LifexCode
@lifexcode.bsky.social
A grammar of refusal and a language of freedom for the (digital) humanities. 2024-2025 Keyword: SURFACING (Campt, "Loophole of Retreat-An Invitation" 2019)
Find our latest Spotlight Interview with Awa Diagne Lô on our Substack! The polyglot co-founder of the Translation Lab in the DSL encourages us to "be aware of the responsibility to speak, or to stay silent, and how powerful that choice is."
Full interview: lifexcode.substack.com/p/dive-into-...
Full interview: lifexcode.substack.com/p/dive-into-...
May 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Find our latest Spotlight Interview with Awa Diagne Lô on our Substack! The polyglot co-founder of the Translation Lab in the DSL encourages us to "be aware of the responsibility to speak, or to stay silent, and how powerful that choice is."
Full interview: lifexcode.substack.com/p/dive-into-...
Full interview: lifexcode.substack.com/p/dive-into-...
A new Substack post from Zaria Sawdijah El-Fil reflects on how powerful mentorship and recognizing the breadth of labor is in creating community-based digital humanities projects.
lifexcode.substack.com/p/the-many-h...
lifexcode.substack.com/p/the-many-h...
May 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A new Substack post from Zaria Sawdijah El-Fil reflects on how powerful mentorship and recognizing the breadth of labor is in creating community-based digital humanities projects.
lifexcode.substack.com/p/the-many-h...
lifexcode.substack.com/p/the-many-h...
Join us on May 14th to hear from a lineup of dynamic presenters on critical questions on Black Kinship and AI!
May 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Join us on May 14th to hear from a lineup of dynamic presenters on critical questions on Black Kinship and AI!
Dive into the Ecosystem and meet Zaria Sawdijah El-Fil! K4BL’s Digital Curation Fellow tells us about scholarly confidence, her connections to the American Southwest, and why she starts all of her conference presentations with Langston Hughes. open.substack.com/pub/lifexcod...
May 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Dive into the Ecosystem and meet Zaria Sawdijah El-Fil! K4BL’s Digital Curation Fellow tells us about scholarly confidence, her connections to the American Southwest, and why she starts all of her conference presentations with Langston Hughes. open.substack.com/pub/lifexcod...
Join us at the Who Owns Black Data? Conference on May 14th to hear from a lineup of dynamic experts on Black ancestry, memorialization, and descendant engagement! 🖤
Register here: wobd.blackbeyonddata.org
Register here: wobd.blackbeyonddata.org
May 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Join us at the Who Owns Black Data? Conference on May 14th to hear from a lineup of dynamic experts on Black ancestry, memorialization, and descendant engagement! 🖤
Register here: wobd.blackbeyonddata.org
Register here: wobd.blackbeyonddata.org
The WOBD conference is so excited to welcome an amazing roster of speakers for three panels + a keynote dialogue. Check out this list of powerhouse thinkers and doers shaping the conversation on Black data:
May 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The WOBD conference is so excited to welcome an amazing roster of speakers for three panels + a keynote dialogue. Check out this list of powerhouse thinkers and doers shaping the conversation on Black data:
Join us on May 14th at Who Owns Black Vol. 2: The Past in Danger for a dynamic keynote conversation featuring Tamara Lanier, Yeshimabeit Milner, Alondra Nelson, and Marisa Parham, with an introduction by Kim Gallon.
Register here❗️ www.eventbrite.com/e/wobd2-rece...
Register here❗️ www.eventbrite.com/e/wobd2-rece...
May 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Join us on May 14th at Who Owns Black Vol. 2: The Past in Danger for a dynamic keynote conversation featuring Tamara Lanier, Yeshimabeit Milner, Alondra Nelson, and Marisa Parham, with an introduction by Kim Gallon.
Register here❗️ www.eventbrite.com/e/wobd2-rece...
Register here❗️ www.eventbrite.com/e/wobd2-rece...
