Dear all,
Please see the fantastic news about the upcoming Small Axe event The Caribbean Digital IIIhttp://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/ on 2 December 2016 in New York, with the In the Same Boatshttp://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/2016/in-the-same-boats-workshop/ digital cartography workshop on Thursday, 1 December. Details below. Huge thanks and congratulations to organizers Kaiama L. Glover, Kelly Baker Josephs, Alex Gil on #SXCDhttp://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/!
I’m excited to get to attend, and I hope to see other folks there!
Best wishes, Laurie
THE CARIBBEAN DIGITAL II I
FRIDAY, 2 DECEMBER 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 Religionhttp://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 Conceptshttp://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 Archivehttp://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 Potshttp://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) — Discussanthttp://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/2016/6-closing-reception-framing-digital-art/
4:30-4:45PM Break
4:45-6:00PM Caribbean Digital Praxishttp://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 Arthttp://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