These are the slides for my opening remarks for "Representing Race, Silence in the Digital Humanities," a roundtable for the Modern Language Association Annual Meeting in 2013. Meeting: Friday, 10.15am, Sheraton, Gardner. #MLA13 #s239

1. REPRESENTING RACE
SILENCE IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES
WITH
ADELINE KOH (@ADELINEKOH), ANNE CONG-HUYEN (@ANITACONCHITA),
MOYA BAILEY (@MOYAZB, IN ABSENTIA), HUSSEIN KESHANI, MARIA VELAZQUEZ
RESPONDING:
ALONDRA NELSON (@ALONDRA)

2. OUR SISTER PANEL
584. Accessing Race in the Digital Humanities: An E-roundtable
Saturday, 5 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Commonwealth, Sheraton
A special session
Presiding: Roger Whitson, Emory Univ.
Roger Whitson's Annotation: After introducing the panel, I briefly document my own experiences as project manager for "Lynchings in Georgia: 1875-1930" at Emory
University's Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC). How do new forms read more >
Speakers: David Kim, Univ. of California, Los Angeles; Jennifer Sano-Franchini, Michigan State Univ.; Lee Skallerup Bessette, Morehead State Univ.
Responding: Tara McPherson, Univ. of Southern California
For more information, visit www.rogerwhitson.net/accessingrace after 31 Dec.
Session Description:
This roundtable addresses how applications and interfaces encode specific cultural assumptions about race and preclude certain groups of people from
participating in the digital humanities. Participants present specific digital humanities projects that illustrate the impact of race on access to the
programming, cultural, and funding structures in the digital humanities.

3. “ARCHIVAL SILENCE” DEBATE

4. THIS SILENCE EXTENDS TO
CALIBRATION OF DH TOOLS
DH ARCHIVES
VIRTUAL IDENTITIES
PUSHBACK WITHIN COMMUNITIES
HOW DO WE NAVIGATE THIS SILENCE?

5. ANNE CONG-HUYEN
ANNE’S TWITTER ACC: @ANITACONCHITA

6. MOYA BAILEY (MOYABAILEY.COM)

7. HUSSEIN KESHANI
Race and State Patronage of Digital Islamic
Studies in the UK

8. ADELINE KOH

9. MARIA VELAZQUEZ
Blog Like You Love: Anti-Racist Projects, Black
Feminism and the Virtual

10. ALONDRA NELSON
RESPONDENT
TWITTER HANDLE: @ALONDRA
NOTABLE WORKS: AFROFUTURISM--A SPECIAL ISSUE OF
SOCIAL TEXT (2002); TECHNICOLOR: RACE, TECHNOLOGY
AND EVERYDAY LIFE (2001); BODY AND SOUL: THE BLACK
PANTHER PARTY AND THE FIGHT AGAINST MEDICAL
DISCRIMINATION (2011)