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[With apologies for cross-posting.] Dear all, Please join us on Friday, March 29th at the Northeastern University Alumni Center for the third annual NULab Spring Conference, "Digital Storytelling," featuring talks by Northeastern faculty and graduate students, and a keynote lecture by Jessica Marie Johnson of Johns Hopkins University. Space is limited and registration is required; please RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOP6BZ-q7S8F-idLRdPz-p3-C_HsT6l1NP4QYIUW-u0Nta9Q/viewform> . This all-day conference will begin with a keynote address, "All the Stars Are Closer: Galaxies of Black Digital Practice" by Jessica Marie Johnson <https://history.jhu.edu/directory/jessica-johnson/>, a historian of Atlantic slavery and the Atlantic African diaspora, whose work as a digital humanist explores ways digital and social media disseminate and create historical narratives, in particular, comparative histories of slavery and people of African descent. Following the keynote address, there will be three sessions of talks by Northeastern faculty and graduate students whose research relate to digital storytelling: Nicole Aljoe <https://cssh.northeastern.edu/people/faculty/nicole-aljoe/>: English, Director of African and African American Studies Program Nicholas Beauchamp <https://cssh.northeastern.edu/people/faculty/nicholas-beauchamp/>: Political Science Cameron Blevins <https://cssh.northeastern.edu/people/faculty/cameron-blevins/>: History Elizabeth Maddock Dillon <https://cssh.northeastern.edu/people/faculty/elizabeth-dillon/>: English, NULab Co-director Donghee Jo <https://cssh.northeastern.edu/people/faculty/donghee-jo/>: Economics Molly Nebiolo <https://mollynebiolo.com/>: History Laura Nelson <https://cssh.northeastern.edu/people/faculty/laura-nelson/>: Sociology and Anthropology Dietmar Offenhube <https://cssh.northeastern.edu/people/faculty/dietmar-offenhuber/>r: Art + Design, Public Policy and Urban Affairs Élika Ortega <https://cssh.northeastern.edu/people/faculty/elika-ortega-guzman/>: Cultures, Societies and Global Studies Jessica Silbey <https://www.northeastern.edu/law/faculty/directory/silbey.html>: Law, Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity Co-Director Laura South <https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/people/laura-south/>: Khoury College of Computer Sciences John Wihbey <https://camd.northeastern.edu/faculty/john-p-wihbey/>: Journalism Please see the attached flyer and event page for details: https://web.northeastern.edu/nulab/event/spring-conference-2019/ We hope to see you there! Kind regards, Laura Johnson -- *Laura Johnson (she/her)* Ph.D. Student, English NULab Fellow Northeastern University ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BOSTONDH list, click the following link: https://listserv.neu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=BOSTONDH