Welcome to the Digital Scholarship in the Americas Speaker Series archive. The speaker series features scholars who are engaging digital lenses to innovate scholarship and teaching on Latin American, U.S. Latine, African Diaspora, and Indigenous Studies. Below is a list of the speaker series events offered in the past by the LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship Office. Be on the lookout for any upcoming events in our main “Programming” page!
2025
Minimal Computing in the age of AI

2024
Strategic Datafication and Feminicide in Latin America

2023

2022
Characterizing Urban Change from Visual Analytics of Street-Level Imagery

From Almanacs to Rhizomes: Caribbean Lives in Code(s) of Relation

2021

2020

2019
Rediscovering Fray Andres de San Miguel’s 17th-Century Manuscript through 3D Printing

Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and Protecting Haitian Patrimony Initiative

The Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo Digital Archive: Historical Memory and Guatemala’s Disappeared

2018
(Digital) Methodology of the Oppressed: Decolonial Theory & US Latina/o Digital Humanities

Anti-Mexican American Violence Under the Digital Lens

2017
Crowdsourcing or Collaboration?: Using Digital Tools to Promote Interdisciplinary Work

The Hidden Patterns of Latin American Baroque Art
