Professor of humanities and education at the University of the West Indies to speak on the Caribbean’s regional and insular dynamics through the lens of “island records.”
The 2024 Kenneth Karmiole Lecture in Archival Studies will be delivered by Dr. Stanley Griffin, professor of Humanities and Education at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, on Thursday, Jan. 18, 4:30-6 p.m. at the Luskin Conference Center on the UCLA campus.
Griffin will present “Liberating Island Records: Vignettes of Culture, Memory, Resistance and Revival,” introduced by Tonia Sutherland, UCLA assistant professor of information studies. Drawing from the Caribbean’s regional and insular dynamics, Griffin will explore how “island records” are glimpses of societal culture, signposts of collective memory, narratives of resistance and efforts of revival against continued and imposing influences from the outside.
The Kenneth Karmiole Lecture in Archival Studies lecture series was established in 2014 with a generous gift from Kenneth Karmiole (’71, MLIS), a Los Angeles antiquarian bookseller, philanthropist and alumnus of the UCLA Information Studies Department.
The Luskin Conference Center is located at 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095. To register for this event and for more information, visit this link.