Time: 10:00am to 12:00pm
Format: In-person
Location: BSI Lounge, CAW Centre, University of Windsor
Description:
Archives are repositories of memory and the archivist safeguards the memory pieces therein. This session is facilitated by one of two archivists within academia throughout the whole of Canada. Antoinette Seymour, born in The Bahamas and a current archivist at UWindsor, speaks about the paucity of Black archivists at Canada and the ensuing silence in the archives with respect to Caribbean Diaspora, her research interest. In particular, inclusion in memory spaces is spoken to. She also explains why archives matter.
Attendees of Caribbean descent are encouraged to bring an archive or artefact dear to their heart.
Facilitator:
Antoinette Seymour, Archivist/Librarian