Engendering the Archives
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Center For The Critical Analysis Of Social Difference
"Engendering the Archive is a three-year interdisciplinary research project focusing on gender, sexuality, race, and archival practices. We will look at categories of social difference as inescapable aspects of differential power relations that determine what societies remember and what they forget. Focusing on key questions such as--What is an archive? Who or what authorizes its construction? How do archives contribute to the production of social and cultural difference? How does the development of new media radically change the way knowledge is classified, stored, and retrieved?—the project will seek answers by taking advantage of theories and methods developed by contemporary artists, activists, and scholars of race, gender, and sexuality."
"Mission The Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference at Columbia University is an advanced study center that promotes innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the global dynamics of gender, sexuality, ethnicity and race."
