Session One, 3:15 - 4:30 PM

1A. Memories of Violence & War

Forgetting Hiroshima: The Struggle for Justice After the Atomic Bombings

Eric Ross, University of Massachusetts Amherst

The Second Skin: Uniform, Clothing, Memory, and the Body in Rithy Panh's Film

Methaporn Singhanan, University of California Santa Cruz 

Chair: Jon Olsen, Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst 

Saturday, March 28

Session two, 9:00 - 10:30 AM 

2A. Ancient and Medieval Survivalism

When the Province Becomes the Center: The Emperor and the Land in 13th Century Anatolia 

Massimiliano Dalmasso, Princeton University

Catherine of Siena: The Fragmentation of a Saint

Diana Moca, University of Massachusetts Boston

Peasantry, Wilderness, and Magic During the Little Ice Age

Melina Olivas, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Celts and Cowboys: Reconstructing Survival Strategies on the Romano-British Frontier

Alexander Reed, Harvard University

Chair: Anna Taylor, Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst 

2B. What Makes it to the Archive?

A Material History of The Watermark

Carston Anderson, University of Massachusetts Boston

Ungrown Histories: Silence, Refusal, and the Labor of Black Feminist Lineage

Olivia Dunbar-Miller, Syracuse University

Culture is Political: Exploring the Everyday Politics of Arab Americans in Worcester, Massachusetts (1918-1969)

Katlyn Durand, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Chair: Libby Coyner, UMass Amherst Special Collections and University Archives

Session three, 1:30 - 3:00 PM 

3A. The Preservation and Interpretation of Multimedia/Visual Arts

"An Old City Scandal": The Resurrection of "América Tropical" and Memory in the Los Angeles Borderlands, 1968–2012

Natalie McDonald, Yale University

Embodied Remembering: William E. Jones’s All Male Mashup

Harper Hale, Syracuse University 

Chair: Martha McNamara, Associate Professor of History, Associate Director, Slavery North, University of Massachusetts Amherst

3B. Networks of Care Towards Surival

The Pink-Collar Lavender Scare: Queer Women's Labor from the Desks of Federal Offices to the Ranks of the Mattachine Society

Emma O’Neill-Dietel, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Women in UPWA Local 11 and Their Place in Women’s Labor History

Hannah Sims, University of Massachusetts Boston

Chair: Cedric de Leon, Professor of Sociology & Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Session four, 3:15 - 4:45 PM 

4A. Survival of Cultural and Personal Identity 

Faith in Transit: Caste, Conversion, and Colonial Christianity under Indenture in British Guiana

Kavita Gawrinauth, New York University

Finding Where They Speak: Black Women in the Colonial Archives of the Dominican Republic

Eliana Mercedes, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Threading the Needle: Tatreez, Trade, Tales, and Talk in Anglophonic, Women’s Literature of the Arab Diaspora 

Summer Mohrmann, Syracuse University 

Passing as Portuguese: Racial Passing and the Story of Edwin Santos

Christian F. Woods, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Chair: Daisy Guzman Nunez, Assistant Professor in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Keynote Address  5:00 - 6:00 PM 

Keynote Address by Dr. Elyse Semerdjian, "Listening to Armenian Women's Survival Testimony with Traditional and 'Embodied Archives'"

Sunday, March 29

Session five, 9:00 - 10:30 AM 

5A. Surviving the Archive

Louisa Picquet’s Slave Narrative and the Afterlives of Enslaved Women’s Histories

Kayla Laws, George Washington University 

Chair: Asheesh Siddique, Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts - Amherst