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The Gender of Memory and the Shape of the Archive
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Jane Kamensky, Professor of History and Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University
This talk probes a facet of collections-building that often hides in plain sight: the gendered processes that steer personal papers from the household to the archives. Who saves, curates, annotates, and donates (or destroys) family letters? How does that hidden labor shape (or distort) our acquisitions, and how do our choices about processing and description capture (or erase) that memory work? Drawing on her research on early America, and her work with colleagues to build the collections of Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe, Professor Kamensky explores stories of family, politics, and family politics that shape both archives and history.
This talk probes a facet of collections-building that often hides in plain sight: the gendered processes that steer personal papers from the household to the archives. Who saves, curates, annotates, and donates (or destroys) family letters? How does that hidden labor shape (or distort) our acquisitions, and how do our choices about processing and description capture (or erase) that memory work? Drawing on her research on early America, and her work with colleagues to build the collections of Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe, Professor Kamensky explores stories of family, politics, and family politics that shape both archives and history.
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