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Join the California Digital Humanities Research Institute (CaliDHRI) for their free, annual digital ethnic studies institute inspired and co-sponsored by CUNY DHRI as well as UC Irvine Libraries and UCLA Libraries. This year, CaliDHRI will take place on April 27 - April 29, 2022.
The inaugural CaliDHRI will center Black digital humanities thematically while focusing on California-centric research questions and datasets. The 2022 theme, “The Black Press”, will be explored by three keynote speakers who will highlight their own Black digital humanities research and projects. All CaliDHRI keynotes are free and open to the public, but registration is required
April 27 Keynote: "Finding Elizabeth Mitchell: Tracing the History of Early Black Atlantic Filmmaking," Ellen Scott, Associate Professor and Associate Dean at the School of Theater, Film, and Television, UCLA
April 28 Keynote: “Digitizing Memory: The Black Panther Oakland Community School Yearbook Project,” Angela LeBlanc-Ernest, Independent Scholar
April 29 Keynote: "Pleasure and Politics: The Evolving Role and Meaning of the Black Press in the Technological Age," Kim Gallon, Associate Professor of History, Purdue University
To register, please click here.
About the Keynote Speaker
Dr. Kim Gallon
Dr. Kim Gallon is an Associate Professor of History at Purdue University. Her work investigates the cultural dimensions of the Black Press in the early 20th century and the history of technology, race, and health equity. She is the author of a number of articles and essays as well as the book, Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (University of Illinois Press, 2020). Gallon is also the author of the field defining article, “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities” and the founder and director of two black digital humanities projects: The Black Press Research Collective and COVID Black.