This year's Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections on October 12 focused on researchers studying space and place using resources from the collections. Francesca Bregoli (Queen's College) discussed her research in the archive of a cross-Mediterranean family of hatmakers between Livorno and Tunisia; Maarten Hell (University of Amsterdam) discussed his work on the multi-ethnic Vlooienburg neighborhood of Amsterdam between 1600-1800; and Lea Schäfer (University of Duesseldorf) described her work mapping the variations in the Yiddish language using the Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry.
