Stacie Williams, Director, Center for Digital Scholarship, University of Chicago Library
November 30, 2018
12:00-2:00pm
JRL 122
Digital humanities work presents us with two complications: the ephemerality of digital projects and how we consider access, in which most projects may only be viewed by people with access to not just computers but strong broadband infrastructure. Williams will discuss the concept of minimal computing and how can we use it to think critically and strategically about access to and long-term stewardship and preservation of digital humanities projects.
Williams formerly managed the digital scholarship program at Case Western Reserve University’s Kelvin Smith Library. She is an advisory archivist for A People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland and has worked at Harvard University, the University of Kentucky and the Lexington (Ky.) Public Library. She also has more than a decade of experience as a journalist, writing and editing for progressive and alternative media outlets. Her work has appeared in LitHub, New York Magazine, Catapult, Gordon Square Review and The Rumpus. Her first book, Bizarro Worlds, a bibliomemoir about gentrification and race, is forthcoming in late fall 2018 as part of Fiction Advocate’s AFTERWORDS series.
If you need any additional accommodations to participate in the Forum, please contact Carmen Caswell (caswellc@uchicago.edu).