Author: Maia Hirschler
Maia is a graduate student pursuing a dual masters in Library and Information Science and the History of Art and Design. Her research interests include archival silence, collective memory, material culture, and imagining new kinds of archives that center knowledge and experiences beyond the authority of official archives. Outside of information science, she loves using her art historical skills to analyze all things pop culture!
This paper investigates archival silence in the Franco-Algerian War archives and argues that while the opening of the archives appears to have done away with the silence that…