Oral Histories in the Archive: Stories from Turtle Island and Rwanda
May 5, 2026 | Join us online for a presentation and discussion with Duncan McCue and Elizabeth Nijdam from SCVN’s Turtle Island Research Cluster as well as and Erin Jessee and Fransiska Louwagie from the Rwanda Research Cluster, as they discuss the different approaches to archiving with oral histories.
Trauma-Informed Archiving: Lessons from the War Childhood Museum
DATE: Wednesday, April 22, 2026 TIME: 10:00am – 11:30am PST VENUE: Zoom How are archives developed for the Bosnian War of 1992-1995 when memories are contested, diverge, or remain politically charged? What is the responsibility of the archive when working with survivors’ testimony and objects? How has the War Childhood Museum approached archiving the war […]
Risk in the Archives: Preserving Anonymity, Access, and Cultural Memory
DATE: Tuesday, March 24, 2026 TIME: 10:00am – 11:30am PST VENUE: Zoom How can an archive at risk be supported to ensure its significant cultural, historical, or evidentiary value is preserved? What if the risk is in the process of creating the archive? Or in the decisions of what to include or exclude? How is […]