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Black as X pt.1: Adrena Ifill
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Black as X pt.1: Adrena Ifill

Wednesday, December 9 2020: Adrena Ifill in convo w/ Dr. Lopez Matthews, Jr.

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Black as X pt.1: Adrienne Hall

Black as X pt.1: Adrienne Hall

Monday, December 7 2020: Adrienne Hall in convo w/ Kaily Heitz

Join AADHum's Black as X Symposium :: This week!

Join AADHum's Black as X Symposium :: This week!

Please join us for our first of two AADHum Scholars symposia. The AADHum Scholars are a collection of...

Marisa Parham Named Director

Marisa Parham Named Director

"Leading digital humanities scholar takes the helm of Mellon-funded initiative. Renowned digital humanities scholar Marisa Parham has been...

Join the Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Edit-a-thon đź’»

Join the Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Edit-a-thon đź’»

Renowned artist collective The Black Lunch Table will lead a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon today, March 3, 2-3:30pm in the...

AADHum workshop series: The Digital and the Black Radical Imagination

AADHum workshop series: The Digital and the Black Radical Imagination

What new configurations of Black Studies and the digital can we learn by building additional technical skills? What...

Taking Care: The Question of AR, VR, and Blackness | Kimberly Bain

Taking Care: The Question of AR, VR, and Blackness | Kimberly Bain

What counts as care when we create archives, repositories, and representations of people and life.

From Analyzing to Actualizing Apartheid: A Journey in Realization | Imani M. Cheers

From Analyzing to Actualizing Apartheid: A Journey in Realization | Imani M. Cheers

Can immersive virtual reality experiences inspire empathy and in-depth understanding of apartheid social, political and economic constructs?

Standing Together Across Time and Space: Black Social Networks in Late Nineteenth Century Tennessee | Stan Maxson

Standing Together Across Time and Space: Black Social Networks in Late Nineteenth Century Tennessee | Stan Maxson

How can we theorize social networks potentially so elastic they stretch both time and place?

“Is this thing on?” | Yvonne Bramble

“Is this thing on?” | Yvonne Bramble

I realized I needed to uncover.. a history that could weave together the development of computing and welfare...

Transformational Intersections

Transformational Intersections

As an extension of AADHum’s 2017-2018 Conversation Series, “Transformational Intersections: Digital and Public Humanities” explores how the digital...

Making the Digital Physical: AADHum’s “Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black” Conference  |  Ravynn K. Stringfield

Making the Digital Physical: AADHum’s “Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black” Conference | Ravynn K. Stringfield

It was beautiful. It was wonderful. It was Black. It was digital... It was a thrill to watch...

Sharing “The Lost Boys”: Making a Marriage Between a Book and a Website | Richard Bell

Sharing “The Lost Boys”: Making a Marriage Between a Book and a Website | Richard Bell

Bell discusses curating a new website for the upcoming book, "The Lost Boys: A Story of Slavery and...

Toward A Deeper Understanding of Digital Humanities Research in Black Studies | Hazim Abdullah-Smith

Toward A Deeper Understanding of Digital Humanities Research in Black Studies | Hazim Abdullah-Smith

Scholars working at the intersections of Black Studies and the digital humanities... transcend my undergraduate perceptions of interdisciplinarity.