Public Locations – Douglass Day 2023

The map below shows the approximate locations of everyone who is hosting a virtual group on February 14, 2023 that will be open to the public. Please do not reproduce or share this info beyond this site. If you would like to attend one of these events, please write to the contact person first.

Please note: all locations are approximate. Please contact the local event organizer for more detailed directions to event virtual sites and videoconference spaces.

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Listings by State/Province

Alabama

Alabama State University 

  • Primary Contact: Raegan Stearns (rstearns@alasu.edu)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

Arkansas

University of the Ozarks

  • Primary Contact: Steve Oatis (soatis@ozarks.edu)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

Arizona

University of Arizona

  • Primary Contact: Heather Froehlich (froehlich@arizona.edu)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 10am-12pm

Colorado

Iliff School of Theology

Connecticut

  • Primary Contact: Caran Ware Joseph (cwarejoseph@iliff.edu)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

Greenwich Historical Society

  • Primary Contact: Stephanie Barnett (sbarnett@greenwichhistory.org)
  • Sponsor(s): Greenwich Historical Society
  • Social Media: https://greenwichhistory.org/  Instagram: @greenwichhistory
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

Eastern Connecticut State University

  • Primary Contact: Emily B Todd (todde@easternct.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Intercultural Center, School of Arts and Sciences, J. Eugene Smith Library
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

UConn (Waterbury Campus)

  • Primary Contact: Sam Sommers (s.sommers@uconn.edu)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

the bldg fund with support from New Haven Free Public Library, Stetson Branch

  • Primary Contact: malik (the@bldg.fund)
  • Sponsor(s): New Haven Free Public Library
  • Social Media: @bldg.fund
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

Delaware

UGR3DAY Underground Railroad Experiences Inc.

  • Primary Contact: Dionne Patterson a.k.a Conductor Dee (UGR3DAY@gmail.com)
  • Social Media: @UGR3DAY on FB and IG
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

The Jane and Littleton Mitchell Center for African American Heritage

  • Primary Contact: Kobe Baker (kbaker@dehistory.org )
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

Florida

Hillsborough Community College, Ybor City Campus

  • Primary Contact: Jana Bielecki (jbielecki@hccfl.edu)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

Florida International University

  • Primary Contact: Molly Castro (mocastro@fiu.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Green Library Digital Scholar Studio
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

Georgia

Emory University: Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

  • Primary Contact: Jordan Ross (JDROSS7@emory.edu)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

Louisiana

Louisiana Tech University – Phi Alpha Theta

  • Primary Contact: V. Elaine Thompson (elainet@latech.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Phi Alpha Theta
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-2PM (CST)

Massachusetts

Westfield State University

  • Primary Contact: Nicholas Aieta (naieta@westfield.ma.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Ely Library at Westfield State, English Department, Ethnic Gender Studies Department, History Department
  • Social Media: @WestfieldState (twitter) @mozangeles31 (twitter) @ElyLibraryWSU (twitter)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023

New Bedford Historical Society

  • Primary Contact: Lee Blake (info@nbhistoricalsociety.org)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023

Public Library of Brookline

Northeastern University

  • Primary Contact: Sarah Conenell (sa.connell@northeastern.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks & Women Writers Project
  • Social Media: @NUwwp
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

Maryland

Hagerstown Community College

  • Primary Contact: Kendra Perry (kkperry@hagerstowncc.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): William Brish Library at Hagerstown Community College
  • In Our Backyard Series
  • Social Media: @hagerstowncc
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

Center for Archival Futures (CAFe), University of Maryland’s iSchool

  • Primary Contact: Britney Bibeault (bbibeaul@umd.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Center for Archival Futures (CAFe)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

Loyola University Maryland

  • Primary Contact: Sondra Guttman (sfguttman@loyola.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Loyola Center for the Humanities, Loyola English Department, Loyola Black Students Association, Loyola African and African American Studies
  • Social Media: @loyolaenglish
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

Michigan

Michigan State University College of Law

  • Primary Contact: Justin Simard (justin.simard@law.msu.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): MSU College of Law and the Kelley Institute for Legal Ethics
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

University of Michigan

  • Primary Contact: Cailtin Pollock (pollockc@umich.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): University of Michigan Library, University of Michigan College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

Mississippi

University of Southern Mississippi

  • Primary Contact: Joyce Inman (joyce.inman@usm.edu)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

