Always Coming Home: Relations of Repair in the Digital Humanities

Monday, October 3rd, 2022, 4:00PM-5:30PM

MSU Libraries, Green Room, 4th Floor West

Digital Humanities, like many scholarly pursuits, relies on the territorial, cultural, and intellectual property of Indigenous peoples, communities, and nations to build projects, create products, and publish materials. The physical spaces we inhabit at universities and the collections, data, archives, and texts that produce the fodder for DH projects all have colonial roots and ongoing settler colonial logics embedded within them. In this talk, I propose a reparative theoretical framework based in Indigenous relations to kin, territories, material belongings and systems of knowledge to unsettle standard academic practices of authorship, attribution, and accountability. At the same time, I emphasize a process of technological and territorial engagement that foregrounds long-term, sustainable, relationships that center Indigenous knowledge systems and practices.

Please join the DH@MSU Community in attending the 2022 DH Distinguished Lecture. We are delighted to hear from Dr. Kimberly Christen as she speaks about her work! The 2022 DH Distinguished Lecture will be in the MSU Libraries, Green Room, 4th Floor West, October 3rd, 4:00PM-5:30PM, join us!

Please note that this presentation will not be live streamed or recorded, so the only way to see Dr. Christen’s presentation is to join us in the Green Room.

Digital Humanities is arranging a lunch for graduate students to meet with Dr. Christen on Tuesday, October 4th, 12PM-1PM in Linton Hall 120. Graduate Students from any discipline are welcome to join. Please RSVP by 12PM Monday 10/3/22 so we know how much Potbelly to order.