The Itatsu Lab will be organizing a lecture by Dr. Sirpa Salenius on the topic of “The Journey Towards Contextualization in Archival Work” on 27 September 2023.
Date & Time: Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 13:00-14:30 (JST)
Format: On-site (no registration needed)
On-site Venue: 92B, 9th floor, Faculty of Engineering Bldg. 2, Hongō Campus, University of Tokyo
About the lecture
Archival work involves collecting, organizing, preserving, and providing access to historical documents and records to facilitate research and preserve cultural heritage. Beyond this, it entails skillfully interweaving historical, cultural, and social narratives around archival materials, thereby recovering historical stories. In this lecture, Dr Sirpa Salenius will discuss how she conducts archival work in her transnational investigations. This will be a useful discussion for GSII students to reflect on the methodology for their own projects.
About Dr. Sirpa Salenius
Dr. Sirpa Salenius is currently an Associate Researcher at Laboratoire de Recherches sur les Cultures Anglophones (LARCA), Université Paris Cité. She is also a Senior Lecturer in English-language literature and culture at the University of Eastern Finland. Her research focuses on issues related to race, gender, and sexuality, from the nineteenth century to the present. Her research themes include: Transatlantic women, Black Americans in Italy, Nineteenth-century American artists in Italy, American literature. Her books include An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016), which was nominated for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) 2018 Book Award; Rose Elizabeth Cleveland: First Lady and Literary Scholar (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); and essay collections, including Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century(Routledge, 2019), co-edited with Verena Laschinger, and recently released book Gender in Japanese Popular Culture: Rethinking Masculinities and Femininities (2023).
使用言語 | Language: English
司会｜Moderated by Dr. Yuko Itatsu, Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, Univ. of Tokyo
主催｜Organized by the Itatsu Lab
共催｜Co-organized by ITASIA Program, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo
お問い合わせ先| Inquiries can be sent to itatsu.lab(at)gmail.com
YUKO ITATSU LABORATORY, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO 
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