Digital Storytelling in the Digital Humanities: Methods for Community-Driven Narratives and Media-Rich Storytelling
When: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 · 8:00–9:30 AM Mountain
Also: 9:00–10:30 AM Central · 10:00–11:30 AM Eastern · 16:00–17:30 Central European (CET/UTC+1)
Where: Google Meet — join: https://meet.google.com/esq-ibtp-fiw
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Abstract
This workshop explores alternative forms of scholarly communication—how scholars and educators use digital storytelling to foster critical historical thinking, public engagement, and collaborative innovation. Led by Professors Andrea Davis and Patricia Schechter, the session highlights narrative-rich, web-based approaches grounded in solidarity, community memory, and social justice.
Agenda (90 minutes)
0:00–0:05 — Welcome & Framing
Dr. Roger Martínez-Dávila — opening remarks and workshop goals within the Plus Ultra Collective vision.
0:05–0:25 — Session 1: Podcasting
Family Secrets of the Spanish Civil War — Dr. Patricia Schechter
Collaborative scripting and feminist interventions in historical narration for public audiences.
0:25–1:05 — Session 2: Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing
Voices, Narratives and Memories of Francoism (Forthcoming, Fordham University Press) — Dr. Andrea Davis
Opportunities and challenges in building a multimodal digital monograph for public and academic audiences, integrating enhanced audiovisual testimonies from the Spanish Civil War Memory Project; lessons learned on platforms, storytelling plans, and team collaboration.
1:05–1:35 — Group Discussion & Q&A
Moderated by Patricia & Andrea
Speaker bios
Andrea Davis, Ph.D. — Associate Professor of History at Arkansas State University. Her work focuses on modern Spain’s memory cultures, urban social movements, and digital heritage. She directs community-engaged projects on the memory of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist dictatorship and collaborates on the Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War. More at https://andrea-davis.com/.
Patricia A. Schechter, Ph.D. — Professor of History at Portland State University. Her work bridges feminist public history, collaborative memory work, and Spanish Civil War oral testimony. She is the creator of Los Libros del Terrible, a community-driven project of local history, memory, and storytelling, and is developing the podcast “Family Secrets of the Spanish Civil War.” More at https://libros-del-terrible.com/.
Host
Roger Martínez-Dávila, Ph.D. — Professor of History at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs and co-founder of the Plus Ultra Collective, an international research collaborative for human-centered digital humanities, immersive storytelling, and public-access scholarship. More at https://www.plusultracollective.org/collaborators.
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