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Brown University Digital Publications won SILVER at the EPIC Awards presented by the Society for Scholarly Publishing in the Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, or Accessibility (DEIA) Initiatives category.

Allison Levy, Director of BUDP, holds the trophy at the awards ceremony.

This significant industry recognition highlights “Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps,” a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute on Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities designed to support scholars from all career levels and across humanistic disciplines who wish to develop multimodal scholarship but may lack the necessary resources and capacity at their home institutions. The institute addressed equity issues endemic to academic publishing by establishing models for enhanced support for underrepresented voices to enrich and expand scholarly discourse through their contributions.

Details at library.brown.edu/create/libnews/budp-finalist-epic-award/

The Brown University Library, the Sarah Doyle Center, Pembroke Center, and the LGBTQ Center are thrilled to welcome Bishakh Som to campus on September 26th for a lecture on Trans/Migrations: Journeys Through Art, Architecture, Comics, and Gender.

Through charting her history of cultural and geographical displacements, Bishakh Som will propose that such continuous movements have been integral to reckoning with herself not only as part of a South Asian diaspora but also as a transgender femme. She will trace how ideas of travel, migration, language, and longing for a sense of home/belonging have been crucial to her art-making as it has itself migrated from its roots in comics, through architecture and painting to now roosting firmly back in comics, a medium which has allowed her to integrate these previous endeavors into one practice.

To learn more visit: https://events.brown.edu/sdwc/event/291127-transmigrations-journeys-through-art-archit

Fifteen humanities scholars from across the nation gathered in Brown University’s John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library this week with a shared mission: Explore best practices for authoring and publishing a first-rate, digital-first monograph and leave with the skills to create their own.

With focus on supporting HBCU faculty, Brown library expands access to scholarly digital publishing The Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing institute introduces scholars, many of whom are from historically Black and other minority-serving institutions, to best practices in online scholarly publishing.