Jwan Khisro, postdoctoral researcher, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland.
Event Start Date: April 10th, 4pm
Event End Date: April 10th, 5pm
Location: In Person (HBK 2119) and Virtual, Register Here!
Abstract:
There is a need for a better understanding of equity perspective in public access to research results, accelerates discovery, promotes collaboration, fosters public trust and innovation, and provides opportunities for all to participate in research. It is vital to ensure that science and research benefit everyone. Answering the call from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to ensure Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research. Equity in public access to research results is the subject of this study and is currently in development by a collaborative team based at the University of Maryland, College Park. Therefore, this study aims to improve understanding of equitable access to federally funded research results. By enquiring the following research question: how federally funded research results can be equitably accessible to the public. The study employs a qualitative approach with an interpretative case study method.
Bio:
Jwan Khisro is a postdoctoral researcher at the College of Information Studies, University of Maryland. The primary goal of Jwan’s postdoctoral research is to contribute to and advance digital government practices and policies research agenda by focusing on two research areas 1) Equity perspective in public access to research results and 2) AI in digital government. Jwan conducts her research and collaborates with the USDA, and National Agricultural Library on implementing federal, agency, and departmental policies related to public access to federally funded research. She earned her PhD in informatics at the Department of Applied IT, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 2022. She also earned a Licentiate degree in informatics at the Department of Information Systems and Technology (IST), Mid Sweden University 2019 following a master’s degree in informatics, University of Gothenburg, 2013. Jwan’s research focuses on multidisciplinary fields studying the Constraints of digital transformation in the public sector from various perspectives such as IT Governance, investment budget, and digital infrastructure. Jwan’s work has appeared in academic journals such as the Enterprise Information Systems Journal and the Transforming Government: People, Process, and Policy. She regularly presents her research at top information systems conferences including AMCIS, EGOV, and HICSS.
Krista McCracken (Left), Award-winning public historian and Archivist
Skylee-Storm Hogan-Stacey (Right), Historian, Author, and Research Analyst
Event Start Date: May 1st, 4pm
Event End Date: May 1st, 5pm
Location: Virtual, Register Here!
Abstract:
Drawing on their recent book, Decolonial Archival Futures, Hogan-Stacey and McCracken will discuss unsettling Western archival practices within Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. This presentation highlights the transformative potential of decolonization within archival practices through practical examples, with an emphasis on envisioning decolonial possibilities that are Indigenous-led and community-driven. Drawing on their personal experiences, the speakers will highlight the complexities of challenging colonial narratives embedded in archival processes. Through critical analysis and practical examples, McCracken and Hogan-Stacey share insights into incorporating Indigenous perspectives, methodologies, and voices in archival work.
Bios:
Krista McCracken:
Krista McCracken is an award-winning public historian and archivist. They work as a Researchers/Curator at Algoma University’s Arthur A. Wishart Library and Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre, in Baawating (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe and Métis people. Krista’s research focuses on community archives, Residential Schools, access, and outreach. In 2020, they won the Best Article in Indigenous History prize awarded by the Canadian Historical Association’s Indigenous History Group for their article “Challenging Colonial Spaces: Reconciliation and Decolonizing Work in Canada’s Archives.”
Skylee-Storm:
Skylee-Storm Hogan-Stacey is a historian, author, and research analyst currently living and working on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabek in Ottawa, Ontario. A descendant of the Mohawk Nation of Kahnawà:ke, Skylee-Storm has explored community archival practices, Indigenous archival access, Residential School history, Indigenous-Crown legal history, and oral history. Since 2019, Skylee-Storm has worked with Know History Historical Services as a research historian in their Ottawa office.Skylee-Storm began their work unpacking and understanding Indigenous archivy when they joined the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre in 2015. She has remained a collaborator with the Centre on projects related to community archives and site history. Skylee-Storm completed a rewrite of the Ontario Provincial Heritage Program plaque for Shingwauk Hall in 2022. After working with the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre, Skylee-Storm has become an advocate for critiquing archival power dynamics and settler Canadian historical narratives. Their forthcoming book with Krista McCracken, Decolonial Archival Futures, continues this work.Skylee-Storm is currently on an interchange assignment with the office of the Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools, as a policy analyst focused on archives and Indigenous data sovereignty.
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Jamie A. Lee, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Associate Professor Digital Culture, Information, and Society at the School of Information, University of Arizona
Abstract:
Shifting archival approaches from “product to process” and “record to people” require radical inquiries into the archival practices of description and the expediency of such labor, especially in the digitally-mediated realm of virtual repositories. I consider stereotypes and the ways they function to fix notions of personhood in archival contexts and make expediency even possible. Moving from assumptions of fixity, I will explore the ambivalence of the un-fixed and the unfixable in the digital realm. Considering archives — both physical and digital — then, as fixed materials holds people and their shifting identities captive through their own archival records. Rather than the assumed certainties that stereotypes can inspire and that fixed archival records seemingly confirm, I look to the role of archival ambivalence in making room for complex personhood in the re-imagining description practices through digital archives. Centering the P. Carl Transitional Eyewear eyeglass collection (28 pairs of glasses that span over three decades) as a distinct site for interrogating the paradoxical notion of fixity, I challenge the concept and practice of stereotype through their own (un)becoming subjectivities. In considering the shifting subject that comes into view with each new pair of eyeglasses, Avery Gordon’s concept of complex personhood is elucidated as a theoretical statement that animates archival understandings of people as living complicated, dynamic lives that cannot be captured and viewed as forever fixed and unchanging. Through engaging the potentials of digitality, I will explore complex personhood as a creative tool to address the complicated and complex cultural imaginings, affective experiences, multi-perspectival voices, and animated and embodied objects that trace power’s presence in the archives. This presentation is meant as a playful unsettling through the ambivalences that a focus on the unfixed reveals.
