Events

Explore events hosted, sponsored, or organized by AADHum-from lectures and workshops to exhibitions and community gatherings at the intersection of Black digital humanities and technology.

Upcoming

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Maryland Day

AADHum @ Maryland Day 2026

Time Apr 25, 2026, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location College Park, MD

Past events

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Punk Resistance: Zine & Counter Culture Activism

Time Apr 18, 2026, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library
Speakers Milo Miller, John R. Davis, Jenna Freedman, Diya Shah, Alexa Boltax
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re: format | experimental zine workshop

Time Apr 17, 2026, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library)
Speakers Cassandra Hradil, Milo Miller, Jenna Freedman
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Queer Zine Exhibition and Workshop

Time Apr 16, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location Stamp Student Union
Speakers Milo Miller, Max Barnewitz
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Social Impact BuildFest

AADHum @ BuildFest 2026

Time Mar 27, 2026, 4:00 PM – Mar 29, 2026, 4:30 PM
Location Do Good Accelerator
Speakers Andrew W. Smith, Himadri Agarwal
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Center for Extended Reality, University of Rochester

Voices of XR: Christin Washington

Time Mar 4, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Location University of Rochester + Virtual
Speakers Christin Washington
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Valentine's Day

heart.exe <3 a videogame + craft arcade

Time Feb 13, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library)
Speakers Himadri Agarwal, Dr. Marisa Parham, Lisa Osei
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Johns Hopkins DH Workshop Series

9Night & Good Mourning, A 3D Reconstruction

Time Jan 29, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Christin Washington
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Archaeologies of Gaming

Gallery Launch: Archaeologies of Gaming Fall 2025

Time Dec 9, 2025, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library)
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re: presentations | cc: self{extended} ⇢ a collage + identity workshop w/ the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center

Time Dec 3, 2025, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library)
Speakers Yereni Butcher, Maya Labarca
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Splash Fellows

Design Cultures & Creativity 2025 Capstone Awards Ceremony

Time Oct 21, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Location Stamp Student Union
Speakers Basmah Elradi
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AADHum Lecture & Workshop Series

Ruha Benjamin's Collective Imagination: Freedom and Liberation

Time Sep 25, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Location Riggs Alumni Center
Speakers Dr. Ruha Benjamin
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NextNow Fest 2025

Creative Remixing with LiteraryDJ

Time Sep 16, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Location Parren J. Mitchell Art/Sociology Building
Speakers Andrew W. Smith
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NextNow Fest 2025

re: realities | cc: self{extended} ⇢ an immersive media workshop for beginners

Time Sep 15, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library)
Speakers Dr. Marisa Parham, Christin Washington, Alice Bi
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Qreate @ UMD

Quantum Remixing with LiteraryDJ

Time Sep 13, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location Colony Ballroom (Stamp Student Union)
Speakers Andrew W. Smith
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NextNow Fest 2025

re: creation | cc: self{fabrication} ⇢ a makerspace workshop for beginners

Time Sep 12, 2025, 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location Singh Sandbox (Iribe Center)
Speakers Cassandra Hradil, Dr. Jehnae Linkins, Jeffrey Hampshire
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NextNow Fest 2025

re: realities | cc: self{extended} ⇢ an immersive media workshop for beginners

Time Sep 12, 2025, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library)
Speakers Dr. Marisa Parham, Christin Washington, Alice Bi
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NextNow Fest 2025

re: creation | cc: self{fabrication} ⇢ a makerspace workshop for beginners

Time Sep 11, 2025, 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location Singh Sandbox (Iribe Center)
Speakers Cassandra Hradil, Dr. Jehnae Linkins, Jeffrey Hampshire
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NextNow Fest 2025

re: inspo | cc: self{reflections} ⇢ a crafting notes-to-self workshop for beginners

Time Sep 11, 2025, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location a.studio (Taliaferro Hall)
Speakers Christin Washington, Dr. Marisa Parham
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Douglass Center, Humanities Summer Institute

Remixed Poetry towards Computational Literacies

Time Jul 18, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location Tawes Hall
Speakers Dr. Marisa Parham, Cassandra Hradil, Christin Washington
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Archaeologies of Gaming

Gallery Launch: Archaeologies of Gaming Spring 2025

Time May 7, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library)
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AADHum Lecture & Workshop Series

Creating and Moderating Custom Feeds

Time Apr 23, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library)
Speakers Rudy Fraser
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AADHum Lecture & Workshop Series

Black Social Media, Moderation, and Digital Infrastructure

Time Apr 22, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library)
Speakers Rudy Fraser
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AADHum Lecture & Workshop Series

