Koh Representing Race Opening Remarks MLA 2013

REPRESENTING RACESILENCE IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES

WITH

ADELINE KOH (@ADELINEKOH), ANNE CONG-HUYEN (@ANITACONCHITA),

MOYA BAILEY (@MOYAZB, IN ABSENTIA), HUSSEIN KESHANI, MARIA VELAZQUEZ

RESPONDING:

ALONDRA NELSON (@ALONDRA)

OUR SISTER PANEL

584. Accessing Race in the Digital Humanities: An E-roundtable

Saturday, 5 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Commonwealth, Sheraton

A special session

Presiding: Roger Whitson, Emory Univ.

Roger Whitson's Annotation: After introducing the panel, I briefly document my own experiences as project manager for "Lynchings in Georgia: 1875-1930" at Emory University's Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC). How do new forms read more >

Speakers: David Kim, Univ. of California, Los Angeles; Jennifer Sano-Franchini, Michigan State Univ.; Lee Skallerup Bessette, Morehead State Univ.

Responding: Tara McPherson, Univ. of Southern California

For more information, visit www.rogerwhitson.net/accessingrace after 31 Dec.

Session Description:

This roundtable addresses how applications and interfaces encode specific cultural assumptions about race and preclude certain groups of people from participating in the digital humanities. Participants present specific digital humanities projects that illustrate the impact of race on access to the programming, cultural, and funding structures in the digital humanities.

“ARCHIVAL SILENCE” DEBATE

THIS SILENCE EXTENDS TO

CALIBRATION OF DH TOOLS

DH ARCHIVES

VIRTUAL IDENTITIES

PUSHBACK WITHIN COMMUNITIES

HOW DO WE NAVIGATE THIS SILENCE?

ANNE CONG-HUYEN

ANNE’S TWITTER ACC: @ANITACONCHITA

MOYA BAILEY (MOYABAILEY.COM)

HUSSEIN KESHANI

Race and State Patronage of Digital Islamic Studies in the UK

ADELINE KOH

MARIA VELAZQUEZ

Blog Like You Love: Anti-Racist Projects, Black Feminism and the Virtual

ALONDRA NELSON

RESPONDENT

TWITTER HANDLE: @ALONDRA

NOTABLE WORKS: AFROFUTURISM--A SPECIAL ISSUE OF SOCIAL TEXT (2002); TECHNICOLOR: RACE, TECHNOLOGY AND EVERYDAY LIFE (2001); BODY AND SOUL: THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY AND THE FIGHT AGAINST MEDICAL DISCRIMINATION (2011)