[UNF-DHI] March/April events @DHI

[Pfister, Anne]

Welcome back from DHI! First, Alex and I thank you for your participation in our many exciting events. It's been a great year for DHI and we hope to see you at the upcoming events listed below.
Please share these events with your students and colleagues and look for DHI at Research Week in April! Thanks, everyone!


Recovering Local African American History: A Hands-On Workshop - TH March 23, 7 – 8:30 pm - Jessie Ball duPont Center - This event is part of the Spring 2023 Justice Sessions<https://english.domains.unf.edu/justicesessions/spring-2023-schedule/>


A hands-on digital editing workshop fostering campus-community collaboration, offered in partnership by University of North Florida and Edward Waters University. The workshop will involve materials from the Eartha M.M. White Collection at UNF and will be facilitated by faculty and students from University of North Florida and Edward Waters, including Susan Swiatosz, head of Special Collections in the Thomas G. Carpenter Library; Clayton McCarl, associate professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities; David Jamison, Assistant Professor of History, Edward Waters University.


An evening of ethnographic films at MOTH<https://www.unf.edu/moviesonthehouse/> - Wed. March 29 at 7pm - UNF Gallery of Art


We will meet three anthropologists and view their short films: Cruces by Carlos Tobon Franco; A Wedding by Emiko Stock; and An Astrological Diagnosis by Nadia Naomi Mbonde. Though the themes of these films are different, a connective thread is 'movement' and changing status or defining life events (migration, pregnancy, and marriage). We will hear brief introductions from anthropological filmmakers and discuss the films afterward. This is a co-sponsored event between DHI and UNF's Movies on the House<https://www.unf.edu/moviesonthehouse/>.


"Zombie Studies": A Panel with Dr. David Bering-Porter & Dr. Andrea Gaytan Cuesta

Fri. March 31 at 1pm - UNF Gallery of Art


Dr. David Bering-Porter (The New School) and Dr. Andrea Gaytan Cuesta (UNF Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) will talk about "Zombie Studies".This event is a chance to showcase these scholars' brilliant work and what the critical lens of zombie studies and the figure of the zombie might help illuminate. Dr. David Bering-Porter teaches and researches Black horror, zombies, and digital humanities at The New School and our UNF colleague Dr. Andrea Gaytan Cuesta is currently teaching a course on the Apocalyptic Imagination in Latin America. Dr. Nicholas de Villiers will be moderating the event sponsored by the Department of English.


Imagining Repair through Social Infrastructure: Sibyl’s Shrine with Dr. Caitlin Bruce TH, April 6th, 2pm - Register for this virtual event in advance here<https://unf.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtdu2gqjksEtR0o3jALIGvlDpzexLGi2ll>

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Sibyl’s Shrine is an artist network for black artist caretaker mothers created to address multiple inequities in terms of care, labor, and artistic infrastructure. Founded in May of 2019 the collective references Sibyls, priestesses who served the African goddess, Mami Wata, and is described as: “an arts collective and residency program rooted in radical care, rest and support for Black women, womxn, trans women, and femmes who are mothers and identify as artists, creatives and activists in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania— and beyond.” This presentation draws on interviews with the founders and some participants as well as the program’s social media archive to explore how the residency enables communal art process as a kind of place-keeping praxis, and some of the challenges of place-keeping.


African American History Harvest - TH April 20, 7 – 8:30 pm Jacksonville Main Library

Join us in an opportunity for members of the community to share and discuss their family artifacts related to local African American history. Representatives from local museums, archives, and historical societies will be present to share in discussion and help contextualize the objects. Moderators: Imani Phillips, Adult Programming Coordinator for the Jacksonville Public Library, and Justin Rogers, Assistant Professor of History University of North Florida. Representatives: Alan Bliss, Mitch Hemann, Mia McNair. This event is part of the Spring 2023 Justice Sessions<https://english.domains.unf.edu/justicesessions/spring-2023-schedule/>


Editing the Eartha M. M. White Collection, every TUE 4-6pm at DHI - Bldg 1 Room 1300.

Take part in a student-led collaborative textual editing project where participants can transcribe and prepare for online publication material from the Eartha M. M. White Collection, featuring documents and personal written materials relating to Eartha M. M. White, a local African American philanthropist, and civil rights activist. Participants will be given materials from the collection to transcribe and encode using TEI-XML, the international standard for electronic textual encoding in the humanities. Participants will be appropriately credited for their contributions upon publication of their works on the project’s website. No experience with TEI-XML is required. Computers will be provided, but participants may bring their own laptops. Help us make accessible and valuable primary sources related to Jacksonville’s African American history!

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Questions or ideas for a DHI-sponsored event? Or interested in participating in a Research Week event?

Please email me! a.pfister at unf.edu


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