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July 8, 2016 - Comments Off on LAAC Book Club No. 9

LAAC Book Club No. 9

Join us for our ninth reading and meeting of the LAAC Book Club--where LA-area archivists and friends read and discuss publications exploring all matters archives.

Our next book selection is An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures by Ann Cvetkovich

978-0-8223-3088-2-frontcoverPublisher’s Description: In this bold new work of cultural criticism, Ann Cvetkovich develops a queer approach to trauma. She argues for the importance of recognizing—and archiving—accounts of trauma that belong as much to the ordinary and everyday as to the domain of catastrophe. An Archive of Feelings contends that the field of trauma studies, limited by too strict a division between the public and the private, has overlooked the experiences of women and queers. Rejecting the pathologizing understandings of trauma that permeate medical and clinical discourses on the subject, Cvetkovich develops instead a sex-positive approach missing even from most feminist work on trauma. She challenges the field to engage more fully with sexual trauma and the wide range of feelings in its vicinity, including those associated with butch-femme sex and aids activism and caretaking.

An Archive of Feelings brings together oral histories from lesbian activists involved in act up/New York; readings of literature by Dorothy Allison, Leslie Feinberg, Cherríe Moraga, and Shani Mootoo; videos by Jean Carlomusto and Pratibha Parmar; and performances by Lisa Kron, Carmelita Tropicana, and the bands Le Tigre and Tribe 8. Cvetkovich reveals how activism, performance, and literature give rise to public cultures that work through trauma and transform the conditions producing it. By looking closely at connections between sexuality, trauma, and the creation of lesbian public cultures, Cvetkovich makes those experiences that have been pushed to the peripheries of trauma culture the defining principles of a new construction of sexual trauma—one in which trauma catalyzes the creation of cultural archives and political communities.


The group will meet on Thursday, August 25, from 6:30-8 pm at Taix (1911 W Sunset Blvd, Echo Park, in the bar room). Participants to the Book Club will be capped at 12. Please email laacollective@gmail.com to reserve a spot.

Can’t make the meeting, but are still reading the book? Let us know!

July 7, 2016 - Comments Off on Conversations in the Park: Emerging Research in Information Studies

Conversations in the Park: Emerging Research in Information Studies

This summer, join your peers and special guest speakers for "Conversations in the Park" - a series of talks in our lovely city parks, brought to you by the LAAC Subcommittee on Community Outreach and Advocacy. Bring snacks!

July conversations flier

 

Join us in Barnsdall Park for conversation about emerging research in Information Studies with UCLA doctoral candidates Marika Cifor and Stacy Wood. Cifor will speak on nostalgia and the use of HIV/AIDS records by activists and artists; Wood will discuss classified information, conspiracy theories, and queer archives. Joint discussion of feminism and archives will follow.

June 13, 2016 - Comments Off on LAAC Movie Night

LAAC Movie Night

In collaboration with our friends at LACA, we are excited to bring you a screening of Stanley Kubrick's Boxes, a 2008 documentary by Jon Ronson featuring Kubrick's vast personal collection of memorabilia related to his feature films.

Stanley Kubrick Archives

Image credit: Stanley Kubrick Archives

Monday, July 11, 7:30 - 9:30 pm

Los Angeles Contemporary Archive
2245 E. Washington Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90021

Drinks and snacks will be for sale, proceeds benefit LAAC.

May 19, 2016 - Comments Off on Conversations in the Park: Advocating for Yourself in the Workplace

Conversations in the Park: Advocating for Yourself in the Workplace

This summer, join your peers and special guest speakers for "Conversations in the Park" - a series of talks in our lovely city parks, brought to you by the LAAC Subcommittee on Community Outreach and Advocacy. Bring snacks!

Conversations in the Park flier - updated

 

We're pleased to kick off our series with a conversation about advocating for yourself in the workplace. Join us in downtown's spacious Grand Park for discussions of salary negotiation, hiring practices, maintaining productive relationships with supervisors, and balancing professional advancement with non-work interests and responsibilities. With special guests Nancy Martiz (Benefit Partner, USC Human Resources), Shilpa Rele (Digital Program Librarian at Loyola Marymount), and Charmaine Sello (Community Library Manager of Sorenson Library).

May 2, 2016 - Comments Off on LAAC Book Club No. 8

LAAC Book Club No. 8

Join us for our eighth reading and meeting of the LAAC Book Club--where LA-area archivists and friends read and discuss publications exploring all matters archives.

Our next book selection is The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memories in the Americas by Diana Taylor

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Publisher’s Description: In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken seriously as a means of storing and transmitting knowledge. Taylor reveals how the repertoire of embodied memory—conveyed in gestures, the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other performances—offers alternative perspectives to those derived from the written archive and is particularly useful to a reconsideration of historical processes of transnational contact. The Archive and the Repertoire invites a remapping of the Americas based on traditions of embodied practice.


The group will meet on Wednesday, June 29, from 6:30-8 pm at Alcove Cafe & Bakery (1929 Hillhurst Ave). Participants to the Book Club will be capped at 12. Please email laacollective@gmail.com to reserve a spot.

Can’t make the meeting, but are still reading the book? Let us know!