BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:414@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230308T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T130000 DTSTAMP:20230308T152606Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/item-not-found/ SUMMARY:Item Not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries\, Archives\, and O ther Heritage and Memory Organizations DESCRIPTION:A Virtual Conference\n9 a.m.–1 p.m. PST\n\n\n–conference or ganized by Anna Chen (Clark Library\, UCLA)\, Rebecca Fenning Marschall (C lark Library\, UCLA)\, Molly McGuire (Oakland University Libraries)\, Nina Schneider (Clark Library\, UCLA)\, and Emily Spunaugle (Oakland Universit y Libraries)\n\nThis event is free of charge\, but you must register to at tend in advance. All audience members will receive instructions via email after registration. Click the following link to register directly with Zoo m:\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwldeugpjkjGtQqQYGhrqI3-ZDKSJJP ZzVo\nThis event will also be livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Chan nel. \n\nKeynote Speakers:\nTamar Evangelestia-Dougherty\, Director\, Sm ithsonian Libraries and Archives\nT-Kay Sangwand\, Librarian for Digital Collection Development\, UCLA\nGabriel Daniel Solís\, Executive Director\ , Texas After Violence Project\n\nThis virtual conference considers the on going reassessment of memory and heritage work and heritage ownership\, as it is understood by libraries\, archives and related organizations\, thro ugh an examination of the multiple meanings\, complexities\, and resonance s of loss. As an inevitable reality of heritage preservation--saving every thing is an impossibility--a nuanced understanding of the fundamental role of loss is an important counterpart to these organizations’ work toward s preservation\, permanence and sustainability.\n\nOnce seen as static evi dence of the past\, heritage is now recognized as the subject of ongoing r einterpretation\, maintenance\, and negotiation for those living in the pr esent. Collectors are increasingly willing to confront processes of repatr iation\, reparation and restitution\, and other forms of deaccessioning\, and vocabularies of ownership are giving way to those of stewardship\, cus tody\, and post-custody. At the same time\, heightened attention to sustai nable practices is also encouraging a reassessment of longstanding assumpt ions about collection development and preservation\, challenging the model of limitless expansion\, growth and permanence as a primary measure of su ccess. Cultural memory and heritage workers\, too\, face many other kin ds of loss within and beyond the workplace that impacts their labor\, incl uding loss of resources\, safety nets\, and colleagues. What is heritage and cultural property\, and to whom do they belong? Who owns the past\, a nd what does such ownership mean? Is it possible for acts of past injustic e to result in cooperative relationship-building for the future? How can a sustained interrogation of collection and heritage loss be productivel y leveraged to reckon with other kinds of loss in the cultural memory and heritage workspace? We seek to explore these and other related questions during this two-day conference.\n\n\n\nProgram\n\nWednesday\, March 8\, 20 23\n\n9:00 a.m.\nAnna Chen\, Rebecca Fenning Marschall\, and Nina Schneide r\, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, UCLA\, and Molly McGuire and Emily Spunaugle\, Oakland University Libraries\nWelcome\n\n9:15 a.m.\nTama r Evangelestia-Dougherty\, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives\n“Let Them Research Cake: Exploring Loss\, Lessness and the Spirit of Abstraction in Narrative Building and Practices of Collecting”\n\n9:55 a.m.\nQ&\;A\ n\n10:15 a.m.\nPanel 1: Digital Loss and Deaccessioning\nModerator: Elizab eth McAulay\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\nKristen J. Nyitray and Dana Reijerkerk\, State University of New York at Stony Brook\n“Gam e (not) Over: The Genesis\, Death\, and Afterlife of a Video Game Archive ”\n\n10:35 a.m.\nEira Tansey\, University of Cincinnati\n“Death by a t housand cuts: Staff losses and institutional vulnerability to climate chan ge”\n\n10:55 a.m.\nQ&\;A\n\n11:15 a.m.\nBreak\n\n11:40 a.m.\nPanel 2: Archival Silences\nModerator: Emily Spunaugle\, Oakland University Librar ies\n\nDavid Luftig\, Washington State University\n“Seeking Lost Histori es: Issues Regarding Preserving Historic Agricultural Resources”\n\n12:0 0 p.m.\nElspeth A. Olson\, University of Nevada\, Reno\n“Mind the Gap: A ddressing Archival Silences”\n\n12:20 p.m.\nCatherine Phan and Kacie Luc chini Butcher\, University of Wisconsin–Madison\n“Unpacking Archival L abor: Interrogating Our Practices”\n\n12:40 p.m.\nQ&\;A\n\nThursday\, March 9\, 2023\n\n9:00 a.m.\nAnna Chen\, Rebecca Fenning Marschall\, and Nina Schneider\, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, UCLA\, and Molly McGuire and Emily Spunaugle\, Oakland University Libraries\nWelcome\n\n9: 10 a.m.\nT-Kay Sangwand\, UCLA Library\nGabriel Daniel Solís\, Texas Afte r Violence Project\n“Limits and Loss: Reflections on a Decade of Postcus todial Praxis – A Conversation with T-Kay Sangwand and Gabriel Solís” \n\n9:50 a.m.\nQ&\;A\n\n10:00 a.m.\nPanel 3: Institutional Impact of Pe rsonal Legacies and Loss\nModerator: Molly McGuire\, Oakland University Li braries\n\nLaura Gray Blair\, Queen Mary\, University of London\n“’Res cue these treasures’: the politics of twentieth-century dispersal and ac quisition of English country house libraries”\n\n10:20 a.m.\nLauren S. T urner\, University of Denver\n“Omissions and Obituaries: Reckoning with Loss and Tracing Family Histories”\n\n10:40 a.m.\nThomas G. Lannon\, Laf ayette College\n“More than Missing Items: Unsolved cases in institutiona l histories”\n\n11:00 a.m.\nQ&\;A\n\n11:20 a.m.\nBreak\n\n11:40 a.m.\ nPanel 4: Archival and Library Inadequacy\n Moderator: Nina Schneider\, Un iversity of California\, Los Angeles\n\nPhilip Menchaca\, University of Mi chigan School of Information\n"Data in the Bardo: Lessons and Questions fr om the Largest Digital Archive of Buddhist Texts”\n\n12:00 p.m.\nJuan Su árez Ontaneda\, Xavier University-Cincinnati\n“A Tale of Two Archives: The Ex-Penal García Moreno and the Making of Ecuadorian Carceral Memory ”\n\n12:20 p.m.\nSalma Abumeeiz\, UCLA Library\n“Collections over Peop le: Critiquing Notions of Institutional Inclusion within Library Heritage Materials”\n\n12:40 p.m.\nQ&\;A and Closing Remarks\n\n1:00 p.m.\nPro gram concludes ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09 /Item-Not-Found-image_per-Spunaugle-_website.jpg CATEGORIES:Conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR