Feeling(s) in the Archive: Emotions, Expressions, Experience
Organizers: Bridget Keown & Courtney Thompson
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, APRIL 8
9:00-9:30 am CT
Welcome and Opening Comment
Bridget Keown & Courtney Thompson
9:30-10:30 am CT
Making Connections
Moderator: Bridget Keown
Mary Chadwick, “Identifying with a Conservative Countess as a Left-wing Academic”
Leon Janssens, “Ordering Pornography in Nineteenth-century Brussels”
Koyna Tomar, “Remembering Jill: Celebrity Cows and Dairy Science in Colonial and Postcolonial India”
11:00 – 1:00 pm CT
The Presence and Power of Loss
Moderator: DeeDee Baldwin
Samira Saramo, “Everything and Nothing: Feeling Photographs of Grief and the Everyday”
Heather Ellis, “Symbols of Sadness (?): Veteran Art in Postwar Canada”
Erika K. Jackson, “Girlhood, Feminism, Trauma, and Loss in 1994”
Rachel Anne Gillett, “If”
1:30-3:15 pm CT
Touching Time
Moderator: Sharrona Pearl
Christina Gessler, “Flighty Feelings: Sarah’s Writings About Taxidermy”
Laura Wagner, “Accidental Traces: Stowaway Objects in the Radio Haiti Archive”
Renee Ragin Randall, “Archiving the Event That Hasn’t Ended”
Alex Lindgren-Gibson, “Missed Connections: Metropolitan Encounters in Indian Newspapers”
3:30-5:00 pm CT
Empathy As Archival Tool
Moderator: Kelly Therese Pollock
Anna K. Danzinger Halperin, “Caring for Wetnurses’ Children: Neglect and Disdain in New York’s Nursery and Child’s Hospital”
Claudia Calhoun, “John Ford’s Feelings”
Kylie M. Smith, “Mrs. Hurston’s Letter: Memory, Trauma, and Family in Mississippi”
SATURDAY, APRIL 9
10:00 am-11:30 am CT
Love, Loyalty, and Loneliness
Moderator: Kelly O’Donnell
Meral Akbaş & Özge Kelekçi, “Ruins/Stones/Walls Hear, See, Speak: ‘Loneliness is for the state!’”
Seth Stein LeJacq, “‘o what happiness it wood be for me to see you once more’: A Mother’s Letter and a Royal Navy Sodomy Hanging, 1800”
Anya Jabour, “‘Venus Time’: Love and Longing in May Bragdon’s Diaries”
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm CT
Integrating and Translating Emotions
Moderator: Rhiannon Scharnhorst
Max Johnson Dugan, “Reading Emotion, Power, and Strategy in the Penn Museum’s Acquisition of an Egyptian Qur’ān Manuscript”
Shannon Withycombe, “‘Discharged Well’: Child Loss and Erased Emotion in the Medical Record”
Hannah Groch-Begley, “The Phantom Letter: Experiencing Absence and Presence in the Archive”
2:00 – 3:30 pm CT
Love Enduring
Moderator: Kelly Therese Pollock
Britta McEwan, “Positive Emotions in Tough Times”
Galen David Bunting, “‘Let Us Devour Each Other And Die’: Desire and Trauma in the Unpublished War Writing of Mary Borden”
Penelope K. Hardy, “‘Dearest Püppchen’: Reckoning with love, science, and family in the wartime letters of Florence and Kris Kreeger”
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm CT
Flashes of Emotion
Moderator: Courtney Thompson
Sarah L. Leonard, “Anna’s Moods: Making Sense of Emotions in Early German Photographs”
Axelle Demus, “To Watch Boldly What No One Has Watched Before: Discoveries, Kinship, and Joy in the Queer Television Archives”
G. Patrick O’Brien, “‘A Foretaste of the Joys of Heaven and Almost the Miseries of Hell’: A Diary in the Loyalist Diaspora”
Archival Kismet 