Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD ::

African-American + digital + experimental + humanities = #BlackDH at the University of Maryland :: Co-spiriting w/ @umd_MITH & funded by the @MellonFdn ✨🌱💜

[Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD :: @umd_AADHum]

Applications for the 2024 Social Media Corps are now OPEN! 👾📱🌱

💥 Deadline: Fri 5/31 @ 11:59pm ET 💥
🔗 https://t.co/Xu25fwRpUp
📲 #SMC24 runs 7/8/24 - 7/31/24.
Workshop dates will be scheduled after the cohort is selected.

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[Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD :: @umd_AADHum]

🎨 Undergrads (+ seniors heading to grad school in FA24), grad students, and postdocs from 2/4-yr U.S. colleges/universities are eligible for #SMC24.

✨ We are very interested in apps from U of Maryland System & DMV-area HBCU students. ✨

Learn more @ https://t.co/Xu25fwRpUp!

[Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD :: @umd_AADHum]

Applications for the 2024 Social Media Corps are now OPEN! 👾📱🌱

💥 Deadline: Fri 5/31 @ 11:59pm ET 💥
🔗 https://t.co/Xu25fwRpUp
📲 #SMC24 runs 7/8/24 - 7/31/24.
Workshop dates will be scheduled after the cohort is selected.

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[Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD :: @umd_AADHum]

🤳🏾 Social Media Corps [a virtual 4-wk arts & humanities fellowship] trains students to engage intellectual worlds through social media, including:
- creative hands-on activities,
- an awesome learning community,
- *and* a $525 stipend 💰.
🔗 https://t.co/Xu25fwRpUp

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[Marisa Parham @amplify285]

I can't say enough about how excited I am to hear this talk— and to emerge ready to drop the word 'sferics' in regular conversation! But really, how often do you get to listen to the atmosphere and its objects, its electricity, its lightning... +

[BSOS @ UMD @bsosumd]

#ICYMI in today's @UofMaryland Today e-newsletter, Henry Willis—@PSYCTerps assistant professor—has been awarded over $250K to spend the next 2 years creating a free app specifically made for, and in close collaboration with, Black youths.

Learn more at https://t.co/nzGuVFzHAO

[Marisa Parham @amplify285]

Say it again and again. Understand a mandate for research and community partnership ⇢ Leila Blackbird: "Nothing about us without us" 🔥

[Marisa Parham @amplify285]

And we're off! @jmjafrx is schematizing the (amazing) @life_x_code network of labs, projects, and initiatives. Today we are learning about Keywords for Black Louisiana, a project to produce a scholarly edition that actively attends to Black voices and needs—past and present +

[Marisa Parham @amplify285]

We are so so SO looking forward to welcoming these folk to MITH & AADHum this week.

Join @jmjafrx + the Keywords for Black Louisiana team for a meeting of big minds n' big hearts, doing the scholarship our souls need today more than ever.

In person on Tues. 4/3 @ 5:15 | Hornbake 0301
@life_x_code @umd_AADHum @UMD_MITH

[Marisa Parham @amplify285]

YIKES! Correction.

This the part where I notice that tomorrow is 4/23, not the date below.

Oops but, also, is it even my fault that April has been like two months long? 🤷🏽‍♀️

Tues. 4/23 @ 5:15 in MITH (Hornbake 0301)

[UMD_MITH @UMD_MITH]

🌱REGISTER NOW for Tuesday's “Kinship & (Be)Longing: Confronting Slavery's Archive through Critical #BlackDH”, a #DigitalDialogues roundtable with the Keywords for Black Louisiana [@life_x_code] team [@egpalazzolo @ProfBlackbird @jmjafrx]!

✨Sign up ⇢ https://t.co/VBM56cvoik✨

[Marisa Parham @amplify285]

We're on audience questions! Online people can ask questions on the livestream at https://t.co/xLebne1o3G

First question regards producing a tabletop version of this work. Focuses on UNO flip as an UNO remix. Alexander notes work of our colleague @awwsmith_, who develops tabletop games +

[Marisa Parham @amplify285]

AADHum plug! We're launching a summerlong @twinethreads workshops/workgroup! We'll be talking creative nonfiction, digital scholarly publishing, & how to develop long and short interactive projects in Twine, with a focus on reimagining the representation of marginalized experiences +

[Marisa Parham @amplify285]

Note that you can watch the livestream of Dr. Alexander's talk at https://t.co/JiAAcPiRoV

We are also taking questions for Q&A at that site.

[Marisa Parham @amplify285]

In this talk, Dr. Alexander begins by identifying a disconnect between role playing games like D&D, and Black communities, but also the real potential for such gaming structures to enable different acts of maiming, healing, and resistance. +

[Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD :: @umd_AADHum]

You can watch Alexander’s @digdialog starting at 12:30 at https://t.co/BOy5kcxNoB

[Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD :: @umd_AADHum]

Livestream today!

So looking forward to (AADHum’s own!) Liz Alexander’s #BlackDH Digital Dialogue @UMD_MITH. Dr. Alexander will be debuting WILDWOOD, a digital game that envisions eco- & technocultures on Chicago’s Southside, writing “future visions of Black communities” +

[Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD :: @umd_AADHum]

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[Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD :: @umd_AADHum]

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[Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD :: @umd_AADHum]

Thurs is Feb. 1st and we want to see your micro grant applications!✨Up to $250 for digital or experimental projs grounded in humanities approaches to the study or expression of Black life.

Grads + undergrads at UMD, @Univ_System_MD & Morgan are eligible https://t.co/WSlsLOc69O

[Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD :: @umd_AADHum]

Need some inspiration? Check out our recent micro grant recipients! From pressing vinyl to podcasts to bookmaking...

🔆 Altered Bookmaking | Mary Johnson
🔆 Attica Podcast and Digital Memorial | Carolyn Robbins
🔆 Capstone Record Album | Myia Tamara Elum