PMA/LSP Associate Professor Karen Jaime will give a talk called "Digital Poetics: HIDVL and Queer Nuyorican Performance" at Cornell’s Digital Humanities Colloquium Series. The talk will be on October 24, from 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, in Olin 703 (lunch will be served).
The Digital Humanities Colloquium Series features informal talks and conversations with Cornell faculty and graduate students working in the digital humanities.
“My talk will center on my work with the Hemispheric Institute's Digital Video Library (HIDVL) at NYU,” said Jaime. “Specifically, I will discuss the relationship between my first book, The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida (NYU Press, 2021) and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Founders Archive that I helped to establish as an archival digital collection at the Hemispheric Institute. I will also discuss the poetry collection honoring the work of Nuyorican Poets Cafe co-founder Miguel Algarín, Memories de Miguel: The Hard Work of Love, that I co-edited. This poetry collection exists as both a digital publication—people can visit the site and both read and hear all of the creative works— and as a physical book.”
