Fall Quarter 2023
Theme: Data
AI-generated (Midjourney) with workshop title as prompt
03 Oct, Tuesday — 5.30-7pm PST
Stanford Humanities Center Board Room
Launch Event — The Stakes of Postcolonial Digital Humanities
We launched the workshop with dinner, drinks, and a discussion based on Roopika Risam's lecture, "The Stakes of Postcolonial Digital Humanities," which is available on Youtube for prior viewing: click here.
03 Nov, Friday — 12-1.30pm PST [Hybrid event]
Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg 460)
Data Empire
with Roopika Risam
Roopika Risam, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, shared from her current book project on the history of and relationship between data and empire.
14 Nov, Tuesday — 5.30-7pm PST [Hybrid event]
Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg 460)
Data Healing
with Neema Githere
Neema Githere (writer, artist, guerrilla theorist) explores connectivity and indigeneity in a time of algorithmic debris. As a Practitioner Fellow at the Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab, they are working a project entitled “Data Healing: A Call for Repair” that employs indigenous value systems to develop a digital rehabilitation clinic.
27 Nov, Monday — 10-11.30pm PST [Zoom only]
Palestinian Digital Worlds
with Hanine Shehadeh and Islam Kamal
Dr. Hanine Shehadeh talked about how new forms of content and media tools are used in the service of movement building towards Palestinian liberation, and Islam Kamal, Manager of the Palestinian Museum Digital Archive, talkedd about the role of the digital archive in preserving the Palestinian narrative.