Running a Moderation Service on Bluesky

Time Apr 22, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library)
Speakers Rudy Fraser
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World Quantum Day

Quantum Word Clouds & Frederick Douglass

Time Apr 14, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Location Iribe Center
Speakers Andrew W. Smith
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Digital Dialogues

Entangled Verses: Quantum Simulations & Computational Poetics

Time Apr 3, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library) + Virtual
Speakers Andrew W. Smith
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AADHum Lecture & Workshop Series

AI, Eco-Poetics, & Black Life (Workshop)

Time Mar 28, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library)
Speakers Curry Hackett
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AADHum Lecture & Workshop Series

AI, Eco-Poetics, & Black Life (Lecture)

Time Mar 27, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Location Busboys and Poets Hyattsville
Speakers Curry Hackett
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AADHum Lecture & Workshop Series

The Graphic History of Hip Hop

Time Feb 27, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location Ulrich Recital Hall (The Clarice)
Speakers Walter Greason, Tim Fielder
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AADHum Lecture & Workshop Series

Black Metal: Technology, Black Mvmt, + Experimental Scholarship

Time Feb 25, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Location Busboys and Poets Hyattsville
Speakers Ari Melenciano, Jeremy Kamal
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Digital Dialogues

Gamer Trouble

Time Oct 8, 2024, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library)
Speakers Dr. Amanda Phillips
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Douglass Center, Humanities Summer Institute

Remixed Poetry towards Computational Literacies

Time Jul 19, 2024, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location Tawes Hall
Speakers Dr. Marisa Parham, Katelin Ten
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AADHum Lecture & Workshop Series

Motion Capture with Ari Melenciano

Time May 8, 2024, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library)
Speakers Ari Melenciano
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Digital Dialogues

Sensing Sferics

Time May 7, 2024, 5:15 PM – 6:45 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library)
Speakers Dr. Jeffrey Moro
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Archaeologies of Gaming

Gallery Launch: Archaeologies of Gaming Spring 2024

Time May 7, 2024, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library)
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Digital Dialogues

Keywords for Black Louisiana

Time Apr 23, 2024, 5:15 PM – 6:45 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library)
Speakers Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson, Olivia Barnard, Leila K. Blackbird, Ellie Palazzolo
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Lucid Dreams

Time Apr 8, 2024, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location Herman Maril Gallery
Speakers Rashonda Lazar
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Digital Dialogues

WILDWOOD

Time Mar 26, 2024, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library)
Speakers Dr. Elizabeth Murice Alexander
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Writers Here & Now

Negative Money Poetry Reading

Time Dec 3, 2023, 7:00 PM
Location Ulrich Recital Hall (The Clarice)
Speakers Dr. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
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AfAm Brown Bag Event

Erotic Data Measures

Time Nov 8, 2023, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Location Taliaferro Hall + Virtual
Speakers Dr. Elizabeth Murice Alexander
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Future/Now: Three Digital Humanities Projects

Time Oct 12, 2023, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Andrew W. Smith, Dr. Elizabeth Murice Alexander
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New Works Incubator

Lens Studio, AR.js, and Immersive Design

Time Jun 29, 2023, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Location AV Williams
Speakers Andrew W. Smith
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AADHum Research Symposium, Summer 2023

Time Jun 23, 2023, 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library)
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Greenscreening Diaspora

Time Apr 28, 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library) + Virtual
Speakers Dr. Elizabeth Murice Alexander, Dr. Van Tran Nguyen
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Snapchat's LensFest Extended

Augmented Reality & Lens Studio, pt 2

Time Mar 9, 2023, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location a.studio (Taliaferro Hall) + Virtual
Speakers Andrew W. Smith
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a.studio Open House 2023

Time Feb 22, 2023, 1:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Location a.studio (Taliaferro Hall)
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Snapchat's LensFest Extended

Augmented Reality & Lens Studio, pt 1

Time Feb 21, 2023, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library) + Virtual
Speakers Andrew W. Smith
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AADHum Scholars

Black COVID Care Launch

Time Dec 10, 2022, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location STABLE Arts Studio
Speakers Dr. Allie Martin, Boomscat
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Growing Greater: Digital Storytelling & Black Food Justice

Time Dec 8, 2022, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Dr. Elizabeth Murice Alexander
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If, Then Technology & Poetics

Visualizing the Remix with LiteraryDJ

Time Sep 23, 2022, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Andrew W. Smith
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MAVRiC

