Oct 15, 2020
This panel seeks to disrupt historically dominant narratives about
the imperial systems of religion, settler colonialism, slavery, and
the documentation of the populace. Spanning across time and
regions, from colonial era Britain to the nineteenth-century United
States, our panelists give voice to historical actors who disrupted
systems of oppression while simultaneously utilizing digital
quantitative data analysis to complicate the traditional archive
itself. How can we repurpose quantitative data to re-humanize
historically marginalized groups? How do we combat systemic erasure
that quantitative data can produce? What do we make of historical
resistance where there are scant sources available?
Historical Experts:
Laura Brannan - "Mobility in Slavery and Freedom: Mapping Paths of Escape, Enslavement, and Freedom in the U.S., 1830-1850"
Georgia Farrell - "Running From Cultural Genocide: Carlisle Indian Boarding School Runaways and Hidden Resistance, 1890-1900"
Caitlin Gale - "Mapping Itinerancy: George Fox's Journal"
Janine Hubai - "Revelation and Erasure: IPUMS USA Datasets
and New Mexico’s Population 1850-1920"
This panel was moderated by Dan Howlett (/u/dhowlett1692)