What does archival work mean in Afghanistan and its diasporas? What can institutional archives tell us about ways of knowing Afghanistan amid consecutive and concurrent wars, migration, and diasporic (trans)formations in the 20^th and 21^st century? This panel brings together artists, librarians, and scholars to discuss challenges in the maintenance of collections in Afghanistan and its diasporas as well as the poetic, literary, and artistic possibilities in unsettling archival silences.