Black Collections Symposium
2023 Black Collections Symposium
Black Memory and Storytelling Symposium
ASU Library’s Black Collections, a new archival repository within the Community-Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative, is committed to empowering and centering the lived experiences and knowledge of Black and African American communities who are breaking cycles of erasure.
The Black Memory and Storytelling Symposium, hosted by ASU Library's Black Collections, brings together ASU faculty, students, archivists and community memory keepers to reimagine 21st-century archives as spaces of inclusion and justice.
The symposium took place April 20, 2024 at Hayden Library and April 22, 2024 at Burton Barr Library.
View the 2023 Speaker Biographies.
Image credit: The Dunbar Social and Literary club, Sahauro Yearbook, 1940. LD 179.47 .S3 1972 University Archives, ASU Library.
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The ASU Library acknowledges the twenty-three Native Nations that have inhabited this land for centuries. Arizona State University's four campuses are located in the Salt River Valley on ancestral territories of Indigenous peoples, including the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa) Indian Communities, whose care and keeping of these lands allows us to be here today. ASU Library acknowledges the sovereignty of these nations and seeks to foster an environment of success and possibility for Native American students and patrons. We are advocates for the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge systems and research methodologies within contemporary library practice. ASU Library welcomes members of the Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh, and all Native nations to the Library.
