A conference at the University of California, Irvine, titled “Liberated Africans and Digital Humanities: African Diaspora Reconsidered,” was held in early October, organized around themes of slavery, freedom, race, and ethnicity. Debates centered around how to represent the written word, given oral histories in both Africa and the Americas, as well as visualization of data using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Throughout the conference, participants reflected on their own research and how that research impacted contemporary local communities shaped by the transnational legacy of the slave trade. Video of many of the conference presentations is available.
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