On November 14, 2024, CDHM welcomed speaker Sanjna Yechareddy to present on her experience in a student collective leveraging archival resources for grassroots advocacy around unheard historical alumni narratives in the context of coloniality and decoloniality. High-level takeaways included the initial larger reach of the student collective's work in the university and across Scotland as well as its subsequent absorption within institutional forums, with discussion topics covering questions of methodology, scope and replicability among other institutional settings in relation with the Centre. See more detail below.

Abstract: The UncoverEd project was a student-led archival project from 2018 to 2021 which explored the University of Edinburgh's entanglement in the British empire and its lasting colonial legacies. This presentation will cover how the student collective behind the project functioned, the outcomes from this project which focused on public outreach of marginalized histories and possible lessons learnt from this project. Insights from the UncoverEd project might be useful to frame the Centre of Digital Humanities' own emerging project around the alumni of the Graduate Institute. 

Bio: Sanjna Yechareddy is currently a research assistant at the Centre for Digital Humanities and was part of the UncoverEd project during her undergraduate degree at the University of Edinburgh in 2019.