THE RESEARCHATHON
December 5, 10am-5pm, Studio@Butler, Butler Library 208
Led by digital humanist and Caribbeanist scholar Alex Gil, this collaborative research event is meant to yield a tangible reflection of our commitment to carry Césaire studies into the next generations. On December 5, over the course of one day, we will compile the largest online bibliography of primary and secondary sources related to Césaire, expanding significantly on the two existing large bibliographic projects. Open to students, scholars, librarians, and technologists, the researchathon will train and organize task-based teams (data entry, web and catalog research, programming, etc) and go live at the end of the day.
To learn more visit our researchathon page.
THE FORUM
December 6, 10am-5pm, Maison Française, Buell Hall, Columbia University
Co-organized by Kaiama L. Glover, Alex Gil, Brent Hayes Edwards, and David Scott, “The Work of Man Has Only Just Begun”: Legacies of Aimé Césaire is a centenary celebration of Césaire’s life and work. This one-day public forum will be the culmination of an online discussion around four topics, curated by four pairs of scholars: Anne Eller and Millery Polyné reflect on Césaire’s views on the revolutionary potential of Nature and the body; Gary Wilder and Yarimar Bonilla reflect on freedom and sovereignty – in the Caribbean and beyond – through a Césairean lens; Carrie Noland and Christopher Winks debate Césaire’s transatlantic engagement with poverty; and Brent Hayes Edwards and Erica Hunt wax Césairean poetics.
With your participation, we intend to think Césaire collaboratively and within a digital humanities framework. To this end, we invite – we encourage – you to join actively in this conversation. Spend time here in this online discussion. Engage with the questions and reflections posted on each of these blog pages by leaving your own responses – as lengthy or as concise as you’d like. Over the next weeks, our eight curator-scholars will be keeping a close eye on the conversations that unfold here, and the ideas you generate will be taken up on December 6 by those in attendance at our live event. In experimenting with academic form in this manner, we hope to enact the practice of radical questioning that marked Césaire’s engagement with the world. You can see the full schedule here.
This event is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by the Center for Digital Humanities Research, the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, the Digital Humanities Center, the Institute for African Studies, the Institute for Comparative Literature Studies, the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, and the La Maison Francaise at Columbia University