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Brazilian researchers reflect on their experiences in the National Museum of Brazil, as well as the conditions that led to the tragic fire earlier this month.

An Anticipated Tragedy: Reflections on Brazil's National Museum - Not Even Past Introduced and compiled by Edward Shore Brazilian researchers have described the fire that consumed the National Museum of Brazil on September 2, 2018 as a “tragédia anunciada” an anticipated tragedy. This week, Not Even Past caught up with historians who have visited and conducted research the...

Life and Death in Carceral State: Narratives of Loss and Survival The Texas After Violence Project and the Texas Justice Initiative released a short video that features interviews from our collaborative documentation projec...

"In Texas alone, more than 3,500 prisoners died between 1866 and 1912, when lawmakers, shocked at the mortality, outlawed convict leasing, according to historian Robert Perkinson’s book, “Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire.” By his calculation, that means more African Americans died in convict leasing in the South in the same period than in lynchings."

Bodies believed to be those of 95 black forced-labor prisoners from Jim Crow era unearthed in Sugar Land after one man’s quest "It’s going to change how we think about Texas history and how we think about ourselves and how we built this state,” said archaeologist Reign Clark.

Tamy Guberek explores how quantitative analysis of historical ‘big data’ can help to explain how record-making practices around death facilitated policies of repression and control at the AHPN. Article available in English and Spanish.

Tamy Guberek | LSE Latin America and Caribbean Tamy Guberek is a PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, where she researches the production, communication, and consumption of

From the site: "A rapidly deployed critical data & visualization intervention in the USA’s 2018 “Zero Tolerance Policy” for asylum seekers at the US Ports of Entry and the humanitarian crisis that has followed."

Torn Apart / Separados Torn Apart is a curation and visualization of publicly available data concerning ICE, CBP facilities, and usages. Also lists of allied and pro-immigrant facilities.

From the article: American support means that “the U.S. archives are chock-full of information about the El Mozote massacre,” said Kate Doyle, an El Salvador expert at the National Security Archive, an organization that seeks to declassify government documents.The Clinton Administration did release many records, but Ms. Doyle said there are more that El Salvador could ask the United States to declassify.

Survivors of Massacre Ask: ‘Why Did They Have to Kill Those Children?’ More than 35 years after a massacre left almost 1,000 dead in rural El Salvador, a trial of the generals accused of planning the slaughter may finally give answers to haunting, horrific questions.

Come work with us! LLILAS Benson is seeking a Head of Special Collections. See below for more information.

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Una reflexión sobre el portal digital del Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala por Hannah Alpert-Abrams y traducido por Susanna Sharpe.

21 años de paz, 21 millones de documentos: Una reflexión sobre el portal digital del Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala 21 años de paz, 21 millones de documentos: Una reflexión sobre el portal digital del Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala April 19, 2018POR HANNAH ALPERT-ABRAMS | traducido por Susanna Sharpe Trabajando con documentos en el AHPN. Foto cortesía Archivo Histórico de la Policía ...

Join us to hear Marianela Muñoz (LLILAS PhD Candidate) and Rachel Winston (Black Diaspora Archivist) discuss current initiatives on Black Digital Humanities to explore their engagement with questions about black audiences, representation and social justice.

Black Digital Humanities: An Overview In this presentation, Marianela Muñoz (LLILAS PhD Candidate) and Rachel Winston (Black Diaspora Archivist) will discuss current initiatives on Black Digital Humanities to explore their engagement with questions about black audiences, representation and social justice. The aim of the session is to c...

"Under Brazil’s 1988 constitution, quilombola and indigenous people were given rights over their ancestral territories. Leftwing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva issued a decree regulating the procedures in 2003, but so far just 170 quilombola territories have been given their full land rights, according to Conaq – 62 of those in Pará state."

Their forefathers were enslaved. Now, 400 years later, their children will be landowners Cachoeira Porteira is a quilombo, a settlement in the Amazon forest founded by descendants of escaped enslaved people

Join us today for a presentation by Mary Marshall Clark, director of the Columbia Center for Oral History Research. See below for more details:

Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice | Guantánamo: Seeing into the Dark Archive and Human Rights Oral History in our Times March 1, 2018 5:15 pm–7:00 pm Guantánamo: Seeing into the Dark Archive and Human Rights Oral History in our Times Speaker: Mary Marshall Clark Director, Center for Oral History Research, Columbia University Location: CLA 1.302D (Glickman Conference Center, College of Liberal Arts Building) Th...

Endangered Data Week is a new, collaborative effort, coordinated across campuses, nonprofits, libraries, citizen science initiatives, and cultural heritage institutions, to shed light on public datasets that are in danger of being deleted, repressed, mishandled, or lost. See below for more info!

Home raising awareness of threats to publicly available data; exploring the power dynamics of data creation, sharing, and retention; and teaching ways to make endangered data more accessible and secure