The Curating Archives, CuratingSlippages interdisciplinary project starts with scattered archives in Fresno, California, that capture displacements of refugees, genocide survivors and immigrants (from the 1880s to 1940s). The aim of the project is to develop a new “finding aid” through the speculative frameworks of art, in order to recognize archival disappearances of forcibly displaced identities, often embodied by uncollated materials, hidden narratives, and unspoken epistemologies. This project is informed by the initial research (2019-20) exploring the lack of knowledge transmission between generations of Armenians “becoming American,” from the 1915 Armenian Genocide survivors who found refuge in the US, to successive generations. This research activated archives, public library and community/personal materials in Los Angeles and Fresno by working with a specific community of Armenian archivists and a metadata specialist in California. The project was funded by the University of California, Office of the President, Critical Refugees Studies Collective. More on this research in: Gilliland, Anne J. and Hovhanissyan, Marianna, “Displaced, Un-placed, and Re-placed: The Case of Armenian Records in the US.” In James Lowry ed., Displaced Archives Volume 2 (Routledge, in press).