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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Three years. Three cities. One question that keeps getting more urgent: who owns Black data — and who gets to decide? WOBD III lands in New Orleans this May 20–22, hosted by the Amistad Research Center on its 60th anniversary. The public evening is May 21, it’s free, and everyone is welcome.

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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-...

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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...

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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🎊

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Join us on May 14th to hear from a lineup of dynamic presenters on critical questions on Black Kinship and AI!

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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...

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

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:

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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...

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

What: 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐬 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚? A̶r̶c̶h̶i̶v̶a̶l̶ ̵R̶e̶p̶a̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ ̵The Past in Danger When: May 14, 2025 Where: Yale University

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

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!

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

“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.

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“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)

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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❗️

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The Translation Lab is Afua Quarshie (JHU), Chenise Calhoun (Tulane), and Awa Daigne-Lo (Independent Scholar/Translator). 🌸

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

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 💐

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

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

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Mark your calendars! It’s here: the Spring 2025 LifexCode Research Celebration on April 22!!!🌻✨

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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! 🌻✨

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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.

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The chosen chapter, Fourteen, addresses the intergenerational disconnections caused by colonial and Western knowledge, education, and perspectives among women of the same family.

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The Translation Lab sustains textual solidarities and radical witnessing. We are translating passages from Ama Ata Aidoo’s “Changes: A Love Story.”

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

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.

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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.

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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...

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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-...

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

WHEN: March 13, 2025 WHERE: JHU & ONLINE Prof. Adderley is part of the Community Team for Keywords for Black Louisiana🌻 Register here: jhu.libcal.com/event/14030045

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Missed the Slavery in Motion event featuring Remains // an archive, artists Julia Mallory, Romaine McNeil, Sha-Shonna Rogers, and Tatiana Esh, and Professor Jessica Johnson @jmjafrx.bsky.social ? You can read a recap now on our Substack: lifexcode.substack.com/p/recap-slav...

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Led by Chenise Calhoun, Cyntoya McCall, and Kaillee Coleman. This event is open to the public. Non-Tulane affiliates should bring a school ID or government-issued ID to enter H-TML.

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The workshop will provide historical context, explore the keywords employed in the project, and dive into a few stories, combining digital humanities with history and narration to foster clarity and excitement around discovering and discussing Black life and love in early Louisiana.

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Upcoming event! Explore and engage with Keywords for Black Louisiana, a digital project which uses the scholarship of Black feminist scholars, historians, and public intellectuals to center Black and Indigenous life in French and Spanish colonial archives dating from 1714 to 1803.

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Happening in ONE hour on Zoom: Data Stewardship and Black DH: Researching and Building K4BL! Register here: dataservices.library.jhu.edu/love-data-we...

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

We've been celebrating JH Love Data Week over on our Instagram! Learn why some of the members of Keywords for Black Louisiana love data, and tune in to their panel "Data Stewardship and Black DH: Researching and Building K4BL" TOMORROW, Feb 13 @ 10 AM ET! dataservices.library.jhu.edu/love-data-we...

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

“Should a Black woman’s dreams for New Orleans youth be sacrificed to pay debts owed by the Archdiocese of New Orleans related to the decades-long sex abuse scandal?”

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Join Black World Seminar on February 11th, 12 - 2:00 pm, to celebrate the publication of Computational Humanities (2024), the first volume to intervene in debates on computation in the digital humanities.

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

LifexCode members Dr. Nadejda Webb, Zaria Sawdijah El-Fil, Ellie Palazzolo, Akosa Obianwu, and Olivia Barnard will be presenting at JH Love Data Week, February 10-14!

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Dr. Emily McGinn, DH Specialist at the Sheridan Libraries and one of LifexCode’s digital mentors, will be presenting on “Snack-Sized Digital Pedagogy” with the University of Virginia Library @uvalibrary on February 21! This event is virtual, FREE, and open to the public!

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Save the 📅 ❗️ What: Roundtable Discussion | AI, Data & Ownership ✨ When: Feb. 20th. 2025 Who: Dr. Kim Gallon, Associate Professor, Brown Uni Dr. Alex Gil, Associate Research Faculty, Yale Uni

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

On January 17, Dr. Brooke Mai (LifexCode Project Manager) presented a paper entitled “‘Endangering the Life of the Mother: Social Implications of Medical Theories of Abortion in the 1830s” at the Huntington Library in Los Angeles, CA.

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The members of After the Storm, a seed lab of the Diaspora Solidarities Lab, part of the LifexCode ecosystem, & collective of Black and Latinx feminists, scholars, organizers, and teachers of the Greater Caribbean, published a blog post for Black Women Radicals this week!

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

On Jan 16 from 6:30-9 PM EST, join Remains // an archive at the Baltimore Museum of Art for a conversation on Slavery in Motion, a multimedia art collection interpreting the life of Molia, an African woman and mother who was enslaved in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica in the 18th century.

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Guess what? Who Owns Black Data is COMING BACK!!!! WOBDII: May 15, 2025, hosted by Yale University. Learn more: wobd.blackbeyonddata.org Sponsored by Black Beyond Data Ecosystem, a Mellon-funded Black studies computational humanities and social sciences lab.

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Keywords for Black Louisiana Receives 2025 NHPRC Publishing Historical Records Grant !! Cheers to another year bringing enslaved and free Black voices out of the archive and into the hands of descendants. Read more at LifexCode.substack.com ‼️

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Fall 2024 Lab Notes from the Directors of LxC are live. Check out lifexcode.substack.com. Be safe this winter break.

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

On January 16, 2025, from 6:30-9 PM EST, join the Remains // an Archive team at the Baltimore Museum of Art for a conversation on Slavery in Motion, a multimedia art collection interpreting the life of Molia.

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