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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...
Kellie Cavagnaro: Announcing a New Digital Humanities-Enhanced Course for Undergraduates!
Oct. 11, 2017—Anthropologist Kellie Cavagnaro is a Mellon Graduate Fellow in Digital Humanities and a Fellow in Vanderbilt’s Comparative Media Analysis and Practice (CMAP) joint-PhD program. Building on her Digital Humanities and CMAP experiences, she will offer a new undergraduate course this Spring, that will integrate a series of curricular and instructional designs that connect students with on-campus media experts, and...
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...
Angela Sutton: Digital Initiatives for Public Engagement: Storytelling and Oral Histories of the Descendants of Fort Negley
Sep. 27, 2017— Digital Initiatives for Public Engagement: Storytelling and Oral Histories of the Descendants of Fort Negley There is a fortification on St. Cloud Hill, right next to Nashville’s Adventure Science Center, called Fort Negley. Beneath it are buried countless stories untold that we may never get a chance to recover. This fort played a pivotal role...
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...
2017 Digital Humanities Bootcamp
Jul. 24, 2017—SCHEDULE for Digital Humanities Bootcamp RESOURCES for Digital Humanities Bootcamp Interested in the August 14 half-day Quick and Useful Guide to Digital Humanities instead? Vanderbilt Digital Humanities Bootcamp This intensive three-day program is designed for faculty and graduate students who: Have an interest in incorporating digital methods into their scholarship but aren’t sure how...
August 14: A Quick and Useful Guide to Digital Humanities
Jul. 17, 2017—Interested in the three-day Digital Humanities Bootcamp instead? A Quick and Useful Guide to Digital Humanities RESOURCES for the program available here. This half-day program is designed for Vanderbilt humanities faculty who: Want to develop a more informed opinion about digital humanities scholarship in the academy and in their disciplines Need to advise graduate students...
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...