The Caribbean Digital XII Conference

Beginning in 2014, The Caribbean Digital has sought to create a generative, multidisciplinary space within which to engage critically with the digital as practice and as a historicized societal phenomenon, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities presented by the media technologies that ever more intensely reconfigure the social and geo-political contours of the Caribbean and its diasporas. In the twelfth iteration of this gathering, we are thrilled to continue these conversations via collaboration with the Early Caribbean Digital Archive, the Africana Studies Program, and the NULab for Humanities and Computational Social Science at Northeastern University.

The 2025 conference is being held in the loving memory of Dr. Ángel David Nieves (1971 – 2023). At the time of his passing, Dr. Nieves was Dean’s Professor of Public and Digital Humanities, Professor of Africana Studies and History, and Director of the Humanities Center at Northeastern University in Boston. Dr. Nieves also held positions at Hamilton College, Yale University, San Diego State University, and many other institutions. Dr. Nieves’s vivacious presence, teaching, and work left a lasting impression on everyone. His books, An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South (2018) and ‘We Shall Independent Be:’ African American Place Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the U.S. (edited with Leslie Alexander, 2008) were significant explorations into the labors done by of Black feminists that served to eventually uplift all others. Like his subjects of study, Nieves, too, believed that all people deserve a good education and working conditions to lead a good life. His investments in social justice were total and all-encompassing. As a proud, queer, Brown man whose roots were in Puerto Rico, he was especially dedicated to supporting like-minded scholars such as those associated with The Caribbean Digital. The conference especially welcomes submissions that engage with the spirit and content of Dr. Nieves’ foundational work.