Digital Scholarship in the Americas Speaker Series

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. Latinx, 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!

2024

Strategic Datafication and Feminicide in Latin America

 

2023

Cantos Cautivos: Collecting, preserving, and disseminating music histories from political detention centers in Pinochet’s Chile

 

2022

Characterizing Urban Change from Visual Analytics of Street-Level Imagery

 

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

 

2021

Old sources, new technologies: Developing computational approaches for the analysis of Mexican historical documents

 

2020

Through the Tourist’s Lens: Using Social Media and Machine Learning to Understand Visual Experiences at Peruvian Archaeological Heritage Sites

 

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