"Tripping on Utopia" and Locavore Research with History Professor Ben Breen

• Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science book talk and archival encounters, featuring selections from the papers of Gregory Bateson, Nina Graboi, and Robert Heinlein.

Memory Work: Oral History as Toolkit for Creating a Living & Making an Impact

• With guest Cameron Vanderscoff, Independent Oral Historian

The Power of Words 

• Reading and discussion of “The Power of Words: Cultural Humility as a Framework for Anti-Oppressive Archival Description” by Jessica Tai 

Copyright in the Archive

• With guests Martha Stuit, UCSC Scholarly Communication Librarian, and Katie Fortney, CDL Copyright Policy & Education Officer

Conducting and Using Oral Histories

• With guest Irene Reti, Director of Regional History Project, UC Santa Cruz

Archival Silences

• Reading and discussion of "Of Things Said and Unsaid: Power, Archival Silences, and Power in Silence" by Rodney G.S. Carter

The Digitized Turn in Archival Research

• Reading and discussion of "The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast" by Lara Putnam, and "Digital sources and digital archives: historical evidence in the digital age" by Trevor Owens and Thomas Padilla
• With guest Daniel Story, UCSC Digital Humanities Librarian

Conducting Efficient and Holistic Archival Research

• With guest Nathaniel Deutsch, UCSC Professor and Director of The Humanities Institute