Discover A History of Gambyong, a digital edition blending text, video, and sound to celebrate Indonesian dance. Now out from Emory ECDS on Manifold! 💃✨ Explore the whole story of multimedia publishing here: scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/ishigur...

💡 Join Our Digital Scholarship Community! Looking for a supportive space to share your work-in-progress projects, article drafts, or digital prototypes? 🌐 Come to our monthly workshop to exchange ideas and get feedback on digital scholarship projects! 👉 Sign up here: forms.gle/G1w61s2PDy2K...

Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.

👏New Blog: ECDS Celebrates Open Access Week! At the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS), we’re celebrating Emory’s long-standing commitment to open, scholar-led publishing. 🔗 Read the full story on our blog: scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/ecds-celebrates-open-access-week

📚 Open Access Week 2025: Who Owns Our Knowledge? At Emory, we continue to champion community-owned, open, and inclusive scholarship, building on our long-standing commitment to Open Access. 🔗 Explore Emory's OA projects, journals, and publications through: scholarblogs.emory.edu/openaccess

We are now accepting submissions for Volume Three of Intarsia: Undergraduate Journal of Queer and Feminist Inquiry. Please encourage your undergraduate students to submit! Intarsia is peer-reviewed, open-access, and student-led. It is sponsored by @emorywgss.bsky.social and @ecds-emory.bsky.social

It’s #openaccess week and I’m very proud that my new book will be published OA on @manifoldscholar.bsky.social thanks to a Mellon grant and the wonderful people at @foxcenteremory.bsky.social and @ecds-emory.bsky.social You can preview here: jimcrowintheasylum.com

🎬 New on Southern Spaces! Explore our interview with Professor Malinda Maynor Lowery on Lumbeeland, a short fiction film about intergenerational Lumbee experiences in North Carolina. Stream it for free at First Nations Experience. 🔗 Link to read the blog: scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/souther...

If anyone needs video content about coastal Georgia (USA) about its intertwined environmental & human histories, check out the Georgia Coast Atlas project by the @ecds-emory.bsky.social. Includes drone footage, in-the-field observations, & interviews. www.georgiacoastatlas.org/collections/...

What would the world look like if all computer scientists knew how to think critically about, with, and through code? Join the AIAI Network hosted event with Dr. Ari Schlesinger (in-person or via Zoom) to find out.

The digital humanities is today overwhelmingly visual. Learn more about the question of how information can be translated between different senses in Dr. Sari Altschuler's talk on "Touch, Access, and the Digital Archive." bit.ly/dph-equity

Find out more about the ECDS project Envisioning Baroque Rome (www.baroquerome.org) through the recent article published as a part of the Digital Heritage 2025 conference (diglib.eg.org/items/8ceb84...).

Proud to announce the 10-year anniversary of the Georgia Coast Atlas (GCA) this month, a project developed at @ecds-emory.bsky.social. The GCA serves as online & open-access public scholarship documenting the environmental & human histories of the Georgia coast. www.georgiacoastatlas.org 🧪🌊🎓

Learn with us! Registration is open for the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship’s Fall 2025 workshops, which start September 3rd! scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/join-us...

Come work with us! Emory Graduate Students - apply by September 9th: tinyurl.com/cfa-dstp2025

Happy #YouthDay! 🌎 We're celebrating the Spanish edition of @emorycollege.bsky.social Prof. Rachel Hall-Clifford's “Underbelly” (via DPH & @ecds-emory.bsky.social) that helps policymakers advance youth health in Guatemala. Learn more at "Health Cultures in Local Context” (10/29): bit.ly/3UXTwUc

What were ECDS team members Dr. Alexander Cors and Dr. Bailey Betik recently doing in Bonn, Germany? 👀 Read our recent Open World Atlanta Scholarblogs to find out 🔗: scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/teachin....

Today is the 161st anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta. This multi-media essay highlights memorable sites, brings you to an interactive map tour, and explores the meaning and legacy of the battle. southernspaces.org/2014/battle-...

