The DH Salon series is a regular, informal presentation series bringing together digital humanities work across the Brown University campus. 

Spring 2024 Schedule

Select Tuesdays at noon on Zoom or in the Digital Scholarship Lab (room 137) at the Rockefeller Library. Lunch and refreshments are provided.

January 25 – Register here

“The Keeper Project” with Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo and akua naru

Artists Akua Naru and Dr. Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo will discuss the Keeper Project, the first online platform dedicated to bringing the 50-year history of women and girls in hip-hop to artists, scholars, and the public at large. The project highlights the significant contributions women and girls have made in hip hop music and culture by documenting thousands of artists, scholars, and influencers as well the albums, songs, texts, and other cultural contributions that they have produced, each catalogued by year. This resource will offer the public an educational and data-driven resource to celebrate the centrality of women and girls in the genre.

February 8 – Register here

“Surfacing LifexCode: Doing DH Against Enclosure” with Jessica Marie Johnson

This talk focuses on a collective of DH labs, projects, and initiatives that defy the enclosure of the university, the city, even the nation, that transgress imperial knowledge formations and roots itself in relationality, generosity, empathy, and an ethics of care.

February 22 – Register here

“Opening the Archives: Making U.S. government documents available for researchers” with Jim Green, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Professor of Modern Latin American History, Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

The Opening the Archives Project, sponsored by the Brown University Libraries, has digitized, indexed, and made available 70,000 U.S. government documents about Brazil during the military dictatorship (1964-85) on an open-access website.

March 7 – Register here

“Ron, the Kite-Flying Robot: Critical Making and the Digital Humanities” with Khanh Vo, Digital Humanities Specialist

“Critical thinking” (an abstract and cognitive practice) with “making” (a tactile and hands-on practice) creates a method that allows us to do much more than generate answers to problems. Critical making allows us to ask new research questions, particularly when we work to move ideas from the material world to the digital world and vice versa. This session will explore themes of work and process, translation and interpretation, and success and failure in DH and in working with digital tools through the process of critical making.

March 21 – Register here

“AI Roundtable!”

A roundtable featuring humanities researchers working with AI:

• Amanda Anderson, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English, Professor of English and Humanities, Director of Humanities
• John Cayley, Professor of Literary Arts
• Kim Gallon, Associate Professor of Africana Studies

April 4 – Register here

“Careers in DH” with:

• Ashley Champagne, Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship
• Tarika Sankar, Digital Humanities Librarian
• Khanh Vo, Digital Humanities Specialist

April 18 – Register here

“Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine” with Michael Satlow, Dorot Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies

The Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Project (inscriptionsisraelpalestine.org) is digitizing, analyzing, and creating educational resources for a large corpus of ancient inscriptions in Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and Latin. It has been active at Brown for over two decades. The founder and project director will discuss the project, its history, and its future goals.

May 2 – CANCELED

“Digital Journalism, Futurity, and Hope: Latin American Perspectives on Anthropogenic Environmental Catastrophes” with Andressa Maia