??Students and Faculty, We are very fortunate to be hosting Dr. Kirsten Weld (Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University) for a guest lecture on Thursday November 5th at 6pm at Rosenthal Library. Dr. Weld will give a talk titled "Resurrecting Paper Cadavers: Archives in Postwar Societies," based on her first book Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala. This event is co-sponsored by GSLIS, the Department of Special Collections and Archives, and the Latin American and Latino Studies Program, as well as the Pine Tree Foundation. We hope to hold a second lecture in Spring 2016 as part of a series on "Archives and Society." I am attaching a flyer with additional information about the event, as well as a brief description copied below. Johnathan Thayer Visiting Lecturer Coordinator of the Archives and Preservation of Cultural Materials Certificate Graduate School of Library and Information Studies Queens College, CUNY 718 997 3757 The Pine Tree Foundation Lecture Series in Archives and Special Collections Presents: "Resurrecting Paper Cadavers: Archives in Postwar Societies" Dr. Kirsten Weld, Harvard University A Collaborative Series Presented by the Queens College Libraries Department of Special Collections and Archives, the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, and the Pine Tree Foundation Co-sponsored by the Queens College Latin American and Latino Studies Program Inaugural Lecture: Kirsten Weld, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University Date/Time: Thursday November 5, 2015 at 6pm Location: Queens College Rosenthal Library, Room 230 Kirsten Weld is a historian of modern Latin America. Her research centers on the 20th-century history of political and ideological conflict in the Americas, particularly during the region's long Cold War, as well as on the politics of historical and archival knowledge production. Her first book, Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala<https://www.dukeupress.edu/Paper-Cadavers/>, was published by Duke University Press in 2014. It is a historical and ethnographic study of the archives generated by Guatemala's National Police, which were used as tools of state repression during the country's civil war, kept hidden from the truth commission charged with investigating crimes against humanity at the war's conclusion, stumbled upon and rescued by justice activists in 2005, and repurposed in the service of historical accounting and postwar reconstruction. Paper Cadavers is a broad meditation on how history is produced as social knowledge, on the labour behind transformative social change, and on the stakes of the stories we tell ourselves about the past.