North Carolina

North Carolina State University

  • Primary Contact: Alexandra M McCourt (ammccour@ncsu.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Marlas Y. Whitley and Alexandra M. McCourt
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

University Writing Center, Appalachian State University

  • Primary Contact: Julie Karaus (karausje@appstate.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): University Writing Center
  • Social Media: Appalachian State University Writing Center (Facebook); @appstate_uwc (Instagram)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

New Jersey

Rutgers–New Brunswick

  • Primary Contact: Francesca Giannetti (francesca.giannetti@rutgers.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Rutgers Initiative for the Book, Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative
  • Social Media: @RutgersBook, @rutgersdh
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 2-5 pm

Rowan University Center for Digital Humanities

  • Primary Contact: Jessica Mack (mackjr@rowan.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Rowan University Center for Digital Humanities
  • College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rowan University
  • Social Media: @RowanCHSS
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

Stockton University – either Hammonton or AC campus

  • Primary Contact: Sarah Lacy (sarah.lacy@stockton.edu)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

Stockton University in Hammonton

  • Primary Contact: Nick Zebrowski (hammonton@stockton.edu)
  • Social Media: facebook.com/stocktonhammonton, instagram.com/stocktonhammonton
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University

  • Social Media: @PrincetonDH 
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

New York 

Drake Library, SUNY Brockport

  • Primary Contact: Mary Jo Orzech (morzech@brockport.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Depts. of History, African and African American Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Education and Human Development, Museum Studies, OEDI, Intercultural Engagement & Programs
  • Social Media: #drakememoriallibrary #sunybrockport @Drake_Library
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 3-5 pm

Syracuse University

  • Primary Contact: Jessica Terry-Elliott (jlterr01@syr.edu)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

The History Center in Tompkins County

  • Primary Contact: Zoe Van Nostrand (community@thehistorycenter.net)
  • Sponsor(s): The History Center in Tompkins County
  • Social Media: @TompkinsHistory
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

State University of New York at Geneseo

  • Primary Contact: Paul Schacht (cdl@geneseo.edu)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

City University of New York (CUNY)

  • Primary Contact: Christina Katopodis (christina.katopodis@cuny.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Transformative Learning in the Humanities (TLH)
  • Social Media: @TLH_CUNY, @katopodis_phd, @shellyeversley
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

Alfred State

  • SUNY College of Technology
  • Primary Contact: Cyan Corwine (corwincy@alfredstate.edu)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

New York City College of Technology, CUNY

  • Primary Contact: Javiela Evangelista (jevangelista@citytech.cuny.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): African American Studies Department, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

Cornell University Library

  • Primary Contact: Iliana Burgos (itb23@cornell.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Digital CoLab at Olin Library and the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library
  • Social Media: @cornell_library
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

Breeding Insight

  • Primary Contact: Vanessa R Greenlee (vrg23@cornell.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Breeding Insight
  • Social Media: www.breedinginsight.org
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

Ohio

Kenyon College Writing Center

  • Primary Contact: Anna P. Scanlon (Scanlon1@Kenyon.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Kenyon College Writing Center, Kenyon College Chalmers Library
  • Social Media: @KenyonWCC
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

University of Cincinnati

  • Primary Contact: RJ Boutelle (boutelrl@ucmail.uc.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): University of Cincinnati Department of History, Department of English, and Department of Africana Studies
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 3-6pm

Ohio University 

  • Primary Contact: Matthew deTar (detar@ohio.edu)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm EST

Loganberry Books

  • Primary Contact: Harriett Logan & Julie Beckers (harriett@logan.com – julie@logan.com)
  • Sponsor(s): Loganberry Books
  • Social Media: Facebook & Instagram: @loganberrybooks
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-4 PM

Ontario

Archives of Ontario

  • Primary Contact: Sean Smith (sean.smith2@ontario.ca)
  • Sponsor(s): Archives of Ontario
  • Social Media: @ArchivesOntario
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 11:30 am – 3 pm (EDT)

Pennsylvania

Villanova University

  • Primary Contact: Karyn Hollis (karyn.hollis@villanova.edu)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

Juniata College

  • Primary Contact: Amanda Page (page@juniata.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): English Department
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

Price Lab for Digital Humanities

  • Primary Contact: Stewart Varner (svarner@upenn.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Price Lab, Penn Libraries, and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
  • Social Media: @pennpricelab
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

Temple University Libraries, Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio

  • Primary Contact: Jasmine Clark (jasmine.l.clark@temple.edu)
  • Social Media: @templedsc
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

