Disco PI's Panel: 'From There to Here
May
2

Disco PI's Panel: 'From There to Here

This panel will be a conversation with the Principal Investigators (Pls] of the DISCO Network as they reflect on their most well-known publications, and their influence on their current research. The collective will reflect on how these formative works shaped their academic careers, and the reverberations those works continue to make within the DISCO Network. The event will be followed by reception. Location is Edwards Saint Johns 2309 and you can register for Zoom here.

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BCaT Learns: Black Networked Resistance
Apr
23

BCaT Learns: Black Networked Resistance

Black Networked Resistance explores the creative range of Black digital users and their responses to varying forms of oppression, utilizing cultural, communicative, political and technological threads both on and offline. Assistant Professor Raven Maragh-Lloyd demonstrates how Black users strategically rearticulate their responses to oppression in ways that highlight Black publics’ historically rich traditions and reveals the shifting nature of both dominance and resistance, particularly in the digital age. Join us at Skinner 3115 for a discussion on Black Networked Resistance.

Join us at Skinner 3115 or on Zoom for BCaT Learns.

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Freedmen's Bureau Transcribe-A-Thon
Apr
17

Freedmen's Bureau Transcribe-A-Thon

Since Fall 2016, the Collaboratory has delighted in hosting an annual Transcribe-a-Thon of the Freedmen Bureau records.

An act of Congress on March 3, 1865 created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands (the Freedmen’s Bureau). The records produced by the bureau are the richest source of information on the African American experience post-Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Most documents have been digitized, but not all have been transcribed. From these pages many stories can emerge, but without transcription, finding these stories can be difficult. Come and help recover forgotten knowledge about our Nation's past, and in so doing, contribute to recovering our shared history.

Participants will learn a bit about the ongoing project to transcribe the bureau’s papers as well as how to transcribe documents and best practices. For those interested in learning to read 19th-century handwriting (paleography) this transcribe-a-thon is ideal practice.

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SOCIAL MEDIA SCRAPING FOR THE TECH-HESITANT
Apr
10

SOCIAL MEDIA SCRAPING FOR THE TECH-HESITANT

This workshop offers a user-friendly data scraping method, for the researchers who–like me–is not particularly tech-savy. The tool we will be discussing is Zeeschuimer, which can capture data from TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and more by ‘Looking over your shoulder’ as you scroll through them, as well as the 4CAT Interface, which offers a toolkit to process and analyze your raw data.

This workshop is hybrid, so join us in the lab or here on zoom

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BCaT Learns: Resurrecting the Black Body
Mar
26

BCaT Learns: Resurrecting the Black Body

In Resurrecting the Black Body, Associate Professor Tonia Sutherland considers the consequences of digitally raising the dead. Attending to the violent deaths of Black Americans–and the records that document them–from slavery through the social media age, Sutherland explores media evidence, digital acts of remembering, and the right and desire to be forgotten. Come join us at Skinner 3115 for a discussion about Resurrecting the Black Body.

Join us at Mary Mount 1400 at 4pm - this is an in-person event, so we would love to see you there, but you can also watch the livestream on Zoom here.

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