To view the concurrent session options, click on the triangle to the left of the block. Abstracts and bios are available on this website through the Abstracts and Titles page and are linked throughout this schedule.

All sessions on this page are open to everyone, but please note that workshops and tours require sign-ups in advance because space is limited.

Check in for participants will be available:
1. Sunday July 19, 3:00 to 5:30 PM in the Walter Gage Residences Lobby 
2. Monday July 20 to Friday July 24 in Irving K. Barber Learning Centre near catering 

Please check in to get your name tag and an informational folder

Monday July 20th

8:30 to 10:00 AM — Plenary

Looking Back to Move Forward
Chair: Jamie A. Lee
Speakers: Anne Gilliland, Beth Yakel, Jeanette Bastian, Joanne Evans, and Michelle Caswell
Location: Buchanan A, Room 201
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10:00 to 10:30 AM — Morning Coffee Break

Panel: The Research Impact of Ciaran Trace on Archival Scholarship
Chair: Devan Ray Donaldson 
Speakers: Dr. Amelia Acker, Itza A. Carbajal, Allan A. Martell, and James A. Hodges
Location: I.K. Barber, Room 182
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Papers: On the Impacts of AI and Automation on Archival Work
Chair: Dr. Richard Arias-Hernández
Location: I.K. Barber, Dodson Room (302)
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1. “AI and the Future of Archivists: Impacts on Work practices and Job Quality” Jinfang Niu

2. “Archival Knowledge Engineering in the AI Era: A Continuity Governance Framework and Key Mechanisms” Dr. Jingyi Zeng, Li Niu, and Lei Wang

3. "AI and Archival Theory: The Death of the Ghost in the Machine" LJ Fulugan

Papers: Descriptive Contexts Lost and Found
Chair: Bri Watson
Location: I.K. Barber, Peña Room (301)
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1. "Empowering Curation’s Shared Responsibility and Clarifying Archival Provenance with Veteran-Contributed Paradata" Dr. Sarah Buchanan 

2. “ONTERIS – A Digital Disappearance” Nat Johnson-Tyghter 

3. “Materiality as a Framework for Analyzing and Engaging with Literary Archives” Dr. Heather MacNeil and Claire Battershill

4. “Creating a Counterhegemonic Boundary Object” Alex H. Poole

Workshop: From CURE to CARE: Developing Course-Based Archival Research Experiences for Undergraduates Across Disciplines 
Facilitator: Dr. Lisa Weasel
Location: I.K. Barber, School of Information, Terrace Lab (458)
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12:00 to 1:30 PM — Catered Lunch (Mentoring Tables)

Panel: Trauma-informed Archival Education and Support 
Chair: Anna Robinson-Sweet
Speakers: Nicola Laurent, Kirsten Wright, Dr. Anna Sexton, Wendy Duff, Cheryl Regehr
Location: I.K. Barber, Dodson Room (302)
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Papers: Archival Education
Chair: Dr. Fiorella Foscarini 
Location: Buchanan Building A, Room 102
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1. “Mapping the Landscape for Archival Education in North America, Australia, and the UK: Comparing International Standards”
Karen F. Gracy

2. “The Evolution of the Skills of Information Managers and Archivists over nearly 45 Years of French-language University Education in Quebec”
Dominique Maurel, Natasha Zwarich

3. “Archival Science Towards New Liberal Arts 2.0: An Exploratory Study from China”
Bin Zhang, Xu Zhang

4. “Artificial Intelligence and Archival Education: A Review of Pedagogical Trends in Archives and Records Management”
Kenneth Atuma

Papers: Histories of Exclusions and their Contemporary Impacts
Chair: Megan Cohen
Location: I.K. Barber, Peña Room (301)
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1. “Black Intellectual History at the United States National Archives in the Twentieth Century”
Alex H. Poole

2. “The Cost of Invisible Labor: Women, Computing, and Sustainable Digital Projects in Museums”
Alexandria Rayburn

3. “Archiving the Records of an Irish Traveller Community”
Dr. Elizabeth Mullins

Workshop: Affect and Archives 
Facilitators: Ann Cvetkovich, Marika Cifor, Jamie A. Lee, Cait McKinney, and Rachel Corbman 
Location: I.K. Barber, School of Information, Terrace Lab (458)
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*Note: this workshop runs over both afternoon sessions

