Events
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
September 21: Talk and Play 01
Sep. 12, 2017—Talk and Play 01: Games, Protest, Resistance, and Organizing Thursday, September 21, Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities (344 Buttrick Hall), 6:00-8:00 pm Join us on Thursday, September 21st in the Center for Digital Humanities (Buttrick 344) from 6 – 8pm for the first monthly event of the Talk and Play critical gaming series. Over the course...