Evan Turïano reports on #OAH2018 panels, including the "State of the Field: Abolition and Emancipation" for Muster: "In a question posed from the audience, Thavolia Glymph, Professor of History at Duke University, expressed shock that the state of the field was such that “Does emancipation matter?” was still an open question. She received the first … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Two Visions of Abolition and Emancipation #OAH18
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AWARD: 2018 AAIHS Award Recipients Announced
Congratulations Dr. Sasha Turner for winning the 2018 Maria Stewart Journal Article Prize for her article “The Nameless and the Forgotten: Maternal Grief, Sacred Protection, and the Archive of Slavery,” Slavery and Abolition, 38: 1 (2017): 232-250. Congratulations to all the winners of all prizes and honorable mentions! Read more: 2018 AAIHS Award Recipients – AAIHS
A Storify: Tweets from #UnboundJHU held at JHU March 8-9, 2018
Click here for tweets from #unboundJHU held at Johns Hopkins University, March 8-9, 2018. This conference was sponsored by the Center for Africana Studies and co-organized by Katrina Bell McDonald, Tera Jordan, and Jessica Marie Johnson. For more: http://bit.ly/unboundjhu (Storify compiled by @jmjafrx) Featured Image: Tera Hunter, Professor of History at Princeton University and author … Continue reading A Storify: Tweets from #UnboundJHU held at JHU March 8-9, 2018
DIGITAL/CONF: Story Map for Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities
Moya Bailey, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jessica Marie Johnson, Liz Losh, Marisa Parham, and more present at the OIEAHC/Equality Lab conference Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities, October 26-28, 2017. Johnson writes: "We’ve got a map!!! Thank you Liz Losh and the team at the Equality Lab for this really amazing visualization of our DH work. … Continue reading DIGITAL/CONF: Story Map for Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities
CONFERENCE: OIEAHC/Equality Lab Presents Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities
See below: "Although just a few years ago Tara McPherson bemoaned the lack of diversity in the digital humanities in her groundbreaking article “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White?” digital scholarly activities that approach race as a central concern have become integral to a vibrant and expanding field. The Equality Lab at William and … Continue reading CONFERENCE: OIEAHC/Equality Lab Presents Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities
VIDEO/CONF: Scenes at 20 – Inspirations, Riffs, and Reverberations
This symposium celebrates the 20th anniversary of Saidiya Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America and its impact on studies of Black lives in the past, present, and future. Please join us as we consider the work’s impact within its intergenerational intellectual context and theorize new possibilities for Black life and Black freedom in … Continue reading VIDEO/CONF: Scenes at 20 – Inspirations, Riffs, and Reverberations
Region & Nation in Race & Slavery: Closing Highlights Storify via @OIEAHC
The Omohundro Institute posted their Storify of the Region & Nation in Race & Slavery Conference twitterfeed: "If you couldn't attend the "Region and Nation in American Histories of Race and Slavery" conference you might have followed along at #SlaveryMV. Below is just a small fraction of the hundreds of tweets produced over the three … Continue reading Region & Nation in Race & Slavery: Closing Highlights Storify via @OIEAHC
VIDEO: Intellectual History of Black Women: An International Conference
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women: An International Conference
April 28-30, 2011
Location: Columbia University’s Faculty House
“This conference features emerging work on black women’s contributions to black thought, political mobilization, creative work and gender theory. Scholarly Panels, Roundtables, and Keynote delivered by Professor Elizabeth Alexander will focus on black women as intellectuals across a broad geography including Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America, and Europe. Over a period of three days we aim to piece together a history of black women’s thought and culture that maps the distinctive concerns and historical forces that have shaped black women’s ideas and intellectual activities.
The conference is sponsored by Columbia University’s Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference (CCASD), Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS), Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWAG), Institute for Social and Economic Research Policy (ISERP), Office of the Provost, and History…
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TALK: The Race for Digitality | Roopika Risam
At African Diaspora 2.0, Roopika Risam of #DHPoco: Postcolonial Digital Humanities discussed the tension between digital humanities and African diaspora studies. An excerpt: "...In the race for digitality, we find ourselves struggling to understand the relationship between our deep investments in discourses like intersectional feminism or critical race theory and digital humanities. The burden of … Continue reading TALK: The Race for Digitality | Roopika Risam
AUDIO: Chivallon and Howard on Slavery & Memory in Martinique
At the 2013 workshop Caribbean Urban Aesthetics at The Open University, Christine Chivallon (with David Howard) discussed cultural heritage practices in Martinique: From the CUA website: 3.Locating the memory of slavery in Martinique : landscape versus architecture Christine Chivallon, CNRS/LAM (Les Afriques dans le monde), Sciences Po Bordeaux (Universite de Bordeaux IV) Taking as my … Continue reading AUDIO: Chivallon and Howard on Slavery & Memory in Martinique
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