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African American Digital & Experimental Humanities
Join us for Maryland Day this Saturday!
On Saturday 4/26, join AADHum, NarraSpaceXR, the Lakeland Heritage Project, Soft Souls Foundry, The Small Games Lab, and <desc> lab under the big MITH tent at Maryland Day 2026. You'll find us on Tawes Plaza, where we’ll be hosting a range of interactive experiences!
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Field notes, events, and highlights
re: Presentation ⇢ a collage + identity workshop w/ the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center
Led by Yereni Butcher '26, the workshop guided attendees through the process of building their own collages from...
Ruha Benjamin's Collective Imagination: Freedom and Liberation
AADHum, Project STAND, UMD Libraries, the Office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy, UMD’s US Latina/o Studies program,...
Workshop with us @ Next/ Now!
Three approaches, 3 locations – 3 days of exploration and camaraderie... Join AADHum + NarraSpaceXR & the Soft...
Andrew W. Smith Presents LiteraryDJ at World Quantum Day
At World Quantum Day 2025 at the University of Maryland, AADHum faculty member Andrew W. Smith presented his...
From #BlackTwitter to Blacksky: Rudy Fraser workshops & talk on 4/22-23
What would happen if Black Twitter had control over its own algorithms? This week, technologist + community organizer...
On Thurs. 3/27, Curry J. Hackett joins AADHum for workshop & talk!
On March 27th, artist, designer, & educator Curry Hackett joins AADHum and UMD's Dr. Jayson Porter for a...
Join us on Tues. 2/25 @ Busboys Hyattsville for Black Metal!
You are officially invited to the Black Metal Starship Program! On Tuesday, February 25th from 5-7PM, artist and...
Congratulations Caleb + Welcome Cassandra!
Exciting staff updates! Caleb Hurley has been accepted into the MLIS program at the iSchool; Cassandra Hradil joins...
Celebrating the 2024 AADHum Microgrant Awardees!
This year’s cohort embodies creativity, innovation, & a commitment to amplifying underrepresented voices. From original music to abolitionist...
AADHum runs creative computing workshops at Bladensburg and Hyattsville Libraries
This fall, AADHum extended our partnership with the Hyattsville Branch Library and launched our partnership with the Bladensburg...
Design Critique Supports Creative Scholarship
AADHum hosted a design critique of Sankofa’s Cosmic Adansikro, a creative/critical Afrofuturist and Africanfuturist project by Lisa Abena...
AADHum faculty Jeffrey Moro delivers Digital Dialogue
AADHum faculty member Dr. Jeffrey Moro capped off the spring 2024 Digital Dialogues speaker series in MITH with...
Archaeologies of Gaming class curates exhibit for AADHum + MITH
AADHum and MITH interns from MITH388: Archaeologies of Gaming and Electronic Literature organized a public exhibition of rare...