November 25th, 2024
In the third year of the grant project, Rethinking Place is acquiring books for Stevenson Library, accessible to all Bard faculty, staff, students, and local community members. Acquisitions focus on core Native American and Indigenous Studies texts, centering Indigenous and BIPOC authors and theorists. Significant library acquisitions will also be focused on the third year’s theme of food and memory, engaging history and land, including (re)creation of spaces. Texts focus on land and food as an avenue for social justice (in food sovereignty, rematriation, foodways revitalization), as a living archive (in cookbooks, works of food history, seed relations, writings and theory about naming and classifying our environments), and as kinetic, organic material for creation (in material or land-based projects), and include exploration of both cultivated and non-cultivated varietals.
On Monday, November 25th, we are thrilled to hear from key players of the Stevenson Library and Rethinking Place collaboration- including how cataloging can be reparative and transformative work.