Elizabeth Maddock Dillon: “Radical Archival Practices and the Digital Humanities: The Early Caribbean Digital Archive”

ARC Conference Room 5318 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

The promise of the digital archive is one of infinite access and endless accumulation—a democratization of knowledge. But the shape of the archive has always been determined by relations of power. Foucault, for instance, defines the archive as the site of the “law of what can be said, the system that governs the appearance of … Continue reading "Elizabeth Maddock Dillon: “Radical Archival Practices and the Digital Humanities: The Early Caribbean Digital Archive”"

New Perspectives on Slaveries in the African World: A History Symposium

The Skylight Room, 9th floor, room 9100 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

New Perspectives on Slaveries in the African World A History Symposium March 6, 2015 The Skylight Room, 9th floor, room 9100 The Graduate Center, CUNY On the heels of the international conference on “Slavery in Africa” held in Kenya and Kwasi Konadu’s Transatlantic Africa, which tells the story of transatlantic slaving through African optics and … Continue reading "New Perspectives on Slaveries in the African World: A History Symposium"