A Panel Discussion on Community Histories in Institutional Archives A Place for Community Archiving

As a part of Museum of Toronto’s Black Diasporas Tkaronto-Toronto exhibition, this unique panel will explore the growing importance of community archivism in our city.

We are gathering field experts from initiatives such as Mapping Ontario’s Black Archives (MOBA), the Portuguese Canadian History Project, and Chinese Canadian Archives to describe the efforts, ethics, and challenges in preserving local histories, while simultaneously working in institutional archival settings.

This cross-cultural, cross-institutional conversation will explore questions such as:

• Who has the resources and rights to collect these histories?
• Are there ethical as well as moral issues with collecting people’s oral narratives?
• What might we understand between archival expertise and lived expertise?