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Exploring the Black Women’s Organizing Archive (BWOA): A Digital Project Informed by the Community Imperatives of Black Women’s Organizing

By Katie Blizzard

On Tuesday, April 29 at 12:00 PM EDT, project leaders Shirley Moody-Turner (Penn State University) and Sabrina Evans (Howard University) will discuss the origins, values, and partnerships that have shaped the Black Women’s Organizing Archive. They will also present the resources available on the site for researchers and educators looking to engage with these materials. This presentation may be of interest to those seeking to create a digital project, archive or edition that is community centered.

Community Cookbooks as Local History and Genealogy Resources

By Katie Blizzard

On April 24 at 9:00 AM EDT, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions will host a webinar featuring Jennifer Brannock. This presentation will highlight the cookbook collection at USM and how cookbooks can be used for local history and genealogical research. The talk will also focus on the efforts to use cookbooks to engage with users locally and online.

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Revisiting Baltimore’s African American History: Archives and Curated Digital Public Exhibits

By Katie Blizzard

Join the History of Black Writing (Indiana University-Bloomington) and the Center of Digital Humanities Research (Texas A&M University) for a virtual talk on March 27 at 3:30 PM CST / 4:30 PM EST. Dr. Lawrence Jackson, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History at Johns Hopkins University, will present “Revisiting Baltimore’s African American History: Archives and Curated Digital Public Exhibits”.

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Cultures of Correspondence Symposia: Part 1

By Katie Blizzard

The linked symposia, hosted consecutively by Baylor University and Texas A&M University, build upon both institutions’ substantial collections of 18th- and 19th-century archival materials and their commitment to creating accessible digital archives and scholarship.

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Cultures of Correspondence Symposia: Part 2

By Katie Blizzard

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STS 2025 Colloquium Series: “The Millican Massacre: Networked Racial Violence and Archival Restitution”

By Katie Blizzard

As part of their 2025 colloquium series exploring current trends in textual studies, the Society for Textual Scholarship (STS) presents “The Millican Massacre: Networked Racial Violence and Archival Restitution,” with Dr. Amy Earhart. The talk will be held via Zoom on February 7 at 2:00 PM CST.

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CANCELLED: What’s at Stake in Community Engagement? A Conversation About Goals and Ethics with Editors from the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive

By Katie Blizzard

On Feb. 26 at 3:00 PM ET, project co-editor Ken Price and editorial assistant Bianca Swift will explore the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive’s ongoing work to cultivate new audiences and engagements. Their presentation will focus on current efforts to generate collaborations within the Cleveland community in which Chesnutt wrote, sharing their insights into developing meaningful partnerships and examining the challenges faced by such collaborations. Following their brief presentation, they will invite audience discussion about what ethical editing and archive creation looks like in project planning and practice.

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The Material and Visual Text in Latin American Digital Humanities

By Katie Blizzard

Presented by the Bibliographical Society of America and the Alliance for Digital Research on Early Latin America on March 7, 2025, this virtual symposium features presentations by researchers and cultural heritage professionals who are using digital approaches to analyze and transmit a diverse range of Latin American texts from the colonial period, nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

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SNAC for Indigenous Archival Research: Finding Records and Improving Representation

By Katie Blizzard

On Dec. 12 at 4:00 PM (Eastern Time), Ia Bull, Diana Marsh, Jerry Simmons and Melissa Stoner will introduce the SNAC web portal, demonstrate how to navigate SNAC records, and discuss approaches to doing Indigenous archival search.

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Author Reading of Interrogation Records: A Docu-Poetry Collection about the Indonesian State-Sanctioned Massacre of 1965

By Katie Blizzard

During a recorded event on Nov. 6, 2024, Jeddie Sophronius read and commented on a selection of poems from Interrogation Records. Sophronius also discussed their work in preparing Interrogation Records as well as its role as one part in an unofficial trilogy of Sophronius’ poetry collections.

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