Many Small Nations: A Day of Black, Indigenous, and Black/Indigenous Research from Louisiana and Beyond

Description

The Johns Hopkins Department of History, in partnership with the Diaspora Solidarities Lab, LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure, and the Center for Africana Studies, will host the Harrison Lecture titled "Many Small Nations: Black, Indigenous, and Black/Indigenous History." The day's events celebrate Black, Indigenous, and Black/Indigenous research from Louisiana and beyond. All events, except for the Harrison Lecture and graduate lunch, will be held in a hybrid format.

Schedule

Keywords for Black Louisiana Digital Workshop (co-sponsored by Sheridan Libraries)

10 – 11:30 a.m., Sheridan Libraries, Brody Learning Commons 5015/17

Presenters:

• Ellie Palazzolo (Johns Hopkins)
• Chenise Calhoun (Tulane)
• Jamya Davis (Xavier University in Louisiana)
• Laura Konisek (Johns Hopkins) representing the Digital Team of Keywords for Black Louisiana

Grad Student Lunch with Elizabeth Ellis

Noon – 1 p.m., Palenque LxC (Macauley 109)

Soft Launch: Archipelagos of Marronage

2 – 3:30 p.m., Macaulay 101 Seminar Room

As part of the Harrison Lecture & LifexCode Research Celebration, the Archipelagos of Marronage team will present their StoryMap, titled "Gender, Reproduction & Marronage in New Orleans," in collaboration with Bryan Wagner from Open Curriculum for New Orleans Culture.

Team:

• Arianna Browne, Johns Hopkins doctoral candidate and project lead
• Gregory Smaldone
• Nicole Viglini
• Laura Konisek, digital humanities dissertation fellow

This soft launch event will also include enriching discussions from Rachel Breunlin, whose work with the Neighborhood Story Project in New Orleans has transformed public knowledge through the complex storytelling of southern Louisiana. There will also be a presentation by Leila Blackbird, historian and University of Chicago doctoral candidate for Black and Indigenous history.

Harrison Lecture & Reception

Elizabeth Ellis, associate professor of history at Princeton University and author of The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South

Lecture: 4 – 5:30 p.m., Levering Great Hall | Reception: Gilman Atrium

Questions?

For questions, email Afua Quarshie, lab manager of community knowledge at the Diaspora Solidarities Lab, at aquarsh1@jhu.edu or Tatiana Esh, project manager at the Diaspora Solidarities Lab, at tatiana@dslprojects.org.