Emerging Tech + Arts Expo

Time May 10, 2022, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Location WeWork
Speakers Andrew W. Smith, Dr. Marisa Parham, Dr. Jeffrey Moro
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Immersive Media + Arts for All Showcase

More Than Entertainment: A Conversation on the Power and Potential of Immersive Media to Create Positive Social Impact

Time Apr 5, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Location Prince George's Room (Stamp Student Union) + Virtual
Speakers Andrew W. Smith, Dr. Marisa Parham
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CCBC Mellon Scholars

Design & Development in Black Digital Humanities

Time Feb 11, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Andrew W. Smith, Christin Washington, Dr. Elizabeth Murice Alexander
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Dean's Colloquium Series on Race, Equity, and Justice

The Lakeland Digital Archive: Toward an Equitable Community/University Collaboration

Time Apr 13, 2021, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location Virtual
Speakers Dr. Mary Corbin Sies, Trevor Muñoz, Maxine Gross, Violetta Sharps-Jones
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Poetry, Black Life, & Computational Arts

Poetry Reading & Conversation with Lillian Yvonne-Bertram

Time Apr 2, 2021, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Dr. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Dr. Marisa Parham
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Poetry, Black Life, & Computational Arts

Computational Poetry Workshop

Time Apr 2, 2021, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Dr. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
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Rhode Island Historical Society

African American Women's Activism in Historical Perspective

Time Mar 3, 2021, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Dr. Aleia Brown
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Black as X

Strategies for Integrating Black Digital Studies Across Institutional Lifeworlds

Time Feb 23, 2021, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Dr. Merle Collins, Dr. Amaka Okechukwu, Dr. Daryle Williams, Dr. Schuyler Espirit
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Black as X

Lovers on a Mission: Black Intimacies in Popular Culture in Digital Social Media Fandom

Time Feb 23, 2021, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Brienne Adams, Christin Washington, Dr. Rianna Walcott, Dr. Kim Bain
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University of Connecticut Humanities Institute

Bl(x)ck Rhizomes: A Digital Public History Praxis

Time Feb 22, 2021, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Dr. Aleia Brown
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Black as X

Black Digital Studies, #BlackDH, and Black Studies

Time Feb 22, 2021, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Dr. La Marr Jurelle Bruce, Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson, Marcia Chatelain
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Black as X

Black as X : Platforming Experimental Scholarship II

Time Feb 22, 2021, 10:00 AM – Feb 23, 2021, 6:00 PM
Location Virtual
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Black as X

Interrogating Silences: Grenada and Louise Langdon Little, the Mother of Malcolm X

Time Dec 11, 2020, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Dr. Merle Collins, Dr. John Drabinski
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Black as X

Black Belt Brooklyn: Mapping Community Building and Social Life in the 1970s and ‘80s

Time Dec 10, 2020, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Dr. Amaka Okechukwu, Joyce LeeAnn
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Black as X

Building a Better Mousetrap: Speculating Access in Black Digital Archives

Time Dec 9, 2020, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Adrena Ifill, Lopez Matthews
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Black as X

Building a Black Power Digital Archive

Time Dec 8, 2020, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Jasmin A. Young, Akinyele Umoja
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Black as X

Cartographies of Black Exodus: Mapping past, present, and possible futures of Black San Francisco

Time Dec 7, 2020, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Adrienne Hall, Kaily Heitz
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Black as X

Black as X: Platforming Experimental Scholarship I

Time Dec 7, 2020, 1:00 PM – Dec 11, 2020, 4:00 PM
Location Virtual
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Roundtable: Centering Black Stories in Archives

Time Nov 16, 2020, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Dr. Aleia Brown, Lae'l Hughes-Watkins, Zita Nunes, Joni Floyd
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AADHum x Electric Marronage

Twine Workshop II with Electric Marronage

Time Oct 22, 2020, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Dr. Marisa Parham
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AADHum x Electric Marronage

Twine Workshop I with Electric Marronage

Time Oct 21, 2020, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Location Virtual
Speakers Dr. Marisa Parham
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Dean's Colloquium Series on Race, Equity, and Justice

Purpose, Frivolity, Futures: What, really, is inclusion?

Time Oct 6, 2020, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location Virtual
Speakers Dr. Marisa Parham
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AADHum Scholars

narrative/play/immersion II

Time Feb 28, 2020, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library) + Virtual
Speakers Andrew W. Smith, Dr. Marisa Parham
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AADHum Scholars

narrative/play/immersion I

Time Feb 25, 2020, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Location MITH (Hornbake Library) + Virtual
Speakers Dr. Marisa Parham, Andrew W. Smith