The African Studies Center's African Heritage and Humanities Initiative is hosting "Digitization, Preservation and Performance of the Archive: How to Build a Library," on April 15 at 2 p.m. in 1014 Tisch Hall. The event will include a panel discussion about multiple ways scholars, artists and practitioners are reimagining and preserving the archive on the African continent, specifically in Kenya and Uganda.
The panel will be followed by a 5 p.m. screening of the documentary How to Build a Library in the UMMA auditorium. The film, shown at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, follows two Kenyan women who went up against many odds to renovate a colonial-era whites-only library into a thriving cultural hub where Kenyan people, their stories and cultures are celebrated, documented and preserved.
HERE is the RSVP form with more information.
To register, visit myumi.ch/kPMmz
