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TLTC grant & narraspace announcement

Parham’s project strives to make immersive storytelling technologies—like augmented, virtual and extended reality—accessible across disciplines, using them to demonstrate how the experiences of marginalized communities can lead to broader human understanding.

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AADHum GA Christin Washington Awarded the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective Micro-Grant

Join us in celebrating our graduate assistant, Christin Washington, the recipient of a microgrant from the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective! The CDSC Microgrant program supports projects that enhance Caribbean digital scholarship...

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Kinship & (Be)Longing: Confronting Slavery's Archive through Critical Black DH

In this presentation, Keywords for Black Louisiana will share their experience working with Scholarly Editing to create a digital edition of fourteen stories centering Black and Black-Native life and humanity, which are derived from Louisiana's colonial archive.

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'Lucid Dreams': An Immersive Augmented Reality Experience by Rashonda Lazar

Lucid Dreams is an immersive interactive installation using mobile WebAR and conductive paint as touch sensors to trigger projected media. The installation explores Rashonda Lazar's own experience as a lucid dreamer, from childhood to adulthood, and attempts to recreate the sensation for others.

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WILDWOOD BlackDH Adventures in Southside Chicago Worldmaking

Dr. Alexander will be debuting WILDWOOD, a digital game that envisions eco- & techno-cultures on Chicago’s Southside, writing “future visions of Black communities"

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2024 Social Media Corps applications are now OPEN!

African American Digital and Experimental Humanities (AADHum) is excited to announce the 2024 Social Media Corps Program! This 4-week program offers space to design humanities-based digital media, featuring hands-on class activities encouraging creative play in a robust & upbeat learning community, and a $525 stipend. This program runs from 7/

AADHum Fellows' projects on the horizon!

Over the past year the 2022-23 AADHum fellows have been working on a range of innovative digital projects. In the next quarter we will be sharing those projects with you. Next up? We're launching into the new year with Seren Sensei's [unhurried] {witness}! The beta for

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Lillian-Yvonne Bertram reading from 'Negative Money' : Dec. 6 @ 7pm in Ulrich Recital Hall

We hope you're like us and looking forward to seeing Maryland's Director of Creative Writing and AADHum team member Lillian-Yvonne Bertram read from their latest collection of poems, Negative Money! This event will be in Ulrich Recital Hall, which is located on the first floor Tawes.

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fall '23 microgrants awarded 💫

We are pleased to announce our fall 2023 microgrant recipients! With this program, students apply for up to $250 to support digital and/ or experimental projects that are grounded in humanities-based approaches to the study or expression of Black life. It's important to note that the AADHum microgrant

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microgrant apps due first day of every month... like TODAY!

Application and program details at ⇢ https://bit.ly/aadhum_microgrants

Say hey to AADHum 3 🌟

We are so pleased to announce that AADHum has been awarded a fresh round of funding from the Mellon Foundation! From Jessica Weiss, writing for Maryland Today: A fresh makerspace for crafting and creativity. Fellowships and residencies for scholars from around the world. And interdisciplinary teams of humanists and technologists

Newly dropped: our first Kitchen Studio has opened!

AADHum's Kitchen Studios program sponsors small gatherings of scholars and artists created around a shared desire to make something amazing. Fellows are drawn from across AADHum programs. Much like our microgrant program, but focused on slow collaboration over time, Kitchen Studios support innovative and independent student work. Interactive

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The AADHum student microgrant program ⇢ Monthly deadlines

Students can apply for up to $250 to support digital and/ or experimental projects that are grounded in humanities-based approaches to the study or expression of Black life. These grants are for independent student work...

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Dr. Elizabeth M. Alexander | brown bag talk

Dr. Alexander designs and develops across digital and print media, with a critical and creative research practice focused on Black women’s technoculture, the embodied lifecycles of cultural and personal data, and the Southwest Side of Chicago. They have held a Mellon Editorial Fellowship at Northwestern University Press, co-produced the

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We 🖤 #BlackDH | Legacy Russell's BLACK MEME

We love amplifying #BlackDH work! In 2022, AADHum completed a double issue of Reviews in DH, guest-edited by Marisa Parham, Aleia Brown, and Trevor Muñoz.  At AADHum we are always thinking about what it means to tell a story about the diversity of Black work across digital modalities. Here'

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Greenscreening Diaspora :: Friday, April 28 at 12pm EST (Open Lab ⇢ in-person & streaming)

Guest speaker Dr. Van Tran Nguyen will lead a hands-on video editing workshop showcasing the use of green screen recording as a digital narrative form, highlighting her use of green screen as a medium for diasporic folklore.

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Deep dives & sweet explorations at the AADHum Scholars' retreat

January saw us host our first AADHum Scholars Retreat. For this day-long retreat, held at AADHum's UMD studio space, we thought deeply, played hard, and ate well!

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Black Covid Care Launch Exhibition and Website

December saw the launch of one of AADHum's current Residency projects, Allie Martin's Black Covid Care project!

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Animate your physical world w/ Snapchat AR ⇢ 2/21 & 3/9

Join us for a series of augmented reality (AR) workshops, offered by AADHum's Visiting Research Professor Andrew W. Smith and sponsored by SnapChat!

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Ebbs and flows, loving and losing...

The end of 2022 was a time of immense win and loss in BlackDH. In October it was amazing to see P. Gabrielle Foreman named to the 2022 class of MacArthur fellows. Foreman is Paterno Family Professor of American Literature and Professor of African American Studies and History at Penn

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You're invited! Visit AADHum this Weds ⇢ 1 - 4pm

Guess what? AADHum has opened a small humanities research and design studio, and we would like for you to come and see it!  In case you haven't heard, we are holding a casual Open House this Wednesday the 22nd, from 1pm to 4:30pm. We'll have

We 🖤 #BlackDH | Reviews in DH + Jamila Pewu Moore

We love amplifying #BlackDH work! In 2022, AADHum completed a double issue of Reviews in DH, edited by Marisa Parham, Aleia Brown, and Trevor Muñoz. Over our next few newsletters, we'll be highlighting projects reviewed in those issues, as well as #BlackDH projects we weren't able

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Black Food Justice, Digital Storytelling, & Community Partnerships :: Thursday, Dec. 8 at 5pm EST (online)

This Thursday at 5pm EST, AADHum is pleased to present Growing Greater, a virtual event exploring digital storytelling and Black food justice in Chicago. We will preview “Growing a Greater Englewood,” (season 2, ep. 3), an audio story profiling one organization’s work toward Black community food sovereignty. This episode

Inspire

Catch some inspiration

We recently came across this Tik Tok video, shared by Sam Sanders on Twitter. It's by user @emmanuelreddish, and it is a recording of him recasting TLC's "No Scrubs" as read by Dr. Maya Angelou. We experience it as a moment of virtuoso virtuality—