 SIS is pleased to announce that Jeannette
A. Bastion, a graduate of the School’s PhD program
in Library and Information Science, will be the next
speaker in the “Policy, Ethics & Accountability” Lecture
Series. Dr. Bastion will discuss “From Chile
to 9/11: Collective Memory and Social Responsibility” on
Monday, March 19, beginning at 4:30 pm in the Frick
Fine Arts Auditorium. This lecture series is co-sponsored
by the School of Information Sciences and the Johnson
Institute for Responsible Leadership at the Graduate
School of Public and International Affairs.
Collective memory offers perspectives on historic
events that enable the crossing of boundaries between
past and present in order to better understand social
movements and concerns. In recent decades, the study
of collective memory has become a major scholarly preoccupation.
The collective memory perspective also offers archivists
and other record keepers avenues for re-envisioning
their own documenting responsibilities and opportunities.
Beginning with conceptualizations of collective memory
from both within and outside the archival profession,
this presentation will consider how collective memory
broadens and extends the records of events, provides
windows into areas beyond the reach of traditional
documentation and brings social context and responsibility
into the forefront of archival practice.
Jeannette A. Bastian is an Associate Professor in
the Graduate School of Library and Information Science
at Simmons College where she also directs their Archives
Management program. She received her doctorate from
the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Information
Sciences. Formerly the director of the Territorial
Library and Archives of the United States Virgin Islands,
Jeannette is the author of Owning Memory; How a Caribbean
Community Lost Its Archives and Found Its History,
published in 2003. She publishes widely in the archival
literature and is currently the Book Reviews editor
for the American Archivist.
Visit http://www.sis.pitt.edu/academics/colloquia/policySeries.html for
more information about the Policy, Ethics and Accountability
Lecture Series, which is presented by the Johnson Institute
for Responsible Government at the Graduate School of
Public and International Affairs and the School of
Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. |
