Decolonizing Representations: Past, Present & Future
How can faculty, students, and community members engage in digital knowledge production as critical users and as meaningful producers? “Decolonizing Representations” is a series of FREE workshops designed for those folks who want to learn to do both, using digital tools to examine and re-imagine representations of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, & LGBTQ+ groups and people with disabilities at UF.
The workshops are free but space is limited. Register using the links below. Registration to both workshops is not required.
Learn more at DecolonizingRepresentations.com (opens in new tab)
Questions? Contact Dr. Amanda Concha-Holmes, at amanda.d.concha.holmes@gmail.com (opens in new tab)
October 25, 2019 – “Tracing Past Legacies”
Smathers Library 100, 8:30 AM – 5 PM
Workshop #1 focuses on the linkages between technology and history through the development of a mobile campus tour. Participants will work collaboratively to curate and create content about campus spaces relating to historically-excluded and underrepresented peoples, to address how the present-day campus landscape reflects these histories.
Register online here (opens in new tab).
February 7, 2020 – “Designing the Future”
Smathers Library 100, 8:30 AM – 5 PM
Workshop #2 will explore linkages between technology and storytelling. Participants will contribute their own stories and visions for the future, integrating art & technology to design a next-generation campus..
Register online here (opens in new tab).
“Decolonizing Representations” is sponsored by the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations, Department of English, Digital Worlds Institute, the George A. Smathers Libraries, UF Office of Diversity, UF Office of the Provost, the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, and Imagining Climate Change. Funded in part by the UF Creative Catalyst Initiative.