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Latinx Digital Humanities: Contesting the Historical Record with Digital Tools (Workshop)

Latinx Digital Humanities Event
April 21, 2022
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Research Commons Colloquia, 3rd floor, 18th Avenue Library

This workshop will provide an overview of how to engage Latinx praxis to describe Latinx archival material and create digital projects that contest the historical record. We will emphasize methodologies that center Latinx decolonial theories and ask participants to consider how the digital space can function as a site of resistance. Drawing from the rich collections at the University of Houston’s Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage as well as an example from the Ohio State University’s Thompson Library Special Collections, we will demonstrate free, easy-to-use software that can be used to create historical timelines, online exhibits of historical photographs and documents, and dynamic story maps. Participants will leave the workshop with a list of digital resources, a digital bibliography, a list of free software, and the seed of a digital project.

About the presenters:

Dr. Carolina Villarroel is the Brown Foundation Director of Research for the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project. She is a certified archivist who coordinated the work of the Recovery board and staff, as well as Digital Humanities services and products. She is co-founder and co-director of the US Latino Digital Humanities program.

Dr. Lorena Gauthereau is Digital Programs Manager. She facilitates data curation and digital scholarship for Recovery materials and Digital Humanities services and products for the US Latino Digital Humanities center. She is currently a fellow for the Rare Book School and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage. Previously, she served as a CLIR-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow.

Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for Ethnic Studies, and the Ohio State University Libraries.

This workshop will be capped at 25 participants. Please register if you plan to participate. 

Who: Ohio State faculty, postdocs and graduate student researchers
When: Thursday, April 21, 2022, 10 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Where: Research Commons Colloquia, 3rd floor, 18th Avenue Library

If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please email libevents@osu.edu as soon as possible. Requests made at least one week prior to the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.