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Free SAA Webcast Now On-demand: Project STAND: Highlights & Hurdles of a National Project on Social Justice

  • 1.  Free SAA Webcast Now On-demand: Project STAND: Highlights & Hurdles of a National Project on Social Justice

    Posted Oct 30, 2020 04:32 PM

    Project STAND, is a consortium of 70 colleges and universities that has created an online resource centralizing primary sources relating to student activism in historically under-documented and minoritized communities. This session will focus on its creation, highlights, hurdles, and the role of the archivists to build relationships with marginalized communities, provide tools for documenting activism, and advance archival collections. Speakers will discuss the website and collection highlights, the Archiving Activism toolkit, and the symposia conducted in 2019/2020. They will also cover issues of ethics, transparency, and the challenges of documenting social media.



    Panelists include:
    Richard Bernier
    Tamar Chute
    Lae'l Hughes-Watkins 
    Valencia Johnson
    Tamara Rhodes
    Trevor Watkins


    Register Now Online at https://mysaa.archivists.org/NC__Event?id=a0l0b00000ESaa1AAD 





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