Student Centered Practices in Global Digital Humanities

Описание: Niloufar Esmaeili, Devon Bradley, Jessica Corona, Elisa Castro, and Emily Rodriguez | University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Building a Student-Driven Digital Humanities Community at UTSA: A Journey of Collaboration and Innovation
Niloufar Esmaeili | University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Our first panelist, the president of the Digital Humanities Student Organization, will speak about the organization’s journey in building a lively, student-driven digital humanities community at UTSA. She will share her experience of reaching out to the Mozilla Foundation, and their significant role in connecting DHSO with other student clubs across the United States. Esmaeili will discuss how DHSO’s regular events have significantly contributed to the development and improvement of students’ projects. Using her own work on “Documenting Gender-Based Violence in Iran” as an example, she will illustrate how participation in these events helped her expand her digital humanities research.

Archiving Literary Voices: Building a Transborder Literary Archive of U.S./Mexico Borderlands Literature
Devon Bradley | University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Our second panelist will present writers from the Rio Grande Valley and Northern Mexico who have enriched U.S./Mexico borderlands literature. Using transborder digital humanities methodologies, like textual analysis and critical curation, this research explores what defines borderlands literature and how this understanding changes when considering both sides of the border. Through engaging these questions, this archive seeks to draw attention to and challenge existing inequalities of border cultural heritage access, distribution, preservation, and digitization (Fernández Quintanilla and Álvarez, 2021). Positioning this project and involvement with DHSO as a strategy to advance it from a class assignment to a dissertation chapter.

Curating a Database and Analyzing Gender Violence Against Latina Women in Historical Spanish-Language Newspapers
Jessica Corona | University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Our third panelist draws on feminist works like El silencio que la voz de todas quiebra (Candia et al., 1999), Ellas tienen nombre (Ramirez), and the Esther Chávez Cano Collection. Corona curates a database documenting gender-based violence against Latina women in U.S. border cities like El Paso and San Antonio during the early 20th century. Using historical Spanish-language newspapers, she analyzes representations of feminicide and violence, employing a feminist transborder digital humanities methodology to challenge the erasure of these crimes from dominant narratives. Involvement with the Digital Humanities Student Organization has introduced new skills to expand this archival work.

Unveiling Heritage: Mapping Migration and Identity Through Digital and Archival Practices
Elisa Castro | University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Our fourth panelist focuses on cultural preservation through transnational digital humanities (DH) and archival practices. Involvement with the DHSO has deepened her understanding of using technology to preserve and share local cultural narratives. Rooted in postcolonial DH, she explores migration and identity through her family’s migration from Viesca, Coahuila, Mexico, to San Antonio, Texas. She is creating the Viesca Coahuila Mapping Project, a digital map chronicling migration narrative, from indigenous movements to contemporary diaspora. The project explores motivations like economic opportunities, political upheavals, and cultural exchanges, highlighting the connection between migration and identity formation.

Latine Queerstories: Testimonios Orales de Migración an in class Digital Project
Emily Rodriguez | University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Our fifth panelist will emphasize the importance of digitally archiving and preserving Latine queer transborder experiences, which have historically been silenced, through oral testimonies. The Digital Humanities Student Organization (DHSO) promotes the education and use of digital tools which can be used to challenge dominant narratives and foster a deeper understanding of marginalized experiences. Latine Queerstories: Testimonios Orales de Migracion is an innovative project created by graduate students which addresses the urgent need to create spaces for gender, sexual, and (im)migrant identities that have historically been marginalized and silenced, creating a broader understanding of queer Latine sexual and (im)migrant identities.

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