2024-2025 Schedule of events — details are subject to change.
Fall Term
Sept 24
Working Group Meeting #1
Project kick-off + Introduction to “Loot"
Friday, September 27 @ 2-4pm
📍Virtual
Oct 25
Working Group Meeting #2
What’s our role? Situating scholars of Plunder
Friday, October 25 @ 2-4pm
📍Hybrid (CDRS/Zoom)
Nov 8
Working Group Meeting #3
Documenting dispossession: new approaches to provenance
Friday, November 8 @ 2-4pm
📍Virtual
Nov 22
Contested Collections Event #1 - Talk & Workshop
Event cancelled
Friday, November 22 @ 11AM-4:00PM
Paper Trails of Plunder: Mapping the Looting of the Maqdala ManuscriptsNo meeting in December - enjoy the holiday break!
Winter Term
Jan 31
Working Group Meeting #4
Topic: The Politics of Plunder: occupation, control, and state-building
Friday, January 31 @ 2-4pm
📍Virtual
Feb 28
Working Group Meeting #5 / Contested Collections Event #1 - Talk & Workshop
Topic: Reverse looting, or liberating archival records of colonization? The United Fruit Company fonds at University of Toronto Mississauga Library
Reverse Looting, or liberating archival records of colonization? The United Fruit Company fonds at University of Toronto Mississauga LibraryFriday, February 28 @ 2-4pm
Christopher (Cal) Long, Archivist, UTM Library, Archives & Special Collections
📍Hybrid (CDRS/Zoom)
Mar 28
Working Group Meeting #6
Topic: Reparations, Restitution, and Return
Plus: Undergraduate research conference (details TBD)
Friday, March 28 @ 2-4pm
📍Hybrid
April 25
Working Group Meeting #7 - field trip
Topic: The Praxis of Plunder: Collection, Curation, and Display
Friday, April 25 @ 2-4pm
📍Hybrid (CDRS/Zoom)
May
Makeup meeting - date and details TBD
Friday, April 25 @ 2-4pm