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Brown University Library Releases New Multimodal Book on Visual Literacy, Extends its Focus on Innovation and Collaboration

[Providence, RI] Brown University Digital Publications has launched the multimodal edition of Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning, the second title in the On Seeing series published by the MIT Press. Authored by Kimberly Juanita Brown, inaugural director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth College, Black Elegies is Brown University Library Releases New Multimodal Book on Visual Literacy, Extends its Focus on Innovation and Collaboration

Expanding Opportunities: Spotlight on a Recent Brown Graduate on Working at the Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship 

Angel Benjamin ‘25, who is graduating with a bachelor’s degree in English and Visual Arts, talks with Ashley Champagne, Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at the Brown University Library, about her experience working as the Publicity Coordinator for CDS. Ashley Champagne: Congratulations on graduating! Would you share a little about what your Expanding Opportunities: Spotlight on a Recent Brown Graduate on Working at the Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship 

Brown University Digital Publications Wins Silver EPIC Award

Brown University Digital Publications has won SILVER at the EPIC Awards presented by the Society for Scholarly Publishing in the Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, or Accessibility (DEIA) Initiatives category. Providence, R.I. [Brown University] Launched this year by the Society for Scholarly Publishing, the EPIC Awards (Excellence in Publishing, Information Technology & Communications) celebrate the remarkable achievements Brown University Digital Publications Wins Silver EPIC Award

Foundations and Futures of Digital Scholarship

For the past 30 years, Brown University Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship has served as an innovative hub for research and teaching in digital humanities (DH) and scholarly communication across disciplines. Join staff, faculty, and student stakeholders for a two-day symposium celebrating the center’s work in digital projects, training and critical DH pedagogy, and born-digital publications. Foundations and Futures of Digital Scholarship

Cosette Bruhns Alonso Appointed Assistant Editor of Brown University Digital Publications

The Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Cosette Bruhns Alonso as Assistant Editor of Brown University Digital Publications (BUDP). Cosette joins an innovative and exciting program expanding the frontiers of scholarly publishing. A collaboration between the University Library and the Dean of the Faculty, launched with generous support from the Mellon Foundation with Cosette Bruhns Alonso Appointed Assistant Editor of Brown University Digital Publications

New Project with Eleni Sikelianos Selected for Brown University Digital Publications

The University Library and the Dean of the Faculty, together with the Digital Publications Faculty Advisory Committee, are pleased to announce the selection of the next scholarly work to be developed by Brown University Digital Publications. Rehearsal Is at Dawn by Professor of Literary Arts Eleni Sikelianos is a multivalent, multimodal ancestral encounter that reaches New Project with Eleni Sikelianos Selected for Brown University Digital Publications

DH Salons – Spring 2025

Please join us for the Digital Humanities (DH) Salon! The DH Salon series, hosted by the Center for Digital Scholarship, is a regular, informal presentation series bringing together digital humanities work across the Brown campus. Join us either in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab (Room 137) on the first floor of the Rockefeller Library (with lunch!) or on Zoom (https://brown.zoom.us/j/94514112608).  DH Salons – Spring 2025

Black Studies Approaches to AI Bias with Christopher L. Dancy

Join Dr. Christopher L. Dancy for a workshop about developing critical approaches to AI bias, especially antiBlackness, in your research projects. Participants at every level and across disciplines are welcome. Registration Registration is preferred for this hybrid event. Christopher L. Dancy Dr. Christopher L. Dancy is an associate professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Computer Science Black Studies Approaches to AI Bias with Christopher L. Dancy

Divided America: Religious Dissent and Freedom Exhibition 

Divided America: Religious Dissent & FreedomOn view starting October 21, 2024 in the Harriette Hemmasi Exhibition Gallery at the John Hay Library20 Prospect St., Providence, RIHours Online exhibition Through The Divided America Project, the John Hay Library is digitizing and making freely available the bulk of the Hall-Hoag Collection, the country’s largest research compilation of Divided America: Religious Dissent and Freedom Exhibition 

Brown University Library Releases Multimodal Publication Centered on Consent, Introduces New Form of Visual Literacy

[Providence, RI] Brown University Digital Publications has launched the multimodal edition of Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual, the inaugural title in the On Seeing series published by the MIT Press. Authored by Kimberly Juanita Brown, inaugural director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth College, Mortevivum is a Brown University Library Releases Multimodal Publication Centered on Consent, Introduces New Form of Visual Literacy