{"id":5716,"date":"2024-10-03T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/?p=5716"},"modified":"2025-06-15T14:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T18:32:57","slug":"viscolaunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/viscolaunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch: Virgin Islands Studies Collective (VISCO) Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Announcing the launch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vistudiescollective.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virgin Islands Studies Collective Website<\/a>!<\/h2>\n<p>Designed by ECDS Digital Publication Specialist Bailey Betik, the VISCO website houses past and ongoing projects from the &#8220;group of academics, artists, and activists who are committed to centering the Virgin Islands as a site of inquiry and theorization beyond a notion of utopia or space that is not meaningfully occupied.&#8221; As they work within the archives, VISCO reimagines Caribbean freedom through their research, scholarship, fiction, art, and community conversations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/files\/2024\/10\/VISCO.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5707 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/files\/2024\/10\/VISCO-1024x527.png\" alt=\"Logo of the Virgin Island Studies Collective (VISCO). Four panels with portraits of Black women.\" width=\"960\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/files\/2024\/10\/VISCO-1024x527.png 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/files\/2024\/10\/VISCO-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/files\/2024\/10\/VISCO-768x395.png 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/files\/2024\/10\/VISCO-1536x790.png 1536w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/files\/2024\/10\/VISCO-2048x1053.png 2048w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/files\/2024\/10\/VISCO-363x188.png 363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The website launch comes on the heels of VISCO&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/visco.ecdsdev.org\/2024\/07\/08\/decolonial-feelin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dECOlonial Feelin Symposium<\/a> organized by <a href=\"https:\/\/english.emory.edu\/home\/people\/bios\/yanique-tiphanie.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tiphanie Yanique<\/a>, Emory Professor of English and Creative Writing. Hosted by Emory University and Clark Atlanta University during September 19-21, the symposium highlighted the use of art, poetry, philosophy, storytelling, anthropology, and spiritual practice in imagining, restoring, and creating more equitable worlds for us all. Read a <a href=\"https:\/\/stthomassource.com\/content\/2024\/09\/22\/a-fire-burning-within-insights-from-the-decolonial-feelin-symposium-at-clark-atlanta-university-and-emory-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recap of the symposium here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing the launch of the Virgin Islands Studies Collective Website! 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