[Digital_humanities] Join UCI DHX for: The Center for Black Digital Research

Wed Sep 29 10:43:51 PDT 2021

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with

Denise Burgher
Samantha De Vera
Sabrina Evans

Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 1PM - 2:30PM PST

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The Digital Humanities Exchange welcomes three senior team members from the Center for Black Digital Research<https://libraries.psu.edu/about/departments/center-black-digital-research>.

This talk will offer a holistic view of the Center for Black Digital Research’s foundation, guiding principles, new directions, and upcoming expansions.

Denise Burgher, Samantha de Vera and Sabrina Evans will discuss the first exhibition of the Colored Conventions Project, explain the values that have guided the project, and introduce the Center for Black Digital Research’s new project, the Black Women Organizing Archive<https://digblk.psu.edu/?homepage-hero=black-women-organizing#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20Black%20Women's,intellectuals%2C%20organizers%2C%20and%20activists.>.

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Denise Burgher is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department at the University of Delaware. Denise is a Colored Conventions Project Fellow, African Americans in the Public Humanities Fellow and recently completed a year-long resident fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Denise is the chair of the Colored Conventions Historic Church and Out-reach committee where she works to connect members of church communities and broader publics to CCP archive and work of the CCCP.

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Samantha de Vera is a PhD candidate in History at the University of California, San Diego. Her dissertation focuses on Black refugees’ experiences during the Civil War. She has been a member of the Colored Conventions Project since 2015 and has published on role and works of Black women in the Colored Conventions Movement.

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Sabrina Evans is a PhD candidate in the English and African American and Diaspora Studies Dual Title Program at Pennsylvania State University. Sabrina is beginning her second year as a #DigBlk Scholar for the Center for Black Digital Research and is the project coordinator for the Black Women’s Organizing Archive. She also served as project manager for Douglass Day 2020 Transcribe Cooper.

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