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

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May 09, 2023 from 06:00 to 08:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)

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GCSC (MFR) & Online (BBB)

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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. Speakers of ETRG Migration & Decoloniality and RA5, Fiona Quast and Isabella Kalte, will offer a joined session in preparation for the KNL and read and discuss selected texts by Eduard Arriaga. Everyone who is interested is very much welcome to attend! 

// 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.

Moderation: Dr. Danae Gallo González

Speakers of ETRG Migration & Decoloniality and RA5, Fiona Quast and Isabella Kalte, will offer a joined session on April 19, 2-4pm (SR 109) in preparation for the KNL and read and discuss selected texts by Eduard Arriaga. Everyone who is interested is very much welcome to attend! 

To join the Keynote Lecture online, please refer to the GGK/GCSC KNL Announcement (sent per e-mail to the newsletter subscribers) or contact Dr. Jens Kugele. (The meeting is accessible shortly before 18:00.)

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