when mississippi john hurt’s head moved: glitching region & race at the 1964 berkeley folk music festival @ current research in digital history 2018, roy rosenzweig center for history and new media, george mason university, arlington, va, friday, Saturday, 17 March 2018.
I will be presenting findings at the inaugural Current Research in Digital History Conference. My paper draws upon “When Mississippi John Hurt’s Head Moved,” an extended essay I wrote about a student’s glitched photograph from the Berkeley Folk Music Festival and how we might begin to grapple with renegotiations of race, region, and democratic culture in the “Athens of the West,” at one of the United States’s premiere public universities, as Freedom Summer unfolded in the South and the Free Speech Movement at Cal was just a few months in the future.