Latinx Digital Praxis: From the Archive to the Digital

Title: Latinx Digital Praxis: From the Archive to the Digital

Description: 

This workshop explores analog and digital methodologies for creating scholarship and knowledge around the experiences of US Latinx peoples. Participants will receive an introduction about the makeup of the US Latinx communities through transnational, exile, native, immigrant lens. Participants will gain hands-on experience on data management and digital visualizations. Through this ethnic digital humanities training, participants will learn how to make underrepresented community archives visible. 

Questions that this workshop will cover include, but are not limited to:

• How do we approach US Latinx experience?
• How do we understand the importance of ethnic materials in the US?
• How do we approach and incorporate languages other than English into DH?
• How to identify materials for future projects (research, copyright issues, etc.)?
• How do we create meaningful and respectful data?
• How do we work with the community owners of the knowledge?
• How do we create knowledge and scholarship based on ethnic materials?
• How do we engage our local and immediate communities?

Participants will complete this workshop with knowledge of how to use digital surrogates to expand access and dissemination of underrepresented collections, as well as develop plans for community-building and partnerships that could help further the mission and scope of their projects. The workshop uses an interdisciplinary approach that at its very base questions archival politics and praxis. Additionally, participants will learn about strategies necessary to advocate for programming, grant writing, and faculty and student engagement (undergraduate and graduate). No prior technical knowledge is required. Anyone with an interest in Latinx studies and digital humanities is welcome. This workshop is based on the work of the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage program located at the University of Houston, one of the premier research programs for US Latinx scholarship with a trajectory of more than 30 years of locating, preserving, and making available the written legacy of Latinx in the US since colonial times until 1980.

Location: 

Hyatt Regency Downtown

1200 Louisiana St.

Houston, TX 77002

Date: May 18, 2022

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Cost: $75.00 employed full-time; $50.00 employed part-time; $25.00 students

Capacity: 30

Required Knowledge and/or Equipment: No prior knowledge or skills required.

Instructors: 

Dr. Carolina Villarroel is the Brown Foundation Director of Research for the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project. She is a certified archivist who coordinated the work of the Recovery board and staff, as well as Digital Humanities services and products. She is co-founder and co-director of the US Latino Digital Humanities program.

Dr. Gabriela Baeza Ventura is Executive Editor at Arte Público Press and Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston. She supervises the team of designers, copy editors and proofreaders in the production of some 30 books per year and plans and administers Arte Público Press’ Digital Humanities services and products. She is co-founder and co-director of the US Latino Digital Humanities program.

Dr. Lorena Gauthereau is Digital Programs Manager, facilitates data curation and digital scholarship for Recovery materials and Digital Humanities services and products for the US Latino Digital Humanities center. She is currently a fellow for the Rare Book School and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage. Previously, she served as a CLIR-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow.

Dr. Linda Garcia Merchant is a US Latino Digital Humanities Post Doctoral Fellow. She supports pedagogy, training and project infrastructure for the US Latino Digital Humanities program. She is co-founder of Chicana Por Mi Raza Digital Memory Collective.

Full refunds for annual meeting and workshop registrations are available no less than 10 business days prior to the first day of the annual meeting. Refunds requested after that date will incur a $25 penalty.