We are excited to announce the upcoming Small Axe event *The Caribbean
Digital III* http://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/ on *2 December 2016 in New
York City*. Here below please find detailed information about the event. We
hope you'll also consider attending our In the Same Boats
http://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/2016/in-the-same-boats-workshop/ digital
cartography workshop on Thursday, 1 December.
Please circulate widely through your networks - and make plans to join us
in December!
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Kaiama L. Glover
Kelly Baker Josephs
Alex Gil
#SXCD
http://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/
*THE CARIBBEAN DIGITAL III*
*FRIDAY, 2 DECEMBE*
*R 2016*
Maison Française | Columbia University
*9AM Welcome*
Kelly Baker Josephs (Williams College)
*9:10AM Opening Remarks*
David Scott (Columbia University)
*9:30-11:00AM * *Digital Diasporic Religion*
http://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/2016/session-1/
Amalia S. Levi (Nidhe Israel Synagogue and Museum) — “Dispersion and the
Digital: A Report on Ongoing Archival Work at the Nidhe Israel Synagogue
and Museum in Barbados”
Stephanie Jackson (Graduate Center, City University of New York) — “Digital
Diaspora and the ‘Divine Mother’: The Emancipatory Politics of Social Media
for Indo-Caribbean Ecstatic Religion”
Samina Gul Ali (University of Miami) — “Transgressive Islamic ‘Brownness’:
Disruptive Racial and Cultural Formations Within Feminist Muslim Latina and
South Asian Communities”
Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken (City College, CUNY) — Discussant
*11:00-11:15AM **Break*
*11:15AM-12:30PM **Mapping Caribbean Concepts*
http://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/2016/session-2/
Angel ‘Monxo’ López Santiago (Hunter College) — “Working the Digital
Spatial Humanities Among Crumbling Archives”
Marta Gierczyk (University of Miami) — “Creole City, Creole Citizenship:
Mapping Kingston in Kerry Young’s Pao”
Kaiama L. Glover (Barnard College), Alex Gil (Columbia University
Libraries), Alyssa Vann (Stanford University) — “*In The Same Boats: Toward
an Afro-Atlantic Intellectual Cartography* :: Beta Scope”
Roopika Risam (Salem State University) — Discussant
*12:30-1:30PM **Lunch*
*1:45-3:00PM **Tales from the Archive*
http://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/2016/session-3/
Marlene L. Daut (University of Virginia) — “Haiti at the Digital
Crossroads: Archiving Black Sovereignty Together”
Schuyler Esprit (Dominica State College) — “Innovating research and
heritage on small islands: Dominica’s model for Preservation and Education”
Keja Valens (Salem State University) — “Abundance And Scarcity: Cuban Food
Writing In Digital Archives, 1857-2016”
Jessica Marie Johnson (John Hopkins University) — Discussant
*3:00-3:15PM **Break*
*3:15-4:30PM **Multimedia Melting Pots*
http://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/2016/session-4/
Lamia Zaibi (University of Manouba, Tunisia) – “Transcending boundaries:
Kwame Dawes’s Digital Collaborations”
Terri Francis (Indiana University) — “Double Exposures: Eyeballing, Framing
the Archives, & Thomas Edison’s Caribbean Films”
Grace Aneiza Ali (New York University) — “Un|Fixed Homeland”
Tzarina T. Prater (Bentley University) — Discussant
http://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/2016/6-closing-reception-framing-digital-art/
*4:30-4:45PM **Break*
*4:45-6:00PM **Caribbean Digital Praxis*
http://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/2016/session-5/
Laurie N. Taylor (Digital Library of the Caribbean) — “Let’s Look to the
Stars Together: Collaboratively Developing Constellations of Communities of
Practice for Caribbean Studies Digital Scholarship”
Abby R. Broughton (Vanderbilt University), Kelsey Corlett-Rivera
(University of Maryland), Nathan H. Dize (Vanderbilt University) —
“(De)constructing
Boundaries through the Digital Humanities: Collaborative Pedagogy and A
Colony in Crisis”
Laura Wagner (Duke University) — “*Nou toujou la!*: The Digital (After)Life
of the Radio Haiti Archive”
Laurent Dubois (Duke University) — Discussant
*6:00-7:30PM * *Closing Reception: Framing Caribbean Digital Art*
http://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/2016/6-closing-reception-framing-digital-art/
Tamika Galanis (Visual Artist) — “The Human-Coral Hybrids: Embodying Past,
Present, and Future”
Kearra Amaya Gopee (Visual Artist) — “Coup”
Yasmine Espert (Columbia University) — Presenter
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Kaiama L. Glover
Kelly Baker Josephs
Alex Gil
#SXCD
http://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/