Working with Data for Social Change symposium set for March 14
The all-day event will bring together local and national scholars engaged in digital public humanities projects to advocate for social change
The project on the ɫƵ campus is sponsoring a one-day symposium March 14.
This all-day event brings together local and national scholars engaged in digital public humanities projects to advocate for social change and who have worked to strengthen ethical data humanities education in higher education, saidLaurie Gries, associate professor of English and director of the Program for Writing and Rhetoric, who is spearheading the symposium.
What: Working with Data for Social Change symposium
When: March 14
Where: In-person at CASEKOBL 140 and online;
All faculty, staff and students who want to learn more about the data humanities are invited.
The symposium aims not only to demonstrate and underscore the value of data advocacy research for the humanities at large, but also to generate collective ideas as to how to data advocacy education can be enhanced across the disciplines in higher education, according to Gries.
She said she believes the symposium will be of interest to faculty, staff and students who want to learn more about the data humanities and, more particularly, about data advocacy as a focus of research and/or pedagogy.Those interested in attending in-person or via Zoom can
The symposium will feature scholars and activists from around the country, including Melissa Borja, Nasreen Abd Elal and Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla, who have advocated with data for social change on projects including the, and, respectively. Additionally, Gries will talk about her data-driven project, the, which was recently profiled inColorado Arts and Sciences Magazine.
Gries said the symposium also will feature scholars who have worked intently to build data humanities education within and beyond the ɫƵ campus. For instance, in addition to featured speaker Melanie Walsh discussing theproject, David Glimp, Nathan Pieplow and other ɫƵ and CU Denver professors will speak about their efforts to train students how to engage data through critical, humanistic frameworks and how to use data effectively to address matters of significance to them and their communities.
Speaking of Gries’ efforts to spearhead the symposium, Glimp said, “Laurie has assembled a terrific team of collaborators to develop her vision of not only cultivating data literacy among our students but also equipping students with the tools to argue with data.By ‘arguing with data,’ I mean both being able to identify and assess all the ways data-backed arguments can mislead or go wrong, and being able to craft effective, responsible arguments with data about matters of the greatest urgency for our world.”
The Data Advocacy for All project was the recipient of a $300,000CU Next Award in May 2022.
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