3:00 to 3:30 PM — Afternoon Break

Panel: The Finding Aid in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 
Chair: François Dansereau
Speakers: Travis L. Wagner, Dr. Diana Marsh, Dr. Yingying Han, and Alex Chassanoff
Location: I.K. Barber, Dodson Room (302)
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Papers: Trauma, Healing, Joy
Chair: Claire Malek
Location: I.K. Barber, Peña Room (301)
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1. “’I’m not a historic case, I’m still breathing’: Working with Trauma in Archives of Child Sexual Abuse Survivor Activism, 1960-2024”
Victoria Hoyle

2. "Healing-Centred Engagement in Archives"
Vanessa Anakwudwabisayquay Cook, Krystal Payne, and Greg Bak

3. "Abolitionist Archival Imaginaries: The World Building Praxis of Memory Work on Incarceration"
Anna Robinson-Sweet

4. “Spinning Webs of Archival Joy”
Michelle Caswell 

Papers: AI and Trust in Archives
Chair: Dani Batista 
Location: Buchanan Building A, Room 102
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1. "Revising Image Provenance in the AI Era"
Dr. Jessica Bushey

2. “From Black Box to Transparency: A Method for Explaining Digital Records Authenticity and Evidential Verification” 
Jiaqing Long

3. “Tactical Recordkeeping: Archival Perspectives on Evidence from Autonomous Weapons”
Patrick McGee and James Lowry

Workshop: Affect and Archives 
Facilitators: Ann Cvetkovich, Marika Cifor, Jamie A. Lee, Cait McKinney, Rachel Corbman 
Location: I.K. Barber, School of Information, Terrace Lab (458)
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*Note: this workshop runs over both afternoon sessions

5:30 to 7:30 PM — Opening Reception

Appetizers will be provided and there will be a cash bar
Location: University Centre, 6331 Crescent Road

Tuesday, July 21st

Panel: Engaging the Community: Translocal Conversations on Archival Practice 
Chair: Itza A. Carbajal
Speakers: Moska Rokay, Dr. Tamara Rayan, Stefanie Martin, and Emily Faubert
Location: I.K. Barber, Room 182
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Panel: How Untruths and Partial Truths in Official Records Fuel Denialism 
Chair: Ricky Punzalan
Speakers: Wayne Garnons-Williams, Ida Grönroos, and Greg Bak
Location: I.K. Barber, Dodson Room (302)
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Papers: New Models and Methodologies 
Chair: Dr. Amelia Acker
Location: I.K. Barber, Peña Room (301)
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1. “Systematic Reviews as Digital Archives: Expanding the Archival Landscape”
Zack Marshall

2. “How Can Ambiences Be Archived? Methodological Frameworks for Collecting and Mapping Sensory Urban Data”
Inês Lima-Rodrigues

3. “The PROTECCT-GLAM Project: A National Categorical Climate Risk Assessment Scale for U.S. Archival Repositories”
Dr. Ed Benoit, III and Reilly Corkran

4. “Archival Empowerment in National Cultural Parks: A Digital Memory Approach to the Grand Canal Heritage”
Xingyue Li

Workshop: AI for the Processing of Audio Records 
Facilitators: Nataliya L. Radke, Peter Sullivan, and Dr. Richard Arias-Hernández 
Location: I.K. Barber, School of Information, Terrace Lab (458)
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*Note: this workshop runs over both morning sessions

10:00 to 10:30 AM — Coffee Break

Panel: Critical Archival Perspectives at the Intersections between Art and Archives 
Chair: Claire Battershill
Speakers: Ringo Bunoan, Dr. Lucy Brownson, Liz Bruchet, Dr. Anna Sexton, and Dr. Hannah K. Smyth
Location: I.K. Barber, Dodson Room (302)
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Panel: Continuum Perspectives: Connecting Past, Present and Future in Pluralistic Recordkeeping Research and Practice 
Chair: Bri Watson
Speakers: Joanne Evans, Belinda Battley, and Heather Soyka
Location: I.K. Barber, Peña Room (301)
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Papers: On Archives and Kinship
Chair: Dr. Vanessa Reyes
Location: I.K. Barber, Room 182
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1. “Bloodlines and Throughlines: The Relational Work of Digital Surrogacy”
Jessica Lapp and Moska Rokay

