DLF Forum 2018

Presentations
 
Archives, Race, and Justice
Melanie Hubbard, Julia Lee
Loyola Marymount University, United States of America
 
Archives, Race, and Justice (ARJ) is an engaged learning digital project that centered on materials from the Southern California Library, a community archive. This presentation will discuss the background of ARJ, the design of the scaffolded assignments that led to the final projects and the students’ struggles and successes.
 
 
Personally Sustainable Models for Institutionally Sustainable Work
Dorothy Berry(1), Erin White(2), Courtnie Wolfgang(2)
1: Harvard University, United States of America; 2: Virginia Commonwealth University, United States of America
 
Digital libraries as “inclusive spaces” has become standard in the field. Hear from two digital library practitioners and a teacher educator on experiences creating inter/intra-institutional networks and partnerships that build sustainable support for surviving the necessary, and often traumatic, work of promoting diversity from one’s own marginalized subjectivity.

WITHDRAWN - Asian American Studies and Digital Humanities: The Nexus of Activism and Social Justice
Ray Pun
Fresno State

This presentation explores how digital humanities can be integrated into Asian American Studies to provide a teaching platform to engage with marginalized communities and their voices in the discourse of activism and social justice. Various case studies are presented to demonstrate how DH projects enhances the field of ethnic studies.