Summary:

In this episode, I welcome Kelann Currie-Williams, lens-based artist and doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program at Concordia University. Kelann joins us to speak about the poetics of the archives.

Episode Resources:

Kelann Currie-Williams. (2021). Prolonging the Afterimage: Looking at and Talking about Photographs of Black Montreal. Concordia University. https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/988140/13/CurrieWilliams_MA_S2021.pdf

Kelann Currie-Williams (2021). Makers and Keepers: Two Lives, Through Photographs. Canadian Journal of History, 56(3). https://utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/cjh.56-3-2021-0044

Patrick Lejtenyi (September 29, 2020). Concordia undergrads explore Montreal's Black history through the Negro Community Centre Archives. https://www.concordia.ca/news/stories/2020/09/29/concordia-undergrads-explore-montreals-black-history-through-the-negro-community-centre-archives.html

Tina M. Campt. (2017). Listening to Images. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/listening-to-images

Saidiya Hartman. (2019). Wayward lives, beautiful experiments: Intimate histories of riotous Black girls, troublesome women, and queer radicals. WW Norton & Company. https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393357622

Melissa J. Nelson. (November 9, 2023) Black Sound and the Archives. https://melissajnelson.com/explore/information-management/black-sound-and-the-archives/

Vance Woods. (Jan 16, 2023). “There is a tangible tension between what is held in Caribbean archives and what is remembered in Caribbean communities”: Interview with Stanley H. Griffin, of the University of the West Indies (pt. 1). https://www.archivozmagazine.org/en/interview-with-stanley-h-griffin-pt-1/#:~:text=marketing%20marketing-,%E2%80%9CThere%20is%20a%20tangible%20tension%20between%20what%20is%20held%20in,1

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