AADHum

Stop by the African American Digital & Experimental Humanities studio for an afternoon of crafting! Cut, paste, and stitch to infuse your inspiration into embroidery, jewelry, scrapbooks, or quilting. Or use our equipment to design and make stickers, buttons, totes, and lasercut wood objects! Location: a.studio, Taliaferro 1104 Time:

Get ready for Henson Week with Soft Souls Foundry @ Sandbox and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities by learning digital fabrication techniques for DIY sock puppets! Learn 3D modeling to create ears, eyes, and other attachments; digitally knit garments and decorations; or design augmented reality stickers to bring

Step back in time with the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and Small Games Lab's mini-arcade of retro games from the 1970s ~ 2000s and small games that challenge you to play, pause, and think about small systems that make a big difference. (Mario Kart

Join the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and NarraSpaceXR for a hands-on workshop on DIY digital and physical fabrication! Add a new dimension to zine making with some preset 3D objects or one of your own 3D digital designs in augmented reality. No experience required; all

Welcome to the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and NarraSpaceXR digital playground! Extend reality by making the wall or the floors a digital portal for play, putting on a headset to encounter the dinosaurs, or documenting some of your favorite dance moves with motion capture technology. No

On Saturday 4/26, join AADHum, NarraSpaceXR, the Lakeland Heritage Project, Soft Souls Foundry, The Small Games Lab, and <desc> lab under the big MITH tent at Maryland Day 2026. You'll find us on Tawes Plaza, where we’ll be hosting a range of interactive experiences!

Led by Yereni Butcher '26, the workshop guided attendees through the process of building their own collages from a variety of materials.

AADHum, Project STAND, UMD Libraries, the Office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy, UMD’s US Latina/o Studies program, and support from the Mellon Foundation came together to host a keynote address featuring distinguished scholar and public intellectual Ruha Benjamin. Held on September 25, the event brought students, faculty,

At World Quantum Day 2025 at the University of Maryland, AADHum faculty member Andrew W. Smith presented his project LiteraryDJ, an interactive arts installation and digital remixing engine that immerses participants in African American literary and musical heritage. Harnessing natural language processing (NLP) and quantum computing to produce novel tools

Join us in celebrating our graduate assistant, Christin Washington, as the recipient of the micro-Grant from the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective! The CDSC Microgrant program aims to support projects that enhance Caribbean digital scholarship, spanning various interventions such as online catalogs, digitized collections, apps, digital tools, pedagogical platforms, spatial