Decolonial Data Vietnamese Historical Narratives
This advanced undergraduate course explores critical design approaches to colonial data and will culminate in collaborative, playful digital storytelling experiments to platform alternative *decolonial narratives (we critique and reflect on the specificity of decolonial work in this class). We will focus on critical data studies, research design and experimentation, and multilingual and multimodal digital humanities analysis using a sandbox of French colonial era Vietnamese data (drawings, comics, library circulation records, ethnography, demography). Class assignments include self-guided tutorials, collaborative work, short writing assignments, and a final project. No background knowledge is required, although interest in languages (Vietnamese, French, translation), data visualization, and commitment to collaborative learning and critical data will be key to this course. For a preview of the Vietnamese data sandbox, see https://tinyurl.com/datasandbox