Winter Quarter 2025
Theme: Black Digital Archives
23 Jan, Thursday — 5-6.30pm PST [Hybrid]
Stanford Humanities Center Board Room
Echoes of Harlem: Afrofuturism and Black Digital Archives
with Bryan Carter
Join Dr. Bryan Carter, Director of the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) at the University of Arizona, as he explores the intersection of technology and Black cultural preservation in his talk, Echoes of Harlem: Afrofuturism and Black Digital Archives. In this presentation, Dr. Carter will highlight key initiatives at the CDH, including the Virtual Harlem project—a fully immersive representation of 1920s Harlem—as well as work in 3D scanning and volumetric video capture.
Drawing from these initiatives, Dr. Carter will discuss how new technologies are reshaping the preservation of African American histories, enabling future generations to interact with Black cultural narratives in very different and immersive ways. The talk will touch on the ethical considerations of archiving through a postcolonial and Afrofuturist lens and will outline a vision for the future of Black Digital Archives, where holographic figures and interactive digital artifacts are not just possibilities but realities.
Dr. Adam Banks will moderate the event, and it will be immediately followed by a volumetric video capture demonstration at the Harmony House.
Co-sponsored by Afrofutures Now
Feb 20, Thurs — 5.30-7pm PST [Hybrid event]
Stanford Humanities Center Board Room
Caribbean Pasts in the Digital Present
with Kelly Baker Josephs
CO-SPONSORED BY
Kelly Baker Josephs is a Professor of English at the University of Miami. She is author of Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (University of Virginia Press, 2013), co-editor of The Digital Black Atlantic (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), and co-organizer of the annual Caribbean Digital conferences.
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In this talk, I consider the proliferation of digital archives and archival projects in recent Caribbean studies scholarship. I turn to two Caribbean digital projects – Digital Aponte and About Face: Revisiting Jamaica’s first Exhibition in Europe – as case studies to think about how such work complicates the curating of our past, often in necessarily speculative ways, to refashion our futures.
Dinner provided
