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Online Event: Sentirpensar: Memorizing through the Heart

Sentirpensar -Feel-thinking - invites reflection on how we come to know through place and our collective histories. Registration is required. Made possible by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs. For more information, please contact the library at 305-375-5572 or specialcollections@mdpls.org. Ages 19 yrs.+

Beyond simply accessing information, how can archives serve as a gateway to experience our histories? This research presentation explores how knowledge and being are manifested across Latin America, both corporeally and affectively, in relation to the world. Sentirpensar—Feel-thinking—invites us to reflect on how we come to know through place, while considering our collective histories. 
 
Through experiential and sensory records, this program creates space for examining our own ancestral sensibilities, expressive practices, and capacities as knowers. Focusing on how Indigenous, Afro-Indigenous peoples, and non-native English speakers record and transmit information, this presentation will introduce access methods for engaging with records representative of ancestral knowledge as sites of research. When we considering the greater collective histories and values embedded within records, we are reminded that memory constitutes a politics of hope that re-imagines worlds.

About the presenter:

Yvette Ramírez is a researcher & archivist by way of Queens, New York. Her research is inspired by the complexities of memory and information transmission within Andean and other diasporic Latinx communities of Indigenous descent. As an independent archivist, she has collaborated with the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School, the Digital Preservation Unit at The University of Michigan Library, the Gates Preserve and most recently the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access division at the Library of Congress. 
 
She is also a co-founder of Archivistas en Espanglish and a member of the Publications Board at the Society of American Archivists. Currently, she is working towards her PhD at the School of Information at The University of Michigan. 

This program was made possible through generous funding from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs.

About the Vasari Project:

The Vasari Project is a library collection at Main Library dedicated to documenting, collecting, and preserving Miami-Dade County's art history from 1945 to the present. It is a living archive that grows through contributions from artists, art professionals, exhibition spaces, galleries, institutions, and private donors.

The Vasari Project is a resource for ongoing research, scholarship, publications, artists' projects, exhibitions, and events. The archive collects documentation rather than original works of art composed primarily of printed matter: correspondence, press clippings, photographs, posters, books, exhibition catalogs, artists' files, oral histories, and other ephemeral materials.

About the Division of Special Collections & Archives:

Miami-Dade Public Library System’s Division of Special Collections & Archives is located at the Main Library and holds rare and irreplaceable historical materials for the benefit of the public and scholarly community. They oversee the Helen Muir Florida Collection, 16mm Film Collection, Cuban Collection of Rare Books & Ephemera, Genealogy Collection, Vasari Project archive, and Rare & Antiquarian books from as early as the 17th century. The Division aims to provide the public with the contents of these collections at their request, which include books, original manuscripts, over 18,000 photographs, prints, artifacts, audiovisual resources, and electronic media.

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