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October 27: A Decade of Digital Humanities at Vanderbilt: Roundtable Discussion of the Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies Digital Archive

Posted by on Thursday, October 27, 2016 in Event Archives, Fall 2016 Colloquium.

A Decade of Digital Humanities at Vanderbilt: Roundtable Discussion of the Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies Archive"

Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities (344 Buttrick Hall), Thursday, October 27, 4:10 pm

A Decade of Digital Humanities at Vanderbilt: Roundtable Discussion of the Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies Digital Archive

This panel will discuss some of the trials and triumphs of our international team who for more than a decade have worked to preserve the oldest records for Africans in the Americas. The Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies Digital Archive holds over 600,000 unique images dating from the 16th-19th centuries from Cuba, Brazil, Colombia and Spanish Florida. They preserve the history of between four and six million African and Afro-descended individuals and make possible important new research on African and Afro-descended populations in the Americas.

Panelists

Jane Landers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History, Director, ESSSS

Pablo F. Gómez, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin

David LaFevor, Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Arlington

Angela Sutton, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Digital Humanities Center

Kara Schultz, American Council for Learned Societies, Doctoral Fellow, Digital Humanities Center

Dale Poulter, Coordinator, Jean and Alexander Heard Library

Paula Covington, Latin American Bibliographer, Jean and Alexander Heard Library

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