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Upcoming Lecture: Potential History of the Archive: The Micro Study of a Macro Institution by Prof. Ariella Azoulay (Brown), Nov. 29, 4-6pm at Spurlock Museum.

Potential History of the Archive: The Micro Study of a Macro Institution

November 29, 4-6pm

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

600 South Gregory, Urbana

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Archives are interwoven with the presence of those who occupy various positions of power, authorizing them to both preserve and expose materials, as well as with the presence of those who come to leaf through those materials. Yet, archives are also sites of “potential history,” unrealized possibility that motivated and directed the actions of various actors in the past, and of a possibility that may become our own and be reactivated to guide our actions. The power and potentiality of archives brings us to the juncture of the macro and micro, large-scale power structures and smaller scale forms of civil relations and being-together that existed, and exist, at any moment in history without being shaped solely let alone exhausted by macro institutions. This talk will draw on Professor Azoulay’s micro engagement with photographic archives of U.S. slavery to argue for the civil possibilities within the macro structures and macro histories of regime-made disasters.

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How To Edit When The World Is Burning

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Join us next Monday for Prof. Amanda Gailey’s talk How to Edit When the World is Burning at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities/Levis Faculty Center, 4th Floor at 3:30pm.

Amanda Gailey is Editor of the online journal, Scholarly Editing, the Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing. She is the author of Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age, which appeared in the University of Michigan’s Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism Series in 2015. She has written extensively on both the practice of the Digital Humanities, and on teaching digital editing skills in the undergraduate classroom. Her essay on teaching TEI techniques—“Teaching Attentive Reading and Motivated Writing through Digital Editing”—appeared in CEA Critic 76.3 (Spring/Summer 2014). She has also taught scholarly editing at the ADE’s famed Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents, sponsored by the NHPRC.

Last but not least, Professor Gailey is the recipient of an NEH Fellowship in support of her DH work on The Tar Baby and the Tomahawk: Race and Ethnic Images in American Children’s Literature, 1880-1939. An innovative, web-based publication, The Tar Baby presents the “intersection of race and childhood between 1880 and 1939 as viewed through children’s literature, its illustrations, and associated material objects.”  (Co-authored with Gerald Early of Washington University at St. Louis, The Tar Baby continues to add materials and scholarly commentary to its exhibitions.)

Professor Gailey’s visit to campus is sponsored by: The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (Research Cluster Program, The Trowbridge Initiative in American Culture, and The Center for Children’s Books

Please note: Professor Gailey will also be speaking earlier in the day (Nov. 13) at the Center for Children’s Books: Noon Brownbag Talk, “Digital Scholarship, Children’s Literature, and Classroom Collaboration: Reflections on Making The Tar Baby and the Tomahawk” (Center for Children’s Books, School of Information Sciences Room 24)

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Recap: “Encoding Ida B. Wells’s The Red Record: Critical Questions in Digital Editing and Data Curation of Violence.”

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On Monday, SourceLab welcomed Caitlin Pollock, Digital Humanities Librarian at the Center for Digital Scholarship at IUPUI. Pollock’s talk, “Encoding Ida B. Wells’s The Red Record: Critical Questions in Digital Editing and Data Curation of Violence,” posed several crucial questions about the role of digital scholarship and the digital humanities more broadly in regards to race, racial violence, and systemic racism. How does you document violence, and importantly how do you identify it and show it?

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Pollock noted, “The scope of the project is on the activism of Ida B. Wells and the work of data mining, not on the gaze of lynching.” How do digital humanitarians document violence without reproducing it? This challenge raised vital questions about digitization. Since digitization does not in itself solve interpretive problems, but rather provides an opportunity to either conceal them or force them out into the open. Digital humanitarians must grabble with the varied and layered processes undertaken to produce any project and the multiple negotiations made along the way. Pressingly, Pollock’s talk asked our instruction in digital practice makes people encourages reflection, or defeats it.

We thank everyone who attended and invite you all to our next talk, “How to Edit When the World is Burning,”on November 13 given by Amanda Gailey, Associate Professor of English, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (University of Nebraska-Lincoln).

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Upcoming Lecture: “Encoding Ida B. Wells’s The Red Record: Critical Questions in Digital Editing and Data Curation of Violence.” by Caitlin Pollock, Digital Humanities Librarian at the Center for Digital Scholarship at IUPUI

Monday October 2nd, 3:30-5 pm (IPRH Seminar Room)

SourceLab Forum will be welcoming Caitlin Pollock, Digital Humanities Librarian at the Center for Digital Scholarship at IUPUI, for a workshop talk entitled “Encoding Ida B. Wells’s The Red Record: Critical Questions in Digital Editing and Data Curation of Violence.”

Published in 1895, Ida B. Wells’s The Red Record documents the history and practice of lynching in American life, combining graphic accounts of violence against African Americans with statistics, carefully culled from published sources, demonstrating its prevalence.  In her talk, Caitlin Pollock will consider whether benchmark standards for the creation of electronic editions–such as the Text Encoding Initiative–allow for such a history to be translated into the digital record fully and fairly.  Her talk will engage current, critical literature on race studies within the Digital Humanities, as well as the evolution of digital editing within and beyond TEI.

The talk will have an open workshop format, with initial remarks followed by a direct engagement with encoding this text.  (Though no photographic images will be shown, The Red Record contains graphic discussion of racist violence, that will be analyzed as part of the presentation.)

Caitlin has also provided us with a few recommended readings, that might help set the context for the discussion, listed below (though no advanced preparation is required).

Gallon, Kim. “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold, 2016. http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/55

Palmer, Carole L., Nicholas M. Weber, Trevor M. Muñoz, and Allen H. Renear. “Foundations of Data Curation: The Pedagogy and Practice of ‘Purposeful Work’ with Research Data – Archive Journal.” Accessed August 25, 2017. http://dev.archivejournal.net/?p=4819.

Wells-Barnett, Ida Bell. On Lynchings. Black Thought and Culture. New York: Humanity Press, 2013. http://solomon.bltc.alexanderstreet.com/cgi-bin/asp/philo/bltc/getvolume.pl?S10224 (The Red Record is reproduced in this electronic edition, which also presents an example of how the text is currently digitized).

We hope you can join us for the session.

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Welcome to SourceLab 2017-2018

Welcome! We’re excited to announce our upcoming events for the fall 2017 semester. Another class of undergraduates is coming aboard, our editorial board is reviewing forthcoming editions, and a new call for papers is on its way. During 2017-2018, SourceLab is a Research Cluster supported by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) and their generous help strengthens our collaborations with other students, faculty, and staff across campus as well as expands our research and organizational capabilities. So stay tuned here, our social media accounts, and email list-serve for notices on upcoming events, our call for papers, and other exciting developments in digital humanities and undergraduate history research at the University of Illinois!

Fall 2017 Calendar:
All meetings 3:30-5 p.m., IPRH Seminar Room, 4th Floor, Levis Center

September 5 (Tuesday) Welcome Back / Organizational Meeting for SourceLab

September 19 (Tuesday) SourceLab Research Cluster Meeting

October 2 (Monday) SourceLab Forum Talk: Caitlin Pollock, Digital Humanities Librarian, Center for Digital Scholarship, IUPUI: “Encoding Ida B. Wells’s The Red Record: Critical Questions in Digital Editing and Data Curation of Violence”

October 24 (Tuesday) SourceLab Research Cluster Meeting

November 13 (Monday) SourceLab Forum Talk: Amanda Gailey, Associate Professor of English, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (University of Nebraska-Lincoln); “How to Edit When the World is Burning”

December 5 (Tuesday) SourceLab Research Cluster Meeting

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