Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series: Data That Divides Us
As part of a Mellon Sawyer Grant CESTA received, our Digital Humanities Hub is hosting a dynamic Seminar Series on "Data That Divides Us" for the 2024 academic year with leading practitioners in the field. We hope you will join us!
Currently, our events are primarily in a hybrid format, with some entirely online.
Recordings of some of our past seminars are available on CESTA's Youtube Channel.
Past Events
A day of papers and conversations to finalize the year-long Mellon-funded seminar series, "Data That Divides Us".
May 31st, Friday
Previous seminars in our series have attended to divisions, but also possibilities, engendered by data along various fault lines and contexts (from 19th-century statistical thinking to biases in…
Previous seminars in our series have attended to divisions, but also possibilities, engendered by data along various fault lines and contexts (from 19th-century statistical thinking to biases in…
Previous seminars in our series have attended to divisions, but also possibilities, engendered by data along various fault lines and contexts (from 19th-century statistical thinking to biases in…
Historically, catastrophes and disaster occasioned early efforts at social data collection.
Previous seminars in our series have attended to divisions, but also possibilities, engendered by data along various fault lines and contexts (from 19th-century statistical thinking to biases in…
From the differentiation of gendered labor (and of gender itself), to the biological arguments for race-based thinking, to the codification of measures and mapping for land ownership and…
Paper archives have long been foundational sources of data for humanities scholars–be these materials organized as logs and records or correspondences and various other writings, institutionally…
Although data is something that we now associate with the revolutions in information technology in the 20th century, the rise of data-driven quantification dates back substantially earlier.
Setting the stage for our future Mellon Sawyer Seminar discussions, The Place of Data will explore the various axes along which data has engendered the divisions that shape our current world.