This lecture focuses on the size of the Arabic tradition (ca. 700-1500), and the likely role that written practices and cultural expectations played in its [...]
Revolutionary dreams erupt out of political engagement; collective social movements are incubators of new knowledge. Robin D.G. Kelly, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination This [...]
Our digital infrastructures are complicit in the problem of online abuse and harassment. Researchers across a variety of fields have recognized this and have begun [...]
Archives and Digital Humanities (DH) projects that showcase minority voices can disrupt the mainstream perceptions of history and the literary canon; yet all too often, [...]
We in digital humanities and media studies like to use environmental metaphors. We talk of “media ecologies” and hold conferences about “possible worlds.” Maxwell, Raundalen, [...]
How can we construct a literary history of recorded poetry that recognizes media as an intrinsic dimension of the poems’ forms? Given the longtime [...]
This presentation discusses the conceptualization and development of interactive cartographic platform In the Same Boats: Toward an Intellectual Cartography of the Afro-Atlantic. In the Same Boats is a work of multimodal [...]
In the fall of 2017, Philadelphia was the site of 20 temporary monuments created by local and international artists across 10 public parks as [...]
Since the early days of the field, art and architectural historians have relied on image-based reproductions of our primary source material to do our [...]
Social media have transformed our societies and contributed to creation of online public spaces. In the past few years, we witnessed how social media [...]