July 14th marked the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Anniversary. Would you happen to know where we can find traces of those who served? ECDS has collaborated on a project mapping African American WWI veterans buried at Oakland Cemetery. oaklandcemeteryhistory.org/neatline/sho...

Southern Spaces, the ECDS-published journal for interdisciplinary research on the South, published a wonderful research article by Emory History Department undergraduate scholar Anhhuy Do (C'24) about his family’s journey from Sài Gòn to Nashville. scholarblogs.emory.edu/emoryhistory...

This AAPI Heritage Month, we're excited to show the work of the Georgia Asian American Community Archive Initiative (GAACAI). GAACAI aims to identify, collect, preserve, and promote materials related to the history and experience of Asian Americans in Georgia. Visit the site here: www.gaacai.org.

Welcome to @roselibraryemory.bsky.social and our @emorylibraries.bsky.social, @carlosmuseum.bsky.social , and ECDS group!

Mental health matters!! 🧘🏽 Check out The Whole Health Cure podcast. Each week host Dr. Sharon Bergquist of @emorydeptofmed.bsky.social talks with renowned health experts to explore the science behind living to your fullest physical, emotional, and spiritual potential. @emoryhealthcareatl.bsky.social

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. Islamic scholar Dr. Jamillah Karim highlights the many layers of Asian cultures, focusing on interactions between African American & South Asian Muslims. Check out her Southern Spaces article here: southernspaces.org/2010/negotia....

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we invite you to take a look at Jim Crow in the Asylum: manifold.ecds.emory.edu/projects/jim.... The project, spearheaded by Associate Professor Kylie Smith, explores the process of desegregation and deinstitutionalization in state psychiatric hospitals.

Looking to improve your digital skills this summer? Check out ECDS' new training website at training.ecds.emory.edu or stop by the Emory University Woodruff Library (3rd floor) Mondays-Wednesdays 9am-5pm.

A big welcome to all visitors who are joining us on campus for this year's Commencement Celebrations!!! Interested in learning more about the campus while you're here? History and Public Art tour: campus-tours.opentour.site/tours Quad Architecture Tour: ecds.opentour.site/emory-quadra...

ECDS adjusted summer hours: May 12-August 25. Walk-ins available Mondays-Wednesdays 9am-5pm. Thursdays and Fridays are by appointment only. @emorylibraries.bsky.social @emoryuniversity.bsky.social

ECDS is closed for walk-ins this Friday, May 9th and on Monday, May 12th for Commencement. After May 12th, ECDS will be open for walk-ins on Mondays-Wednesdays 9am-5pm.

Happy Cinco de Mayo! 🇲🇽 As you celebrate Mexican history today, take a look at Power of Attorney in Oaxaca, Mexico. This project constructs digital maps + visualizations of indigenous legal culture. Project link: www.powerofattorneynative.com. @emorylibraries.bsky.social #Emory History Department

Today is National Space Day! 🪐🌕 We invite you to explore the Apollo 15 Learning Hub, where you can view the 3D model of the #spaceship 🚀. Check it out here: apollo15hub.org.

The @carlosmuseum.bsky.social proudly presents Call and Response, an exhibit of 5 objects from 5 different cultures & developed in partnership with local ATL communities. Call and Response illustrates how ancient objects call out through time & inspire new generations to respond to & reimagine them.

In partnership with the Atlanta Community Support Project (ACSP), ECDS is proud to announce the launch of the Toolkits Platform, a completely free legal resource hub for individuals and families. Need access? Email [email protected] with 'Toolkits access' in the subject line.

Samothrace is still thriving! ECDS' work on the rugged Greek island is featured in the Archaeology Museum of Samothrace, and most recently in the Makriyannis Wing of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Read more about the Imag(in)ing Samothrace exhibit here: tinyurl.com/ASCSAthens.