Haverford College Libraries 

  • Primary Contact: Anna Lacy  (alacy@haverford.edu )
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 
  • Penn State Fayette

Primary Contact: Emma Beaver (ehb5131@psu.edu)

  • Social Media: Instagram/Facebook
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 
  • Swarthmore College 

Primary Contact: Amanda Licastro (alicast1@swarthmore.edu)

  • Sponsor(s): Swarthmore Libraries 
  • Social Media: https://twitter.com/swatlibrary 
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

Penn State Brandywine

  • Primary Contact: Teresa Slobuski (slobuski@psu.edu)
  • Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/vairolibrarypsu/
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-4pm

Penn State University – Altoona Campus

  • Primary Contact: Jacob Gordon (jeg6049@psu.edu)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

Wilkes University

  • Primary Contact: Amy Sopcak-Joseph (amy.sopcakjoseph@wilkes.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Division of Global Cultures and the Office of Diversity Initiatives
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 11am-1pm

Lehigh University Libraries

  • Primary Contact: Heather Simoneau (hms207@lehigh.edu)
  • Social Media: Instagram: @lehighlibraries, @LehighLTS
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 3-5pm (EDT)

Villanova University 

  • Primary Contact: Villanova Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon (karyn.hollis@villanova.edu)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

Penn State Law BLSA

  • Primary Contact: Jillian Kerr (Jill.marie05@yahoo.com)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-1pm

South Carolina

South Carolina State Museum

  • Primary Contact: Meeghan Kane (meeghan.kane@scmuseum.org)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

Coastal Carolina University

  • Primary Contact: Sarah Laiola (slozierl@coastal.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Digital Culture and Design / Department of English
  • Social Media: @DCDatCCU (Twitter, Instagram); @ccu_English (Twitter); @coastalEnglish (Instagram)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

South Carolina State Museum

  • Primary Contact: Meeghan Kane (meeghan.kane@scmuseum.org)
  • Sponsor(s): Collaborative on Race, South Carolinina Library, Benedict College, Allen University
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 10am to 4pm

University of South Carolina Beaufort

  • Primary Contact: Mollie Barnes (MBARNES2@USCB.EDU)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

Tennessee

University of Tennessee

  • Primary Contact: Shaina Destine (sdestin1@utk.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): UT Departments of English, History, and Africana Studies
  •  UT Humanities Center, UT Libraries, UT Special Collections, Division of Diversity and Engagement, and Council for Diversity and Inclusion
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

Vanderbilt University Center for Digital Humanities

  • Primary Contact: Madeleine Casad (m.casad@vanderbilt.edu, brandon.r.byrd@vanderbilt.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Black DH Working Group at Vanderbilt, Brandon Byrd
  • Social Media: @bronaldbyrd
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm

Texas 

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

  • Primary Contact: Sarah Salter (Sarah.Salter@tamucc.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Blakc Studies Minor, TAMU-CC, Dept of English, Dept of Interdisciplinary Stuides 
  • Social Media: tamuccenglish (Instagram)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

Humanities Collective of Trinity University

  • Primary Contact: Claudia Stokes (cstokes@trinity.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Social Media: @HumanitiesTU (Twitter)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

ART | library deco

  • Primary Contact: kYmberly Keeton (artlibrarydeco@gmail.com)
  • Sponsor(s): African American Vintage Genealogy
  • Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/artlibrarydeco
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

Virginia

Norfollk State University

  • Primary Contact: Khadijah O. Miller  (komiller@nsu.edu)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

Shenandoah University

  • Primary Contact: Aimee Gee (agee@su.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Shenandoah University Libraries
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 9am-5pm

DEI Committee, Northern Virginia Community Collège, Alexandria Campus 

  • Primary Contact: Susan Monroe (Smonroe@nvcc.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Susan Monroe, Laura Garcia-Moreyra
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

Norfolk State University

  • Primary Contact: Stephanie Richmond (sjrichmond@nsu.edu)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

Washington

Western Washington University (Bellingham, Wash.)

  • Primary Contact: David Schlitt (schlitd@wwu.edu)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 12-3pm 

Marquette University, Raynor Memorial Libraries & Ott Writing Center

  • Primary Contact: Valerie Beech (valerie.beech@marquette.edu)
  • Sponsor(s): Raynor Memorial Libraries and Ott Writing Center
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 9-11 am and 3-5 pm