You are cordially invited to join us for a symposium hosted by the FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Initiative…

Saturday, May 6, 2017
Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall
Franklin Humanities Institute
Duke University

(C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse
114 S. Buchanan Blvd.)

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Part of the Franklin Humanities Institute’s Mellon Humanities Futures initiative (http://humanitiesfutures.org/),
the FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) supports the development of digital pedagogy and digital scholarship at North Carolina Central University.

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10:30 – 11:45

WELCOME

KEYNOTE
“From Boxes to Bytes: Creating the Digital Transgender Archive”
Dr. K.J. Rawson
Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Digital Transgender Archive at College of the Holy Cross

Co-sponsored by the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University

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11:45 – 12:45

Lunch + Information Session on the FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Initiative

Info session open to NCCU faculty interested in applying to the initiative in 2017-18 –
see call for proposals @ https://humanitiesfutures.org/blog/call-proposals-2017-18-fhi-north-carolina-central-university-digital-humanities-fellowships/

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12:45 – 2:15

Presentations by 2016-17 FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellows
Dr. Candace Bailey, Professor of Music, NCCU
Dr. Claudia Becker, Professor of German & Director of Global Studies, NCCU
Dr. Lisa Carl, Associate Professor of Language and Literature, NCCU
Dr. Matthew Cook, Professor of Postcolonial and South Asian Studies, NCCU
Dr. Jarvis Hargrove, Assistant Professor of History, NCCU
Dr. Kathryn Wymer, Associate Professor of Language and Literature, NCCU