Events
I am a frequent speaker on race, difference, and the digital; globalization and technology; migration and media; pedagogy and technology; and social media and public scholarship. In addition to formal talks, I regularly offer workshops and masterclasses on integrating social justice, intersectional feminist, and postcolonial digital humanities methods into research and teaching for faculty and graduate students. Selected videos are available here. If you would like to learn more, please drop me an email.
Upcoming Events
January 3, 2019
The Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities Roundtable
Modern Language Association Convention
Chicago, IL
January 4, 2019
“The Dark Princess Effect: Insights on Scholarly Citation from W.E.B. Du Bois’s Novels”
Modern Language Association Convention
Chicago, IL
January 31, 2019
Uncommon DH Critic Lecture, “Lessons from The Digital Black Atlantic: Amplifying Equity and Justice in Public Humanities”
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Lincoln, NE
February 4, 2019
Invited Speaker, “Digital Humanities in a Crisis: The Case of Torn Apart/Separados”
Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University
Medford, MA
February 12, 2019
Invited Speaker, Society of Skeptics Lecture
Blair Academy
Blairstown, NJ
March 4, 2019
Invited Speaker, Reframing Landscapes: Digital Practices and Place-based Learning Symposium
Washington State University
Pullman, WA
March 21, 2019
Invited Speaker, Digital Public Humanities Panel
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
March 27, 2019
Invited Speaker, “Mobilizing the Humanities: Or, How the Torn Apart/Separados Team Built a Digital Humanities Project in One Week with No Money”
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK
April 4, 2019
Invited Speaker, Digital Humanities Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
April 8, 2019
Invited Speaker, “Insurgents of Academe: Historicizing Public Humanities in the African Diaspora”
Comparative Literature Luncheon Series
Pennsylvania State University
State College, PA
May 16-18, 2019
Torn Apart/Separados: Mobilizing a Technopoetic Humanities Beyond Borders Roundtable
HASTAC 2019
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
June 4, 2019
Invited Speaker, Revisiting Collections: Strategies for Teaching Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage in a Digitized World Symposium
Einstein Center Digital Future
Berlin, Germany
June 6, 2019
Keynote Speaker, Digital Diasporas Conference
University of London
London, UK
Previous Events
2018
December 12, 2018 - Invited Speaker, “Academic Time: Rethinking Temporalities of Academic Labor in Torn Apart/Separados,” Winter Institute on Teaching and Technology Symposium, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
December 7, 2018 - “Is the ‘Digital’ in Digital Black Atlantic the ‘Digital’ in Digital Humanities?,” The Caribbean Digital V, University of West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad
November 1, 2018 - Invited Speaker, “Visualizing Precarious Lives in Torn Apart/Separados,” John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities, Brown University, Providence, RI
October 25-26, 2018 - Keynote Speaker, “On Academic Insurgency and Mobilizing the Humanities,” Nebraska Forum on Digital Ethnic Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
October 19, 2018 - Genealogies of the Digital Black Atlantic Roundtable, Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
September 22, 2018 - Keynote Speaker, “Why Wait? Social Justice Digital Humanities for the End Times,” THATCamp Ohio 2018, Athens, OH
September 21, 2018 - Invited Speaker, “Historicizing the College Color Line: Digital Humanities, Activism, and the Campus Climate,” Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
September 17, 2018 - TEDx Talk, “Digital Homes,” TEDxSalemState University, Salem State University, Salem, MA
August 8, 2018 - Invited Speaker, “Mapping Torn Apart/Separados,” Digital Bridges Symposium, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
June 29, 2018 - Justice-Based Digital Humanities, Practice, and Communities Roundtable, Digital Humanities 2018, Mexico City, Mexico
June 28, 2018 - Digital Humanities in Middle and High School: Case Studies and Pedagogical Approaches Roundtable Digital Humanities 2018, Mexico City, Mexico
May 28, 2018 - “Ada and Affective Labor,” International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic
