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13 Mar 2018

Kaiama Glover Digital Dialogue

By |2020-08-14T15:09:00-04:00Mar 13, 2018|

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 [...]

21 Mar 2016

Harold Short Digital Dialogue

By |2020-08-14T13:50:49-04:00Mar 21, 2016|

This session will include presentations on projects in three very different cultural and social contexts. The purpose of the session is to prompt and facilitate discussion around [...]

29 Jan 2016
Stephanie Sapienza

African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities

By |2019-05-13T16:20:21-04:00Jan 29, 2016|

African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities (AADHum) was awarded to the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) and is being co-directed by MITH and the Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy (Center for Synergy). The project was funded by a $1.25 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for research, education and training at the intersections of digital humanities and African American studies, and will help to prepare a diverse community of scholars and students whose work will both broaden the reach of the digital humanities in African American history and cultural studies, and enrich humanities research with new methods, archives and tools.

2 Jul 2015

Electronic Skin: Community Building and Virtual Embodiment

By |2017-02-05T21:25:33-05:00Jul 2, 2015|

This was a project of Spring 2011 MITH Winnemore Digital Dissertation Fellow Maria Velazquez. Her dissertation, "Electronic Skin: Community Building and Virtual Embodiment" investigated the creative processes through which citizens are made, with particular attention to the role that technologies like blogging, virtual reality, and electronic activism foster the use of “imaginative embodiment” in creating stories of citizenship, selfhood, and action.

3 Jun 2015

Digital Diasporas

By |2015-12-14T21:35:32-05:00Jun 3, 2015|

Digital Diasporas was the first conference of its kind to bring together to discuss on-going projects and also debate the theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical issues raised by the intersection of the fields of Digital Humanities and African American/African Diaspora Studies.

10 Feb 2012

Soweto `76, A Living Digital Archive

By |2019-01-15T10:31:44-05:00Feb 10, 2012|

The goal of Soweto '76 is to provide users with virtual access to the history of Soweto, a Black township outside Johannesburg, so that they may experience a significant period in South Africa's history. Using existing oral histories, testimonies, photographs, video footage, material objects, and sound recordings in the collections of the Hector Pieterson Memorial & Museum, the work seeks to redress the existing portrayal of the lives of township residents in the mainstream or "official" historical record.

10 Feb 2012

Saraka and Nation

By |2017-02-05T21:25:38-05:00Feb 10, 2012|

Concerned, thematically, with postcolonial cultural formations, and in particular the experience of the African Diaspora, the Saraka and Nation project traces connections between cultures of Africans in the Americas and sites of memory in Africa.

10 Feb 2012

Narratives That Heal

By |2017-02-05T21:25:39-05:00Feb 10, 2012|

This was a 2002 Faculty Fellowship project of Professor Carolina Robertson from the Ethnomusicology Department. Based on the core premise that creativity is not necessarily a state of grace rooted in innate talent or skill, a series of seminars were offered through the University's 'Teachers as Scholars' program, in which teacher participants explored their own life narratives as doorways to creativity against a backdrop of parallel stories from other cultures. Dr. Robertson worked with a MITH programmer to develop an interactive website with malleable texts, sounds and images as the dynamic outcome of this process.

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