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Monday, September 25, 2023
UTHC Distinguished Lecture Series: Afrofuturism and Digital Humanities with Julian Chambliss
Category: Free event, History, heritage, Lecture, panel and Virtual
Monday, Sept. 25, 3:30 PM
UTHC Distinguished Lecture Series: “Afrofuturism and Digital Humanities: Some Considerations on Digital Public Record and the Black Experience” with Julian Chambliss
Lindsay Young Auditorium (rm. 101), John C. Hodges Library, 1015 Volunteer Blvd., Knoxville TN
OR via livestream at tiny.utk.edu/DLS-Chambliss
Visiting scholar Julian C. Chambliss (Michigan State University) will give a public talk titled "Afrofuturism and Digital Humanities: Some Considerations on Digital Public Record and the Black Experience" on September 25 as part of the UT Humanities Center’s “Dialogues” digital humanities mini-series within its 2023-2024 Distinguished Lecture Series.
The case for Black Digital Humanities advocates for the transformative potential offered by the intersections of black studies and digital humanities. In this talk, I will discuss the implication of Afrofuturism 2.0 ideology offered by Afrofuturist thinkers such as Drs. Lonny Brooks and Reynaldo Anderson and how we might use their Afrofuturist framing to create digital humanities methodologies that address post-Reconstruction activism by African Americans.
The lecture is free and open to the public and is held in Hodges Library’s auditorium on the UT Knoxville campus. Public parking is available in the Volunteer Hall parking garage for our off-campus visitors. Everyone is welcome!
865.974.4222, https://humanitiescenter.utk.edu/ or Social: @UThumanitiesctr
