Our team will present at DH2024: Reinvention & Responsibility on a panel that focuses on the next generation of digital humanities! Join us August 8, 2024 at 10:30AM to 12:00PM ET to hear about our findings from a kitchen table conversation around our experiences developing this lab across geographies, institutions, and social positions. Our work […]
Keith gave a presentation at the Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association's conference on June 20, 2024 on the process of developing the Black Digital Humanities Lab, arguing for the power of digital humanities within community development work. Drawing upon Nancy Fraser's framework of justice, he maps out some of the theoretical groundings that […]
HUGE thank you to all the attendees, panelists, moderators, and facilitators who participated in our symposium last Friday 💗 As the organizers, we found ourselves incredibly inspired by the rich insights you all brought to the space and hope that this has provided folk with new connections, new ways of seeing, and new directions forward. […]
A key highlight of our latest ongoing project is Ashanti Stiff's recent workshop! As a UX Research Assistant, Stiff led a session that focused on ideation, speculative design thinking, and evaluating boundaries and barriers in digital humanities - all in the context of curating an exhibition on the history of the Department of Art at […]
Passing on a lovely opportunity sent to us from folks at California State University: We would like to announce our digital humanities / visual studies job to members of the Black Digital Humanities Lab. Here is the information: Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, in digital humanities or visual studies.The Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited […]
As the new school year kicks off, we are excited to continue supporting students through the development of this project - and we have some pretty exciting things planned for this coming year! While we are still working on securing funding to do bigger projects, the success of our undergraduate work-study program and speaker series […]
Exciting news! The Faculty of Information, whose EDI office provided financial support for this speaker series, highlighted the Black Digital Humanities Speaker Series on their website! Check out the article here!
Congratulations to Capryka Hunt, our amazing Research Assistant, on leading a very successful workshop as part of our Black Digital Humanities research project and speaker series. Participants learnt about ideation activities, speculative design thinking, and how to assess boundaries and barriers for their ideal projects 💡 The insights collected from this workshop will help us […]
Designing a research study requires first understanding the existing literature on a specific topic. Prior to running their workshops, our RAs engaged with a wide range of scholarship on Black Digital Humanities, Black Digital Studies, and Black Studies, at large. We have created a Zotero group with the texts we have engaged with and this […]
