Source Saturday: "Future Bear" & "Gus Henderson" with Dr. Julian Chambliss

Dr. Julian Chambliss and I talk about the speculative possibilities of art in thinking about climate change and injustice. We discuss his work on "Future Bear" with artist and professor Rachel Simmons and also the Gus Henderson comic strip featuring the life of editor of the Winter Park Advocate. We then go on an unexpected, but delightful, tangent on digital humanities, digital archiving and transcription, and the how this work can be powerful assignments for students.

See Future Bear here: http://futurebear.mystrikingly.com/

Co-created by artist and professor Rachel Simmons: https://rachelsimmons.squarespace.com/

See the Gus Henderson comic here: https://www.julianchambliss.com/blacksocialworld

See the Advocate Recovered digital humanities project that we feature here: http://www.advocaterecovered.org/

See my past conversation with Julian here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxcxTm7cJfs&t=2831s

See my Digital Humanities assignment guides here: https://pressbooks.library.yorku.ca/dhssinstructorsguide/

Digital Humanities assignment guide videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAGOGstG_cg&list=PLz_s1hq38parPcwWhDV-LZhHfX9wUTRzl

Connect with Julian on his website: https://www.julianchambliss.com/

and social media: https://twitter.com/JulianChambliss

Follow Samantha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrSCutrara

See all the Source Saturday videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLpPhMEW_jxqClGskVJgNeA

More about Julian:

Julian C. Chambliss is Professor of English with an appointment in History and the Val Berryman Curator of History at the MSU Museum at Michigan State University. In addition, he is a core participant in the MSU College of Arts & Letters’ Consortium for Critical Diversity in a Digital Age Research (CEDAR). His research interests focus on race, culture, and power in real and imagined urban spaces. His recent writing has appeared in American Historical Review, Phylon, Frieze Magazine, Rhetoric Review, and Boston Review. An interdisciplinary scholar he has designed museum exhibitions, curated art shows, and created public history projects that trace community, ideology, and power in the United States.  

He is co-editor and contributor for Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men: Superheroes and the American Experience, a book examining the relationship between superheroes and the American Experience (2013). His recent book projects include Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Essays on the Social, Cultural and Geopolitical Domain (2018) and Cities Imagined: The African Diaspora in Media and History (2018). Chambliss is co-producer and host of Every Tongue Got to Confess, a podcast examining communities of color.  Every Tongue is the winner of the 2019 Hampton Dunn New Media Award from the Florida Historical Society Florida. In addition, he co-produced and co-hosted with Dr. Robert Cassanello from University of Central Florida of the Florida Constitution Podcast, a limited series podcast the won the 2019 Hampton Dunn Internet Award from Florida Historical Society. He is producer and host of Reframing History, a podcast exploring history theory and practice in the United States.  

Learn more about me at https://www.SamanthaCutrara.com/

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