The Mobile Archive Project
November 10, University of Siegen (Germany)
Registration: https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/anglistik/mobilearchives/
3:00 pm to 7:00 pm (Central European Time)
9:00 am to 1:45 pm (Eastern Standard Time)
3:00 pm CET (9:00 am EST): Welcome
(Marcel Hartwig (University of Siegen), Thomas Hallock (University of South Florida)
3:15 (9:15 EST) Panel I: Archival Preservation and Recovery
Lukas Etter (University of Siegen), chair
Martin Brückner, Hee Eun Kim, Victoria Sunnergren (University of Delaware):
“Introducing THINGSTOR.ORG – A Material Culture Database”
Edward Polanco (Virginia Tech)
“Native Voices in Mexico’s Archivo General de la Nación”
Will Glover (Boston University)
“The State of the Archive & Native American petitions”
Karen Kilcup & Catherine Bowlen (University of North Carolina Greensboro)
“Accessing the Archive: American Children’s Environmental Writing for Everyone”
4:15-4:30 (10:15-10:30 EST) Break
4:30 (10:30 EST) Panel II: Translations, Temporal and Spatial
Astrid Fellner (Saarland University), chair
Ilka Brasch (University of Hannover)
“Archives and Architectures in Philadelphia”
Marcelo Jose Cabarcas Ortega (Fundación Universitaria Colombo Internacional)
“Either Witch or Saint: On Excavating the Colonial Archive or the Vindication of the Female Enslaved”
Kirsten Iden (University of South Carolina, Salkehatchie)
“Eliza Lucas Pinckney’s Digital Edition and the Possibilities of Online Archives”
Lenin Martell (UAEM) & Celeste González de Bustamante (University of Arizona)
“Mobile Archives Online: A Pedagogical Approach to Understand the US-Mexico Border”
5:30-5:45 (11:30-11:45 EST) Break
5:45 (11:45 EST) Panel III: Denationalizing the Archive
Ralph Bauer (University of Maryland), chair
Steffi Dippold (Kansas State University)
“Un-American Outsiders and Marooned Orphans of the Early American Archive”
Sämi Ludwig (Université de Haute-Alsace)
“Why A Colonial Text Is Neglected: The Example of Robert Rogers's Ponteach (1766)”
E. Thomson Shields (East Carolina University)
“Finding the Loss of the Lost Colony”
Dominique Polanco (Virginia Tech)
“The Biblioteca Nacional de España’s History and Collection of the Pintura del gobernador, alcaldes y regidores de México and Other Mesoamerican Manuscripts”
6:45 (12:45) Open Discussion
Facilitators: Lenin Martell (UAEM) & Markus Heide (University of Hildesheim)
Brief Thoughts: Ralph Bauer, Astrid Fellner, Thomas Hallock, Marcel Hartwig
Thomas Hallock, University of South Florida