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October 31: Talk and Play 02
Oct. 26, 2017—Talk and Play 02: Horror and Hypertext Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities (344 Buttrick Hall), 7:00-9:00 pm Join us on All Hallows’ Eve for a night of horror! During the second Talk and Play event for the 2017/2018 academic year, we’ll be playing Supermassive Games’ Until Dawn (2015), a trope-laden, branching-narrative, survival-horror game. Until...
Special Workshop on Network Analysis and Motion Pictures
Oct. 12, 2017—Workshop on Network Analysis and the Motion Pictures Thursday, Oct. 19, Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities (344 Buttrick Hall) 9:15 – 12:30 pm; Coffee and pastries served at 8:45 Social network analysis is a core method in the digital humanities, often used for understanding the relationships between characters, whether in historical or literary contexts. Participants...
Kellie Cavagnaro: Announcing a New Digital Humanities-Enhanced Course for Undergraduates!
Oct. 11, 2017—Anthropologist Kellie Cavagnaro is a Mellon Graduate Fellow in Digital Humanities and a Fellow in Vanderbilt’s Comparative Media Analysis and Practice (CMAP) joint-PhD program. Building on her Digital Humanities and CMAP experiences, she will offer a new undergraduate course this Spring, that will integrate a series of curricular and instructional designs that connect students with on-campus media experts, and...
Friday, October 27 – Saturday, October 28, 2017: THATCamp Vanderbilt 2017
Oct. 2, 2017—Keynote Speaker: Ryan Cordell, Northeastern University The Vanderbilt THATCamp (The Humanities And Technology Camp) is an annual unconference co-sponsored by the Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities, the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, the Center for Teaching, The Wond’ry, and the Jean and Alexander Heard Library. An unconference...
Angela Sutton: Digital Initiatives for Public Engagement: Storytelling and Oral Histories of the Descendants of Fort Negley
Sep. 27, 2017— Digital Initiatives for Public Engagement: Storytelling and Oral Histories of the Descendants of Fort Negley There is a fortification on St. Cloud Hill, right next to Nashville’s Adventure Science Center, called Fort Negley. Beneath it are buried countless stories untold that we may never get a chance to recover. This fort played a pivotal role...
October 28: Ryan Cordell, “Programmable Type: the Craft of Printing, the Craft of Code”
Sep. 26, 2017—Saturday, October 28, 10:00 am, at The Wond’ry, 2414 Highland Avenue, Suite 102 Keynote speaker for THATCamp Vanderbilt 2017 Ryan Cordell Ryan Cordell is Assistant Professor of English at Northeastern University and a Core Founding Faculty Member in the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. His scholarship focuses on convergences among literary, periodical, and religious culture in antebellum American mass...
Drop-in Consultation Hours, 2:30-4:00 pm Thursdays
Sep. 26, 2017—Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities Thursdays, 2:30-4:00 pm Working with Data | Mapping | Text Analysis | Social Media Scholarship | Multimodal Publishing | Assessment of Digital Projects | Technology A-Team Whether you’re a seasoned DHer with a specific problem to troubleshoot, or a neophyte hoping to learn more about digital tools and methods relevant...
Digital Initiatives in Community Engagement
Sep. 26, 2017—Meets alternate Tuesdays, 1:30-2:30 pm, at the Digital Humanities Center (344 Buttrick Hall) Public History and local archaeology: Fort Negley This working group will explore digital tools and platforms for community engagement and outreach, focusing on the history and archaeology of Fort Negley, a Civil War Heritage site built by hundreds of free and self-emancipated African Americans, which is...
ArcGIS Working Group
Sep. 26, 2017—Meets alternate Wednesdays, 1:00-2:00 pm, at the Digital Humanities Center (344 Buttrick Hall) If you have an interest in learning ArcGIS for digital mapping projects, come to the ArcGIS working group and learn from the ground up in smart, supportive company. (If you’re interested in exploring mapping technologies more generally, check out the Open Source...
Python Working Group
Sep. 26, 2017—Meets alternate Wednesdays, 1:00-2:00 pm, in the Digital Humanities Center (344 Buttrick Hall) If you’ve ever wanted to program in Python but haven’t had an opportunity to try, if you’ve wondered how to get started with coding for humanities research, or if you’d just like to learn more about how computers work in a casual,...