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The Engaged Digital Humanities MLA Guidlines Discussion Group
Fall 2025
Sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Thursday, October 9th, 2025
Thursday, November 6th
All meetings will be from 4-5 pm in the IASH Conference Room (Library North 1106)
The Engaged Digital Humanities Working Group of the English Department presents a community reading and open discussion of the new Modern Language Association's Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship (published September 2024) and the application of these recommendations to the tenure and promotion guidelines here at Binghamton. The discussions will also be helpful for graduate students looking to articulate their digital work to other campuses on the job market and to help build sound digital projects. We'll discuss Part I of the document ("Making Digital Scholarship and Its Evaluation Understandable") on Thursday, September 11, 2025, Part II (Evaluating Digital Research, Teaching, and Service) on Thursday October 9th, and Part III (Additional Guidelines for Faculty and Staff Members, Departments, Institutions, and Professional Associations) on Thursday, November 6th. All meetings will be from 4-5 pm in the IASH Conference Room. Bring questions!
To read along with the group, access the MLA Document by clicking this link:
PAST EVENTS
Conversation with Dr. Hanna Musiol | April 16, 2025
"Urban Lifewor(l)ds: Footsteps, Futures, and Narrative Repair"
Dr. Musiol will share work on modes of public storytelling that move beyond the "the narrow but violently operative definitions of heritage and future."
Wednesday, April 16, 11:00-12:00pm (speaking via zoom)
Room: LN 2401
Organized by Lisa Yun | lisayun@binghamton.edu
Sponsored by the Department of English
Hanna Musiol is Professor of Literature and Merittert Underviser /Distinguished Academic Educator at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, an affiliate of the HRI, and a co-coordinator of the NoRS-EH doctoral school in Environmental Humanities. She publishes on literary and transmedia aesthetics, environmental justice, and critical pedagogy, with emphasis on site-specific storytelling, civic engagement, rights, and migration. Her recent work has appeared in Footprint, Poetry and the Global Climate Crisis, ASAP/J, DHQ, and Environment, Space, and Place . Musiol regularly collaborates with grassroots artivist ensembles and co-organizes city-scale curatorial, public humanities, and art initiatives, such as Oceans of Eternity, Spectral Landscapes, Resist as Forest, and Landscapes of Violence, Landscapes of Repair. She is also involved in several transnational research and storytelling projects, Narrating Sustainability, ANEST, ENVIROCEN, Against Research Monoculture, and now, CIRCUL’ARTs.
Conversation with Dr. Jennifer Wemigwans | April 18, 2025
Tuesday, April 8, 1:30-2:30pm (speaking via zoom)
IASH Room LN 1106
Organized by Birgit Brander Rasmussen and Lisa Yun
Sponsored by the Department of English
Jennifer Wemigwans is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at University of Toronto. Dr. Wemigwans is a new media producer, writer and scholar specializing in the convergence between education, Indigenous Knowledge and new media technologies. She is producer of the educational website four directions teachings.com. Her book, A Digital Bundle: Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online, explores the prospects of Indigenous Knowledge education and digital projects in a networked world. Dr. Wemigwans teaches Indigenous Knowledge Education courses in the Adult Education & Community Development Program. She is from Wikwemikong Unceded Territory on Manitoulin Island, Ontario.
Conversation with Dr. Roopika Risam | March 25, 2025
4:30- 5:30 pm (speaking via zoom)
Digital Scholarship Center (Bartle Library 3rd floor)
Organized by Lisa Yun | lisayun@binghamton.edu
Sponsored by the Department of English
Join us for our second conversation with Roopika Risam (following up on our first from 2023) ! Dr. Risam's research focuses on data histories, ethics, and practices at intersections of postcolonial and African diaspora studies, digital humanities, and critical university studies. Her work has been supported by over $4.3 million in grants from funders including the National Endowment for the Humanities and Mellon Foundation. Risam has received the Massachusetts Library Association Civil Liberties Champion Award and the International Association for Research in Service Learning and Community Engagement Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award for her work on anti-racist community engagement. Her book New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy (Northwestern UP, 2019) has been taught in over 100 courses at universities worldwide and is a fixture on digital humanities syllabi. At work on her second book, Insurgent Academics: A Radical Account of Public Humanities (Johns Hopkins UP), she traces a new history of university-community engagement through the unsung work of Black, Brown, and Indigenous scholars. She is also writing a trade book on the relationship between data and empire. Risam is represented by Emma Bal at the Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency.