Bio:
Jamie A. Lee is Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Associate Professor Digital Culture, Information, and Society at the School of Information, University of Arizona. They are scholar, activist, filmmaker, archivist, and oral historian. They founded and direct the Arizona Queer Archives where they train community members on facilitating oral history interviews and building collections in and with their own communities. With storytelling at the heart of their life’s work, Lee also directs the Digital Storytelling & Oral History Lab and co-founded the Critical Archives and Curation Collaborative, the co/lab, through which they collaborate on such storytelling projects as secrets of the agave: a Climate Justice Storytelling Project, and the Climate Alliance Mapping Project, CAMP. Lee’s 2021 book, Producing the Archival Body, engages storytelling to re-consider how archives are defined, understood, deployed, and accessed to produce subjects. Arguing that archives and bodies are mutually constitutive and developing a keen focus on the body and embodiment alongside archival theory, Lee introduces new understandings of archival bodies that interrogate how power circulates in archival contexts in order to build critical understandings of how deeply archives shape the production of knowledges and human subjectivities. For more on Lee’s projects, visit www.thestorytellinglab.io.
Megan Finn, Associate Professor, American University, Communication Studies, Washington DC
Abstract:
The United States’ science data policy has landed in a weird place. Data management plans are now required on federal grants – this is the most significant recent open science data law in the US. There are several reasons given in various administrative rules for more access to and transparency around research data including equity, research replicability, projecting the superiority of American science, ensuring the return on investment to taxpayers, incentivizing better research data management, legitimizing a future for data science and data-driven research, and enhancing the quality of science. Some of these justifications are contradictory and none of these justifications make it obvious that data management plans would be the best mechanism for ensuring science data transparency in federally funded research. This paper asks, how did the US end up with “data management plans” as a requirement? And, if we take data management plans seriously, what do these plans tell us about the future of science data? I will first examine data management plan requirements for science researchers in the US (particularly the National Science Foundation). Next, I will look at what the data management plans themselves say, drawing from my research team’s corpus of nearly 1000 data management plans from funded projects. I will offer different approaches to reading data management plans: as scientific furniture, as instruments for accessing funding, as evidence of the neoliberalization of science, as a process document for scientific knowledge production and institutional coordination, as a fantasy document, as instructions for the future, aligning temporalities, and as part of the institutionalization of data-oriented science. By sharing findings about the purposes and premises of planning for data management we argue they are an important vehicle for the project of open science.
Bio:
I have a number of research projects which are historical and contemporary empirical studies of responsible computing and data governance. My work examines relations among policies, infrastructures, and practices in the production, circulation, and use of data and information. I examine these themes in a book, called Documenting Aftermath: Information Infrastructures in the Wake of Disasters, with MIT Press (October 2018). The book is an examination of how changing public information infrastructures shaped people’s experience of earthquakes in Northern California in 1868, 1906, and 1989 followed by an analysis of the institutions, policies, and technologies that shape today’s postdisaster information landscape. I argue that information orders—complex constellations of institutions, technologies, and practices—influence how we act in, experience, and document events. What I term event epistemologies, constituted both by historical documents and by researchers who study them, explain how information orders facilitate particular possibilities for knowledge.
Before moving to SOC at AU, I was a professor at University of Washington’s Information School. I was a faculty member of the DataLab at the iSchool, and an affiliate of the UW’s eScience Institute, where, as a part of the Data Science Studies group, I co-convened a talk series, “Data Then and Now” from 2019-2021. I was an advisor with my university’s Science, Technology and Society Studies (STSS) program where I have been lucky enough to advise incredible students from Forestry, Law, and Urban Planning. I was lucky enough to supervise Meg Young, now a researcher at Data and Society.
In 2022-2023 I was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society and Stanford’s Department of Communication and HAI. In 2021-22 I was a Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellowship in Communication at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. From 2012-2014 I spent two wonderful years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, MA with the Social Media Research Group.
Douglass Day is an international hybrid event hosted and streamed by Penn State University each year on February 14th, Douglass’ chosen birthday, to celebrate Black history through a transcribe-a-thon and birthday cake bake-off. CAFe is partnering with the Driskell Center, STAMP, BCaT Lab, and scholars in the Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at UMD to host a Douglass Day transcribathon event with food and fun on February 14th. Show off your baking skills by bringing a birthday cake to share.
On Douglass Day, participants will learn how to transcribe handwritten items in the general correspondence of Frederick Douglass. These papers are held at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and have been made digitally available for transcription through the By the People virtual volunteering project. Comprised of 8,731 pages, this collection provides insight into Douglass’ social and political life through his exchanges with family, friends, activists, politicians, and others between 1841 and 1912. Transcribing these materials ensures resources on specific people and events are made more robust, and thus more discoverable and accessible; it also brings those who are interested in history together to learn more about a common theme. These letters will provide rich insight into the life and work of Frederick Douglass that are not yet widely accessible.