Archives and Afterlives: A One Day Virtual Symposium on Enslaved Women and Black Digital Humanities - April 8, 2022 |
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Friday, April 01, 2022 08:48 AM | |||
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This one day symposium on zoom gathers experts whose research explores the connections between chattel slavery, freedom in its various forms, and the construction/deconstruction of digital archives. Discussions will be particularly focused on how constructing digital archives can expand (rather than erase) narratives of enslaved women across time(s) and space(s). Questions to be considered during the day include but are not limited to the following: How does subjectivity inform the research process? In what ways are digital projects (to borrow from Kim Gallon), “technologies of recovery?” In what ways can digital projects also be “technologies of mourning,” and “technologies/algorithms of oppression”? How has using/producing digital archives informed how we understand enslaved women as it relates to geographies, sexualities, resistance and remembrance? How have digital archives and databases transformed the ability to better understand these questions of geography, historiography, and survivals among enslaved women? In what ways does Black Digital Humanities address the violence of the traditional archive? And to borrow from Jessica Marie Johnson and others, how can Black Digital Humanities address violence implicit in Digital Humanities writ large? And, ultimately, what will be the long lasting impact of the Covid 19 Pandemic on studies of gender, enslavement and how we understand and create archives?
Event Schedule *All times are Pacific 9:45: Welcome by Jessica Millward and Brenda Stevenson 10-12 Morning Session: Enslaved Women and the (Black) Digital Archive
Q & A: Audience 1:00pm - 3:00pm Pacific - A Case Study in Black Digital Scholarship: Electric Marronage (Panel conceived by and in honor of Ella Turenne)
Q & A: Audience 3:00pm -3:15pm Pacific- Concluding remarks: Millward and Stevenson
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