This summer, Ohio State University’s Center for Urban and Regional Analysis and its University Libraries’ Research Commons will host a webinar series of presentations featuring community-engaged digital humanities scholars. They will present how they are uncovering the legacies of discriminatory practices and seeking a more socially just future for the people and places that have ...

Temple University Libraries is hosting a virtual workshop on April 27, “Professional Pathways in the Black Digital.” From the workshop description: Digital tools are being used in a plethora of ways to study and serve the lived experiences and cultures of people across the African continent and Diaspora. These digital tools can include digital mapping, ...

Women in Focus, Full Stack Feminism, and the Sussex Humanities Lab are hosting the AI and Archives: Explorations, Possibilities and Challenges Symposium. The full-day hybrid symposium is on April 27, with the in-person portions taking place at the University of Sussex Sussex Humanities Lab. From the symposium description: AI and Archives: Explorations, Possibilities and Challenges ...

The ACRL Digital Scholarship Section (DSS), in association with ACRL DSS Digital Humanities Discussion Group, will present Inclusive and Ethically-Informed Approaches to Digital Projects, a program featuring presentations on digital project work with a focus on studies that highlight inclusive, ethically-minded approaches. From the talk abstract: Molly Roy and Miriam Posner will each present a ...

The Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network (DPOE-N) is hosting two upcoming online workshops. The first workshop is “Climate change, archives, and digital preservation” on April 21, taught by Eira Tansey (University of Cincinnati). Participants need to RSVP by April 17. From the workshop description: Climate change poses enormous challenges to archives and archivists. In ...

The Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) DSS Numeric and Geospatial Services Discussion Group will host a virtual book panel comprised of contributors to The Rise of AI: Implications and Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Academic Libraries, a book that “collects projects, collaborations, and future uses from academic librarians who have begun to embrace ...

The Diversity Working Group (DWG) at the University of Toronto and the Department of Arts and Theatre at Jackson State University are hosting the Black Digital Humanities Speaker Series in March and April. As the landing page describes, In a recently published special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly on Black Digital Humanities, editors Alanna Prince and Cara ...

The Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI) at the University of Toronto is hosting a talk by Allie Martin (Dartmouth College), tentatively entitled “Black Covid Care: Building Sonic Constellations of Black Life.” From the talk description: Her work is attuned to questions of race, sound and power. Her forthcoming first book, Intersectional Listening: Gentrification and Black Sonic ...

The Authenticity Project, an initiative from the Digital Library Federation, is hosting a two-day virtual event on April 6-7, 2023, from 11:00 am – 4:30 pm EST. Featured speakers include Loretta Parham, CEO and Library Director of the AUC-Robert W. Woodruff Library, and Lopez Matthews, Jr., the State Archivist and Public Records Administrator of the ...