May 17, 2018 - Invited Speaker, “Another (Digital) World Is Possible: The Stakes of Postcolonial Digital Humanities,” US Latina/o Digital Humanities Research Center, University of Houston, Houston, TX
April 10, 2018 - Invited Speaker, “Cartographies of the Living and the Dead: Mapping Global Migration,” Migrants and Mobility in a Digital Age Conference, Columbia University, New York, NY
April 7, 2018 - Invited Speaker, “Knowing Your (Intersectional) History: A Jigsaw Approach to Undergraduate Digital Humanities Research,” Shifting (the) Boundaries: Blended Learning, Digital Humanities and the Liberal Arts Symposium, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
March 20, 2018 - Invited Speaker, “Digital Humanities at the Small Scale,” Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA
March 8, 2018 - Invited Speaker, “Visualizing Du Bois: The Politics of Literary Recovery,” Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and Department of Women’s Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
March 8, 2018 - Keynote Speaker, “Digital Humanities and Difference in Research and Teaching,” The Dresher Center for the Humanities, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
March 6, 2018 - Invited Workshop, “Digital Humanities in Translation: Communicating Your Scholarship to Multiple Publics,” Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
March 5, 2018 - Invited Speaker, “Recovering the Global Dimensions of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Career,” Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
January 5, 2018, “Digital Humanities with a View: Beyond Research, Teaching, and Service,” Modern Language Association Convention, New York, NY
2017
October 26-28, 2017 - Invited Speaker, Colonial and Postcolonial Digital Humanities Roundtable, Race Memory, and the Digital Humanities, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
September 26, 2017 - Keynote Speaker, “Reconstructing the Global Du Bois: Notes Toward an Investigation,” Fall Digital Humanities Welcome, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
August 11, 2017 - “Citational Politics: Quantifying Impact in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities,” Digital Humanities 2017, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
August 11, 2017 - “Micro DH: Digital Humanities at the Small Scale,” Digital Humanities 2017, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
July 10, 2017 - Invited Workshop, “Race and Digital Pedagogy,” Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
May 17, 2017 - Keynote Speaker, “Networks of Pedagogy: Notes towards a Decolonized Classroom,” Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
May 2, 2017 - Invited Speaker, “Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory and Praxis,” Digital Humanities Kickoff, Schreiner University, San Antonio, TX
April 7, 2017 - Invited Workshop, “Multimodal Scholarship and Publishing,” Digital History Speaker Series, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
April 4, 2017 - Invited Speaker, “Building a Digital Humanities Community at Salem State University,” Digital Commonwealth, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
March 31, 2017 - Keynote Speaker, “Decolonizing Digital Cultural Memory: Digital Humanities as Digital Activism,” 2017 Women’s History Month/Fembot Collective Conference, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
March 18, 2017 - Invited Speaker, “The Pedagogy of Digital Cultural Memory in the African Diaspora,” Digital Humanities Workshop, Xavier University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
March 7, 2017 - Invited Conversation, “Digital Labor Across Global North and South,” University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
March 6, 2017 - Keynote Speech, “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story: The Stakes of Digital Cultural Memory,” Digital Humanities Speaker Series, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
March 6, 2017 - Invited Workshop, “Archiving Social Justice with Omeka,” University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
January 8, 2017 - Digital Humanities and Secondary Education Roundtable, Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA
January 8, 2017 - Local Digital Humanities Roundtable, Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA
2016
