BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3787-0a6922f54480e86a6114ee78aa652054@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20261009T165406Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221116T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221116T170000 SUMMARY:2022-23 Department of African American Studies Colloquium DESCRIPTION:\n"\;What can the Black digital humanities be?"\;\n\ nDr. Jim Casey\, \;Assistant Professor of African American Studies\, History\, and English\, Associate Director at the Center for Black Digi tal Research \;\n\nDenise Burgher\, \;Ph.D. Candidate in English \, University of Delaware\, Senior Research Associate at the Center for Black Digital Research\n\nOver the past few decades\, an increasing numb er of scholars and practitioners have extended the work of Black Studies into deep engagements with digital culture and technologies. The scope of this growing community almost defies description\, ranging from effor ts to map the histories of slavery and Black freedom struggles to critiq ues of algorithmic bias and oppression.\n\nThis talk will go behind the scenes on two long-running Black digital projects called the Colored Con ventions Project and Douglass Day to reflect on the principles and trend s defining an area of scholarship that we might name as Black digital hu manities.\n\nBoth of these projects have spent many years using digital technologies to bring new life to scattered and fragmented histories of nineteenth-century Black political activism and community organizing. Th ese projects\, however\, depend on reflexive critiques of those very sam e technologies\, particularly in the silences created by data on early B lack women activists.\n\nThese projects\, now housed at the newly formed Center for Black Digital Research (#DigBlk)\, offer space for a dialogu e about what might happen as Black Studies remixes fields such as inform ation\, library\, and computer sciences.\n\n \;\n\nIf attending virt ually\, please register here: \;https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register /WN_uK8cJOugQQGCAHrfze3xpw \;\n\nFor more details: https://events.la .psu.edu/event/2022-23_department_of_african_american_studies_colloquium / X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

"What can the Black digital humanities be?"

Dr. Jim Casey, Assista nt Professor of African American Studies, History, and English, Associat e Director at the Center for Black Digital Research 

Denise B urgher, Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of Delaware, Senior Research Associate at the Center for Black Digital Research

Over t he past few decades, an increasing number of scholars and practitioners have extended the work of Black Studies into deep engagements with digit al culture and technologies. The scope of this growing community almost defies description, ranging from efforts to map the histories of slavery and Black freedom struggles to critiques of algorithmic bias and oppres sion.

This talk will go behind the scenes on two long-running Blac k digital projects called the Colored Conventions Project and Douglass D ay to reflect on the principles and trends defining an area of scholarsh ip that we might name as Black digital humanities.

Both of these p rojects have spent many years using digital technologies to bring new li fe to scattered and fragmented histories of nineteenth-century Black pol itical activism and community organizing. These projects, however, depen d on reflexive critiques of those very same technologies, particularly i n the silences created by data on early Black women activists.

The se projects, now housed at the newly formed Center for Black Digital Res earch (#DigBlk), offer space for a dialogue about what might happen as B lack Studies remixes fields such as information, library, and computer s ciences.

 

If attending virtually, please register here : https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uK8cJOugQQGCAHrfze3xpw 

For more details: https://ev ents.la.psu.edu/event/2022-23_department_of_african_american_studies_col loquium/

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