Past Events
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Explore and participate in the meaning making of the digital African American experience.
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A reading group analyzing the pitfalls and strengths of theories uncovering the African American experience.
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Learn about guiding principles of black digital scholarship.
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Join us online or in person to help transcribe the Freedmen's Bureau Records, the richest source of information on the African American experience post-Civil War.
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Join the discussion on how the digital humanities shed light on pervasive facets of systemic inequality in America, and learn about digital mapping projects at UMD.
African American cultural & literary studies scholars Dana Williams & Kenton Rambsy will present this talk about how data management can construct history.
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Learn about projects that seek to transcribe the Freedmen's Bureau Records, the richest source of information on the African American experience post-Civil War.
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Join us for a campus-wide initiative to learn more about scholarship at UMD focused on the African-American Experience.
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Ravon Ruffin is co-creator of Brown Girls Museum Blog, a site to promote the visibility of minority communities as museum professionals, audiences, and creatives.
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Catherine Knight Steele's talk will focus on African American culture and discourse in mass and new media.