December 16, 2016 - Invited Speaker, “Now You See Them: Self-representation and the Refugee Selfie,” Academy Colloquium, Connected Migrants: Encapsulation and Cosmopolitanism, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands
December 14, 2016 - Invited Masterclass, “Digital Humanities for Social Justice,” Academy Colloquium, Connected Migrants: Encapsulation and Cosmopolitanism, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands
November 12, 2016 - Keynote Speaker, “For the Love of Students: Why Digital Humanities Needs Community Colleges,” Community Colleges Humanities Association Pacific-Western Division Conference, Portland, OR
October 26, 2016 - Invited Speaker, Digital Humanities/Pedagogies Roundtable, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA
October 25, 2016 - Invited Workshop, “Omeka for Social Justice,” College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
October 24, 2016 - Invited Speaker, “The (Digital) Souls of Black Folk: Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities,” College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
October 1, 2016 - Keynote Speaker, “Digital Humanities in (Other) Contexts: Locating Place as Method for Intersectional Praxis,” KU Digital Humanities Forum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
September 22, 2016 - Keynote Speaker, “Burning Down the Tent: New Futures for Social Justice and Digital Humanities,” Digital Frontiers 2016, Rice University, Houston, TX
September 16, 2016 - Plenary Speaker, “Beyond ‘Add and Stir’: Intersectional Digital Humanities in Practice,” Intersectionality in Digital Humanities Symposium, The Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
September 13, 2016 - Invited Workshop, “Scalar for Social Justice,” Digital Humanities Summer School, The Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
July 14, 2016 - Representing Justice in Digital Archiving Practice Roundtable, Digital Humanities 2016, Krakow, Poland
July 13, 2016 - Quality Matters: Diversity and the Digital Humanities in 2016 Roundtable, Digital Humanities 2016, Krakow, Poland
June 22, 2016 - Keynote Speaker, “Only Collaborate! Postcolonial Imperatives for Community in the Digital Humanities,” Keystone Digital Humanities Conference 2016, Pittsburgh, PA
March 12, 2016 - Invited Workshop: “Digital Humanities Pedagogies for Social Justice,” Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
March 11, 2016 - Invited Speaker, “Decolonizing Digital Humanities: Towards New Communities of Practice,” Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
March 4, 2016 - Invited Workshop, “Digital Humanities Pedagogies,” Networks of Culture, Theory, and Practice: A Symposium on the Digital Humanities, University of Houston, Houston, TX
March 3, 2016 - Invited Speaker, “Digital Humanities in Practice,” Networks of Culture, Theory, and Practice: A Symposium on the Digital Humanities, University of Houston, Houston, TX
January 28-29, 2016 - Invited Speaker and Trainer, Digital Humanities Bootcamp, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
January 7, 2016 - Where Is the Nation in Digital Humanities? Roundtable, Modern Language Association Convention, Austin, TX
2015
November 15, 2015 - Invited Speaker, “Digital Knowledge Production in a Globalized Era,” The Ethics of New Media Symposium, Drake University, Des Moines, IA
October 27, 2015 - Invited Speaker, Careers in Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Roundtable, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
September 4, 2015 - Keynote Speaker, “Digital Humanities After #Ferguson: Stakes and Challenges for Digital Scholarship in the New Civil Rights Movement,” Liberal Arts Scholarship and Technology Summit 2015, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
July 27-31, 2015 - Invited Faculty, HILT 2015, De/Post/Colonial Digital Humanities, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN
July 13-17, 2015 - Invited Faculty, NEH Institute for Community College Digital Humanists Beyond Pockets of Innovation, Toward a Community of Practice, Lane Community College, Eugene, OR
June 3, 2015 - “Remaking the Atlas, Unmaking the World: Towards a Cultural Atlas of Global Blackness,” Joint CSDH/SCHN-ACH Digital Humanities Conference 2015, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
May 29, 2015 - Keynote Speaker, “Across Two (Imperial) Cultures: A Ballad of Digital Humanities and the Global South,” HASTAC 2015, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
May 7, 2015 - Plenary Speaker, “On Diverse Voices in Digital Studies,” Digital Diversity 2015, Edmonton, Canada
