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DESCRIPTION:'Memory Work as Care Work' explores the ways Black archives and
  archival practices testify to the complexity of how Black life is lived\,
  documented\, and remembered. During this conversation Zakiya Collier\, a 
 Brooklyn-based Black\, queer archivist and memory worker\; Steven G. Fullw
 ood\, archivist\, writer and co-founder of the Nomadic Archivists Project\
 ; and Amy Sall\, founder and editor-in-chief of SUNU: Journal of African A
 ffairs\, Critical Thought + Aesthetics (SUNU Journal) will discuss memory 
 work as a practice that goes beyond archival labor.Event organized by gues
 t curator Kristen Joy Owens.This event will be held via Zoom. A link will 
 be circulated to registrants with registration confirmation. Meet The Spea
 kersZakiya Collier is a Brooklyn-based\, Black\, queer archivist and memor
 y worker. Her work with African-diaspora and community-based collections i
 ncludes leading the #SchomburgSyllabus project as the digital archivist at
  the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\; designing\, co-leadi
 ng\, and securing grant funding for the Linking Lost Jazz Shrines project 
 at Weeksville Heritage Center\; and consulting on the organization and pre
 servation of Marilyn Nance’s FESTAC ‘77 collection. Both in her research a
 nd in her work\, Zakiya explores the archival labor\, methods\, structures
 \, and poetics necessary to preserve and access both the material and imma
 terial artifacts of quotidian Black life. She holds an MA in media\, cultu
 re\, and communication from New York University\, an MLIS from Long Island
  University\, and a BA in Anthropology from the University of South Caroli
 na. Zakiya is an affiliate of the Center for Critical Race and Digital Stu
 dies at New York University\, an interim board member of the Archival Educ
 ation and Research Initiative\, and a guest editor of a forthcoming specia
 l issue on Black archival practice in The Black Scholar.Steven G. Fullwood
  is an archivist and writer. He is the co-founder of the Nomadic Archivist
 s Project. Fullwood is the former assistant curator of the Manuscripts\, A
 rchives & Rare Books Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Blac
 k Culture. His books include Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Cal
 l (2014) and Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books (2007). C
 urrently\, Fullwood is the co-host of In the Telling\, a podcast focusing 
 on the global Black family experience\, and a regular contributor to The A
 merican Age podcast.A graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of
  Arts and Sciences\, Senegalese-American cultural entrepreneur Amy Sall ho
 lds a master’s degree in human rights studies with a concentration on the 
 right to development and youth empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa. She rece
 ived her BA (2012) in culture and media studies from the New School Univer
 sity\, with a concentration in cultural studies and a minor in journalism.
   Sall is the founder and editor-in-chief of SUNU: Journal of African Affa
 irs\, Critical Thought and Aesthetics (SUNU Journal)\, a pan-African\, pos
 t-disciplinary platform seeking to amplify emerging voices and perspective
 s on matters and ideas concerning Africa and its diaspora. From 2016 to 20
 17\, she was a part-time lecturer in the Culture and Media Studies Departm
 ent of the New School University's Eugene Lang College\, where she develop
 ed and taught two courses: Third Cinema and the Counter Narratives\, and T
 he African Gaze: Postcolonial Visual Culture of Africa and the Social Imag
 ination. She was a 2016 Independent Curators International and RAW Materia
 l Company Fellow.With a keen interest in cultural studies\, African affair
 s\, and artistic expression\, Sall is interested in the ways in which visu
 al culture\, literature\, postcolonial and critical theory inform\, shape\
 , and encourage contemporary discourses surrounding the socioeconomic\, po
 litical\, and cultural. She consults on projects\, programming\, exhibitio
 ns\, and research relating to contemporary African and Afro-diasporic visu
 al culture (specifically photography and cinema). Her consulting also exte
 nds to projects and research centered on African/Afro-diasporic theory\, l
 iterature\, and social science. Sall is a collector of vintage vernacular 
 photography\, printed matter\, and ephemera of Africa and the diaspora (ca
 . 1950s–70s). These pan-African items are housed in her small but growing 
 private collection\, the Sall Collection. The Sall Collection was establis
 hed with ideas of cultural preservation and sovereignty in mind. Its exist
 ence serves as a means to maintain agency by pushing back against the neoc
 olonial ways of archiving\, collecting\, and disseminating African and bla
 ck artifacts. In addition to her academic and entrepreneurial pursuits\, S
 all has collaborated with and been featured in campaigns for fashion and b
 eauty brands such as J. Crew\, Armani Beauty\, Chloé\, MANGO\, and Kenzo. 
 She has been featured in publications such as Vogue\, Glamour\, W Magazine
 \, and Kinfolk.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Memory Work as Care Work
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