Ecosystem Notes: WOBD III Keynote Speakers, Call for Fall 2026 Digital Humanities Series Presenters, Congrats to Julia Mallory and More!
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Who Owns Black Data III Announces Keynote Speakers
If you’re following our IG, you’ve already met the powerful thinkers who will be sharing their knowledge in less than two weeks!
Andrea Armstrong
Jo Banner
Gia Hamilton
Yomaira Figueroa at Haverford College
Spotted at Haverford College: LxC Guide and Diaspora Solidarities Lab Co-Director Yomaira Figueroa delivered a talk as part of the Distinguished Lecturer Series. Drawn from her current book project, her talk “Against Olvido: Motherhood, Memory and the Mangle,” drew a crowd of students, faculty, and community members. The event was co-hosted by the English department at the invitation of Keishla Rivera-Lopez. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, Dr. Figueroa!
JHU Digital Humanities Series Impact and Call for Fall 2026 Presenters
We are excited to share that over the Fall ’25 and Spring ’26 semesters, the JHU Digital Humanities workshop series welcomed 354 attendees from 46 unique institutions! We extend many thanks to our featured speakers and attendees!!!
The Digital Humanities Workshop Series evolves from the DH Seminar Series, a nine-year effort in which graduate students from the Johns Hopkins History department—with support from Jessica Marie Johnson and Tom Lippincott— organized and facilitated discussions on the theory, practice, and application of DH.
With support from the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, the series now incorporates the wide array of DH work happening at JHU affiliated with the Center for Digital Humanities, LifexCode: DH Against Enclosure, and the Sheridan Libraries.
Current co-coordinators Drs. Emily McGinn and Nadejda Webb look forward to an awesome 2026-2027 workshop:exclamation:️:sparkles:
If you are interested in presenting your work, or would like to recommend a colleague’s awesome work, please reach out! You can also submit your recommendation or express your interest using the QR code.
Julia Mallory Receives “Miss Sarah” Fellowship Award
Congratulations to Diaspora Solidarities Lab Community Fellow (2024 Cohort) Julia Mallory on being awarded the Miss Sarah Fellowship from Trillium Arts. Mallory is working on her novel-in-progress, Fasttailed Girls.
Mallory recently led a writing workshop as part of Sisterhood is a Verb: Cultural Workers Discussion Circle during the recent Toni Cade Bambara weekend activation led by Muse360 and co-organized by LifexCode.
Underwriting Souls on the Black in the City of London Podcast
Lloyds of London is widely considered the most august name in the world of insurance. Having grown from a small concern offering information to mariners to becoming a huge market for insurance, Lloyds of London is a fixture in the Square Mile.
While there has long been some knowledge about the involvement of many figures associated with Lloyds in the slave trade and ownership of the enslaved, in the past there has been a smokescreen put up around the data provided to researchers who sought to quantify the extent of the involvement that those at Lloyds had with slavery. This has led to the shameful narrative of access denied that Lloyds began to engage with, first with their own employees and community, then with the wider world after 2020.
In 2021, Lloyds began the process of commissioning a serious piece of arms-length research into the involvement of Lloyds members in the slave trade. This podcast is an interview with those that carried out the research. This interview was carried out after the launch of their findings in the winter of 2023.
Alexandre “Sasha” White is a sociologist and historian of medicine, race and racism, and empire. He is an assistant professor at John Hopkins University in the Department of Sociology.
Pyar Seth is now an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His work lies at the intersection of Black Studies, historical and medical anthropology, and postcolonial theory, much of his research focuses on the rationalization of state violence and the abstraction and distortion of Black life and death.
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