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February 16: Discussion with Lisa Reilly
Feb. 15, 2018—Friday, February 16 2:00-3:30 pm, Center for Digital Humanities (344 Buttrick Hall) Roundtable discussion, “Architecture and Environment Research in the Digital Age” Lisa Reilly, School of Architecture, University of Virginia Scholars and teachers who deal with the built and ‘natural’ environments now have at their disposal a variety of means for understanding how spaces are...
February 14: Frederick Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon
Feb. 13, 2018—Frederick Douglass’ 200th Birthday and Transcribe-a-thon Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities, 344 Buttrick Hall 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Although Douglass was born into bondage, and never knew his birthdate, he chose to celebrate every year on February 14. Celebrate his elected birthday and his legacy by joining together with others to transcribe documents from the Freedmen’s Bureau...
February 8: Working with Data in Humanities Research
Feb. 8, 2018—2:30-4:00 pm Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities Troubleshoot an existing project or explore new methods for working with data in humanities scholarship. Topics for consultation include: Forms, methods, and software for data visualization Modeling and structuring humanities data Using spreadsheets and csv files Working with large and “tiny” data sets in your research materials
January 31: Patrick Jagoda, “Videogames as Experimental Method”
Jan. 24, 2018—Wednesday, January 31, 4:10 pm Center for Digital Humanities, 344 Buttrick Hall Patrick Jagoda Patrick Jagoda is Associate Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago. He is also a co-editor of Critical Inquiry and co-founder of both the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab and the Transmedia Story Lab. Most...
Just Published: Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South
Jan. 19, 2018—Congratulations to Professor Kim Welch, DH Faculty Fellow, on the publication of her new book, Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South!
A Digital Humanities Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Jan. 16, 2018—ANTH 1101, Anthropology SP 2018: M W 11:30- 12:45 | Cavagnaro Taught by Kellie Cavagnaro, Anthropology, CMAP, Mellon Graduate Fellow in Digital Humanities A Digital Humanities Introduction to Cultural Anthropology This course will engage texts, films and podcasts to explore the following questions: What is culture? What is understood as “natural,” or biological, versus “cultural”? How...
Jenifer Dodd: Data Curation: Simple Tools for Starting Projects
Jan. 15, 2018—The first step for much digital humanities work is data curation: collecting data, putting it into a format that makes sense for your project, and making sure it doesn’t contain any mistakes. While some DH technologies have steep learning curves, data curation can be done by anyone. Data Curation: Simple Tools for Starting Projects ArcGIS,...
Gabriela Ore: To Code or Not To Code
Dec. 4, 2017—As archaeologists, do we need to code? No. Will it help our research, or will it make a substantial difference? Mmm …, no. Do we need to collaborate? Will it help our research, will it make a substantial difference? Yes. To code or not to code This is the question that I posed as part of one...
Ted Dawson: On Cyber Monday I turned off my router: Slowness in the Digital Humanities
Nov. 29, 2017—On Cyber Monday I turned off my router: Slowness in the Digital Humanities I’ve never shopped on “Black Friday.” Maybe it’s that I don’t like waiting in lines, but I like to think it’s because the celebration of consumer capitalism isn’t my thing. I prefer spending the Friday after Thanksgiving relaxing, taking walks, enjoying the...
November 8: Zephyr Frank, “Dramatic Networks from Near and Far: Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Theater in Context”
Nov. 1, 2017—Wednesday, November 8, 4:10 pm Center for Digital Humanities, 344 Buttrick Hall Zephyr Frank Zephyr Frank is Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies at Stanford University, where he teaches history. He is the author, most recently, of Reading Rio de Janeiro: Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century (Stanford 2016). He founded and directed Stanford’s...