Pratt Alumni Day SILS Presentation

Today I am presenting the Runaway Quilt Project at Pratt Institute’s Alumni Day, which will take place on the Brooklyn campus. In the 5 minutes that I have to explain my project I will touch on the following aspects:

1. the quilt code controversy
   1. Hidden in Plain View 1999
   2. The Underground Railroad “Quilt Code” 2006
2. the digital humanities methods and tools employed:
   1. digital annotation (Digress.it) and Gracie Mitchell
   2. geospatial mapping (Leaflet Maps Marker)
   3. textual analysis (Google Ngrams)
   4. network analysis (Cytoscape)
3. the final project (Maker Unknown)