September 30th, 11 AM EST
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K-SAA's new virtual events series highlights recent digital archives and projects, particularly those that shed light on the lives and works of marginalized peoples in the Romantic era and the long eighteenth century.
In this first event chaired by Professor Michelle Levy (Simon Fraser University), Professors Kirstyn Leuner (Santa Clara University) and Deborah Hollis (University of Colorado Boulder) discuss their work on The Stainforth Library of Women's Writing, http://stainforth.scu.edu. The heart of the project is a searchable, TEI-encoded scholarly digital edition of Francis Stainforth’s 746-page manuscript library catalog. Francis Stainforth (1797-1866) was an Anglican clergyman of London-area parishes, and his book collection is the largest known private library of Anglophone women’s writing collected in the nineteenth century. The authors, editors, and translators in the library include poor and working-class women; those with disabilities; writers of a variety of religions including Jews and Quakers; African American women; children as young as eleven or twelve years old; survivors of assault; incarcerated women; and queer writers.
During a brief presentation followed by a Q & A, the speakers will discuss how the Stainforth project can serve as a digital compass for women's writing in the archives.
Registration is required for this event.
Outlined below are our community standards for virtual events. Please read them carefully.
We welcome and honor people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientations, abilities, religions, national origins, and socio-economic classes or backgrounds. Hate speech will not be tolerated and will result in being removed from virtual events.
The language used in virtual events will include and recognize the people impacted by forms of injustice and oppression. Drawing from anti-racist practices, we have adopted the following standards for communication and engagement in this virtual space:
Terms for Speaking about Race and Slavery:
Use the term BIPOC to refer to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
Use the term “Indigenous peoples.” Refer to the specific tribe, nation, or people when possible. Acknowledge the genocide and displacement of Indigenous peoples from their lands. Acknowledge and honor their continuing presence as past, present, and future caretakers and knowledge keepers of those lands.
Use the terms “enslaved” or “enslaved person/mother/child” and “enslaver” over “slave,” “master,” and other terms that fail to capture the brutality of chattel slavery and the resistance and survival of individuals and communities.
Name the abduction and forced migration of enslaved people, avoiding euphemisms.
Name enslaved people whenever possible.
Name sexual violence, rape, and assault, rather than using euphemisms.
Use the terms, “marginalized people,” “minoritized people,” or “the global majority” rather than “minorities” or “other races”. By moving beyond eurocentric perspectives, we may better draw attention to the networks of thoughts which underline nineteenth-century scholarship.
Use “US” or “United States” to refer to the US. “America” or “the Americas” is used to refer to the larger region including Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean.
Use “Global North/ Global South” rather than “developing/developed” or “first/third world”
Terms for Speaking about Other Forms of Marginalization
Use the terms “incarcerated people” or “people who have had contact with law enforcement,” rather than “criminals”
Refer to people with any form of disability, visible or invisible, as “disabled people” or “people with disabilities.” Name ableism and discrimination against the disabled.
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