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From: Urszula Pawlicka-Deger <pawlickadeger@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 4:16 AM
Subject: [globaloutlookDH-l] Symposium: “Amplifying Local Voices”
To: <globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca>
Dear all,
The following symposium might be of interest to you.
*”Amplifying Local Voices: Perspectives on Digital Humanities Praxis from
the South”* Thursday, April 15th @ 5:00pm – 6:30pm EST, more details:
http://calendar.mit.edu/event/AmplifyingLocalVoices#.YGwWVi1Q2Wi
Presented by:
1. Mayurakshi Chaudhuri, Assistant Professor of Sociology & Digital
Humanities Coordinator, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
2. Isabel Galina Russell, Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones
Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
3. Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, Lecturer, Department of English, University of
Ghana, Legon
4. Lik Hang Tsui, Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese and History,
City University of Hong Kong
Moderator:
Kanyinsola Obayan, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT Digital Humanities Lab
The field of digital humanities can provide a framework for critiquing the
politics, practices, and discourses that underpin the production of new
computational and data infrastructures. But DH can only realize its radical
possibilities for rethinking present and future paradigms by decentering
the Global North and looking to the South. For DH to emerge as a critical
voice in our global digital economy, it must take seriously both the
material practices and lived realities of digital practitioners in the
Global South.
So what can DH learn from the South to create work that is ethical,
equitable, and just? This panel provides case studies of innovative DH work
in Mexico, Ghana, Hong Kong, and India amongst others to shift conceptions
of the South as a place of lack within the digital humanities towards new
research that recenters local context and analyses of techno-political
power. Additionally, by reflexively examining our disciplinary
entanglements within uneven networks of power, the panelists will explore
how DH praxis from the South opens up new possibilities for thinking about
the pressing issues of our data-driven world.
This interdisciplinary panel will feature the following DH scholars from
around the world: Isabel Galina Russell (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México), Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang (University of Ghana), Lik Hang Tsui (City
University of Hong Kong), and Mayurakshi Chaudhuri (Indian Institute of
Technology Jodhpur). Following presentations from each panelist, there will
be a discussion moderated by MIT Postdoctoral Fellow, Kanyinsola Obayan.
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Best wishes,
Urszula
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Dr Urszula Pawlicka-Deger
Marie Curie Research Fellow, King’s Digital Lab
Virginia Woolf Building, King’s College London
urszula.pawlicka-deger@kcl.ac.uk
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