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...
The “Black Kinship and AI” panel features Kim Gallon (Brown University), Christopher Dancy (Penn State University), Nadejda Webb (Johns Hopkins University) and Jonathan Baynes (EINDEVR).
Registration Link in Bio🎊
Registration Link in Bio🎊
May 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The “Black Kinship and AI” panel features Kim Gallon (Brown University), Christopher Dancy (Penn State University), Nadejda Webb (Johns Hopkins University) and Jonathan Baynes (EINDEVR).
Registration Link in Bio🎊
Registration Link in Bio🎊
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
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❗️
The Translation Lab is Afua Quarshie (JHU), Chenise Calhoun (Tulane), and Awa Daigne-Lo (Independent Scholar/Translator). 🌸
April 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The Translation Lab is Afua Quarshie (JHU), Chenise Calhoun (Tulane), and Awa Daigne-Lo (Independent Scholar/Translator). 🌸
The Translation Lab (Diaspora Solidarities Lab, Community Knowledge Lab) also presents “Decolonizing Language in a Digital World: Ethical Questions in Digital Translation,” featuring: Dr. Alex Gil, Dr. Annettte Joseph Gabriel and Dr. Yomaira Figueroa-Vasquez 💐
April 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The Translation Lab (Diaspora Solidarities Lab, Community Knowledge Lab) also presents “Decolonizing Language in a Digital World: Ethical Questions in Digital Translation,” featuring: Dr. Alex Gil, Dr. Annettte Joseph Gabriel and Dr. Yomaira Figueroa-Vasquez 💐
LifexCode and the Black World Seminar celebrate this semester’s research achievements with a special convening on April 22, 2025 featuring leaders in the field of Black + Latinx Digital Humanities. 🍾
Joining us will be Dr. Marisa Parham
Joining us will be Dr. Marisa Parham
April 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
LifexCode and the Black World Seminar celebrate this semester’s research achievements with a special convening on April 22, 2025 featuring leaders in the field of Black + Latinx Digital Humanities. 🍾
Joining us will be Dr. Marisa Parham
Joining us will be Dr. Marisa Parham
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! 🌻✨
In this first part of Chapter Fourteen, we find Ali trying to resolve a quandary while Esi prepares to visit her mother and grandmother. The phrase “sort himself out,” which has no direct equivalent in Twi, Swahili, and Wolof, yielded lively discussions, and intriguing translations.
April 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
In this first part of Chapter Fourteen, we find Ali trying to resolve a quandary while Esi prepares to visit her mother and grandmother. The phrase “sort himself out,” which has no direct equivalent in Twi, Swahili, and Wolof, yielded lively discussions, and intriguing translations.
The chosen chapter, Fourteen, addresses the intergenerational disconnections caused by colonial and Western knowledge, education, and perspectives among women of the same family.
April 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The chosen chapter, Fourteen, addresses the intergenerational disconnections caused by colonial and Western knowledge, education, and perspectives among women of the same family.
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.