Public Engagement – eLaboratories

Association for Documentary Editing 2025: “Editing for Access: Audiences and Technologies”

By Katie Blizzard

From June 16—18, the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) will gather virtually to reflect on theme of “Editing for Access: Audiences and Technologies.” Sessions wil explore best practices, innovative approaches, and boundary-expanding projects within the capacious field of editing, publishing, and recovering historical or literary texts. For more details about the conference, visit https://www.documentaryediting.org/wordpress/?page_id=3277.

Manos a la obra: A Virtual Hands-on Latino DH Workshop

By Katie Blizzard

This workshop explores analog and digital methodologies to create scholarship and knowledge around the experiences of US Latinas/os. Participants will learn about US Latino digital humanities methods and theory, archiving, metadata creation and free, easy-to-use digital platforms (Omeka, TimelineJS and StoryMapJS). The workshop will provide an introduction to US Latino Digital Humanities, archives and related theories.

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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.

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Engaging Communities in Crowdsourcing Using the Zooniverse Project Builder

By Katie Blizzard

Join eLaboratories on April 3 at 3:00 PM EDT for this free, virtual 90-minute workshop with Denise Burgher and Jim Casey (Center for Black Digital Research, Penn State). Drawing from their experience leading the Colored Conventions Project and Douglass Day, Burgher and Casey will guide you through the lifecycle of crowdsourcing projects using the free Zooniverse Project Builder—from design and development to launch and project completion.

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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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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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SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books

By Katie Blizzard

On Friday, October 25 at 1:00 PM EDT, join Laura R. Fisher and Arielle Zibrak, in conversation with María Carla Sánchez, as they address these questions and discuss how their new books engage with the complex relationship between literature’s social aims and its aesthetic value. This event, which is hosted by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW), is part of the series SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books.

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Creating Inclusive Digital Collections

By Katie Blizzard

Join the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) for ‘Creating Inclusive Digital Collections’, an online training event on Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 3:00 PM GMT! This event is aimed at digital archivists, cultural heritage professionals, community archivists, curators, librarians, and all those interested in learning more about enriching archives through community engagement methodologies, participatory practices, and inclusive strategies.

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