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Digital Humanities Speaker Series

The Kaplan Digital Humanities Speaker Series hosts talks by scholars, artists, and community members working on a wide array of digital humanities projects. The series is designed to show the breadth of the field with a special focus on how DH theory can be used to engage community needs. The speaker series is convened by Joseph Whitson, Kaplan's Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities.

Two talks will be scheduled each quarter; speakers to be announced per quarter.

 

Winter 2022
Dr. Sarah Wald, University of OregonDr. Sarah Wald – Telling Stories Using Digital Formats - Carceral Geographies of Mt. Hood National Forest

January 19, 2022 (Wed.)
6:00 pm CST via Zoom

Register here: https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0scuGorDwpEtw9pb-81i-HpB7MxGCxdE9G 

Dr. Sarah Wald will discuss her collaborative, publicly engaged work—with Bark (@BarkforMtHood), University of Oregon librarians Kate Thornhill and Gabriele Hayden, and many University of Oregon grad students—to tell the complicated stories around Mt. Hood National Forest using digital formats. 

Wald will be joined by two of these grad students—Ashia Ajani and Hannah Gershone—to share their research on Mt. Hood's carceral geographies.

Sarah Wald is an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and English at University of Oregon, the homeland of the Kalapuya people. Her research and teaching focus on the relationship between race and the environment, immigration and citizenship, and environmental justice. Dr. Wald is the author of The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl, the co-editor for Latinx Environmentalism: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial, and is currently working on a book related to the Outdoor Equity Movement.

 

Spring 2022 dates (anticipated)

April 21
May 19

 

Past Events

Fall 2021
Jolie Varela.jpgJolie Varela - Indigenous Women Hike 

November 18, 2021

5:00 pm via Zoom

Register here:

https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcodOyqqT8pE9ajDXwk3laZ7pDHtghpRGGV
Jolie Varela is a member of the Tule River Yokut and Paiute Nations. She is an activist for Indigenous representation and land sovereignty in the outdoor recreation community and is the founder of Indigenous Women Hike, a group that combines digital advocacy and on-the-ground organizing to help Indigenous women connect to their homelands through recreation. Varela’s community work includes the creation of a gear library, initiatives to restore indigenous names, and being an advocate and organizer for direct community aid.  
Christine McRaeChristine McRae Luckasavitch - Native Land Digital 

October 21, 2021

5:00 pm via Zoom 

Register here:

https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcodeytpjovH9Rb64DpgN8zsA-3nDFFZelV

Or log on to: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/93525581550

Christine McRae Luckasavitch is an Omàmìwininì Madaoueskarini Anishinaabekwe (a woman of the Madawaska River Algonquin people) and belongs to the Crane Clan.

 

Christine serves as Executive Director of Native Land Digital (https://native-land.ca), an Indigenous-led not-for-profit dedicated to providing education about Indigenous peoples, territories, and knowledge systems across the world.

 

She is also the Owner/Executive Consultant of Waaseyaa Consulting and Waaseyaa Cultural Tours (@waaseyaaconsulting or https://waaseyaaconsulting.ca), two small businesses dedicated to reviving and celebrating Indigenous traditional knowledge and culture-based practices through educational opportunities. Christine is currently studying for her Master of Arts in Indigenous Studies at Trent University.

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