Race and Digital Humanities Initiatives
Spring 2024
Race + DH Lecture Series
Wednesday, March 27: Dr. David Sterling Brown (Trinity College, CT) presents on “The ‘White Other’ in Shakespearean Drama and Visual Art,” 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the Heineman Ecumenical and Cultural Center.
Fall 2023
Race + DH Lecture Series
Thursday, October 5: Claire Lavarreda (World History, Northeastern University) will be delivering a lecture, “Learning as You Go: Building an Archive of Indigenous Voices,” 4:30-5:30 p.m., in the Heineman Ecumenical and Cultural Center.
Monday, October 16: Dr. Julia Troche (Ancient Egyptian Archaeology, Missouri State University), will be delivering a lecture, “Current Debates in Digital Egyptology, Or What Happens When Scholars Assign Race to the Pharaohs,” 4:30-5:30 p.m., in the Heineman Ecumenical and Cultural Center.
Thursday, November 9: Gowthaman Ranganathan (Anthropology, Brandeis University) will be delivering a lecture, “Oral Histories of Queerness in Post-War Sri Lanka,” 4:30-5:30 p.m., in the Heineman Ecumenical and Cultural Center.
Spring 2022
Race + DH Lecture Series
April 27: Annette Joseph-Gabriel (Romance Studies, Duke University) delivered a lecture on the tool, Mapping Marronage, which helps facilitate research of the trans-Atlantic slave trade through data visualizations.
April 5: Tieanna Graphenreed (English, Northeastern University) delivered a lecture on her digital project, "The Brownies' Book Archive and Annotated Index", looking at how new data can affect digital projects.
March 9: Alanna Prince (English, Northeastern University) gave a lecture on how digital humanities can play a vital role in studying Black life in print media and on the web.
Play with DH
April 4: Timeline.JS with Dr. Lucas Dietrich
March 8: GIS and Mapping
NEH Faculty Fellows
The inaugural cohort of NEH Digital Humanities Faculty Fellows presented their projects at the 2022 CELTSS Day in May.
Fall 2022
Race + DH
Avery Blankenship (English, Northeastern University) spoke on the 19th-century cookbook page during her lecture in October. She discussed how looking at cookbooks through a digital lens can help facilitate race-related research, as these books can act as historical archives.
