DH Center Blog
On Oatmeal and Digital Humanities
Oct. 20, 2020—by Melanie Forehand, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for the Digital Humanities Shortly before the coronavirus shutdown in March 2020, I did a podcast interview about a digital project that I had been working on with the Center for Second Language Studies. As a warm-up question, the host casually asked me what I had had for breakfast...
A More Expansive Role for Digital Humanists
Oct. 20, 2020—by Abraham Liddell, Mellon Graduate Student Fellow for the Digital Humanities 2020-2021 See the trailer for The Social Dilemma on Youtube. Since its Netflix release on September 9 of this year, the documentary film The Social Dilemma has driven some critical conversations about social media, algorithms, and the ability of technology companies to influence their...
The Belletristic Roots of Digital Humanities: A Retrospective Look at “The Long Way Round” (January 2020 DH Guest Lecture)
May. 18, 2020—On January 16th, 2020, The Center for Digital Humanities at Vanderbilt University welcomed Professors and Digital Humanists Brian Pytlik Zillig and Stephen Ramsay of the University of Nebraska. In their public lecture “The Long Way Around: Digital Modalities and Creative Convergence,” Zillig and Ramsay sought to spark a reimagined Digital Humanities (DH), to shift the commonly-held believe that the young practice seeks to “scientize” humanistic endeavor. This post authored by Meghan K. McGinley, 2019–2020 HASTAC Scholar
Announcing the 2020-2021 Mellon Fellowships
Feb. 10, 2020—The College of Arts and Science is now accepting applications for several fellowship opportunities during the 2020-21 academic year for recent Vanderbilt Ph.D. graduates, and current graduate students. These fellowships are generously supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant that funds the Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities, and all fellows are expected to participate...
International Image Interoperability Framework Workshop
Jan. 26, 2020—By Meghan K. McGinley, 2019–2020 Hastac Scholar In December of 2019, the Digital Cultural Heritage Cluster of the Center for Digital Humanities welcomed Ben and Sara Brumfield of Brumfield Labs to Vanderbilt University to hold a day-long workshop on the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). Preserving cultural heritage through digital means, IIIF creates overarching metadata...
Announcing the Cross-Campus Network for Digital Projects
Nov. 29, 2019—The Mellon Partners for Humanities Education are excited to announce the Cross-Campus Network for Digital Projects. This project recently recieved a grant to support pilot digitization projects at each Mellon Partners campus. These projects will highlight special archival collections from each campus and build on new digital infrastructure recently implemented across the Mellon Partners network. These new...
October 3-4, 2019: Ian Bogost — Humanities and Computing
Sep. 30, 2019—This week the Center for Digital Humanities and the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy will be hosting Ian Bogost, game designer, Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, and contributing editor at The Atlantic. We would love to have you and your students join us at the following events...
Digital Humanities Bootcamp 2019: Schedule of Workshops and Discussions
Apr. 9, 2019—Digital Humanities Bootcamp August 12-13, 2019 Draft Schedule of Workshops and Discussions Register here. Day One 8:30 am Breakfast 9:00 am Introduction: What is Digital Humanities? 9:30 am Assessment and review of digital humanities projects 10:45 am Break 11:00 am Digital archives, computational analysis, and public humanities: A Case Study of Freedom on the Move: A...
August 15-17: Digital Humanities Bootcamp 2018
Mar. 19, 2018—We’re pleased to announce the second annual Digital Humanities Bootcamp 2018, to be held August 15-17 on the Vanderbilt University campus. This intensive three-day program is designed for faculty and graduate students who: Have an interest in incorporating digital methods into their scholarship but aren’t sure how to get started May have some experience with specific...
Just Published: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene
Mar. 19, 2018—Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Fay of Cinema and Media Arts and CMAP on the publication of her new book, Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene!