Supporting and empowering QTBIPOC information professionals at the @UofTInfoFaculty and beyond. A @MISC_UofT working group.
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Join us April 12, 2024 for the inaugural #blackdigitalhumanties symposium, organized by the @JacksonStateU Department of Art and @dwguoft, in collaboration with @CAU Centre for Africana Digital Humanities, @UofTCities, and @UofTInfoFaculty EDIU. Feat. keynote @SteeleCat717.
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Don't forget to register for the Weaving Black Futures, the Black Digital Humanities Symposium happening this Friday, April 12
blackdigitalhumanities.com/s…
Reserve your ticket today at uoft.me/bdh-symposium! And a big thank you to the Centre for Africana Digital Humanities at Clark Atlanta University, the UofT School of Cities @UofTCities, and the EDIU at the @UofTInfoFaculty for their gracious support.
Reserve your ticket today at uoft.me/bdh-symposium! And a big thank you to the Centre for Africana Digital Humanities at Clark Atlanta University, the UofT School of Cities @UofTCities, and the EDIU at the @UofTInfoFaculty for their gracious support.
The symposium will close with a workshop led by @UofTInfoFaculty MI student Azza Osman and @JacksonStateU student Ashanti Stiff. This workshop invites participants to explore what it means to come together to weave a Black future not yet here.
The symposium closes with two workshops - the first of which will be led by Leta Hendricks @TAMUOh of @OhioState University. She will present the Droppin' Science Museum, a virtual museum created on @SecondLife that offers an example of how #AugmentedReality can be used in BDH.
More recently, she co-authored the book "Doing Black Digital Humanities with Radical Intentionality: A Practical Guide" (2023) with Jessica H. Lu @jluwrites and Kevin C. Winstead @Kaerf1. Their book grounds the work we do and is a must-read for others engaging in this work.
Our invited keynote Dr. Catherine Knight Steele @SteeleCat717 will present her address at 3PM. She is currently an Associate Professor of Communication at @umdcommdept and the author of the award-winning book Digital Black Feminism (2021).
... archivist Melissa J Nelson @MelNelJ who founded the Black Memory Collective and Dr. Kathy Moscou, Interim Dean at the @OCAD Faculty of Design who was integral to the development of the Black Studies Design & Art Minor at the university.
Panelists include Dr. Rico Chapman @HbcuProf of @JacksonStateU, the founding director of the Centre for Africana Digital Humanities at Clark Atlanta University, Dr. Cheryl Thompson @DrCherylT of @thecreativeschl at @TorontoMet who leads the Black Creative Lab ... (1/2)
We follow with a roundtable titled "Changing Landscapes, New Directions" that moves our discussion from physical geographies to the virtual. Our all-star panel of visionaries have all found ways to imagine otherwise and build anew both on and through "the digital."
The Black Geographies Panel will feature a group of panelists with diverse backgrounds in geography, digital design, architecture, and planning: Dr, Nehal El Hadi @iamnehal, Aljumaine Gayle @Aljumaine, Tura Cousins Wilson of @soca_arch, and Dr. Christy Hyman @Christy_SpaceHW .
Following a lunch break, we return at 1PM for a roundtable titled "#blackgeographies: On Space, Place, and Design" that explores what it means to build accountable spaces where #blackfutures can thrive and the role digital tools can play in that goal.
This is followed by a panel on Afrofuturist Perspectives with Dr. Joshua Schuschke @JoshSchuschke, Dr. Ashley Stewart @ASH_isGOLDEN and @JHUeducation PhD student Noah Nelson, who will explore what Afrofuturism can both offer us and be applied within our work.
This will be followed with a workshop on #AIEthics led by Krystal Chatman of the Computer Science Teachers Association in Mississippi. This workshop will introduce participants to the ethical considerations that come with using AI and how we can circumvent potential harm.
Our symposium opens with a graduate student panel titled "Representation and Resistance in Digital Spaces" and will explore the creative ways Black and other marginalized folk have navigated existing digital spaces and found ways to exist and resist.
The #blackdigitalhumanities symposium is happening this Friday! Grab your tickets at uoft.me/bdh-symposium and check out the rest of this 🧵to hear more about the day's programming.
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MI UXD student Azza Osman will be running the closing interactive workshop on Black Resistance in Virtual Space/Quilting Black Futures.
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Don't forget to secure your spot for the Black Digital Humanities Symposium on April 12 🗓️
MI student Hayat Abdulhakim will be speaking on Representation & Resistance in Digital Media during the graduate student panel! Explore the full schedule and more at blackdigitalhumanities.com/s…
Join us April 12, 2024 for the inaugural #blackdigitalhumanties symposium, organized by the @JacksonStateU Department of Art and @dwguoft, in collaboration with @CAU Centre for Africana Digital Humanities, @UofTCities, and @UofTInfoFaculty EDIU. Feat. keynote @SteeleCat717.
Stay up to date with our lab via Instagram (instagram.com/bdh.lab) or our main website (blackdigitalhumanities.com), and a huge shoutout to our student team Ashanti Stiff, Azza Osman, and Hayat Abdulhakim for all their work on helping make this happen! - Brittany & Keith
We have an amazing group of speakers including @iamnehal, @Aljumaine, @Christy_SpaceHW, @MelNelJ, @DrCherylT and more! For more information and a full schedule of itinerary, visit blackdigitalhumanities.com/s….
This symposium brings together graduate students, practitioners, community activists, and artists to discuss the future of this field, exploring what it means to come together to weave #Blackfutures. Register at uoft.me/bdh-symposium