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:11343-a827aa2798458323016da797fd4610ca@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260416T082300Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T163000 SUMMARY:“How’d They Do It?” with Kenton Rambsy DESCRIPTION:\nKenton Rambsy’s digital projects “use datasets to illumina te the significance of recurring trends and thematic shifts related to A frican American verbal art and literary history.” In this Digital Libera l Arts workshop of the inaugural series\, “How’d They Do It\,” Rambsy wi ll provide a behind-the-scenes look at the digital project accompanying his most recent book\, Geographies of African American Short Fiction. Wo rkshop attendees will learn how he developed and used datasets to not on ly analyze the circulation of Black short stories but also to create vis ualizations to aid readers’ understandings about people and places withi n the stories.\n\nKenton Rambsy is an associate professor of African Ame rican literature at the Howard University. At Howard he is a core member in The Center of Applied Data Science and Analytics (CADSA) where he se rves as the data storytelling and visualization specialist. His areas of research include twentieth and twenty-first century African American sh ort fiction\, Hip Hop\, and book history. His ongoing Digital Humanities projects use datasets to illuminate the significance of recurring trend s and thematic shifts as it relates Black writers and rappers. Kenton if the co-founder of The Literary Data Gallery\, an online gallery that co ntains a variety of data driven visualization projects about Black creat ive works\, creative artists\, and literary critics.\n\nFor more details : https://events.la.psu.edu/event/kenton-rambsy-workshop/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Kenton Rambsy’s digital projects “use datasets to illuminate the significance of recurr ing trends and thematic shifts related to African American verbal art an d literary history.” In this Digital Liberal Arts workshop of the inaugu ral series, “How’d They Do It,” Rambsy will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the digital project accompanying his most recent book, Geogr aphies of African American Short Fiction. Workshop attendees will l earn how he developed and used datasets to not only analyze the circulat ion of Black short stories but also to create visualizations to aid read ers’ understandings about people and places within the stories.

Ke nton Rambsy is an associate professor of African American literature at the Howard University. At Howard he is a core member in The Center of Ap plied Data Science and Analytics (CADSA) where he serves as the data sto rytelling and visualization specialist. His areas of research include tw entieth and twenty-first century African American short fiction, Hip Hop , and book history. His ongoing Digital Humanities projects use datasets to illuminate the significance of recurring trends and thematic shifts as it relates Black writers and rappers. Kenton if the co-founder of The Literary Data Gallery, an online gallery that contains a variety of dat a driven visualization projects about Black creative works, creative art ists, and literary critics.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/ event/kenton-rambsy-workshop/

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