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Monday8:30 Introductions, Course Overview
8:45 Discussion: Blum, “The Prospect of Oceanic Studies”
9:15 Discussion: Equiano, The Narrative of the Interesting Life (ch. 1-2) and Emily Kugler’s “Equiano’s English Subscribers List”
10:00 Muffin break
10:15 Discussion: Dillon, “A Sea of Texts”
10:45 Melville, “Benito Cereno” and Coulson, “Distorted Records in ‘Benito Cereno’ and the Slave Rebellion Tradition”
12:00 Lunch break
12:30 Discussion: Warren, “Insurrection at Sea”
1:00 Screening: Middle Passage (film)
2:00 Cookie break
2:15 Discussion: Amistad, Middle Passage (film), and Eckstein, “The Pitfalls of Picturing Atlantic Slavery”
3:30 Very short introduction to digital humanities, Omeka, and Neatline
8:30 Discussion: Gilroy, “The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity”
9:30 Discussion: Drexciya, “Aquarazorda,” “Dehydration,” and critical reading on Drexciya
10:00 Muffin break
10:15 Discussion: Johnson, Middle Passage
11:30 Digital exploration: Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
12:00 Lunch break
12:30 Discussion: Condé, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
2:00 Cookie break
2:15 Introduction to Scalar
2:45 Breakout groups: brainstorm session for I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem digital project
3:15 Project planning session for I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem digital project
8:30 Digital exploration: The Early Caribbean Digital Archive
9:15 Discussion: Blum, “Introduction: Oceanic Studies” and Melville’s Emoji Dick
10:00 Muffin break
10:15 Discussion: Powell, The Pagoda
11:30 Discussion: Yeager, “Editor’s Column”
12:00 Lunch break
12:30 Discussion: Cohen, “Literary Studies on the Terraqueous Globe” and DeLoughrey, “Heavy Waters”
1:00 Digital exploration: Digital Library of the Caribbean
2:00 Cookie break
2:15 Project planning session for I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem digital project
3:15 Collaborative work session for I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem digital project
8:30 Digital exploration: The Dartmouth Vietnam Project
9:00 Discussion: Wilson, “Doing Cultural Studies Inside APEC” and Matsuda, “AHR Forum: The Pacific”
10:00 Muffin break
10:15 Discussion: le thi diem thuy, The Gangster We Are All Looking For
11:30 Digital exploration: First Days Story Project
12:00 Lunch break
12:30 Digital exploration: Digital Southeast Asia
1:30 Project planning session for I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem digital project
2:00 Cookie break
2:15 Collaborative work session for I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem digital project
8:30 Discussion: Hofmeyr, “Universalizing the Indian Ocean”
9:15 Digital exploration: Visualizing Ocean Shipping
10:00 Muffin break
10:15 Discussion: Ghosh, Sea of Poppies
11:30 Digital exploration: Sailors and Daughters
12:00 Lunch break
12:30 Discussion: Crane, “Beyond the Cape”
1: 00 Collaborative work session for I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem digital project
2:00 Cookie break
2:15 Collaborative work session for I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem digital project
4:00 Next steps for independent work on I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem digital project and reflection paper