In my 'Barrier Islands' class today, we'll continue coverage of the Georgia barrier islands, but emphasizing human interactions. People altered some islands for 4,000+ years, but most rapid changes were post-colonial. Here are a few interviews with experts: georgiacoastatlas.org/about_island... 🧪🏝️🌊

ECDS is proud to launch our new training website! Explore tailored modules and self-paced learning paths to learn new skills for your research and career development. Check out the site at training.ecds.emory.edu or stop by the Emory University Woodruff Library (3rd floor).

Congrats to Southern Spaces editor Ariel Lawrence for winning the Emory Student Employee of the Year Award!! 🥳 🥳Ariel is an English PhD candidate slated to graduate in May. This award highlights her work as a Writing Specialist in the NS&FP at the @emorycollege.bsky.social Pathways Center!

Our brand-new resource to explore digital tools is launching today! Check out training.ecds.emory.edu to find different modules and self-paced learning paths to learn new skills for your research and career development.

In my 'Barrier Islands' class today, we'll continue learning about the Georgia barrier islands, focusing on their environmental and human histories. A resource we use that's also available to the public is the Georgia Coast Atlas with @ecds-emory.bsky.social at Emory U. georgiacoastatlas.org 🧪🌊🏝️

Across @emorycollege.bsky.social departments, graduate scholars are developing cutting-edge dissertation projects that push the boundaries of knowledge. The Halle Institute is deeply committed to supporting doctoral students undertaking global research. Learn more: tinyurl.com/HleGGF24

Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! ECDS is proud to contribute to the work of the Intarsia Undergraduate Journal of Queer and Feminist Inquiry by providing website design and technical support. Read their recently released second volume here: intarsiajournal.org/volume-2/.

Southern Spaces celebrates International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade in their article addressing the French enslaved ship Marie-Séraphique. Read more here: scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/modelin.... Watch the video here: tinyurl.com/marieseraphi....

ECDS provides technical support + website design to the EMPOWER SCD initiative. Empower SCD pairs middle and high school students living with sickle cell disease with a race and gender matched mentor to provide academic and STEMM career guidance. @emorydeptofmed.bsky.social @emoryrollins.bsky.social

Today ends Black History Month, and we're celebrating two Black women scholars from the Woodruff School of Nursing. Check out Dr. Camille Brockett-Walker and Dr. Erica Moore's Intersections article highlighting the lived experiences of nursing faculty of color: tinyurl.com/NursesofColor.

ECDS partner and @emorydeptofmed.bsky.social Dr. Sarah Blanton's CARE-CITE trial program receives over $2.7 million dollars in funding from the #NIH for the 2024-2029 period. Dr. Blanton has been working with #ECDS since her initial award in 2013/2014 and is grateful to continue working with us.

Save the date for ACH 2025, which will be held June 11th-13th. Look for a CFP to be circulated in the next few weeks!

Our partnership with @emoryuniversity.bsky.social DPH initiative successfully resulted in open access publication of the #spanish translation of Dr @rahallclifford.bsky.social's book Underbelly: Childhood Diarrhea and the Hidden Local Realities of Global Health, published by @mitpress.bsky.social.

With just a couple of days delay, we are so excited to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Atlanta Studies by launching our new website! 🎂🎉🥳 A huge thanks goes out to Bailey Betik of @ecds-emory.bsky.social for her work in leading the redesign and providing the journal with a new look and feel

Join @emoryuniversity.bsky.social postdoc @salwahoque.bsky.social and GSU doctoral fellow Erin Anderson of the @aiainetwork.bsky.social this Friday, Feb 21st for a workshop on systemic bias within AI datasets! Zoom link here: emory.zoom.us/j/93314581879.

What better way to celebrate Black History Month than by honoring the legacies of HBCU's and Black films? 🎥🎬 Join @emoryaas.bsky.social Professor Crystal Sanders and @harvarddivinity.bsky.social Dean Marla Frederick for the HBCU Film Festival on April 11, 2025!