2. “Anticipatory Archives: Children and Inherited Archives of Conflict in Post-war Sri Lanka”
Henria Aton

3. “’Of Kin and Other Impossible Homes’: Queer Kinship, Ephemera, and Archival Repair in Trans Asian Diasporic Archives”
Jae Kim

Workshop: AI for the Processing of Audio Records 
Facilitators: Nataliya L. Radke, Peter Sullivan, and Dr. Richard Arias-Hernández 
Location: I.K. Barber, School of Information, Terrace Lab (458)
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*Note: this workshop runs over both morning sessions

12:00 to 1:30 PM — Catered Lunch (Mentoring Tables)

1:30 to 3:00 PM — Plenary

An Autobiography of a Northern Alberta Reserve
Speaker: Billy-Ray Belcourt
Location: Buchanan Building A, Room 201
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3:00 to 3:30 PM — Afternoon Break

Panel: Living Indigenous Archives 
Chair: Jessica Lapp
Speakers: Narissa Timbery, Lauren Booker, Monica Galassi, Kirsten Thorpe, and Jennifer O'Neal
Location: I.K. Barber, Dodson Room (302)
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Panel: Archival Pace: Bureaucratic Orders, Silences, and Critical Archival Practices in Documenting Public Works and Labour in Africa 
Chair: Dani Batista
Speakers: Filipa Lopes, Sónia Pereira Henrique, Ana Vaz Milheiro, Francesca Vita, Beatriz Serrazina, Fernando Pires, and Inês Lima Rodrigues
Location: I.K. Barber, Peña Room (301)
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Papers: Archival Ethics and Advocacy 
Chair: Dr. Sarah Buchanan 
Location: Buchanan Building A, Room 102
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1. “Archivists as Street-Level Bureaucrats: Discretion, Ethics, and the Dual Role of Citizen and State Agent”
Ida Grönroos

2. “Toward a Conceptual Framework of Archival Ethics in the Digital-Intelligent Era”
Ruohan Guo

3. “Assessing Born-Digital Stewardship in Practice: The DigiStew Research Project”
Alex Chassanoff

4. "Demonstrating the Value of Archives and Information Management Activities through Evaluation and Advocacy: Lessons Learned from the Experience of Four Organizations"
Natasha Zwarich and Dominique Maurel

Workshop: “‘I suspect the Agent with the Record in the Place!’: Teaching Records in Context with a Clue-Inspired Game” 
Facilitators: Maya Bielinski and Katherine King
Location: I.K. Barber, School of Information, Terrace Lab (458)
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5:00 to 6:15 PM — Gathering to remember Richard Cox

Gathering to remember Richard Cox
Location: I.K. Barber, Dodson Room (302) 

Wednesday, July 22nd — PhD Day

All sessions this morning and today’s plenary are presented by PhD students and are open to all attendees to celebrate and learn from our AERI community doctoral students.

7:00 to 8:00 AM — Yoga

Sunrise Yoga Class
Location: Lawn outside the Belkin Art Gallery (1825 Main Mall)
Rain Location: Rec North Studio (6140 Student Union Blvd)
Note: Please bring your own yoga mat or a towel
Spots: 50
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Papers: Considering Alternative Forms of Archival Evidence and Methods of Archival Research 
Chair: Greg Bak
Location: Buchanan Building A, Room 102
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1. "Artist’s Archives in Portugal: Content Curation and Study of Daciano da Costa’s Legacy (2003-2022)" 
Maria Aires Carmo

2. "Materiality and Voices within Oral History Archives" 
Callum Duff

3. "Reading and Teaching Challenges: Exploring the Archived Academic Experiences of Roxana Ng" 
Ayla Morland

Papers: Rethinking Archival Studies and Standards through Interdisciplinary Approaches  
Chair: Bri Watson
Location: I.K. Barber, Room 182
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1. "A Literature Review of Digital Capture of Oral Cultures and Community Perspectives on Effectiveness" 
Sara Davis

