It's here! The Spring 2025 LifexCode Research Celebration on April 22!!!
Celebrate and resist at the LifexCode x Black World Seminar Spring Research Celebration, featuring a stellar lineup of guests.
We have much to celebrate and much to gather in this moment in the world. Let’s create some joy and learning.
LifexCode and the Black World Seminar will celebrate this semester’s research achievements with a special convening on April 22, 2025 featuring leaders in the field of Black + Latinx Digital Humanities.
Guest speaker:
Dr. Marisa Parham & the African American Digital and Experimental Humanities Initiative (AADHUM)
Marisa Parham is Professor of English and Digital Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she directs the African American Digital Humanities initiative (AADHUM), and is the associate director for the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). She also co-directs the Immersive Realities Lab for the Humanities (irLh), and currently chairs the ACLS Commission on Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship.
The Translation Lab (Diaspora Solidarities Lab, Community Knowledge Lab) also presents “Decolonizing Language in a Digital World: Ethical Questions in Digital Translation.”
This curated conversation will consider ethical and practical questions raised by the use of AI-powered digital translation tool and repositories.
Special guests for this conversation include:
Annette Joseph-Gabriel is the John Spencer Bassett Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She conducts research and teaches courses on race, gender, and citizenship in France, the Caribbean, and Africa. Her areas of expertise include Black women’s writings, anticolonial activism, and slavery in the French Atlantic. Her work centers marginalized voices and shows how their contributions can offer us new ways to think about contemporary cultural and political questions. She is the author of Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (University of Illinois Press 2020), published in France as Imaginer la libération: Des femmes noires face à l'empire (Éditions Rot-Bo-Krik 2023).
Alex is Senior Lecturer II and Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, where he teaches introductory and advanced courses in digital humanities, and runs project-based learning and collective research initiatives. Before joining Yale, Alex served for ten years as Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University, where he co-created and nurtured the Butler Studio and the Group for Experimental Methods in Humanistic Research. His research interests include Caribbean culture and history, digital humanities and technology design for different infrastructural and socio-economic environments, and the ownership and material extent of the cultural and scholarly record. He is currently senior editor of archipelagos journal, editor of internationalization of Digital Humanities Quarterly, co-organizer of The Caribbean Digital annual conference, and co-principal investigator of the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation.
Dr. Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez is the director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) and a professor of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies. Professor Figueroa’s teaching and research focus on Latinx Caribbean and Afro-Hispanic literatures and diasporas, women of color, and decolonial Feminisms. She is the author of the award-winning book Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2020; translated by Editora Educación Emergente, 2023), and the forthcoming book, The Survival of a People (under contract with Duke University Press). Her published work can be found in Hypatia, Decolonization, CENTRO Journal, Small Axe, Frontiers Journal, Hispanofilia, Contemporânea, Diálogos, and Feminist Formations.
The Translation Lab is Afua Quarshie (JHU), Chenise Calhoun (Tulane), and Awa Daigne-Lo (Independent Scholar/Translator)
Join us!
Where:
In-person: Gilman 308, Johns Hopkins University (lunch provided)
Virtual: https://zoom.us/j/4351988443
See you there!
