Workshop leader: Dr. Seanna Viechweg
September 2026 (date to be announced)
What does it mean to sit with what an archive cannot say—and to imagine from that silence? This workshop invites educators, community organizers, and curious participants into a hands-on exploration of archival gaps, misrepresentation, and speculative reinterpretation as a pedagogical and creative method.
Drawing on Seanna Viechweg’s Folkloric Futures project—an Omeka-based digital archive of Caribbean folkloric figures—and her Digital Speculative Pedagogy workshop series, this session takes up a question at the heart of HeritEdge’s work with so-called “runaway” ads: What stories do archives tell, and what stories do they leave out?
Together, participants will practice reading archival silences, experiment with metadata as interpretation, and explore how speculation functions as a way of asking “what if?” when the historical record falls short.
No technical experience required.
Bio
Seanna Viechweg (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is an educator, Digital Humanist, and U.S. Fulbright alumna whose work sits at the intersection of Caribbean literary studies, Black speculative fiction, and digital pedagogy. As a Digital Humanities Fellow at UVA’s Scholars’ Lab, she developed Folkloric Futures, a digital speculative archive of Caribbean folkloric figures, and a three-part Digital Speculative Pedagogy workshop series. She currently works as an Outreach and Recruitment Specialist for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program at the Institute of International Education (IIE) in New York City.