"The Virality of Racial Terror" project Digital Humanities Brown-Bag Roundtable
"The Virality of Racial Terror in U.S. Newspapers, 1863-1921" (VRT) is a Mellon-sponsored research project including researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Northeastern Univ., & Washington Univ. VRT uses digital
humanities methods to trace the circulation of reports about anti-Black violence in US newspapers in the late 19th & early 20th centuries. In this roundtable, project researchers will share work in progress with the Illinois research community.
Anyone can attend!
Program:
- Ryan Cordell (Illinois English & iSchool): Welcome & Introductory Remarks
- Avery Blankenship (Texas A&M English): Outraged: Euphemism in Nineteenth-Century Racial Terror Reporting
- David Smith & Shija Liu (Northeastern CS): Contrastive Training for Event Clustering
- Matthew Kollmer & Amanda Riggenbach (Illinois iSchool): Conscientious Engagement: The Dataset of U.S. Lynching Reports (DUSLR) as Context for Research into Racial Violence
- Geoff Ward & David Cunningham (Wash U. African-American Studies & Sociology): N-Word Circulation & Routine Racist Socialization in US Newspapers
- Ward & Cunningham: Racist Reporting & Political Behavior, 1880-1928
Questions? Contact Ryan Cordell.
This event is sponsored by Digital Cultures Lab