The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities will host the Nebraska Forum on Digital Humanities Oct. 6 and 7 at the Dinsdale Family Learning Commons and the College of Law.
The series are filled with rich discussions about legal history and digital scholarship featuring scholars from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and throughout the country. All events are open to the public.
The forum opens with the panel discussion, “Structuring Legal Data in Critical Ways,” with speakers Katrina Jagodinsky, Beth Redbird and Lydia Curliss. In the afternoon, the second panel will discuss “Histories of Slavery and Freedom-Making with Digital Tools,” and includes Will Thomas, Holly Brewer and Cory Young.
The afternoon will also feature a Student Project Competition where Nebraska U students will present their own digital humanities projects in a lightning round competition. Audience members will vote on the best presentation and the winner will receive a $250 prize.
The plenary presentation begins at 5:30 p.m. and will be hosted at the College of Law. Speakers include Holly Brewer, Linford Fisher, Julia Lewandoski and moderator, Katrina Jagodinsky.
The plenary will feature a scholarly discussion of digital humanities tools and approaches uniquely suited to community-engaged projects drawing on archival legal materials. Brewer and Fisher lead projects focused on histories of African and Indigenous slavery that link colonial pasts to our contested present. Lewandoski uses digital mapping tools to reinterpret assumptions about Indigenous, colonial, and American land claims in the Pacific West. Jagodinsky will invite each scholar to describe their projects and the strategic choices built into those projects. The audience will be encouraged to ask their own questions about public-facing projects and the unique challenges inherent to digital analysis of archival legal material.
The forum concludes Oct. 7 with a panel discussion on “Decolonizing Maps and Treaties: DH Approaches to Empire” with panelists: Julia Lewandoski, Jeannette Eileen Jones and Ng’ang’a Wahu-Mũchiri.
All presentations are open to the public, see the full schedule description for times and location.
