AADHum seeks to broaden the conversation among digital humanists and African Americanists to prepare the next generation of scholars with new methods, archives and tools that extend the digital humanities into disciplines related to African American history, literature and visual culture. Participants will engage in a series of dialogues on digital mapping to learn how the digital humanities shed light on pervasive facets of systemic inequality in America. The event will introduce participants to the varied resources at UMD, including the upcoming AADHum’s Spring Digital Humanities Incubator to reveal new possibilities for developing research.
10:30-11:30 a.m.Space, Place and Digital Mapping Dialogue and Reception-The Michelle Smith Collaboratory For Visual Culture, Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building, Room 4213
12:30-2 p.m.Keynote: Mapping Police Violence Samuel Sinyangwe, policy analyst and activist- Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building, Room 2203
2-3:30 p.m. Project Demo: Mapping Inequality and the Human Face of Big Data- Digital Curation Innovation Center, Hornbake Building South, Room 4110
The African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities Initiative has been made possible in part by a major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
0301 Hornbake Library North (lower level, behind Library Media Services)
Tuesday, February 07, 2017 - 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Join scholar Kishonna Gray from MIT and Harvard as she discusses how video games legitimize white masculinity and hegemonic ideology through the ‘othering’ process.