What: 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐬 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚? A̶r̶c̶h̶i̶v̶a̶l̶ ̵R̶e̶p̶a̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ ̵The Past in Danger
When: May 14, 2025
Where: Yale University
When: May 14, 2025
Where: Yale University
April 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
What: 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐬 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚? A̶r̶c̶h̶i̶v̶a̶l̶ ̵R̶e̶p̶a̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ ̵The Past in Danger
When: May 14, 2025
Where: Yale University
When: May 14, 2025
Where: Yale University
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Everything that's going on won't stop me from being immensely proud to announce the launch of the 8th issue of archipelagos journal. In this special issue we highlight papiamentu and the ABD islands. With deep gratitude for our guest editor Margo Groenewoud. Enjoy! archipelagosjournal.org
archipelagos
A journal of Caribbean digital praxis
archipelagosjournal.org
April 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Everything that's going on won't stop me from being immensely proud to announce the launch of the 8th issue of archipelagos journal. In this special issue we highlight papiamentu and the ABD islands. With deep gratitude for our guest editor Margo Groenewoud. Enjoy! archipelagosjournal.org
This spring, Keywords for Black Louisiana hosted an incubator on African and African diaspora history. Thank you to our Scholar Specialists who joined us to think deeply over the course of a Saturday about nation, ethnicity, Blackness and gender!
April 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This spring, Keywords for Black Louisiana hosted an incubator on African and African diaspora history. Thank you to our Scholar Specialists who joined us to think deeply over the course of a Saturday about nation, ethnicity, Blackness and gender!
“Mannie Fresh, aka Elvis Freshley.”
Love rap and hip hop? Check out the NOLA Hip Hop and Bounce Archive, housed by Black Beyond Data partner organization @amistadresearch.bsky.social + the Tulane University Digital Library.
Love rap and hip hop? Check out the NOLA Hip Hop and Bounce Archive, housed by Black Beyond Data partner organization @amistadresearch.bsky.social + the Tulane University Digital Library.
April 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“Mannie Fresh, aka Elvis Freshley.”
Love rap and hip hop? Check out the NOLA Hip Hop and Bounce Archive, housed by Black Beyond Data partner organization @amistadresearch.bsky.social + the Tulane University Digital Library.
Love rap and hip hop? Check out the NOLA Hip Hop and Bounce Archive, housed by Black Beyond Data partner organization @amistadresearch.bsky.social + the Tulane University Digital Library.
“I challenge myself to go to the archive and not presume anything. I don’t presume that Blackness is ‘X.’ What are people of African descent telling me about what it means to be African?” - Jessica Marie Johnson (Associate Professor, History, Johns Hopkins Univ. + Executive Director of LifexCode)
April 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
“I challenge myself to go to the archive and not presume anything. I don’t presume that Blackness is ‘X.’ What are people of African descent telling me about what it means to be African?” - Jessica Marie Johnson (Associate Professor, History, Johns Hopkins Univ. + Executive Director of LifexCode)
Black Beyond Data Predoctoral fellow and 2024-25 Lord Baltimore Fellow Michael Guy will be giving a talk TODAY, titled “Hampton: Resistance and Control on an Antebellum Maryland Plantation.”
Registration Link in our Bio❗️
Registration Link in our Bio❗️
April 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Black Beyond Data Predoctoral fellow and 2024-25 Lord Baltimore Fellow Michael Guy will be giving a talk TODAY, titled “Hampton: Resistance and Control on an Antebellum Maryland Plantation.”
Registration Link in our Bio❗️
Registration Link in our Bio❗️
Mark your calendars! It’s here: the Spring 2025 LifexCode Research Celebration on April 22!!!🌻✨
April 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Mark your calendars! It’s here: the Spring 2025 LifexCode Research Celebration on April 22!!!🌻✨
Congratulations to K4BL members Jamya Davis, Nyla Williams, and Zaria Sawdijah El-Fil for representing the team at the Nineteenth Century Studies Forty-Sixth Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA this past weekend! 🌻✨
April 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Congratulations to K4BL members Jamya Davis, Nyla Williams, and Zaria Sawdijah El-Fil for representing the team at the Nineteenth Century Studies Forty-Sixth Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA this past weekend! 🌻✨
The Translation Lab sustains textual solidarities and radical witnessing. We are translating passages from Ama Ata Aidoo’s “Changes: A Love Story.”
April 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The Translation Lab sustains textual solidarities and radical witnessing. We are translating passages from Ama Ata Aidoo’s “Changes: A Love Story.”
Congratulations to Skylar Jones, K4BL Digital Assistant for Editorial Markup and sophomore at the University of Notre Dame! She and Aislinn Fernandes, also a UND sophomore, presented research on how socioeconomic background affects patient mobility during childbirth.
