Archiving and Visualizing Asia/America: Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production

Description from DukeHub

Engages students in the practices and theories of archiving, documenting and curating marginal histories. Hands-on research in the archives of Duke's Rubenstein Special Collections and elsewhere. Examines histories of movements and encounters between the 'West' and 'Asia.' Teaches original archival research and documentary methods through guided excavations in digital, audiovisual, and material resources. Directed readings and special guest lectures guide students on how to think critically on the theories and praxis of knowledge production, collection, documentation, circulation, and consumption. Students curate projects for final research assignment.

Skills

• research methodsAI review: "Hands-on research in the archives of Duke's Rubenstein Special Collections and elsewhere"
• makingAI review: "Students curate projects for final research assignment"

AI-resilient: 2 of 5 2/5

• ✓Yes: Physical, lab or field work · "hands-on"
• No: Live work with people
• No: Judgment someone is accountable for
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• ✓Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 5 seats per section

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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