Please see below for an event this Thursday
of potential interest to the Boston- and New England-area digital humanities community!
Very best,
Erica Zimmer
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The MIT Digital Humanities Workshop
presents
Audit the Streets
Thursday, December 2, 5:15 - 6:15 pm
The Nexus, Hayden Library, MIT (14S-130)
Presented by Catherine D’Ignazio, Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Planning and Director of the Data + Feminism Lab, and
Wonyoung So, Ph.D. student in DUSP and research assistant & technical lead of the Data + Feminism Lab.
Audit the Streets is a multimodal research project that catalogs uneven and inequitable commemoration practices in the US landscape. It includes a national-scale database, a data story about places commemorating Christopher
Columbus, a zine about counter-Columbus contestations, an investigation of the prevalence of commemorating landed white Harvard men in Cambridge, and a research paper that draws from Black and Indigenous feminisms to theorize audits.
The Boston- and New England-area digital humanities community is welcome at this interactive presentation of work in progress. Attendees will be required to check in with their MIT ID/Mobile ID or Tim Ticket.
Prospective attendees who are not on Covid Pass should email
[log in to unmask] to RSVP.
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The Digital Humanities Workshop provides a flexible, dynamic space for faculty and researchers to connect with one another about digital research and teaching topics. This semester will focus on innovative approaches to
storytelling that combine archival methods and digital tools. Co-hosted by MIT Libraries and Programs in Digital Humanities, the workshop is held on the
first Thursday of each month at 5 pm* in The Nexus, Hayden Library (14S-130), MIT. (*Note the special 5:15 pm start time for our 12/02 workshop!)