[Sci-tech-public] Friday, October 10 -- Tales from the Archive

[Alex Wellerstein]

MIT STS grad students would be more than welcome to the event below  
if they are interested in coming! -- Alex

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This year's fun-filled schedule of the Dissertation Writer's Working  
Group (DaWGs) is kicking off with a special panel event:

"TALES FROM THE ARCHIVE"

THIS FRIDAY -- October 10
5pm-7pm
Science Center 469

A special DaWGs panel on the varieties of archival experience

Featuring a grad student panel with extensive experience in many  
types of archives, doing work on many different time periods:

Alex Csiszar
Daniel Margocsy
Lukas Rieppel
Dave Unger
Alex Wellerstein
moderated and introduced by Tal Arbel

We're going to share stories about our archival trips in the United  
States, France, Germany, and Eastern Europe, among other places. The  
goal will be to try and weave a rich picture of the many different  
sorts of research, with different types of sources, in different  
countries and contexts -- the grad student panelists have been chosen  
for the scope of their experiences (both positive and negative).

Much will be shared and learned! You'll hear stories about archival  
trips gone wrong, about archives who tried to shut out historians,  
about the best of archives and the worst of archives, and more, more!  
Presentations will be given! Powerpoint will be used!!

This is an event for students, especially G1-G3 grad  students who  
haven't had much (if any) archival experience and are looking towards  
their dissertation work. If there are any senior thesis students who  
would benefit from the panel, please send them along as well!!  
Experienced archive rats also welcome -- but no faculty, to keep it  
casual!!

Note: questioning of the importance of the archival experience may  
occur!!

Food and drink will be provided! A merry time will be had!! Gruesome  
tales will be told!!

See attached flier! That's how exciting this will be!!

RSVP to wellerst at fas.harvard.edu so we can tally it up!

Tal and Alex W.


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Alex Wellerstein
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wellerst at fas.harvard.edu
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