Introduction: The Politics and Ethics of Naming the Names of Enslaved People in Digital Humanities Projects- Walter Hawthorne
- Richard Roberts
- Fatoumata Seck
- Rebecca Wall
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This introduction provides a broad overview to the context of digital humanities projects dealing with enslaved people and frames the debate over the ethics and politics of using the names of enslaved people.
Digitizing Guardianship Registers in Senegal (1895-1910): Naming as Evidence and Ethical ConcernEN
This article describes the process of building a database of names and information about formerly enslaved children in early colonial Senegal, and it uses the database to ask both historical and ethical questions about naming practices and aliases, experiences of unfreedom, and self-fashioning among these children.
Reflections on the Ethics of Research with the Registers of Liberated Africans in the Indian OceanEN
This paper examines ethical issues related to the use of the registers of liberated Africans in the Indian Ocean for historical research.
The Pedagogical Innovations and Ethical Challenges of Integrating an Online Version of the Registers of the Liberation of Senegal (1857-1903) into the Teaching of History in the Senegalese Middle Cycle Public Schooling- Mamadou Yéro Baldé
- Djibrirou Daouda Ba
- Ismaïla Mbodji
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Teaching the slave trade and slavery through the Senegalese liberation register is not only to put the digital humanities at the center of pedagogical transmission, but it is also to inscribe Senegalese learners in the time-world of science.
The Unnamed Fugitive and the Unknown Maroon: Anonymity and the Limits of Repair in Black Atlantic Historical RecoveryEN
In this paper, I examine the ethics and pedagogical implications of unnaming for the political project of historical recovery, showing how students' interpretive choices when working with archival materials illuminate the ways that deliberate unnaming can enact a shift away from anonymity and erasure and, in turn, a move towards productive engagement with the limits of knowledge and recovery in slavery's archive.
Descendants and Ethical Considerations when Documenting the Names of Enslaved People in Datasets on the InternetEN
This paper examines the ethical implications of public, internet-based history projects that list enslaved people by name.
Naming Names of Enslaved People in the Senegal Liberations Project- Richard Roberts
- Rebecca Wall
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Given the prevailing stigma and potential violence against people of slave descent in West Africa, what are scholars' ethical and political responsibilities in using the names of enslaved people who actively sought their liberation at the hands of French colonial officials during the second half of the nineteenth century in public-facing digital humanities projects?
Naming Slavery in a Digital Public History Project in Mali in the Context of Increased Violence Against Those Who Refuse to Be Called Slaves- Marie Rodet
- Mamadou Séne Cissé
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How do you create a digital public history project on slavery with concerned communities in Mali who are increasingly at risk of violence because of the very topic of slavery?
Unjust Readings: Against the New New CriticismEN
The article challenges the retro-humanist critique of the digital humanities, arguing that these critiques constitute idealized, unsituated criticism that depend upon a narrow conception of the proper questions, methods, and objects of analysis for the humanities.
Experiments in Distant Reading: Using Topic Modeling on Chinese Buddhist Texts from 500-800 CE- Marcus Bingenheimer
- Justin Brody
- Ryan Nichols
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The article explores the use of BERTopic to analyze Chinese Buddhist texts from 500–800 CE, distinguishing between translated Indian-Chinese and native Chinese-Chinese writings. The findings shed light on the sinicization of Buddhism, uncovering key thematic differences that suggest new avenues for historical and linguistic study.
Introducing Booksnake: A Scholarly App for Transforming Existing Digitized Archival Materials into Life-Size Virtual Objects for Embodied Interaction in Physical Space, using IIIF and Augmented Reality- Sean Fraga
- Christy Ye
- Henry Huang
- Zack Sai
- Michael Hughes
- April Yao
- Samir Ghosh
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Learn about Booksnake, a new app for bringing digitized cultural heritage materials into physical space via augmented reality, creating a novel spatial interface for embodied research with digitized materials.
Can Open-Source Fix Predictive Policing? Anti-Racist Critical Code Studies Approach to Contemporary AI Policing Software- Sarah Ciston
- Zach Mann
- Mark C. Marino
- Jeremy Douglass
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In Can Open-Source Fix Predictive Policing? Ciston, Mann, Marino, and Douglass perform a critical code studies reading of CivicScape predictive policing software, detailing the racialized codes of civic control under the cloak of inaccessible AI machinations.
A Review of Bridget Whearty's Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor (2022)EN
Bridget Whearty's Digital Codicology spotlights the intellectual, human labor behind every digitized manuscript, advocating for a codicology that honors these digital objects as worthy subjects of scholarly attention in their own right.
Black Waves in Digital Humanities: Vaziri's (2023) Exploration of African Enslavement in the Persian Gulf through FilmEN
Dive into this review of Parisa Vaziri's Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran's Cinematic Archive to uncover the overlooked narratives of enslaved African people in Iranian cinema, a rich tapestry of history and film that challenges established truths.
Review of The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities (2023)EN
James O'Sullivan's edited volume is an important addition to contemporary discourse on DH. It has something for a variety of readers: experts, beginners, and critics.