Beloved Witness
- Collection
- Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
- Alternative Title
- Agha Shahid Ali project
- Collection Designation
- Special Collections
- Language
- English
- Description
- The Beloved Witness project is a Mellon-funded digital archive of the video-taped readings, personal documents, letters, and manuscripts of Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001). New technologies will organize, display and allow interaction with the archive from multiple formats and devices, including materials for mobile devices. Our aim is to show how technology might be used to reveal what is unique in a poet's oeuvre and how teaching and literary scholarship in a digital environment allow a new globalized approach to poetry and culture. Ali's life and work offer an exemplary model for humanists to bear "witness" to a world of lost tribes, of political and ethnic conflicts, of the pain of exile and of the possibility for transformation and reconciliation. The archive is a collaborative effort which will expand through contributions of letters, documents, critical perspectives and creative responses from colleagues, friends and readers of Shahid's works. One of the goals of the archive is to assemble an advisory committee to help identify ways of building a community of Shahid's readers in South Asia and around the world.
- Note
Principal Investigators
Patricia O'Neill, Ph.D. Professor of English and Creative Writing poneill@hamilton.edu
Hena Ahmad, Ph.D. Professor of English, Truman State University hahmad@truman.edu
Material Donors
Iqbal Agha Ali, Ph.D. Professor of Operations Management; Department Chairman Isenberg School of Management
Hena Ahmad, Ph.D. Professor of English, Truman State University
DHI Co-Directors
Angel David Nieves, Ph.D. Co-Director, Digital Humanities Initiative, Hamilton College anieves@hamilton.edu
Janet Thomas Simons, M.S. Co-Director, Digital Humanities Initiative, Hamilton College jsimons@hamilton.edu
DHI Collection Development Team
Gregory Lord Lead Designer & Software Engineer, Digital Humanities Initiative, Hamilton College glord@hamilton.edu
Peter MacDonald Library Information Systems Specialist, Hamilton College pmacdona@hamilton.edu
Lisa McFall Metadata and Catalog Librarian, Hamilton College lmcfall@hamilton.edu
Steve Young ITS Network Services Unix/HPC System Administrator, Hamilton College slyoung@hamilton.edu
- Institutional Owner
- Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
- Restrictions on Access
- There are no restrictions on access to this resource.
Manifest
- Christian Goodwillie
- Director and Curator of Special Collections and Archives
- E-mail: cgoodwil@hamilton.edu
- Telephone: (315) 859-4447
- Special Collections
- Burke Library
- 198 College Hill Road
- Clinton, NY 13323
