Fall 2023 Events
The Diaspora Solidarities Lab invites you to join us for our fall events! To learn more, please go to dslprojects.org/events.
September 3rd
September 3rd at 11:00am to 12:30pm EST:
Join Taller Entre Aguas in collaboration with PROPA for a panel roundtable about the last illegal slave ship to pass through Puerto Rico, The Majesty.
Únase a nostroxs para una charla sobra el último barco ilegal esclavista, la Majestad.
September 14th
September 14th at 5:00pm EST:
The DSL invites you to a monumental conversation on catastrophes as mediating Black diasporic life. Come witness an all star constellation of Bedour Alagraa, Erika Dickerson-Despenza, and J.T. Roane for an evening of art, worldmaking, and what survives after the storm.
September 27th
September 27th at 12:00pm EST:
DSL archivist Jessica Neal of Vanguard Archives Consulting leads a workshop on oral histories: What qualifies? How should we engage and how do they impact the historical record?
This workshop is for DSL & LxC members only.
September-November
September 13th, October 11th, November 1st, & November 29th at 12:00pm EST:
How have imaginaries within and around possibility within the Digital Humanities been shaped? Oscillating between canonical texts within “traditional” [read: racialized white] DH and field-defining texts within Black Digital Humanities, this course outlines the contours of both conversations while centering the grounding Gilmore suggests above, enmeshed in refusal. How have the refusals embedded within Black Histories and Black Studies informed the contours of Black Digital Humanities? What possibilities and futures are at stake? What do we, as budding (B)DH practitioners and scholars, risk when/if we prioritize refusal as a way of being and further, navigating traditional DH?
This course is for DSL & LxC members only.
September-November
September 29th at 12:00pm EST:
Co-sponsored with the Black Beyond Data Reading Group: BBD welcomes Tawana Petty, long-time social justice organizer whose work focuses on racial justice, equity issues, data privacy, and consent.
November 17th at 12:00pm EST:
Co-sponsored with the Black Beyond Data Reading Group: Nicole Aljoe Assistant Professor of English at Northeastern University joins BBD to discuss embedded slave narratives.
November 8th
November 8th at 2:00pm EST
The OMEKA team returns to the DSL for another workshop on their platforms, this time with more of an emphasis on OMEKA Classic.
This workshop is for DSL & LxC members only.
November 30th
November 30th
DSL microlab Archipelagos of Marronage launches their storymap, which explores geographies of Black persecution using sources like runaway ads, at the Panel on Black Louisiana, hosted at Johns Hopkins University.
