Join Paulina and North American Heritage at Risk to explore how to incorporate storytelling into your archaeology. Image credits: Data Stories Project and NAHAR
Paulina F. Przystupa–a member of The Alexandria Archive Institute team (AAI)–will present Archaeological Data Storytelling: Using Storytelling to Share Archaeological Knowledge for the North American Heritage at Risk (NAHAR) group, online, next week. Paulina’s talk will consist of six, five-minute stories and be streamed online on 26 April 2024 at 9 am EST.
NAHAR explores ways that people and groups can address how climate change alters our approaches to stewarding heritage. You can check out some of their past presentations on their YouTube channel and future talks on their homepage.
While Paulina focuses on making digital, asynchronous stories through her work with the Data Literacy Program, she is also an active participant and board member in Storytellers of New Mexico. STNM is a nonprofit organization that advocates for storytelling as an artform in New Mexico and, through events like their Duke City Story Slam, Paulina has honed her live storytelling skills.
This talk for NAHAR incorporates Paulina’s work with both the AAI and STNM by discussing how we can leverage storytelling as a way to discuss and share archaeological knowledge amongst ourselves and with the public. The abstract for the talk is as follows:
Stories of the past inspire us to learn more and invite the public to care about archaeology as co-stewards of heritage. In a series of short personal stories, this presentation will explore the benefits of incorporating different kinds of storytelling into our dissemination of archaeological knowledge as climate change threatens heritage. The presentation will move through six stories, exploring how to incorporate archaeological knowledge with storytelling as a medium. It introduces ways to use personal and fictive stories, based on archaeological data or experiences, to share our findings with archaeologists and the public. The stories also explore how various temporalities for storytelling–asynchronous, synchronous, in person, via recording or stable platform, linear, non-linear–all provide unique affordances to understanding the past. By considering many methods and places for archaeological storytelling, we can expand the ways archaeologists consider sharing our knowledge with different publics and the next generation.
Feel free to join us early in the morning (for those of y’all who are central time or farther west!) by registering here. In case you miss the live presentation, you can catch the recording on the NAHAR Youtube channel some time after the talk. And if you’re ever in New Mexico try to check out the events hosted by STNM to learn about, and enjoy more, storytelling. Hope to see you there!
