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2018 FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellows Symposium

May 5, 2018

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

9:45 – 10:00 – Welcome & Introduction

10:00 – 10:50 – Keynote 1
Maintaining and Mainstreaming the Study of the African American Experience:
The Affordances of Digital Tools

Ronald Bailey
Department Head & Professor, African American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Co-Principal Investigator, AFRO Publishing Without Walls
Introduction: Charmaine McKissick-Melton, Associate Professor of Mass Communication, NCCU

10:50 – 11:00 – Break

11:00 – 11:50 – Keynote 2
Digital Organizing and Collective Recovery:
Colored Conventions and the Long History of Black Activism

Gabrielle Foreman
Ned B. Allen Professor of English & Professor of Africana Studies & History, University of Delaware / Founding Faculty Director and Co-Founder, The Colored Conventions Project
Introduction: Tony Frazier, Assistant Professor of History, NCCU

11:50 – 12:50 – Lunch

12:50 – 2:00 – Fellows Presentations 1

2:00 – 2:15 – Break

2:15 – 3:15 – Fellows Presentations 2

3:15 – 3:45 – Closing Discussion

** NCCU faculty interested in participating in the next stage of this fellowship program are invited to an informal conversation after the symposium (roughly 3:45 to 4:15).

 

2017-18 FHI-NCCU DH Fellows

Shelvia Dancy, JD, Journalist & Adjunct Instructor of Mass Communication
Tony A. Frazier, Assistant Professor of History
Carolyn (Collie) J. Fulford, Associate Professor of Language and Literature
Lenora Z. Helm Hammonds, Assistant Professor of Music
Charmaine McKissick-Melton, Associate Professor of Mass Communication
Julie Nelson, Assistant Professor of Language and Literature
W. Russell Robinson, Assistant Professor of Mass Communication

Details

Date:
May 5, 2018
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Organizer

Franklin Humanities Institute
Email
fhi@duke.edu
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Venue

Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall – Bay 4, Smith Warehouse, Duke University
114 S. Buchanan Blvd.
Durham, NC 27708 United States
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