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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a panel on cutting-edge scholarship in the e
 merging field of the Digital Black Atlantic\, featuring:\n\nAnnette Joseph
 -Gabriel\, Associate Professor of Romance Studies\, Duke University\n\nKel
 ly Baker Josephs\, Professor of English\, City University of New York\n\nK
 elsey Moore\, doctoral candidate in History\, Johns Hopkins University\n\n
 Roopika Risam\, Associate Professor of Secondary and Higher Education and 
 English\, Salem State University\n\nThis event is free and open to the pub
 lic\, but registration is required. RSVP here.\n\nThe event will be modera
 ted by Nicole Aljoe\, Professor of English and Africana Studies\, and Eliz
 abeth Maddock Dillon\, Distinguished Professor of English\; Co-Director\, 
 NULab for Texts\, Maps\, and Networks.\n\nPanelists will speak on a range 
 of important projects and topics related to the digital Black Atlantic:\n\
 nAnnette Joseph-Gabriel will share Mapping Marronage\,  a digital visualiz
 ation of enslaved people’s mobility in the Atlantic world. Professor Jos
 eph-Gabriel will present an overview of the site and its visualization of 
 enslaved people’s flight and networks. She will discuss the process of t
 ranscription\, translation\, and data mining applied to the digital map’
 s primary documents sourced from archives around the world. Professor Jose
 ph-Gabriel will share her work asynchronously\, via a recorded presentatio
 n. Roopika Risam will discuss areas of growth and reflect on the limitatio
 ns of The Digital Black Atlantic and connect the work of the volume to her
  current work with the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium.Kelly Baker Josep
 hs will discuss the theoretical framework for\, and challenges encountered
  in publishing the edited volume\, The Digital Black Atlantic. She will cl
 ose with brief connections between the volume and her current work.Kelsey 
 Moore will speak on her experience with the Mardi Gras Indian Traditions p
 roject and broadly discuss her digital praxis around researching\, archivi
 ng\, and documenting The Black South.After each panelist speaks about thei
 r current research in the digital Black Atlantic\, we will have an open di
 scussion with all attendees. \n\nSpeaker biographies\n\nKelly Baker Joseph
 s\n\nKelly Baker Josephs is Professor of English at York College\, CUNY an
 d Professor of English and Digital Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center.
  She is the author of Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity
  in Anglophone Caribbean Lit­erature (2013)\, co-editor of The Digital Bl
 ack Atlantic (University of Minnesota Press\, 2021)\, and co-organizer of 
 the annual Caribbean Digital conferences. She is currently at work on a se
 cond monograph that explores the intersections between new technologies an
 d Caribbean cultural production.\n\nAnnette Joseph-Gabriel\n\nAnnette Jose
 ph-Gabriel is an Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University
 . Her research focuses on race\, gender\, and citizenship in the French-sp
 eaking Caribbean\, Africa\, and France. She is the author of Reimagining L
 iberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (U
 niversity of Illinois Press)\, winner of the 2020 MLA Prize for a First Bo
 ok. She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals including Small A
 xe\, Slavery & Abolition\, Eighteenth-Century Studies and The French Revie
 w\, and her public writings have been featured in Al Jazeera\, HuffPost\, 
 and the Washington Post. She is a recipient of the Carrie Chapman Catt Pri
 ze for Research on Women and Politics. She is also the managing editor of 
 Palimpsest: A Journal on Women\, Gender\, and the Black International and 
 production editor of Women in French Studies.\n\nKelsey Moore\n\nKelsey Mo
 ore (she/her) is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at the Joh
 ns Hopkins University\, focusing on southern African American History. She
  is also the Lead Chair of the Mardi Gras Indian Traditions: Going Global\
 , Going Online under LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure. She 
 received a Dual BA in Africana Studies and Public Policy from New York Uni
 versity\, where she graduated as the 2019 Valedictorian of the College of 
 Arts and Science. Her current dissertation tentatively titled “What the 
 Dead Witnessed: Clearing of Black Knowledges in Jim Crow South Carolina\,
 ” focuses on the removal and flooding of over 9\,000 graves which was re
 quired of the Santee-Cooper Hydroelectric Project in the 1930s. In additio
 n to her dissertation\, Moore created thefolk in 2020\, a digital archive 
 dedicated to highlighting black southern culture both past and present. He
 r digital praxis centers on preserving and rethinking The Black South as a
 n essential landscape of black knowledges. \n\nRoopika Risam\n\nRoopika Ri
 sam is Chair of Secondary and Higher Education and Associate Professor of 
 Education and English at Salem State University. She is the author of New 
 Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory\, Praxis\, and P
 edagogy\, and the director of the Mellon-funded Digital Ethnic Futures Con
 sortium\, a network of scholars teaching at the intersections of digital h
 umanities and ethnic studies.
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