March 23, 2015 - Invited Speaker, “The Human Text,” Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
February 19, 2015 - Invited Speaker, “Is Critical Digital Humanities Possible?,” Five College Digital Humanities Speaker Series, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
January 30, 2015 - Invited Speaker, “Towards a Postcolonial Digital Pedagogy,” Disrupting DH Symposium, George Washington University, Washington, DC
January 10, 2015 - Disrupting the Digital Humanities Roundtable, Modern Language Association Convention Vancouver, Canada
January 8, 2015 - Postcolonial Digital Humanities: Praxis Roundtable, Modern Language Association Convention, Vancouver, Canada
2014
October 27, 2014 - Invited Speaker, “Postcolonial Digital Humanities: A Conversation with Roopika Risam and Al Filreis,” Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
October 3, 2014 - Invited Workshop, “If You Build It: Engaging Your Inner Entrepreneur as a Junior Faculty Member,” Massachusetts Cross-Sector Partnership, Marlborough, MA
September 27, 2014 - Invited Speaker, “The Race for Digitality: Connectivity as Diasporic Identity,” African Diaspora 2.0, Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Toronto, Canada
July 9, 2014 - “Other Worlds, Other DHs,” Global Outlook::Digital Humanities: Promoting Digital Humanities Research Across Disciplines, Regions, and Cultures Panel, Digital Humanities 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland
May 29, 2014 - Invited Speaker, “Getting Started with Digital Humanities,” Women’s Studies Summer Technology Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
May 28, 2014 - Microsteps to Advance the Digital Humanities Roundtable, CSDH/SCHN 2014 Conference, Brock University, St. Catherine’s, Canada
May 3, 2014 - Invited Speaker, “Professionalizing via Digital Humanities,” Professional Realities Inside and Outside the Academy, NEASA Spring Colloquium, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
April 26, 2014 - “We’ve Got 99 Problems and the Digital Is One: Composing in the Digital Milieu,” Engaging Practices: A Conference on the Teaching of Composition, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
March 18, 2014 - Invited Speaker, “The Search for the Global Du Bois, 1896-1911,” Postcolonial and Minority Discourses Series, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
March 18, 2014 - Invited Workshop, “Global Women Wikipedia Write-In,” Center for Women and Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
March 17, 2014 - Invited Speaker, “Scholarly Writing in the Digital Milieu,” Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
March 13, 2014 - Invited Speaker, “Toxic WOCs: Constructing Race and Gender in Digital Spaces,” HumLab, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
February 7, 2014 - Invited Speaker, “Breaking or Building: The Curious Case of Postcolonial Digital Humanities,” UNH Critical Race and Gender Studies Working Group, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
January 31, 2014 - Invited Speaker, “Theories and Practices of Postcolonial Digital Humanities,” Scholars’ Lab Digital Humanities Series, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
January 12, 2014 - Decolonizing DH: Theories and Practices of Postcolonial Digital Humanities Roundtable, Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL
January 9, 2014 - Teaching Outside the Classroom Through Digital Humanities: Alt-Academic Feminism Roundtable, Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL
2013
September 24, 2013 - Invited Speaker, “A #dhpoco Afternoon,” Studio@Butler, Columbia University, New York, NY
September 24, 2013 - Invited Speaker, “Social Media and the #dhpoco Lifecycle,” Research Without Borders Series, Columbia University, New York, NY
July 16-19, 2013 - “Digital Humanities: Egalitarian or New Elite?,” Digital Humanities 2013, Lincoln, NE
March 29, 2013 - Invited Speaker, Symposium on Gyan Pandey’s A History of Prejudice Emory University, Atlanta, GA
March 26, 2013 - Invited Speaker, Social Media and Public Scholarship Panel, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
February 20, 2013 - “Du Bois as Postcolonial Progenitor,” W.E.B. Du Bois and the Wings of Atlanta: A Commemorative Conference, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA
January 4, 2013 - “Postcolonial Du Bois and the Worlds of Color,” Modern Language Association Convention, Boston, MA