DH Center Blog
Laura Hagele-Strömbergsson: Vanderbilt 2016 THAT Camp
Nov. 2, 2016—Every year, the Vanderbilt digital humanities community looks forward to fall not just because of the promise of slightly cooler weather, but also because of our annual THAT Camp. Short for “The Humanities and Technology”, this two-day un-conference for digital humanists across the Vanderbilt campus provides a wonderful opportunity to come together and learn as...
What Does it Mean to Connect?
Nov. 1, 2016—With the gigapixel imaging of the Google Art Project, you can get closer to Van Gogh’s Starry Night through your computer than you could by visiting the MoMA. Although this is totally cool–and you should definitely check it out if you haven’t yet–the novelty of digitization has worn off for many of us. We know...
A Decade in Digital: Collaborations with the ESSSS Digital Archive
Oct. 27, 2016—Hello Everyone, I’m Angela Sutton, one of the postdoctoral fellows at the Digital Humanities Center here at Vanderbilt. I also have the privilege of working with the brand-new office of the digital archive of Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies (ESSSS), right around the corner in Buttrick 341. The archive holds over 600,000 unique...
Introducing the Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities
Oct. 26, 2016—(Or, Hello World!) If you saw the announcements last spring, you already know that Vanderbilt University was awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Mellon foundation to create a new Center for Digital Humanities, a trans-institutional center located in Buttrick Hall, with support from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Office of the Provost....
Digital Dissertations Initiative
Oct. 13, 2016—Meets Alternate Thursdays, 1-2 pm, in the Digital Humanities Center, 344 Buttrick Hall. As research and communication practices associated with digital humanities gain acceptance within the academy, an increasing number of graduate students express interest in creating multimodal chapters or companions to their “traditional” humanities dissertations. This working group will investigate experiments with multimodal dissertations...