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Pre-conference Workshop: Turning the Lens, Black Family Photography, Archival Justice, and Photo SharingLocation: Ithaca Marriott Downtown Time: 1 - 4 PM The Turning the Lens: Black Family Photography, Archival Justice, and Photo Sharing Workshop is designed to teach participants a non-extractive methodology for engaging their local community that utilizes family photographs. We will discuss how our own project to assemble a digital collection of “Black Family Photography in Syracuse” uses family photos to cultivate connections through programming, illuminate suppressed local histories, and bridge gaps between institution and community. The hands-on component of this workshop invites participants to bring their own family photos to learn how to facilitate photo sharing sessions that can prompt deeper connections between community partners and amplify marginal histories. Presentation Format: Experiential/Interactive Session categories:
What to expect: This workshop is focused on how to facilitate dialogue with community members about local histories utilizing family photographs and will also speak to the power held by museums and archives institutions of knowledge. Participants will come away with the skill to conduct their own projects, programming, and collection development alongside local community members in ways that do not exploit their marginalized participants and instead honor their own ways of knowing and being. Presenters: Caroline Charles, PhD Candidate in English, Syracuse University Humanities Center Dissertation Fellow Caroline Charles is an English doctoral candidate and Humanities Center dissertation fellow at Syracuse University where she studies Black film histories and archival practice. She is a former Curatorial and Instruction Assistant in SU Libraries’ SCRC where she co-curated an exhibition titled, A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s (2023). She is also a member of the Turning the Lens Collective.Jessica Terry-Elliott, PhD Candidate in History, Syracuse University Jessica Terry-Elliott is a doctoral candidate in History at Syracuse University. She researches 20th century African American history and Black archival practice. She is a former Curatorial and Instruction Assistant in SU Libraries’ SCRC where she co-curated an exhibition titled A Love Supreme. In addition to her work with the Turning the Lens Collective, she is the creator of an oral history project, A Children’s Story:School Segregation in Syracuse, NY during the 1960s and 1970s.Roger Hallas, Professor of Film & Screen Studies, Department of English, Syracuse University Roger Hallas is Professor of Film & Screen Studies in the Department of English at Syracuse University. He is author of A Medium Seen Otherwise: Photography in Documentary Film (Oxford UP, 2023) and Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness and the Queer Moving Image (Duke UP, 2009). He is director of the Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival and a member of the Turning the Lens Collective. |
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