Archives as Treasures of Public Life & Sites of Memory

About This Event

Autumn Womack, co-curator of the exhibition "Sites of Memory" at Princeton University, 2023, from the archive of author Toni Morrison, will converse with award-winning poet Kevin Young, who is also former director of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (2016-2021), among other curatorial positions. Their conversation "Archives as Treasures of Public Life," will be moderated by anthropologist and filmmaker Carolyn Rouse, Princeton University. Following the conversation, Autumn Womack will deliver a keynote address: "Curating the Exhibition 'Sites of Memory' 2023," in which she will talk about Princeton's Toni Morrison archive, the genesis and process leading to exhibition. The lecture will be accompanied by slides from the exhibition. This two-part event is part of a symposium celebrating the 70th anniversary of Toni Morrison's Cornell University MA degree (1955).

Featured Guests

• Autumn Womack, Associate Professor of African American Studies and English, Princeton University
• Kevin Young, Distinguished Writer in Residence, New York University

Co-sponsors

• Cornell University Department of Literatures in English
• Cornell University Creative Writing Program