2. "Archival Stewardship in the Armenian Community: Shaping Use Through Hospitality and Care" 
Nazelie Doghramadjian

3. "Theorising Archives through a Queer and Feminist Post-Indentureship Lens" 
Dharani Persaud

4. "Critical Archival Interdisciplinarity: Interrogating Interdisciplinarity as a Custodial Practice" 
Josh Wilson

Papers: Ways of Knowing in Archives through Indigenous Epistemologies, Diaspora Studies, and the State’s Subjects 
Chair: Henria Aton
Location: I.K. Barber, Dodson Room (302)
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1. "Sentirpensar as a Sites of Dialogue in the Andean Diaspora" 
Yvette Ramirez

2. "Reparative Description of Indige-Mimetic Domination" 
Suanmuanlian Tonsing

3. "Unknowability and the Refusal of Proof in Archives" 
Sadaf Maleki

4. "Echoes of Testimony: The Circulation of Chilean Testimonial Archives in Geneva (1973–1990)" 
Manuel Correa Serrano 

10:00 to 10:30 AM — Coffee Break

Papers: Maintaining Authenticity in the midst of Digitization, Commercialization, and Social Media  
Chair: François Dansereau
Location: I.K. Barber, Room 182
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1. "Platformed Death on Legacy.com: Digital Obituaries and How We Remember in the Age of LLMs" 
Kevin Zheng, Lavinia Dunagan, and Nazelie Doghramadjian

2. "Designing Trust into Public Procurement Records: A Blockchain-Based Anti-Fraud Model" 
Dani Batista

3. "Displaced Memory: Natural Disasters, Privatized Storage, and Information Access in Academic Archives and Libraries Pilot Case Study" 
Kaitlyn Rich

4. "'À la recherche du temps perdu': Everyday archives, nostalgia and memory-making" 
Li Su and Min Yu

Papers: Intentional Documentation of Historical and Cultural Memory: Mapping, Recordkeeping, and Memory 
Chair: Dr. Tamara Rayan
Location: I.K. Barber, Dodson Room (302)
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1. "Le Tirage: A Case Study in Mapping Archival Documents" 
Katie Bailey

2. "Counter-Mapping Memory: Jewish Belonging, Boundaries, and the Afterlives of Violence in Squirrel Hill" 
Alexandra Pucciarelli

3. "Information and Empire: Recordkeeping at Kew Gardens as Instrument and Legacy of the British Imperial Project" 
Emily Jane Hughes

4. "Documenting living traditions: Cultural heritage in folklife archives" 
Maryna Chernyvaska

Workshop: Wikidata Workshop
Facilitators: Amanda H. Sorenson and Dr. Diana Marsh
Location: I.K. Barber, School of Information, Terrace Lab (458)
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12:00 to 1:30 PM — Catered Lunch (Mentoring Tables)

1:30 to 3:00 PM — Plenary

Pursuing Archives in Critical Times: A Roundtable with the Next Generation of AERI
Chair: Dharani Persaud
Speakers: Itza A. Carbajal, Anna Robinson-Sweet, and Dr. Tamara Rayan
Location: Buchanan Building A, Room 201
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3:30 to 5:00 PM — Local Tours

Please note that all tours require you to sign-up in advance. More descriptions and links can be found when you click “view more”.

Unfortunately, we need to cancel the tour with the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre due to unforeseen circumstances.

The second tour for the Chung Lind Gallery (4:30) has been canceled due to lack of interest. There is still space left in the 3:30 tour as of Tuesday afternoon.

Unfortunately, the Hogan’s Alley Society and hua foundation Walking Tour has been cancelled due to the extreme weather conditions (35 C and high smoke levels). This was a difficult decision made in the interest of attendees’ health.

