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Eduard Arriaga (Clark University) am 9. Mai 2023 mit Workshop und Vortrag am GCSC

 

Master Class | Prof. Eduard Arriaga (Clark University): "Afro-Latinx Digital Storytelling. A Twine Journey to Narrative Decolonization"

 

Dr. Eduard Arriaga will facilitate a practical workshop on digital storytelling as both a creative and critical thinking practice to question traditional narratives (representations of time, space, and body materiality) on and about Afro-Latinx cultures. Participants will have the opportunity to explore Twine, an open-source tool to create digital games and narratives pieces. Likewise, the workshop will be a hands-on space to both discuss some narratives around Afro-Latinxs and create digital games/storytelling pieces in response to those narratives. No previous knowledge is required, although experience working with HTML or JSON will be a plus. 
The workshop is part of the Weaving Knowledge Event Series which is co-organized by the ETRG Migration & Decoloniality, RA9, and RA5.
 

When?: May 09, 2023 from 10 am to 2 pm

Where?: GCSC (SR 109)

Contact: fiona.quast@gcsc.uni-giessen.de

 

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GCSC KNL | Prof. Dr. Arriaga: "Afro-Brazilian Community Data Networks: Technological Hybridity, Data Decolonization and Human Reaffirmation"

 

In this talk, Dr. Eduard Arriaga (Clark University) will present an overview of his research on Afrolatinx digital culture in the Americas, emphasizing how Afro-Brazilian groups and organizations are creating networks of hybrid technologies in search of data and technological decolonization. Dr. Arriaga will show how the studied groups adapt and adopt diverse media, digital tools, and platforms from an Afro-Brazilian Black feminism perspective to challenge data and technological determinism. Likewise, he will discuss the way these groups get connected to local, regional, and global nodes to develop critical pedagogies of the digital from the South. The talk will conclude discussing how Afro-Brazilian Community data networks become an example of hybrid Black communal digital practices that require complex approaches that go beyond the boundaries of fields such as the digital humanities.   

The Keynote Lecture is part of the Weaving Knowledge Event Series which is co-organized by the ETRG Migration & Decoloniality, RA9, and RA5. Everyone who is interested is very much welcome to attend! 

Moderation: Dr. Danae Gallo González 

 

When?: May 09, 2023 from 6 pm to 8 pm

Where?: GCSC (MFR) & Online (BBB)

Contact: jens.kugele@gcsc.uni-giessen.de

 

 

Prof. Dr. Eduard Arriaga (Clark University) develops interdisciplinary research at the intersection of fields such as critical race studies, Afro-Latinx and Afro-Latin American studies, digital studies, and digital humanities. He is currently writing a book examining the way Afro-Brazilian marginal communities, through hybrid and communal digital practices, challenge “algorithmic determinism” in search of data and social justice. As a scholar and instructor, Arriaga has worked at institutions in Colombia, Canada, and the U.S., including as associate professor and chair of the Global Languages and Cross-Cultural Studies Department at the University of Indianapolis. He has received a number of awards and honors, including the Institutional Leadership Award from the University of Indianapolis. Arriaga earned a master’s in Hispanic American Literature from the Caro y Cuervo Institute in Colombia and a doctorate in Hispanic studies and migration studies from the University of Western Ontario.

 

 

(Anette Feller, 4.05.2023)