Digital Scholarship Speaker Series
What the Archive Means to Us:
Preservation, Community Partnerships and Pedagogy
Date and time:
Monday, April 10, 2023 4:00 PM | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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The US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH) at the University of Houston draws from the rich archival collections at Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (Recovery) in order to make visible the legacy of Latinxs in the United States. The preservation of Latinx histories and stories through culturally centered methods draws on “long traditions of self-determination, resistance, and survival within Latinx scholarship and the community at-large” (Baeza, et. al. 2023).
Working against the erasure of underrepresented voices, USLDH projects confront the precarity of community archives and assert the existence and contributions of Latinxs to US culture, literature and history. Community archival collections can create a more inclusive understanding of public history as they reveal histories that are not always a part of national narratives.
In order to exemplify what the archive means to us, we will discuss community outreach and collections, USLDH digital humanities projects that draw from recovered community histories, and classroom engagement with archives and digital humanities.
This event is co-sponsored by:
Sojourner Truth Library
Department of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
History Department
Sociology Department
The Division of Academic Planning & Learning Innovation
Speakers
Gabriela Baeza Ventura, PhD, Associate Professor of Spanish, Executive Editor of Arte Público Press, Co-Director of the US Latino Digital Humanities Center, University of Houston
Carolina Villarroel, PhD, CA, Brown Foundation Director of Research of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage, Co-Director of the US Latino Digital Humanities Center, University of Houston
Lorena Gauthereau, PhD, Digital Programs Manager at Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage and the US Latino Digital Humanities Center, University of Houston
Podcasting Week
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All students, faculty, and staff are welcome to register for DSC workshops.
Session 1: Intro to audio recording equipment.
Monday, March 20, 12-1pm
This is a hands-on training to the sound booth and round table audio stations. (Completing this session qualifies participants to reserve the audio recording stations.) Open to all students, staff, and faculty.
Session 2: Intro to audio production.
Tuesday, March 21, 12-1pm
This is a hands-on training using Audacity and Adobe Audition. Open to all students, staff, and faculty.
Session 3: Podcasting pedagogy for faculty.
Wednesday, March 22, 12-1pm
Join DSC Board members, and Librarians to discuss creating and integrating audio assignments into your courses. Open to all instructors.
Mapping Week
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All students, faculty, and staff are welcome to register for DSC workshops.
Session 1: Intro to Open Mapping.
Monday, March 27, 12-1pm
In this session, Adrianna Martinez will discuss the potential of open mapping projects in expanding the digital cultural record. Maps, roads, and cities have a humanistic value in the larger story of a space. We will discuss the practice of open mapping in two platforms OpenStreetMaps through the project of Humanitarian Open Street Maps (HOTOSM) and Google Maps through the project of Storymaps as examples of globalized and localized mapping projects with vastly varying impacts. At the end of this session you will have a new sense of what you are engaging with when using a digital map!
Session 2: Intro to StoryMaps.
Tuesday, March 28, 12-1pm
This is a hands-on training using StoryMaps by Prof. Kristine Harris and DSC coordinator Jen Rutner. We will view sample projects from SUNY New Paltz and beyond, and create a map together. Open to all students, staff, and faculty.
Session 3: Mapping pedagogy for faculty.
Wednesday, March 29, 12-1pm
Join DSC Board members, and Librarians to discuss creating and integrating mapping assignments into your courses. Open to all instructors.