Tour: Belkin Decolonization Walking Tour
Time: 3:30 to 5:00 PM
Location: UBC Bookstore (6200 University Boulevard)
Spots: 10-32
Note: This tour involves walking 1.5 to 2km (1 to 1.25 mi)
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Tour: Chung Lind Gallery 
Time: 3:30 to 4:30
Location: I.K. Barber, Second Floor
Spots: 15
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Tour: UBC Farms
Time: 4:00 to 5:00 PM
Location: UBC Farms, 3461 Ross Drive
Spots: 30
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8:00 PM — AERI-oke

AERI-oke
Time: 8:00 
Location: Charqui (1955 Cornwall Avenue) 
Come sing your heart & soul out alongside many new and old archival friends. You don't need to be a good singer or enjoy solo stage time. Come to support the AERI songbirds or maybe be a back dancer for one of your friends. Either way, come for the memories - that's what we are here for.
Song Request: submit here
Tips & tricks: Use these cheat sheet with some recommendations (voice lesson advice OR check out these Billboard 100 karaoke song suggestions)

Thursday, July 23rd — Focus on FOCAS and Community Archives

All sessions this day are presented by those associated with the Faculty Organizing for Community Archives Support (FOCAS) and are open to all attendees.

Panel: Community Archives in Southern California  
Chair: Sadaf Maleki
Speakers: Isabel Aragon, Gillian Gee, James Hellebuyck, Zoe Lee-DiVito, and Emily Torres 
Location: I.K. Barber, Room 182
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Panel: Community Archiving across Cultures and Languages: Community-centred Approaches: Place-based Memory, Archives and Identity 
Chair: Hannah Turner
Speakers: Jamie A. Lee, Berlin Loa, Dr. Vanessa Reyes and Cecilia L. Salvatore
Location: I.K. Barber, Dodson Room (302)
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Papers: Community Archives Across Contexts
Chair: Dr. Diana Marsh
Location: I.K. Barber, Peña Room (301)
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1. “Funding Landscape for Community Archives in Australia” 
Sindiso Bhebhe

2. “Who Should Benefit from LIS–Community Partnerships? And How Much? Toward a Reparative Model of Asymmetrical Community-Engaged Archival Pedagogy”
Dr. Devan Ray Donaldson

3. "Community Archives as Memory Infrastructure: Public Housing Oral Histories and Urban Inequality in Chicago"
Lisa Ryou

4. “Things That Go Differently: About Practical Aspects of Studying Community Archives Impact”
Magdalena Wisniewska-Drewniak

Workshop: Multilingual Archival Studies 
Facilitator: Dr. Fiorella Foscarini
Location: I.K. Barber, School of Information, Terrace Lab (458)
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10:00 – 10:30 AM — Coffee Break

Panel: Radical Strategies for Queer Archival Interventions 
Chair: Sadaf Maleki and Maria Torres
Speakers: Isabel Aragon, Jules Baldino, Nicole Hayes, and Sam Stroud 
Location: I.K. Barber, Room 182
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Panel: Multilingual and Multicultural Recordkeeping in Practice 
Chair: Jessica Lapp
Speakers: Leo Jones, Madison Lemke, and Olivia Carmen Otero
Location: I.K. Barber, Peña Room (301)
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Papers: Focus on Faculty Organizing for Community Archives Support (FOCAS)
Chair: Michelle Caswell
Location: I.K. Barber, Dodson Room (302)
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1. “Disability Intersections: How Community Archives Document Disability & Navigate Accessibility”
Gracen Brilmyer and Axelle Demus

2. “The Historical Church as Anchor to Archival Memory”
Cecilia L. Salvatore and Lee Fuhrman

3. "Learning by Doing: Professional Skill Acquisition in Community Archive Internships"
Dee Winn

Workshop: The Archived Academy: Preparation, Intuition and Research-Creation in the Archives 
Facilitator: Ayla Morland
Location: I.K. Barber, School of Information, Terrace Lab (458)
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12:00 to 2:45 PM — Options for Participants

Lunch around campus

Mentoring tables and meet-ups

Film: Screening of Unarchived
Time: 1:15 to 2:45
Location: Buchanan A, Room 201
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New session addressing whiteness in AERI
Time: 1:30 to 3:00
Location: I.K. Barber, Dodson Room (302)
Organizer: Sumayya Ahmed 
This is an informal session where we will discuss together the following questions: 
Is AERI as an initiative, institute, or community embodying the values and building the necessary social infrastructure needed to nurture Black, Latine, and Indigenous  participation both at the institute and in the field of archives?  Put another way, where are the Black and Brown archivists? Why are there so few at AERI and what work would we have to do for them to see it as a place “ to be themselves and see themselves?” How could that extend to the larger field of archives?

