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Ethics, Care, and Collaboration: Embracing an Interdisciplinary DH Career - The intersection of Digital Humanities (DH) and archival practices presents both opportunities and ethical challenges, particularly when engaging with historically marginalized or vulnerable communities. As digital tools increasingly play a pivotal role in the preservation of cultural heritage, researchers, archivists, curators, librarians, and digital humanists become essential team members in ensuring responsible, equitable, and inclusive representation. This presentation explores the ethical dimensions of working with communities in digital projects, emphasizing the responsibility to protect privacy, uphold consent, and ensure that community voices are authentically represented. Students will gain valuable insights on how adopting an interdisciplinary approach can help them build a Digital Humanities career that is as diverse and inclusive as the communities they aim to serve.
Chimeral DH: A Visual Tour of What DH Can Look Like: Digital Humanities has a complex family tree and a tendency to coopt or colonize other disciplines, so its products and practices are very diverse. This presentation will showcase the variety of the field, trace some origins and impacts of that variance, and share emerging work from UTEP’s new Borderlands Digital Humanities Center.
Digitize My History: EPMH Digital Wall Administrator, Stephanie Gardea will lead a discussion on the importance of community archives and personal histories in telling the story of our region. Participants will learn about the role of community memory in historical narratives and preserving their own histories. They will be encouraged to reflect on and share their experiences with using local archival resources to research personal and regional histories. Attendees will also have the opportunity to scan photos to be uploaded to the Digital wall with the assistance of EPMH staff (maximum five photos per person).
This speakers series is free and open to all who are curious about a career in museums and museum-adjacent fields regardless of background, major/minor or work experience. The series is made possible through generous support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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Carolina A. Villarroel holds a PhD in Spanish literature with a specialization in US Latino Literature and Women's Studies from the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Houston. She is the former archivist in charge of the Mexican American and African American Collections at the Houston Metropolitan Research Center at the Houston Public Library. Her expertise in US Latino culture and literature has been fundamental to her positions at the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Houston (UH), where she is the Brown Foundation Director of Research of the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage, a national program whose goal is to identify, preserve, study and make accessible the written legacy of Latinos/as in the United States from the colonial period until 1980. She and her colleague, Gabriela Baeza Ventura, are also the founders of the US Latino Digital Humanities Center. The Center was funded by a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation
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