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2025 Research Forum Agenda
Wednesday, July 23 (register here)
Wednesday, July 30 (register here)
12:00 to 4:00 PM Central time, hosted virtually
Day One: July 23rd, 12:00 to 4:00 PM Central time
12:00-12:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks
12:15-1:10pm Session 1.1: Archives as a Space for Justice and Restoration
Accidental Social Science Series - From Trauma to Tradition: A Black Veteran Archivist’s Disability Justice Framework for Dismantling Food Apartheid in DeKalb County
Chaundria Wynn (Humble Ethical Researchers Co.)
Curating Digital Exhibits in Community Archives: A Comparative Study of the Park County Local History Archives and the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
Ruohua Han and Krystyna Matusiak (University of Denver)
Revisiting and Reinvigorating: Examining NAGPRA’s Shortcomings and the Renewed Push for Repatriation
Briana Gutierrez-Kemmerling (University of Michigan)
Enrolling as Cherokee Freedmen: Social Networks of Rejected Applicants
Rebecca Hankins and Hai In Jo (Texas A&M University)
Ukraine’s Libraries in Wartime: To Save Memory, People, Hope
Ulia Gosart (San Jose State University) and Rhonda Clark (PennWest Clarion University)
Roberta I. Murray: Discovering Her Names in the Archival Records
Douglas Doe (Rhode Island School of Design)
1:10-1:20pm Q & A Session
1:20-1:35pm Break
1:35-2:20pm Session 1.2: National and Government Archives
"The Soul of the National Archives”: Sara Dunlap Jackson, 1919-1991
Alex H. Poole (Drexel University)
Making the Case: Challenges and Opportunities in Judges' Papers
Anu Kasarabada (University of Kentucky Libraries)
Deep Research, Wide Results: Updating NARA’s Digital Preservation Framework
Leslie Johnston, Amanda May, and Mackenzie Beasley (National Archives and Records Administration)
Archives Working Across Remote Environments: Understanding the Needs of Territorial Archives
Eira Tansey (Memory Rising) and Helen Wong Smith (University of Hawai'i)
2:20-2:30pm Q & A Session
2:30-2:45pm Break
2:45-3:35pm Session 1.3: Examining and Improving Archival Work
Leaving Home: Archivists Teaching outside the Archives
Lori Schwartz and Claire Du Laney (University of Nebraska at Omaha)
Research Update on “Reappraising Appraising the Records of Modern Science and Technology”: Coding Outcomes and Early Conclusions
Jordon Steele (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory), Bethany Anderson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), and Polina Ilieva (University of California, San Francisco)
Archivists and the Collecting Reflex
Brenda Gunn (University of Virginia)
Bridging Capacity and Care: Fieldwork in UK and US Special Collections and Archives
Emilie Hardman (ITHAKA)
Getting into Archives -- Engaging 9-12 Grade Teachers in Using Archives for Place-Based Education
Elliott Kuecker, Alexandra Chassanoff, and Lyric Grimes (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
3:35-3:45pm Q & A Session
3:45-4:00pm Closing remarks
Day Two: July 30th, 12:00 to 4:00 PM Central time
12:00-12:15 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks
12:15-1:10pm Session 2.1: AI
Early Birds in the Coal Mine: Business Archivists as Partners in AI Development and Implementation
Claire Danna (Procter & Gamble Heritage Center)
AI is for Access: An Investigation of AI Adoption
Jen Wachtel Litwin (NARA), Timi Adediran (EpiStats Solutions), Dara Barker (FDIC), Christina Velazquez Fidler (University of California, Berkeley), Steven Gentry (University of Michigan), and Jamie Wiser (Brigham Young University)
“Read the Dang Article”: Archivists’ Views on AI and Peer Review
Ashley Todd-Diaz (Towson University) and Alex H. Poole (Drexel University)
Metadata Remediation through Human-AI Collaboration
Elizabeth Roke (Emory University)
Enhancing Access to Legacy of Slavery Records using Generative AI
Rajesh Gnanasekaran, Richard Marciano, Lori Perine, and Mark Conrad (University of Maryland)
1:10-1:20pm Q & A Session
1:20-1:35pm Break
1:35-2:25pm Session 2.2: Archives in the Digital Age
Digital Preservation and Access to Born-Digital Collections: A Critical Disability and Intersectionality-Informed Assessment of Praxis
Kelsey O'Connell (Northwestern University)
Social Media Preservation in Times of Change: A Workflow and Policy Analysis Case-Study at Towson University’s Archives
Jasmine S. Malone and Emiel Brown (Towson University)
Digitizing the Sacred: A Case Study of the Library of Babaláwo Irete Obara
Ayodélé Odiduro (The University of Alabama)
Digitizing Dance Heritage: Community-Driven Innovations at the Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections
Shan Chuah (Arizona State University)
Preserving Composers’ Process in the Digital Age
Jessica Grimmer and Stephanie Akau (University of Maryland)
2:25-2:35pm Q & A Session
2:35-2:50pm Break
2:50-3:35pm Session 2.3: Archival Connections
The Missing Link: Where Are We With Linked Data?
Kate Bowers (Harvard University)
Indigenizing Archival Search: Findings from Focus Group Discussions about the SNAC Platform
Ia Bull, Rebecca Ridge, and Diana Marsh (University of Maryland)
From Wow to Wondering: Proposed Solutions to Alienating Awe in the Special Collections & Archives Classroom
Taylor F. Henning and Rachel C.S. Duke (Florida State University)
Archival Disconnections In and Across Institutions
Ellen Holt-Werle (University of Minnesota)
Responsible Archival Stewardship Through Reappraisal and Deaccessioning
Cory Nimer and J. Gordon Daines III (Brigham Young University)
Comparative Research on Underground Music Archives in the American South
Jon Sewell (Middle Tennessee State University)
3:35-3:45pm Q & A Session
3:45-4:00pm Closing remarks