Workshop: Archival Advocacy in Action Workshop: Responding to the elimination of LAC’s DHCP grant program
Facilitator: Vanessa Lee
Time: 1:30 to 2:45
Location: I.K. Barber, School of Information, Terrace Lab (458)
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2:45 to 3:00 PM — Short Break

“Archives in Transition and the Work of Community-Centred Stewardship”
Author: Jennie Weng
Location: I.K. Barber, 2nd Floor Foyer
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"LIS and Epistemicide in Gaza"
Author: Omar Al-Samadi
Location: I.K. Barber, 2nd Floor Foyer
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"ROPER Model"
Authors: Doxey Kamara, Ellie Younger, and Kirk Stephens
Location: I.K. Barber, 2nd Floor Foyer
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"What’s in a name?: Navigating authenticity in personal trans archives"
Author: Jamie Lauzon
Location: I.K. Barber, 2nd Floor Foyer
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“Interdisciplinary Futurity: Spatial Justice Archives for Reimagining Narratives”
Authors: Lester Li and Angela Smith
Location: I.K. Barber, 2nd Floor Foyer
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“From Scratch: The Beginnings of Community Archives”
Authors: Megan Cohen and Jennifer Douglas
Location: I.K. Barber, 2nd Floor Foyer
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“Institutional Knowledge and Records Management: A Preliminary Inquiry”
Author: Payton Kufeldt
Location: I.K. Barber, 2nd Floor Foyer
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“Climate Change and Cultural Heritage: A Case Study Research”
Author: Nicholas Fong
Location: I.K. Barber, 2nd Floor Foyer
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"Eating the Elephant: One Year at The West Town Museum of Cultural History"
Authors: Cece Ringo and Ixya Vega
Location: I.K. Barber, 2nd Floor Foyer
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“Research on the Collaborative Education Model of Government-Industry-Academia-Research in Archival Science in China: Taking Sun Yat-sen University as an Example"
Authors: Yongsheng Chen and Dr. Huanning Su
Location: I.K. Barber, 2nd Floor Foyer
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“The Endurance of Collective Memory: Building the Westside Cultural Archive”
Authors: Aliyah Young and Carson Donnelly-Fine
Location: I.K. Barber, 2nd Floor Foyer
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“Public Perception of the Trustworthiness of AI-Generated Records”
Authors: Zhiying Lian, Tingting Huang, and Li Su
Location: I.K. Barber, 2nd Floor Foyer
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5:30 PM — Visit to the Museum of Anthropology

Visit to the Museum of Anthropology at UBC (6393 NW Marine Drive)
Entrance is half-price on Thursdays after 5 and free for students. For anyone who would like to attend in a group, please meet at 5:30 outside the museum. 

Friday, July 24th

Panel: Taking Love Seriously: What Love Does in Archival Work 
Chairs: Dr. Jiarui Sun and Jennifer Douglas
Dr. Jiarui Sun, Zhiying Lian, Claire Malek, Jennifer Douglas
Location: I.K. Barber, Peña Room (301)
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Papers: Decolonization and Archival Wake Work
Chair: Ricky Punzalan 
Location: I.K. Barber, Dodson Room (302)
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1. “Relational Archives: Family Photographs as Sites of Decolonial Pedagogy”
Özge Calafato

2. “Generative Frictions: Reconceptualizing the Archives as Wake Work”
Elizabeth Shaffer

3. “Indigenous Knowledge Translation in Critical Archival Studies”
Monica Galassi

Workshop: Intentional Creation: Reflecting on our Agency through Zine-Making
Facilitators: Isabelle "Beck" Mallwitz and Nazelie Doghramadjian
Location: I.K. Barber, School of Information, Terrace Lab (458)
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10:00 – 10:30 AM — Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:00 PM — Closing Remarks and AERI Business Meeting

Location: I.K. Barber, Room 182

The AERI Business Meeting is open to all attendees. We encourage everyone to join us in discussing the future of AERI, including next year’s institute.