Summary:

In this episode, I welcome Audra A. Diptee, an Associate Professor of History at Carleton University. Audra joined us to speak about her research on the weaponization of colonial archives to rewrite history.

Episode Resources:

Audra A. Diptee. https://www.audradiptee.com/

Audra A. Diptée. (Apr 27, 2023). The records the British Empire didn't want you to see. YouTube. https://youtu.be/oPGVGckn7kQ?si=CnHTyoE6T6WH6DOG

Alex Williams. (2016). The Pass System. http://thepasssystem.ca/

Michel-Rolph Trouillot. (1995). Silencing the Past. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/246609/silencing-the-past-by-michel-rolph-trouillot/

Donald J. Trump. Executive Order. Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History. (March 27, 2025). https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/

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Summary:

In this episode, I welcome Gabrielle Miller, a Program Specialist and Archaeologist for the Center for the Study of Global Slavery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Gabrielle joined us to speak about the Slave Wrecks Project, which searches for slave ships and tends to watery graveyards.

Episode Resources:

Omnia Saed (August 26, 2024). For Black Archaeologists, the Atlantic Ocean is an Ancestral Graveyard. https://atmos.earth/for-black-archaeologists-the-atlantic-ocean-is-an-ancestral-graveyard/

Slave Wrecks Project. Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. http://slavewrecksproject.org

In Slavery’s Wake. Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.https://www.searchablemuseum.com/in-slaverys-wake/

Christina Sharpe. (November 2016). In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-wake

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Summary:

Welcome to the opener for season 4! In this episode, I welcome Camille Turner, an artist and scholar whose work combines Afrofuturism and historical research. Camille joins us to speak about her Afronautic Research Lab, a performance and social practice project that approaches colonial archives from the point of view of a liberated future.

Episode Resources:

Camille Turner. “Afronautic Memory and the Archive.” 2022. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13534645.2022.2073691

Camille Turner. https://www.camilleturner.com/

Black Memory Collective. [Instagram]. “What if archivists were time travellers walking backwards into the future?” https://www.instagram.com/p/C9fGMjwARaF/

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If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon.

To learn more about my work, visit my blog at ⁠https://melissajnelson.com⁠. You can connect with me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ and ⁠Instagram⁠ or contact me at melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com.