Events

Teaching with Wikipedia in the Humanities | April 23, 2024

3:30pm via zoom

Organized by Jennifer Stoever | jstoever@binghamton.edu

and the Engaged Digital Humanities Group

The way we access, consume, and share information has changed drastically in a short period of time. Help your students develop critical skills to navigate today’s information landscape by implementing a Wikipedia assignment! In Wiki Education’s Wikipedia Student Program, college and university instructors:

Assign their students to contribute to Wikipedia instead of a traditional writing assignment.
Empower them to find their public voice, make a real change, and become engaged digital citizens.
Improve the quality of knowledge on the world’s go-to site for information!

Join us to learn about the impact of a Wikipedia assignment in the humanities.

Conversation: Michelle Caswell | April 9 ,2024

3:00-3:40pm via Zoom

Nicoletta LaMarca-Sacco nlamarc1@binghamton.edu

Zunaira Yousaf zyousaf1@binghamton.edu

Organized by the Engaged Digital Humanities Group

Sponsored by the English Department & The BU Digital Scholarship Center

Moderated by Lisa Yun, Ruth Carpenter, and Zunaira Yousef

Michelle Caswell is Professor of Archival Studies at UCLA and an affiliated member of the Asian American studies department. Dr. Caswell’s research focuses on community-based archives, digital memory work, and critical archival theory. She was recently appointed special advisor to the UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost on community-engaged scholarship, a key goal of UCLA’s strategic plan.

She is Co-Director of UCLA's Community Archives Lab and co-founder of the South Asian American Digital Archive. Her books include Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work and Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia. She co-edited a special issue of The Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies on Critical Archival Studies. She is also the lead organizer of the Archivists Against Collective.

Conversation: Allison Levy & Warren Harding| Feb 26 ,2024

Organized by the Engaged Digital Humanities Group

Sponsored by the English Department

Moderated by Lisa Yun and Zunaira Yousef

Allison Levy is Director of Brown University Digital Publications. Beyond the Brown campus, she spearheads efforts at the industry level to advance the conversation around the development, evaluation, and publication of born-digital scholarship. She is project director of Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps, an NEH Institute on Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (2022). Levy, who holds a PhD in history of art from Bryn Mawr College, is the author of numerous books on early modern visual culture. She has served as founding general editor of two scholarly book series and as co-chair of the College Art Association’s Committee on Research and Scholarship.

Warren Harding is Assistant Professor of English at Binghamton University. He focuses on contemporary Caribbean and Afro-diasporic literary cultures. His first monograph, tentatively titled Migratory Reading: Black Caribbean Women and the Work of Literary Cultures, uses interviews, archival research, and close reading to study the interventions of five women: Rita Cox, Makeda Silvera, Merle Hodge, Soleida Ríos and M. NourbeSe Philip. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in SX Salon, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, and Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International. His second project is a digital database of Caribbean Feminist and Women's Creative Writing from the 1990s. Prior to Binghamton, he was the Diversity in Digital Publishing Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University Digital Publications. Harding holds a PhD in Africana Studies from Brown University.

The Digital Scholarship Center Spring Series 2024

The BU Digital Scholarship Center is offering a series of workshops on topics such as creating WordPress sites and exploring Data Visualization tools, and also offering a casual Digital Humanities Lunch and Learn series. For more info and to register, see here .

Humanities Podcast Network Symposium | October 27, 2023

Organized by Humanities Podcast Network.

Session: "Podcasting as Scholarship" Lisa Yun, Shruti Jain, Le Li, + HPN co-leaders

The Digital Humanities Research Institute | August 7-11, 2023

Organized by the BU Libraries' Digital Scholarship team, led by Amy Gay and Ruth Carpenter, and Harpur's Digital and Data Studies (DiDa) coordinators, Gregory Hallenbeck and Melissa Haller. Includes introductory sessions and advanced learning sessions for past DHRI participants and those who are selected in the new cohort. More info here.

Conversation: Roopika Risam | May 8 ,2023

Organized by the Engaged Digital Humanities Group, sponsored by the English Department

Moderated by Lisa Yun and Zunaira Yousef

Roopika Risam is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, where she is part of the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Cluster. She is Principal Investigator of the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium, co-president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and co-editor of Reviews in Digital Humanities.

Seminar: Alex Gil Fuentes | April 28, 2023

"Postcolonial DH: Critical Cartographies, Decolonial Archives and Humanities for the Public" | Moderated by Alexandra Moore and Brad Skopyk| Part of the Landscapes of Injustice, Landscapes of Repair Seminar Series

Co-organized by the Human Rights Institute and Citizenship, Rights and Cultural Belonging TAE (Binghamton University), and Narrating Sustainability of NTNU (Norway). Co-sponsored by the Sustainable Communities TAE (Binghamton University)

Alex Gil Fuentes is Senior Lecturer II and Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, where he teaches courses in digital humanities and runs project-based learning and collective research initiatives. Previously, Alex served as Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University, where he co-created the Butler Studio and the Group for Experimental Methods in Humanistic Research. His research interests include Caribbean culture and history, digital humanities and technology design for different infrastructural and socio-economic environments, and the ownership and material extent of the cultural and scholarly record. He is senior editor of archipelagos journal, editor of internationalization of Digital Humanities Quarterly, co-organizer of The Caribbean Digital annual conference, and co-principal investigator of the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation.