Summary:

Welcome to the opener for season 3! In this episode, I welcome Dr. Elizabeth Shaffer, a critical archives scholar and Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Information. Elizabeth joins us to speak about her research on the intersections of Black memory production and technology.

Episode Resources:

Transformative Memory Digital Archive. https://omeka.irshdc.ubc.ca/s/Transformative-Memory/page/welcome 

Christina Sharpe (2016). In the Wake: On Blackness and Being.” Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-wake 

Katherine McKittrick (2021). Dear Science and Other Stories. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/dear-science-and-other-stories 

Tonia Sutherland (2024). Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/resurrecting-the-black-body/paper

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