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April 14 – 15, 2023 Spring Conference
Mar. 30, 2023—Digital Humanities Against Dark Times Please join us for the Center for Digital Humanities’ two-day Spring conference. Digital Humanities Against Dark Times provides a venue for discussing digital humanities work that engages with emerging and ongoing crises of our moment, including rising political extremism and polarization, racism, colonial exploitation, gender marginalization, data capitalism and new...
Friday, April 7: Plating the Past
Mar. 30, 2023—Join us at the Center for Digital Humanities this Friday, April 7, for a lunchtime discussion of Plating the Past: A Year with the NCNW Cookbook with creators Abena Boakyewa-Ansah, University of North Carolina-Asheville, and Kayleigh Whitman, PhD Candidate in History, Vanderbilt University. Friday, April 7, 12:00 pm, 1101 19th Ave. S. Room 108 Lunch...
Digital Humanities Bootcamp 2022
Aug. 11, 2022—Curious about Digital Humanities? Have a digital project idea that needs a kick start? Looking for ways to get creative in your research? Hoping to connect with other digitally engaged scholars? Register here https://forms.gle/B9pRN9rHq46ztn7n8 and join us online this August 18-19, 2022 for our sixth annual Digital Humanities Bootcamp, an intensive hands-on introduction to digital humanities...
Digital Project Microgrants
Sep. 28, 2021—The Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities announces digital project microgrants for 2021-2022. These awards are intended to jump-start faculty projects involving digital technology and research in the humanities or qualitative social sciences. We encourage the development of project teams that include graduate and undergraduate students. Collaborations between faculty members are also encouraged. Any Vanderbilt faculty...
Call for Mellon Partners for Humanities Education Collaboration Grants
Jul. 1, 2021—Call for Mellon Partners for Humanities Education Collaboration Grants The Mellon Partners for Humanities Education program is pleased to announce the fourth and final round of collaborative grants to support the shared teaching and research goals of faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences from our consortium of partner institutions: Berea College, Fisk University,...
Welcome DH fellows for 2020-2021!
Jun. 24, 2020—We are delighted to announce the Mellon Digital Humanities fellows group for 2020-2021. Faculty fellows: Laura Carpenter – Sociology Holly McCammon – Sociology Rebecca VanDiver – History of Art Post-doctoral fellows: Melanie Forehand – Spanish and Portuguese Elizabeth Barna – Sociology Graduate fellows: Sahai Couso Diaz – Spanish and Portuguese and CMAP Caroline Colquhoun –...
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...
June 21-22, 2019: Mellon Digital Pedagogy Symposium
May. 28, 2019—The 2019 Mellon Digital Pedagogy Symposium offers a focused, hands-on introduction to undergraduate humanities teaching using digital methods – both commonplace (e.g. Twitter, podcasts) and potentially unfamiliar (e.g. interactive timelines, digital exhibits, video essays). Register now to take part in workshops, seminars, and breakout discussion sessions on: Exploring successful digital projects for humanities education Creating,...
April 23: Conversation on Digital Literary Studies with Don Rodrigues
Apr. 19, 2019—Tuesday, April 23, 1:00-2:30 pm, Center for Digital Humanities (344 Buttrick) A Conversation on Digital Literary Studies with Don Rodrigues On Tuesday, April 23 from 1:00-2:30 pm, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Don Rodrigues (English, Vanderbilt University, 2018) will discuss his scholarship and experiences at the intersection of digital humanities and the study of English literature. He...