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Upcoming Lab Events

Digital Humani-teas and Creativi-tea 🫖 on Wednesdays at 4pm!
Come for the tea, stay for the DH! All are welcome!

Taking Control of your Digital Identity
May 7 @ 4pm

Learn how to shape and manage your online professional presence! We will explore the basics of building a personal academic or creative profile using Google Sites, as well as how to feel empowered over your representation in digital spaces.

See the Resources Guide!

See the Google Sites Tutorial

Making Timelines with Timeline JS
May 14 @ 4pm

Have you ever wanted to create interactive, media-rich timelines? This hands-on workshop will explore how to use Timeline JS to organize stories, historical events, and other narratives.

Creativi-tea Buffet! Exploring Craftivism
May 28 @ 4pm

Explore craftivism, the practice of integrating crafting with social justice. This workshop will feature several crafting stations with creative activities for raising awareness, disseminating information, and community building.

Stations will include: zine making, button making, rock painting, friendship bracelet making, poster making, crocheting, crocheting/knitting/sewing, gardening (plant sharing), and more!

See the Craftivism video

Major Conferences and Workshops

From 2022-2025, the Abolition Lab sponsored faculty development workshops and one conference that thematically centered the past, present, and future of the humanities at Knox.

April 4-6, 2025

The Abolition for All Time Humanities Conference

The conference brought together all past and present faculty, staff, students, institutional partners, and community collaborators to share their work over the past three years of the Mellon grant. Together, we celebrated the completion of scholarly and pedagogical projects, community outreach, and professional development.

View Conference Website
December 4-5, 2024

The Future of Abolition – Faculty Development Workshop

In the third and final year of the Andrew W. Mellon “Abolition for All Time” Humanities Lab grant, this workshop considered how we might mobilize our pedagogical work for a future of innovation, creativity, civic engagement, interdisciplinarity, and a digital age. The necessity of this transformation is critical as our disciplines are rapidly changing under new social, political, economic, environmental, and technological conditions.

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December 6-7, 2023

Lessons in Liberation: Contemporary Abolition & Knox College in the Twenty-First Century

This workshop explored the legacy of abolitionism after the founding of Knox. Over two days, faculty at this workshop learned about contemporary abolitionist movements and how we might reckon with abolitionism within our professional work and teaching.

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December 6-7, 2022

Making Knox: The Anti-Slavery and Abolitionist Aspirations of a Midwestern College

This workshop explored our roots as an institution connected to abolitionism. It included opportunities for participants to think differently about the College’s legacy, grapple with founding documents and key questions in its early history, and explore what abolitionism means today

View Workshop Website

Past Events

  • April 30, 2025: The Right to Be Forgotten: Privacy and Working with Sensitive Data by Rez Peña
  • April 16, 2025: Oral History + Podcasting by Josh Carlos and Kyra Kellogg
  • March 5, 2025: Creativi-tea Workshop, “Zine Making” by Ellie Anderson
  • February 14, 2025: Frederick Douglass Day Transcribe-athon (douglassday.org)
  • February 5, 2025: Transcribing and Cursive Writing by Josh Carlos, Kyra Kellogg, Ellie Anderson, and Rez Peña

Fall 2024

Winter 2024

  • February 26, 2024: Digital Humani-teas Workshop, Interview Techniques for Podcasts and YouTube Series by Brandon Polite
  • February 19, 2024: Digital Humani-teas Workshop, Digital Storytelling through Interactive Design by Jessa Dahl
  • January 29, 2024: Digital Humani-teas Workshop, Creating a WordPress Website by Jen Andrella
  • January 22, 2024: Digital Humani-teas Workshop, Content Management with Omeka by Jen Andrella

Fall 2023

Spring 2023

  • April 7, 2023 — Year Two Lab Launch Event; introductions from Danielle Fatkin, Michael Schneider, and Jen Andrella

Winter 2023

Fall 2022

  • Dec 6-7 2022: Faculty Development Workshop — “Making Knox: The Anti-Slavery and Abolitionist Aspirations of a Midwestern College”
  • Nov 10, 2022: Brown Bag Series — Building a Story Map in ArcGIS, with Jen Andrella
  • Nov 3, 2022: Fall Lecture Series — “Federal Indian Policy in the Midwest in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” Dr. Jacki Thompson Rand (Choctaw, University of Illinois)
  • Nov 3, 2022: Brown Bag Series — Creative Commons Licenses, Permissions, and Copyrights, with Laurie Sauer (Associate Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Collections)
  • Oct 20, 2022: Fall Lecture Series — “In Search of Refuge: Dakota Mobility, the US-Canadian Border, and Extralegal Violence after the Dakota War, 1862-1865,” with John Legg (George Mason University)
  • Oct 6, 2022: Fall Lecture Series — “‘His knowledge was greater than the information of our geographers’: Thinking about the Digital Restoration of Native Space, Place, and Power on the Northern Plains,” with Jen Andrella
  • Sept 29, 2022: Brown Bag Series — Managing your Digital Identity, with Jen Andrella
  • Sept 22, 2022: Brown Bag Series — Intro to Digital Humanities, with Jen Andrella

The Abolition Lab in the News

January 10, 2024
How Professors Are Making Use of Resources from the Abolition Lab in Their Classrooms

Dibyasha Sharma, The Knox Student

Despite being a recent installation at Knox, the Abolition Lab is already playing an integral role in class curriculums across campus…

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April 17, 2023
Knox “Abolition for All Time” Lab Completes Year One, Makes Plans for Years Ahead

Knox College News

The first year of the Knox College “Abolition for All Time” Lab came to a close in March, and faculty members across campus involved with…

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March 3, 2023
“Abolition Lab Launches New Resources”

Yuchen Wang, The Knox Student

The Abolition Lab, made possible by the Mellon Humanities Grant, formed the Media Literacy Team to promote media literacy and teach related skills…

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November 17, 2022
Abolition Lab Manifests Itself Through Lectures: Knox Students Learn about the US-Dakota War

Yuchen Wang, The Knox Student

Knox College is a school of less than eleven hundred students. Yet its history goes back more than one hundred years, and the founder, as well as…

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January 26, 2022
“Abolition for All Time” Humanities Lab to be Funded by Mellon Grant

Knox College News

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is awarding Knox College a grant of $1.2 million to fund projects ranging from archival-based research…

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