The Center for Black Digital Research is committed to offering students ways they can be academically engaged with the Center. These events are open to Penn State students, staff, and faculty and people from other institutions.
Weekly Programming and Events
Write-on-Sites • Virtual
Our Virtual Write-on-Sites series provides a dedicated writing space for BIPOC graduate students and postdocs to come together in community and advance their writing. The two-hour sessions are dedicated to quiet individual writing time to advance dissertation, article, or book writing projects.
When: Monday through Friday, 8:00-10:00 a.m. EST. To join, please email digblk@psu.edu for the Zoom link.
Community and Scholarly Events
The Making of a Social Movement: The Oratorical and Rhetorical Legacies of the Colored Convention Movement
Hybrid Symposium • Oct. 18-19, 2022 • bit.ly/ccsymposium2022
Featured speakers: Leslie Alexander, Anthea Butler, Marlena Daut, and Kirk Wilson
Convener: Andre E. Johnson, CBDR/Just Transformation Mellon Visiting Fellow, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies at University of Memphis
Mural Dedication: The Colored Conventions Movement and Beyond in Philadelphia
The Colored Conventions Project and Mural Arts Philadelphia are excited to announce the dedication of “The Colored Conventions Movement and Beyond in Philadelphia” by artist Ernel Martinez. Senior Colored Conventions Project student leaders Brandi Locke and Denise Burgher stewarded this relationship from inception through completion with Director Gabrielle Foreman advising in collaboration with Mural Arts executive director Jane Golden and project manager Phil Asbury. This project is sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and the Penn State Center at Philadelphia.
DATE & TIME: Friday, October 28, 2022, 4-6pm
LOCATION: The Michael’s Org Courtyard Apts., 1021 S. 4th Street St. Philadelphia
“Papers Worthy of Patronage”: Black Feminist Research Methods and the Digital Humanities
Dr. Kristin Moriah will discuss her work on the first-ever edited collection on pioneering thinker Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893) that centers innovative scholarly work from a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives. Plus a sneak peak overview of the classroom-friendly exhibit “Becoming Mary Ann Shadd Cary: A Life in the Pursuit of Justice” by Kelli Barnes and Dr. Arline Wilson.
DATE & TIME: Thursday, October 28, 2022, 6–7:30pm
LOCATION: Delaware History Museum, 504 N. Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801 • dehistory.org
RSVP: http://weblink.donorperfect.com/PapersWorthyofPatronage
Past Events and Programming
Community and Scholarly Events
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Weekly Programming
Spring 2022
Participants will examine the African American public address tradition by focusing on the oratory of the Colored Convention Movement. The goal of the reading group is to introduce participants to the Conventions and to the speeches and the rhetorical artistry and dynamism that made up Black nineteenth-century America. Participants will do this not only by studying the orators and oratory of the conventions, but participants will also examine the conventions themselves to unpack how delegates constructed and refuted arguments, how they debated with each other, and how they went about establishing the Black rhetorical tradition.
*This reading group will focus on addresses from the National Conventions.
Facilitator: Andre E. Johnson, Ph.D.
When: Mondays • 6 weekly sessions
The DigBlk Reading Group series invites African Americanists to engage in critical dialogue about their work in relation to the Black digital humanities. The reading group will equip scholars with a conceptual toolkit to fortify their scholarly, pedagogical, and social justice commitments.
For the Critical Foundations series, we draw selected readings that center on Black experience and probe the ethical, empirical, and epistemological considerations of working at the crossroads of digital studies and African American history and culture.
Facilatator: Dr. Kevin Winstead
When: Mondays • 3 monthly sessiosn
Our Virtual Write-on-Sites series provides a dedicated writing space for BIPOC graduate students and postdocs to come together in community and advance their writing. The two-hour sessions are dedicated to quiet individual writing time to advance dissertation, article, or book writing projects.
When: Monday through Friday, 7:00-9:00 a.m. EST
Fall 2021
The DigBlk Reading Group series invites African Americanists to engage in critical dialogue about their work in relation to the Black digital humanities. The reading group will equip scholars with a conceptual toolkit to fortify their scholarly, pedagogical, and social justice commitments.
For the Critical Foundations series, we draw selected readings that center on Black experience and probe the ethical, empirical, and epistemological considerations of working at the crossroads of digital studies and African American history and culture.
Facilitator: Dr. Kevin Winstead
When: Wednesday • 6 bi-weekly sessions
Our Virtual Write-on-Sites series provides a dedicated writing space for BIPOC graduate students and postdocs to come together in community and advance their writing. The two-hour sessions are dedicated to quiet individual writing time to advance dissertation, article, or book writing projects.
When: Monday through Friday, 7:00-9:00 a.m. EST
A monthly reading group for CBDR team members.
Spring 2021
Our Virtual Write-on-Sites series provides a dedicated writing space for BIPOC graduate students and postdocs to come together in community and advance their writing. The two-hour sessions are dedicated to quiet individual writing time to advance dissertation, article, or book writing projects.
When: Monday through Friday, 7:00-9:00 a.m. EST
Meditation in Motion is to use holistic and mindfulness methods to provide a PEACEful dance experience that will nurture persons of all ages.
When: Thursdays, 7:30-8:15pm
Fall 2020
Our Virtual Write-on-Sites series provides a dedicated writing space for BIPOC graduate students and postdocs to come together in community and advance their writing. The two-hour sessions are dedicated to quiet individual writing time to advance dissertation, article, or book writing projects.
When: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 7-9am • Fridays, 7:30-9:30am
Workshop to help up your hips, knees, shoulders, and back while strengthening your core.
When: Tuesdays, 7:15-7:50am