California Digital Humanities Research Institute (CaliDHRI) will take place April 27-29th, 2022.
CaliDHRI is a free, annual digital ethnic studies institute inspired and co-sponsored by CUNY DHRI as well as UC Irvine Libraries and UCLA Libraries. The inaugural CaliDHRI will center Black digital humanities thematically, and rotate annually through Latinx, Asian American, and Indigenous Studies topics while focusing on California-centric research questions and datasets.
Our 2022 theme, “The Black Press”, will be explored by three keynote speakers (who will highlight their own Black digital humanities research and projects) as well as multiple small teams of participants who have applied with a research question, collection, or project in mind.
Using James P. Danky’s authoritative Bibliography of African American Newspapers and Periodicals as well as open datasets, participants will be taught GIS and text mining tools by a team of library workers from public and private academic institutions and libraries and collaborate on digital humanities resources for research and teaching using Black collections, with the aim of strengthening cross-California connections across institutional boundaries and advancing digital ethnic studies.
CaliDHRI will be a virtual event via Zoom.
CaliDHRI Co-Directors,
Tatiana Bryant, UC Irvine Libraries
Zoe Borovsky, UCLA Libraries