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Homegoing: Transforming the Datafication of Black Death into the Recovery & Restoration of Black Humanity

Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 5:00pm

Virtual Event

The Society for the Humanities & CNY Humanities Corridor present:
The Annual Digital Humanities Lecture

This talk critically explores the role of data in the pandemic and demonstrates how computational humanities offers an opportunity to redefine “crisis” through the Black American experience and turn it into a site and a defining moment for the recovery and reimagination of Black humanity.

Kim Gallon is an Associate Professor of History at Purdue University. Her work investigates the cultural dimensions of the Black Press in the early twentieth century. She's the author of 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 She also serves on a number of digital advisory boards for digital humanities projects and grants.

Dial-In Information

Register here: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VzooY_XPSwuv-L29nkxTRQ

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