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Fall Quarter 2024
Theme: Black Digital Archives

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3 Oct, Thursday — 5.30-7pm PST [Hybrid event]

Stanford Humanities Center Board Room 

Reading as Archive: Navigating the Social Network of Caribbean Readers
with Schuyler Esprit

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Schuyler Esprit, Lecturer at University of West Indies and Founder and Director of the Create Caribbean Research Institute, will be joining us over Zoom from Jamaica. 

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In this workshop, we will explore the ways in which Caribbean reading culture in the digital age has contributed to the framing and reframing of Caribbean identity in the literary world and in broader cultural discourse. By exploring the uses of community reading forums from GoodReads to Bookstagram and BookTok, to more formal spaces of taste making such as book reviews and literary prizes, this workshop aims to reveal how digital technologies have worked to allow Caribbean writers and more importantly readers to claim and reclaim self-making and culture-making about the Caribbean from elite metropolitan publishing culture and the middlebrow literati. We will be using computational tools such as Voyant and programming languages including Python to analyze and produce critical reviews of Caribbean writing as examples of how the feedback loop of social media and digital cultures has facilitated the Caribbean reading renaissance.

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10 Oct, Thursday — 4-5.30pm PST [IN-PERSON]

CESTA, Wallenberg Hall, 4th Floor, Room 433A

San and Khoi Heritage between Archive, Anarchive and Meta-Archive
with Grant Parker

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Grant Parker, Associate Professor of Classics and African and African American Studies at Stanford, will offer a survey of recent attempts at digitizing heritage materials around the first peoples of Southern Africa, and plot what a forward path might be. At issue is the very notion of archive itself, and the ways in which traditional archives might become the basis for new, more inclusive curations.

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Meredith Clark, Associate Professor of Race and Political Communication at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Andre Brock, Associate Professor of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech

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Christine Slaughter, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University

24 Oct, Thursday — 5.30-7pm PST [Hybrid event]

CESTA, Wallenberg Hall, 4th Floor, Room 433A

Black Cyberculture and the 2024 US Presidential Election
with Meredith Clark, Andre Brock and Christine Slaughter
[joining us on Zoom]

From Zoom calls to TikTok memes, current digital practices are transforming the way we run political campaigns and increasing voter engagement in real time. Fundamental to these developments are Black digital spaces as both individuals and groups–including historically Black Greek-letter organizations (The Divine Nine)–use X, Zoom, etc., to bolster the Harris campaign. Simultaneously, these Black digital spaces are also opportunities for voters to negotiate questions about racial identity, leftist activism, and harm-reduction strategies, as they weigh the US government’s imperialism against the identity politics of electing the country’s first Black-South Asian, female president.

Dinner provided

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