Research Panel: Digital and Data-Informed Projects at the Borderlands

October 2, 2025, 4:00-5:00pm, BDHC in Library 201

An interdisciplinary panel of local scholars, writers, and artists including Vicente Delgado (Visual Art), José Flores (Rhetoric), Corinne Bourdeaux (Communication), and Adrián Aragones (Chicano Studies) will share their digital projects rooted in the geographies, politics, and culture of the El Paso – Cuidad Juárez region.

Latinx Museum Professionals: Museums and Digital Humanities at the El Paso Museum of History

January 24, 2025, 9:30-3:30

https://www.utep.edu/rubin/program-outreach/carolina-villaroel.html

Research Talk: "Nosotras No Somos Ayotzinapa: Feminist Transfigurations of Truth and the Contested Curation of State Violence in Digital Mexico"

February 14, 2025, 11:00-12:00, EDUC 112

This talk examines historical truth-making in contemporary Mexico amidst the rise of mass feminism. Through case studies of writer Dahlia de la Cerda, actress Kate del Castillo and journalists Lydia Cacho and Regina Martínez, I conceptualize personal-historical events in their trajectories as poetic moments of political transfiguration. This work builds on dialogues in media aesthetics, literary criticism, and digital humanities, by focusing on the situatedness and embodiment of truth-telling around gender violence. Using a museum metaphor to capture the transmodal flux between urban and digital space, I analyze what I call the contested curation of state violence in digital Mexico.

Research Talk: “Reimagining Pedagogy and Research: Local and Transborder Approaches to Digital Humanities for Social Justice”

February 17, 2025, 11:00-12:00, EDUC 305

Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla (she, her, ella) is a proud transfronteriza from El Paso-Cd. Juárez border region. Her research, teaching and community work leverages theory of the flesh, interdisciplinary transborder studies and digital technologies to analyze, design and develop scholarly and creative digital and public work through ethical and inclusive practices. Fernández collaborates with faculty, students, library professionals, artists and community members leveraging digital technologies and tools with humanities research, pedagogy and knowledge production. She is among the creators and principal coordinators of warmly received public and digital transnational, interdisciplinary and multilingual projects that bring about social justice change in the digital and analog record through consciousness-raising. Currently, she is the PI of the Transborder Digital Humanities Center-Consortium supported by the Mellon Foundation and oversees three community-engaged digital projects, Fuerza Feminista: Intimate Recovery of Memory and Archives and GeoTestimonios Transfronerizos that focus on border women stories through literary texts, oral histories, digital archives and digital maps, and Concientizando Comunidades Colectiva that works with community organizers to engaged in the create of local community, familial and personal digital archives.

Digital Collections Workshop Session 1: Metadata Fundamentals & Standards

March 7, 2025, 12-2pm, LIB 131

Every first Friday, 12-2pm, the BDHC Hosts a hands-on ideation workshop series on planning digital archive collections perfect for faculty and graduate students working on digital collection, thinking of including one in a class, or curious about planning a DH digital archive collection. In this session, learn about key metadata concepts and explore culturally responsive metadata practices that empower community-driven archiving.

Global DH Viewing Party

April 2, 2025, 2:30-5:45, IDRB 2.206

The BDHC hosts a local viewing party of the first day of the Global DH Virtual Conference. The schedule of the day (in EST) is available at https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule/#Wednesday.

Session 2: Project Planning & Workflow Development

April 4, 2025, 12-2pm, location TBA

Every first Friday, 12-2pm, the BDHC Hosts a hands-on ideation workshop series on planning digital archive collections perfect for faculty and graduate students working on digital collection, thinking of including one in a class, or curious about planning a DH digital archive collection. In this session, participate in planning a digital archive that prioritizes community involvement, cultural preservation, and sustainability.

"Predatory Data" An Invited Lecture with Dr. Anita Chan

May 2, 2025, 10-11am, Location TBA

The insidious legacy of eugenics lives on in the algorithmic authoritarianism, and data-driven discrimination of Big Tech. Illuminating the throughline between the 19th century's anti-immigration and eugenics movements and our sprawling systems of techno-surveillance and algorithmic apartheid, this talk explains how it happened and how we can draw from a legacy of commitments to data pluralism to fight back.

Session 3: Ethics, Access, and Sustainability

May 2, 2025, 12-2pm, LIB 131

Every first Friday, 12-2pm, the BDHC Hosts a hands-on ideation workshop series on planning digital archive collections perfect for faculty and graduate students working on digital collection, thinking of including one in a class, or curious about planning a DH digital archive collection. In this session explore ethical challenges in digital archiving and ways to create culturally responsible, accessible, and sustainable archives.

Textual Analysis Workshop

May 29, 9am-3:30pm, location TBA

In collaboration with LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, the BDHC and Library Special Collections will host their traveling exhibition and contribute to the accompanying digital exhibition. We will offer series of workshops on textual analysis techniques.