The College of Arts and Sciences’ Digital Humanities Program is launching an annual lecture that will bring a new voice and fresh perspective to campus each year.

Roopika Risam, assistant professor of English at Salem State University, will give the inaugural “Uncommon Digital Humanities Critic” invited lecture with her talk, “Lessons from The Digital Black Atlantic: Amplifying Equity and Justice in Public Humanities,” Jan. 31, at 3:30 p.m. in the Bailey Library of Andrews Hall, Room 228. The lecture is free and open to the public.

In her talk, Risam will draw on her experience co-editing “The Digital Black Atlantic” volume for the Debates in the Digital Humanities series to explore the lessons learned from producing a volume on African diaspora in digital form. She’ll discuss how the process of assembling the volume raised critical questions of how to promote equity and justice in digital and public humanities scholarship and touch on topics such as curation, citation and peer review.