Beside the fact that I was in the same room with a draft of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, I think the thing that struck me most about our time in MARBL on Thursday was how much we bring to our own interpretations of artifacts. Each one of us looked at the photo of the protest in front of Cox Hall in 1969 that Liz Chase and Erica Bruchko provided and saw such different things. I was also really excited by what astute critical skills you all already have. You read that photo: fashion, hair styles, body language, interactions, and used those clues to work toward solving the mystery of what event the picture was capturing. I can’t wait to see what else you all come up with.
AMST/IDS 385: From Archives to iPads
Investigating the Discourse on Sexuality at Emory University – Donna Troka, Ph.D.
Being a second year student at Emory, I still have much to discover about what this campus has to offer its students and its community. What fascinated me most about the various artifacts in the MARBL was discovering how much history and information one can interpret from a single piece of evidence. How a message scribbled on a single sheet of toilet paper can transform words into meaning and a situation in time into history. While studying this piece of toilet paper I felt as if I were traveling back in time and I imagined myself in the jail cell with this message. This and all of the other artifacts shown last week serve to place specific people, places, and situations into retrospect for those of us in the present so that we may gain an experience in time rather than simply memorizing events and dates. I am excited to study more artifacts in the MARBL and even more excited to find out my next destination in history.
Being a second year student at Emory, I still have much to discover about what this campus has to offer its students and its community. What fascinated me most about the various artifacts in the MARBL was discovering how much history and information one can interpret from a single piece of evidence. How a message scribbled on a single sheet of toilet paper can transform words into meaning and a situation in time into history. While studying this piece of toilet paper I felt as if I were traveling back in time and I imagined myself in the jail cell with this message. This and all of the other artifacts shown last week serve to place specific people, places, and situations into retrospect for those of us in the present so that we may gain an experience in time rather than simply memorizing events and dates. I am excited to study more artifacts in the MARBL and even more excited to find out my next destination in history. Yay MARBL!