DIGITAL DIALOGUES Wednesday 8 November 2023 10.00am Carol Leeming 11:15am GMT - Kevin J Brazant 12:30pm GMT - Vidal Montgomery
Serendipity invited Black researchers, academics and creatives to present new thinking, with digital technology at its core. Presentations will take place throughout the day, followed by a Q&A. Recordings of the presentations will be made available to view at the end of the day. Futher speakers to be announce. Disrupting the Discourse: Exploring Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a catalyst for creativity and Problem-solving through digital content creation. Kevin J Brazant Kevin J Brazant is a University Teaching Fellow and Certified Leading Practitioner in Learning Development. He is a senior fellow with the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Association for Learning Developers for Higher Education. “Disrupt the Discourse” explores the interdisciplinary approaches adopted to tackling issues of race and racism using digital technology and co-creation as part of teaching and learning in higher education. Afro-Futurism Pan African Futurism Black Futurism Carol Leeming Carol Leeming is a multi-award winning, multi-disciplinary artist in literature, performing arts and digital media, a singer-songwriter, musician, composer, actor, director, curator, visual artist, and publisher. Using Black Futurism as a starting point, she explores the concept of an intersectional framework required for imagining a Black Futurism that is Pan African, inclusive of a range culturally diverse groups, which is not patriarchal and heteronormative. “Metadata as Blaxonomy” A Study of How Black People might use Web 2.0 For Critical Creation, Conversation, Curation, and Classification Vidal Montgomery Vidal Montgomery recently completed the MA Global Black Studies, Decolonisation and Social Justice at University of West London. He is editor for the Jazzreloaded Project, the first Digital Afropean Jazz Blog in the UK. Vidal helped establish Code Untapped, a digital skills accelerator for marginalised and minoritised people, and Udome a Black Start-up geared towards remittances for self-employed people. His presentation is concerned with the historic and potential use of “web 2.0” internet protocols and technologies and methods of articulating and contextualising the imperative of Black people and a method of taxonomy for Black digital artefacts on the internet.
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