Come SURFACE with LifexCode Members at ASA 2023!
LifexCode members and projects represented at the annual American Studies Association Conference (November 2-5 in Montreal, QC, Canada)
Join LifexCode members across labs and projects at their American Studies Association panels in Montreal!!! See below……
Sonic Choreographies Verzuz Endurance: In Our Feelings/Out of Time
Presented by Dr. Sarah Bruno (Michigan State University) as part of the “Sonics of (Anti-)Solidarity: Affect and Antagonism in Bomba, Hip-Hop, and R&B” Panel, Sun, November 5, 12:00 to 1:40pm, Le Centre Sheraton Montreal, Salon 1 (Level 2).
Dr. Sarah Bruno is Co-Director of the Community Knowledge Lab microlab Taller Entre Aguas (DSL) and a Visiting Scholar in the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University
Space, Race, and Blackness in Latinx Studies
Chaired by Dr. Yomaira Figueroa (Michigan State University), Fri, November 3, 8:00 to 9:40am, Le Centre Sheraton Montreal, Suite 705.
Dr. Figueroa is the PI and Co-Director of the Diaspora Solidarities Lab
“The precarious zone between life and death”: Black feminist notes on grief and the public
This panel features Kevin Ah-Sen (McGill University) as Chair, Jessica Newby (Johns Hopkins University) presenting her paper “On motion, kinship & solidarity: A tale of women & slavery in 18th century rural Jamaica,” Kiana Gonzales Cedeno (MSU) presenting “The children cry, but who is listening?: Reflections on Boricua teenage lamentation,” and Dr. Teona Williams (Rutgers University) presenting “The power to mourn: Black life in the aftermath of the 1936 Tupelo, MS tornado.” Time and location are Thu, November 2, 12:00 to 1:40pm, Le Centre Sheraton Montreal, Salon Dickens (Level A).
Kevin Ah-Sen and Jessica Newby are Solidarity Fellows and co-leads of the Community Knowledge microlab Remains: An Archive (DSL). Kiana Gonzales Cedeno and Teona Williams are Solidarity Fellows in the Open Boat Lab microlab After the Story (DSL).
Developing "Kinship and Longing: Keywords for Black Louisiana"
Ellie Palazzolo (Johns Hopkins University), Chenise Calhoun (Tulane University), and Jamya Davis (Xavier University of Louisiana) will present on Keywords for Black Lousiana in the panel “Accountability, Affirmations and Algorithms: Digital Approaches to Critical Race & Ethnic Studies,” held Fri, November 3, 12:00 to 1:40pm, Novotel Hotel, Alsace.
Ellie Palazzolo is the Co-Project Manager and Digital Curation Fellow with Keywords for Black Louisiana. Chenise Calhoun is Co-Project Manager with Keywords for Black Louisiana, a Solidarity Fellow with the Community Knowledge Lab microlab Black Louisiana History Incubators, and a LifexCode Community Engagement Fellow. Jamya Davis is a member of the Digital Team for Keywords for Black Louisiana.
If You Stay Ready, You Ain’t Gotta Get Ready: A Black Feminist Community Care Lab
Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins University) will be co-facilitating the resource sharing session held on Sat, November 4, 10:00 to 11:40am, Le Centre Sheraton Montreal, Salon Drummond West (Level 3).
Jessica Marie Johnson is co-founder and Director of LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure
