Event Archives
2020-2021 Working Groups
Aug. 26, 2020—Social Justice and Public Humanities Working Group Sep. 22, 2020—This group will be examining theoretical and practical examples of how digital and public humanities can encourage inclusion and facilitate community outreach. We will also discuss issues of access and issues of privilege, power, and perspective. Meetings via Zoom. To join the group and access the...
2019-2020 Working Groups
Aug. 26, 2019—The Center hosts a number of working groups for scholarly discussion, project development, and skills training. See below for schedules and details. Spatial Humanities The Spatial Humanities working group will investigate technologies, scholarly methods, and political practices related to geospatial data in humanistic research. It will survey a range of tools, including ArcGIS, QGIS, Story...
2018-2019 Working Groups
Aug. 26, 2018—The Center hosts a number of working groups for project development, scholarly discussion, and skills training. See below for meeting times and details about our groups. Fort Negley Working Group: Digital Tools for Social Engagement Feb. 4, 2019—Fort Negley Working Group Alternate Tuesdays, 11:00 am, Center for Digital Humanities (344 Buttrick) Expanding on the work...
March 1-2: Mountains and Spatial History Workshop
Mar. 2, 2018—Thursday, March 1, 4:00-6:00 pm, Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities (344 Buttrick Hall) Friday, March 2, 9:00 am -1:30 pm, Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities (344 Buttrick Hall) “Mountain Spaces” will include environmental, mapping and cultural historical perspectives of mountains, with a central/east European focus. Participants from Vanderbilt include Helmut Smith, Ruth Rogaski, Emily Greble, Johnathon Speed, Matthew...
Maxime Durand
Dec. 16, 2017—From Dreams to Realities; Performing History in the Assassin’s Creed® video game series The past is a scattered jigsaw puzzle we feel driven to reconstruct, despite the challenges of lost models and many missing pieces. The teams working on Assassin’s Creed have mastered a unique method to interpret the past through breathtaking digital environments. From...
Digital Humanities Colloquium
Dec. 16, 2017—Thursday, October 27, 4:10 p.m. Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities, 344 Buttrick Hall A Decade of Digital Humanities at Vanderbilt: Roundtable Discussion of the Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies Digital Archive Saturday, October 29, 10:00 a.m. Curb Center Vanderbilt THATCamp keynote address Amanda Visconti, “Public + Participatory: Infinite Ulysses and a more...
April 19, 2017: Lynn Ramey, “Learning Medieval Culture through 3D Immersion: Problems and Possibilities”
Apr. 19, 2017—Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities Wednesday, April 19, 4:10 pm Learning Medieval Culture through 3D Immersion: Problems and Possibilities 3D modeling has become commonplace in certain academic fields like archeology and art history because of the ability to safely explore and share fragile or inaccessible artifacts and environments. However, literary and language studies have not...
April 5, 2017: Matthew Jockers, “Novel Analytics from James Joyce to The Bestseller Code”
Apr. 5, 2017—Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities Wednesday, April 5, 4:10 pm Novel Analytics from James Joyce to The Bestseller Code To better understand bestselling fiction, Matthew Jockers and research partner Jodie Archer took the advice of Google researchers who argue that we should “embrace complexity and make use of the best ally we have: the unreasonable...
March 23, 2017: Jessica Marie Johnson, “Fugitives in the Machine: Teaching Black Resistance in a Digital Age”
Mar. 23, 2017—Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities Thursday, March 23, 4:10 pm Fugitives in the Machine: Teaching Black Resistance in a Digital Age Enslaved people of African descent imagined that another world was possible–and then sought to “make this world anew.” What does it mean to teach those histories of slavery in a moment where historicized narratives from...
March 15, 2017: Steve Wernke, “Spatial Ethnohistory: Irreducible Landscapes in the Colonial Andes”
Mar. 15, 2017—Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities Wednesday, March 15, 4:10 pm Spatial Ethnohistory: Irreducible Landscapes in the Colonial Andes If, as Patricia Seed once observed, “Spanish colonialism produced the census, British colonialism the map,” there might seem to be little hope for resuscitating the spatial dimensions of Spanish colonialism in the Americas. But if the Spanish...