March 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Congratulations to Skylar Jones, K4BL Digital Assistant for Editorial Markup and sophomore at the University of Notre Dame! She and Aislinn Fernandes, also a UND sophomore, presented research on how socioeconomic background affects patient mobility during childbirth.
The second installment of the Who Owns Black Data? conference series is coming soon! Our initial offering took place at Johns Hopkins and this time around we are at Yale. Please join us!
Mark your 📅🎉: May 13–14, 2025 @ Yale University
Mark your 📅🎉: May 13–14, 2025 @ Yale University
March 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The second installment of the Who Owns Black Data? conference series is coming soon! Our initial offering took place at Johns Hopkins and this time around we are at Yale. Please join us!
Mark your 📅🎉: May 13–14, 2025 @ Yale University
Mark your 📅🎉: May 13–14, 2025 @ Yale University
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As the gov is bent on destroying our heritage and research institutions, our original question becomes even more urgent. Witherto the future of the Black historical record? Join @jmjafrx.bsky.social, @nadejdaishawebb.bsky.social, Sasha White and a powerhouse of talent in May. #wobdyale
March 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
As the gov is bent on destroying our heritage and research institutions, our original question becomes even more urgent. Witherto the future of the Black historical record? Join @jmjafrx.bsky.social, @nadejdaishawebb.bsky.social, Sasha White and a powerhouse of talent in May. #wobdyale
SAVE THE 📅!
Prof. Adderley, Associate Professor of History at Tulane University, will give a talk titled “Aduma’s Colonial Archive: African Social Networks and Early Caribbean Abolition” for the Johns Hopkins Digital Humanities Workshop Series.
Prof. Adderley, Associate Professor of History at Tulane University, will give a talk titled “Aduma’s Colonial Archive: African Social Networks and Early Caribbean Abolition” for the Johns Hopkins Digital Humanities Workshop Series.
March 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
SAVE THE 📅!
Prof. Adderley, Associate Professor of History at Tulane University, will give a talk titled “Aduma’s Colonial Archive: African Social Networks and Early Caribbean Abolition” for the Johns Hopkins Digital Humanities Workshop Series.
Prof. Adderley, Associate Professor of History at Tulane University, will give a talk titled “Aduma’s Colonial Archive: African Social Networks and Early Caribbean Abolition” for the Johns Hopkins Digital Humanities Workshop Series.
Learn more about the artists we celebrated at the Baltimore Museum of Art for their works for Slavery in Motion with remains // an archive with a new in-depth interview on our Substack! lifexcode.substack.com/p/diving-dee...
March 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Learn more about the artists we celebrated at the Baltimore Museum of Art for their works for Slavery in Motion with remains // an archive with a new in-depth interview on our Substack! lifexcode.substack.com/p/diving-dee...
Dive into the ecosystem and meet Cyntoya McCall with a new interview on our Substack! She told us about her passion for educating about the African diaspora in South America, her love for champeta music, and her secret talent as a roller skater!
lifexcode.substack.com/p/dive-into-...
lifexcode.substack.com/p/dive-into-...
February 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Dive into the ecosystem and meet Cyntoya McCall with a new interview on our Substack! She told us about her passion for educating about the African diaspora in South America, her love for champeta music, and her secret talent as a roller skater!
lifexcode.substack.com/p/dive-into-...
lifexcode.substack.com/p/dive-into-...
SAVE THE 📅!
Prof. Adderley, Associate Professor of History at Tulane University, will give a talk titled “Aduma’s Colonial Archive: African Social Networks and Early Caribbean Abolition” for the Johns Hopkins Digital Humanities Workshop Series.
Prof. Adderley, Associate Professor of History at Tulane University, will give a talk titled “Aduma’s Colonial Archive: African Social Networks and Early Caribbean Abolition” for the Johns Hopkins Digital Humanities Workshop Series.
February 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
SAVE THE 📅!
Prof. Adderley, Associate Professor of History at Tulane University, will give a talk titled “Aduma’s Colonial Archive: African Social Networks and Early Caribbean Abolition” for the Johns Hopkins Digital Humanities Workshop Series.
Prof. Adderley, Associate Professor of History at Tulane University, will give a talk titled “Aduma’s Colonial Archive: African Social Networks and Early Caribbean Abolition” for the Johns Hopkins Digital Humanities Workshop Series.