobs, Museum of Sex |
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| Aaron Stempien, printmaker/archivist, moderator |
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| Pat Gozemba, The History Project Boston |
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| Timothy Scofield, The Velvet Foundation |
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| 4.30 – 5.45p | Film+talk Cobbling Together a History of HIV Prevention |
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| AIDS video activist Carlomusto (GMHC, ACTUP) explores the use of queer video archives in constructing a history of safer sex and HIV prevention. |
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| Jean Carlomusto, filmmaker |
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| 8.00 - 9.30 p | The 82 Club: A Multi-media Talk CUNY Graduate Center Elebash Auditorium |
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| With photos, film, and audio clips, Jeffreys explores the colorful history and archeology of the 82 Club, a Village nightclub that offered lavish drag shows from the 1950s-1970s before becoming a rock & roll club and later-day cruising ground. |
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| Joe E. Jeffreys, drag performance historian/archivist |
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| Saturday May 10 |
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| 10.15 – 11.30a | Community-Based Archives: What Now? |
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| Community-based archives continue to serve an important role within the LGBT communities. What are the challenges and contributions community-based archives face? |
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| Deb Edel, Lesbian Herstory Archives |
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| Rich Wandel, National Archive of LGBT History, moderator |
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| Mark Meinke, Rainbow History Project |
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| 11.45 - 1p | Archival Knowledges: Practical, Political, and Theoretical Observations on Making Queer History |
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| Stryker features the institutional history ofSan Francisco's GLBT Historical Society to explore sexual/gender identity politics since the 1980s, with attention to recent theoretical concerns with "the archive." |
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| Susan Stryker, GLBT Historical Society San Francisco/Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University |
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| 2.15 - 3.30 p | (un)intentional community: queer zines in an institutional context |
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| Expert zinesters consider queer zines in different kinds of collections. |
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| Laura Wynholds, University of Wisconsin Madison MLIS candidate/Queer Zine Archive Project |
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| Christopher Wilde, Queer Zine Archive Project |
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| Kelly Shortandqueer, Denver Zine Library |
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| Jenna Freedman, Barnard College Library |
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| 2.15 – 3.30 | Film+talk Re-Archive: instituting an imaginary |
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| Unidentified Vietnam No. 18 In 1975, after the fall of Saigon, the Library of Congress acquired over 1000 documents from the South Vietnam Embassy. Lin+Lam spent six years negotiating these materials to produce a 16mm film and mixed media installation. Filmmakers discuss their process, the role of the archive in modern history, and the impact the Archive has on researchers. |
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| Lin+Lam, filmmakers |
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| 3.45 - 5p | Oral History How To |
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| A practicum in developing oral history projects, both local and national. |
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| Kelly Anderson, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, moderator |
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| Donna Braquet, University of Tennessee Libraries |
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| Roger Weaver, University of Tennessee Libraries |
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| Heather Mitchell, Ohio State University |
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| 3.45 – 5p | Sex in the Archive |
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| Porn in public archives poses challenges, even outside the USA. |
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| Jack van der Wel, IHLIA-Homodok, Amsterdam |
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| Marcel Barriault, Library & Archives Canada, Ottawa |
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| 3.45 - 5p | Film+talk Art, Documentation, and the Lesbian Revolution |
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| Selected films & videos from the Lesbian Herstory Archives (NYC) and the Bildwechsel Archive (Hamburg, Germany) |
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| Kate Huh, MIX NYC |
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