Amplify Archives Event Showcases Community-Archives-Based Teaching and Learning

Amplify Archives Event Showcases Community-Archives-Based Teaching and Learning
Guest blogger: Dr. Charlotte Nunes

Last Friday, the Texas After Violence Project hosted a panel discussion about how the TAVP oral history archive, made digitally available through UT-Austin's Human Rights Documentation Initiative, features in undergraduate teaching and learning at UT. The event took place as part of Amplify Austin, an exciting annual fundraising event supporting non-profits across the city. Participants convened at the Benson Latin America Collection, which is the physical home of the HRDI.

Rebecca Lorins, Acting Director of TAVP and organizer of the Amplify Archives event, kicked off the discussion by welcoming the audience and providing some background on the purpose and operations of TAVP, which aims to collect and archive oral histories that reflect how the death penalty affects communities throughout Texas. Kathryn Darnall, Graduate Research Assistant, followed up Rebecca's remarks with an explanation of the HRDI's mission to digitally preserve the archives of social justice movements.

Kathryn Darnall, Graduate Research Assistant at the
Human Rights Documentation Initiative, addresses
the Amplify Archives audience

Amplify Archives in Austin! : TAVP in the classroom

Amplify Austin 2014 is a 24 hour online fundraiser for Austin-area nonprofits.

TAVP will celebrate Amplify by amplifying our archive with a panel and reception.

Join TAVP for the launch at 5:30pm March 20 at our reception at HRDI

Amplify archives!

Amplify Archives: TAVP in the classroom
A reception and panel discussion, March 20, 2014
Save the date!

Date: Thursday, March 20, 2014 (to coincide with launch of Amplify Austin)

Time: 5:30 - 7:30pm

Panel: TAVP in the classroom 

Place: HRDI in the Benson Libraries (Benson Conference Room, SRH 1.208)
(Benson is located at 2300 Red River, at the intersection of Red River and Manor)

Sending TAVP oral histories into the classroom amplifies our archive! TAVP will celebrate the launch of Amplify Austin 2014 by hosting a reception and a panel discussion on the uses of the TAVP archive in the classroom. The event will be held at the Human Rights Documentation Initiative at University of Texas at Austin. 

Come learn about, support and amplify human rights archives in your backyard.  For more details, click the "read more" link now.

Visit the TAVP page at Amplify Austin (even if you can't make it to the event, you can donate at the TAVP page at the Amplify Austin website)

Salon on the Death Penalty and Religion

Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas

The Southwestern University chapter of Amnesty International presents The Identities of Faith Salon Series. This event seeks to provide an opportunity for meaningful conversations on themes and topics related to belief, faith and practice. The Salons are designed to engage multi-faith perspectives and experiences as a way of deepening participants' understanding of themselves, each other and the evening's theme or topic.

The upcoming Salon on March 7 is on the death penalty, but deeper than that, we hope the conversation will explore how faith motivates, enables and disables social justice change. The salon "conversants" will open the conversation after the Texas After Violence Project (TAVP) presentation. The conversation will be set up "in the round." After about 30 minutes of introduction and opening conversation, the dynamics of the conversation will shift to include respondents and then all who are in the room. Refreshments will be included.

Monday March 7, 7-9 pm. Mood Bridwell Atrium at Southwestern University. See the Facebook event for more information.