Roopika Risam Presentation
Building New Digital Worlds: Digital Humanities from a Postcolonial Perspective
The Center for Advancing Research and Creative Activity invites you to attend a presentation about digital humanities by Roopika Risam. This event will be held virtually through zoom on Monday, March 7th at 3:30 pm. Digital humanities has emerged as a methodological approach filled with great promise for the democratization of knowledge. But without attention to the relationship between colonialism and knowledge production — in analog and digital forms — it risks reproducing and amplifying the gaps and exclusions in the cultural record produced by colonialism. In this talk, Risam explores these issues and discusses approaches needed to address them. Roopika Risam is Chair of Secondary and Higher Education and Associate Professor of Education and English at Salem State University. She is the author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy and co-editor of The Digital Black Atlantic, South Asian Digital Humanities, and Intersectionality in Digital Humanities. Risam is also the director of the Mellon-funded Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium, a network of scholars teaching at the intersections of digital humanities and ethnic studies.
Event Details:
Monday, March 7th, 3:30-4:45
Zoom Link (No Registration is Required)
Faculty Research Lightning Talks
Implications of Virtual Digitalization to Everything
The Center for Advancing Research and Creative Activity presents virtual faculty research lightning talks around the theme, Implications of Virtual Digitalization to Everything. Join us on Friday, February 11th at 11:00 a.m. for faculty presentations and brief question/answer discussions. Please complete the google registration form to receive a calendar invite with a zoom link.
List of presenters:
- Elisabeth Shook, M.A., Albertsons Library – Representation Matters: Consequences to the Digitalization of Everything
- Steven Cutchin, Ph.D., Computer Science and Research Computing – Mining Online Art Museums for Research and Education
- Dawn Sheperd, Ph.D., English and College of Innovation and Design – Must Love Birds: Online Dating and Procedural Enthymeme
- Lisa Hunt, Ph.D., Keith and Catherine Stein Luminary and School of the Arts – Please Touch the Art! Learning in the Stein Luminary