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Centering Underrepresented Voices in Describing and Analyzing Archival Materials
Full text linkThis work-in-progress poster examines the pedagogical integration of examples centering underrepresented minorities in the teaching of archival description and the analysis of archival materials in two graduate-level courses: Archives and Records Management and Advanced Archives. In the former, students explore metadata and description standards like MARC21, EAD, and LCNAF through hands-on assignments using collections that highlight the lives and work of Black and Indigenous creators. In the latter, students engage with computational archival science techniques, analyzing datasets such as the Maryland State Archives\u27 Legacy of Slavery collection and records from WWII-era Japanese American incarceration camps. These case studies are selected to demonstrate the relevance and necessity of inclusive archival practices. Pedagogical rigor is grounded in critical archival studies (Caswell & Cifor, 2016; Cook, 2013), computational thinking in LIS (Marciano et al., 2018), and constructivist learning theory (Bada & Olusegun, 2015). This work addresses the ALISE 2025 theme of “Decolonizing Pedagogies” by showing how archival education can empower students to surface silenced voices and challenge dominant narratives in cultural heritage description and analysis. Insights from student reflections and classroom discussions underscore the value of these methods in fostering critical awareness and professional responsibility in future archivists
Correcting and Perfecting the Body: Presenting Examples of the Human Body at Spurlock
No full textThis issue of SourceLab features artifacts drawn from the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). The objects presented all represent different techniques of perfecting or correcting the human body.
This publication is part of the digital documentary edition series SourceLab, based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our Editorial Board conducts rigorous peer-review of every edition
Book Review of Anime\u27s Knowledge Cultures
No full textThis is a book review of Jinying Li\u27s 2024 book Anime\u27s Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai, published by the University of Minnesota Press.
Find the Time: Creating a card game to showcase special collections and celebrate institutional history
Full text linkFind the Time is a campus history card game designed to engage students, alumni, and university employees. Inspired by a similar game developed at McGill University Libraries, Find the Time challenges players to arrange cards in the correct chronological order. It can be played as a traditional sit-down card game or (using oversize cards) as a walk-up activity at events such as homecoming festivals. The cards feature images from [University] Libraries Special Collections, including the digital archives of the campus newspaper and yearbook. Find the Time is intended to promote these collections and spark conversations among players about their own experiences and how the campus has changed over time. This article describes the development and implementation of the game and provides practical advice to help other institutions create similar games to celebrate their own history and collections
Making History by Hand: Zine-Making as Pedagogy in Chicano History
Full text linkZine-making offers an accessible, creative scholarship option for students in undergraduate humanities classes. This article describes an academic library’s support for zine-making in a history class focused on the Chicano Movement. The library was integrated into this class from start to finish, showcasing zines and artist books as samples, providing research support, and offering Makerspace resources. At the end of the course, students were invited to donate their zines to the library collection. Throughout the semester, this collaboration between the library and professor facilitated these students’ exploration of both Chicano history and their creative talents
Modes of Climate Engagement: Three Recent Case Studies of Climate Change-related Exhibitions
Full text linkThe challenges of how to connect people to the seemingly abstract concept of climate change has been explored by countless researchers who aim to help people understand the impact of emissions on rising temperatures. Climate change-themed exhibitions offer new pathways for connection with difficult-to-grasp climatological concepts; these methods are similar to the ways in which Lauren Berlant claims art activism “interferes with the feedback loop whose continuity is at the core of whatever normativity has found traction.”1 This review of three such exhibitions—one in-person, one online, and one hybrid—explores how new forms of meaning-making can emerge out of these public proposals for what is, essentially, a greater engagement with the terms of climate change in the here and now. These exhibitions share questions of social responsibility by involving forms of new media and piquing the curiosity of visitors, offering rich case studies with which to examine how mediation operates on multiple levels, and potentially broadening public engagement with climate change
Ivan Argunov’s Portrait of Anna Kalmykova
Full text linkThis article examines Ivan Petrovich Argunov’s 1767 painting of Anna Nikolaevna Kalmykova, one of many Kalmyk children removed from their families by the Russian military and forcibly adopted by elite Russians and Europeans. Both sitter and painter were, in different ways, unfree: Argunov was enserfed by the Sheremetev family and Kalmykova was their ward. Examining the portrait’s many visual antecedents and references, this paper argues that Argunov used the intimate, informal styles of Enlightenment portraiture in a way that enmeshed its subject and author in the harsh social hierarchies of the Sheremetev household and imperial society. The relatively loose facture of the painting and its attention to the sitter’s liveliness and youth demonstrate Argunov’s skill as a modern portraitist. But although Kalmykova dominates the composition of her own portrait (which makes it unlike most other portraits of Kalmyk people in Russia during this period), Argunov makes clear that she is subordinate to her patron and other members of her “adoptive” family. Mapping the power structures of the household that enserfed him, Argunov combined private and ceremonial idioms in a way that said much about Kalmykova’s status and his own – a manner of portraiture that could only be copied by other artists from outside the household
Ramdarshan Bold, Melanie. Inclusive Young Adult Fiction: Authors of Colour in the United Kingdom. Palgrave Pivot, 2019. 157 pages. ISBN 9783030105211.
Full text linkMotion in Spatial Frames: Exploring the Elements of Animation Action
Full text linkThe distinctive style with which Japanese animation is rendered is what its audience have come to expect of anime, in terms of look, quality and content. Even when production began incorporating digital methods, anime made with 3D tools are invariably processed to look two-dimensional, and retained their unmistakably flat aesthetics. Being fundamentally technique-driven rather than technology-driven, locomotion and scalar relationships between elements in a moving image sequence are manipulated through compositing rather than composition. A micro-aesthetic analysis on highly dynamic action scenes from contemporaneous supernatural anime series manga adaptations, such as Dandadan and Jujutsu Kaisen, reveal the visual storytelling possibilities afforded by open compositing and limited animation in limited space. Ultimately, the portrayal of space is inextricably bound by the medium’s animetic capacity to induce viewers to haptically experience the effects of motion and movement in the multiplanar image. Finally, the paper reflects how such spatial framings and development of animation techne might enrich interdisciplinary discourse and creative practice