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February 15 Drop-In: Technology A-Team
Feb. 15, 2018—Talk to the Technology A-Team Drop by to pitch, plan, or troubleshoot your digital project with a panel of consultants representing a broad range of technological support and computing offices at Vanderbilt. Sign up in advance by emailing m.casad@vanderbilt.edu, or just stop in.
Juliet Larkin-Gilmore: Frederick Douglass Day 2018
Feb. 15, 2018—Although Frederick Douglass was born into bondage, and never knew his birthdate, he chose to celebrate every year on February 14. Members of the Vanderbilt community gathered to celebrate Douglass’ elected birthday and his legacy by transcribing documents from the Freedmen’s Bureau Papers, making these important records more accessible to researchers worldwide, in a multi-institutional event organized by the Colored...
February 16: Discussion with Lisa Reilly
Feb. 15, 2018—Friday, February 16 2:00-3:30 pm, Center for Digital Humanities (344 Buttrick Hall) Roundtable discussion, “Architecture and Environment Research in the Digital Age” Lisa Reilly, School of Architecture, University of Virginia Scholars and teachers who deal with the built and ‘natural’ environments now have at their disposal a variety of means for understanding how spaces are...
February 14: Frederick Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon
Feb. 13, 2018—Frederick Douglass’ 200th Birthday and Transcribe-a-thon Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities, 344 Buttrick Hall 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Although Douglass was born into bondage, and never knew his birthdate, he chose to celebrate every year on February 14. Celebrate his elected birthday and his legacy by joining together with others to transcribe documents from the Freedmen’s Bureau...
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...
Just Published: Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South
Jan. 19, 2018—Congratulations to Professor Kim Welch, DH Faculty Fellow, on the publication of her new book, Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South!
Jenifer Dodd: Data Curation: Simple Tools for Starting Projects
Jan. 15, 2018—The first step for much digital humanities work is data curation: collecting data, putting it into a format that makes sense for your project, and making sure it doesn’t contain any mistakes. While some DH technologies have steep learning curves, data curation can be done by anyone. Data Curation: Simple Tools for Starting Projects ArcGIS,...
Gabriela Ore: To Code or Not To Code
Dec. 4, 2017—As archaeologists, do we need to code? No. Will it help our research, or will it make a substantial difference? Mmm …, no. Do we need to collaborate? Will it help our research, will it make a substantial difference? Yes. To code or not to code This is the question that I posed as part of one...
Ted Dawson: On Cyber Monday I turned off my router: Slowness in the Digital Humanities
Nov. 29, 2017—On Cyber Monday I turned off my router: Slowness in the Digital Humanities I’ve never shopped on “Black Friday.” Maybe it’s that I don’t like waiting in lines, but I like to think it’s because the celebration of consumer capitalism isn’t my thing. I prefer spending the Friday after Thanksgiving relaxing, taking walks, enjoying the...