Committed to facilitating conversations and creating space for other scholars, Risam has co-edited four collections: Anti-Racist Community Engagement (2023), The Digital Black Atlantic (2021), South Asian Digital Humanities (2020), and Intersectionality in Digital Humanities (2019). She has edited many special issues on topics such as minimal computing, gender and digital labor, and digital humanities pedagogy in times of crisis. With Carol Stabile, she runs Reanimate, an intersectional feminist publishing collective that creates open-access digital editions by writing of women in media industries. Reanimate has published Fredi Washington: A Reader in Black Feminist Media Criticism, The Ada Journal Reader, and The Ghost Reader Digital Companion. Risam is especially proud to have collaborated with Jennifer Guiliano to found Reviews in Digital Humanities, a journal dedicated to peer reviewing digital scholarship.
Conversation with Dr. Crystal Anderson | February 18, 2025
3:00-4:00 pm (speaking via zoom)
IASH Conference Room (LN 1106)
Organized by Lisa Yun | lisayun@binghamton.edu
Sponsored by the Department of English
Join us for a conversation with Crystal Anderson. She is Associate Director of Engaged Learning at the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning, George Mason University, and teaches in the African and African American Studies Program. She works in the fields of Transnational American Studies, Black Internationalism and Global Asias, focusing on cultural studies, including popular culture, media studies, visual culture, audience reception and literature. Her book Soul in Seoul: African American Music and K-pop, explores the impact of African American popular music on contemporary Korean pop, R&B and hip-hop and the role of global fans as the music press. Her book Beyond the Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production, uses the films of Bruce Lee to interpret cross-cultural dynamics in post-1990 novels, films and anime. She has published articles on Afro-Asian cultural studies in journals including African American Review, MELUS, Ethnic Studies Review and Extrapolation as well as book chapters on masculinity in K-pop and Afro-Japanese representation in art. She also manages several digital humanities projects, including KPK: Kpop Kollective, the oldest and only public scholarship site on K-pop for academics and fans. Her current research includes KPOPIANA, a collaborative information database that aggregates and curates information about Hallyu-era K-pop artist and groups, and KPOPCULTURE 2012-present, which curates global Korean popular music (K-pop) through digital exhibits on music, choreography and creative personnel. A veteran blogger on Asian popular culture, she writes at High Yellow and is also a former associate chief editor for hellokpop. Dr. Anderson holds a Ph.D in American Studies from The College of William and Mary, an M.A. in English from the University of Virginia, and a B.A. in English from the University of Richmond.
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Previous EDH and Related Events
Humanities Podcast Network Symposium | November 9, 2024
Organized by Humanities Podcast Network
Session 15: "Best Practices for Community Engaged Podcasting"
Lisa Yun, Shruti Jain, Le Li, Mamen Rodriguez
Podcasting with Dr. Anna Williams | October 9-10, 2024
Organized by The Digital Storytelling Initiative, in partnership with Harpur Edge, the Writing Initiative and the Binghamton Libraries' Digital Scholarship Center
Please send questions to Chelsea Gibson, Director of Digital Storytelling
Creative Workshop
Creative Workshop
Wednesday, Oct 9 | 4-6pm | LN2200
Coffee & Chat
Coffee & Chat
Thursday, October 10 | 1-2pm | SL209 (pilot Digital Scholarship Center)
Q&A
Q&A
Thursday, October 10 | 3:30-5:30PM | UU111
Teaching with Wikipedia in the Humanities | April 23, 2024
3:30pm via zoom
Organized by Jennifer Stoever | jstoever@binghamton.edu
Register https://bit.ly/EngagedDigitalHumanitiesTeachingWithWikipediaRegistration
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 with Michelle Caswell | April 9 ,2024
3:00-3:40pm via Zoom
Register by sending name and BU email address to:
Nicoletta LaMarca-Sacco nlamarc1@binghamton.edu
Zunaira Yousaf zyousaf1@binghamton.edu
Organized by Lisa Yun | lisayun@binghamton.edu
Moderated by Lisa Yun, Ruth Carpenter, Zunaira Yousef
Sponsored by the Department of English & the BU Digital Scholarship Center
with the Engaged Digital Humanities Group
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 with Allison Levy & Warren Harding | Feb 26 ,2024
Hosted by the Engaged Digital Humanities Group, sponsored by the Department of English
Organized by Lisa Yun | lisayun@binghamton.edu 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 with Roopika Risam | May 8 ,2023
Hosted by the Engaged Digital Humanities Group, sponsored by the Department of English
Organized by Lisa Yun | lisayun@binghamton.edu 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.
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