In Bingham Humanities Room 300. Lunch will be provided!

Archives and Special Collections (ASC) and the Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society (CCHS) invite you to a half-day symposium to experience how archival materials can be incorporated into your classes. ASC faculty will describe the rich archival collections in their care, and how subjects such as colonization, urban renewal, creative writing, linguistics, politics, gender, and other humanities and social sciences topics can be explored through these primary sources. Faculty from the Departments of Political Science, Geography and Geosciences, and English will discuss how they successfully built classroom projects around materials found in ASC.

Preliminary Program:
11:00-11:50 – Join Forces with Local Sources: Introduction to Archives and Special Collections materials
Carrie Daniels, Director, ASC
Heather Fox, Manuscript Archivists and Director of Oral History Center, ASC
Rebecca Pattillo, Metadata Librarian, ASC

12:00-12:50 – Lunch and Activity

1:00-2:00 – Old Stuff, New Pedagogy: examples of successful primary source assignments from non-history faculty
Carrie Mott, Assistant Professor, Geography and Geosciences
Dave Buckley, Associate Professor, Political Science
Kristi Maxwell, Assistant Professor, English

2:00-3:00 (optional) – Tour of Archives and Special Collections

Sponsored by Archives and Special Collections & The Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society