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Saturday, 4 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., Gardner, Sheraton

A special session

Presiding: Adeline Koh, Richard Stockton Coll. of New Jersey

Speakers: Moya Bailey, Emory Univ.; Anne Cong-Huyen, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; Hussein Keshani, Univ. of British Columbia; Maria Velazquez, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

Responding: Alondra Nelson, Columbia Univ.

For links and participant biographies, visit www.adelinekoh.org/blog/2012/04/02/racend/.

Session Description:

This panel examines the politics of race, ethnicity, and silence in the digital humanities. How has the digital humanities remained silent on issues of race and ethnicity? How does this silence reinforce unspoken assumptions and doxa? What is the function of racialized silences in digital archival projects?

Subjects:

• General Literature – Electronic Technology (Teaching, Research, and Theory)

• The Profession – Research and Bibliography

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