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Wednesday, April 26: Faculty Project Showcase & Reception
Apr. 21, 2023—Join us this Wednesday, April 26 for DH Center’s final events: a showcase of the 2022-2023 faculty incubation projects and a reception to honor the end of seven good years at Vanderbilt. Wednesday, April 26 1101 19th Ave. S. 3:30 pm: Showcase of Faculty Incubation Grant projects Carwil Bjork-James, Anthropology, “Ultimate Consequences: A Digital Archive...
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...
AI <3 You – Poetry and Bibliography.
Feb. 23, 2023—On March 10th, the Center for Digital Humanities, along with The Curb Center and the Data Science Institute came together to celebrate an event on AI and poetry. Here are some of the poems that participants sent us, and some bibliography on generative AI that we would like to share. Poetry: Edna St Vincent Millay,...
Thursday, February 23: Edward Wright-Ríos, “Posting the Journey to Juquila…”
Feb. 9, 2023—Posting the Journey to Juquila: Pilgrimage, Digital Devotion, and Social Media in Mexico Join us for a virtual talk with Edward Wright-Ríos, Vanderbilt Mellon Foundation Chair in Humanities, Department of History, about his recent research on social media and the practice of digital devotion. Thursday, February 23 3:30-5:00 pm Central Download the paper. Connect to...
Thursday, February 16: Crowdsourcing and Transcription
Feb. 9, 2023—In this workshop, we’ll explore two platforms that can be used alone or in combination: Zooniverse, for enlisting the help of enthusiasts outside the academy, no matter your research field. Transkribus, for structuring and even automating the transcription of archival manuscript pages. Thursday, February 16 3:30-5:00 pm Center for Digital Humanities
Tuesday, February 14: Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon
Jan. 25, 2023—The Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities and the Black DH Working Group will host a Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon on the Vanderbilt campus this February 14, 2023. Celebrated on Frederick Douglass’s chosen birthday, February 14, Douglass Day is a collective action for Black history. This year’s transcribe-a-thon will feature the papers of Mary Ann Shadd Cary:...
Tuesday, November 8: Discussion with Giovanni Zimotti
Oct. 27, 2022—Virtual Worlds: From Arts to Professional Applications Without Leaving our Classrooms 3:00 pm Central, Center for Digital Humanities (1101 19th Ave. S., Room 108) Giovanni Zimotti, Director of Spanish Language Instruction at the University of Iowa, will discuss his work developing and curating Virtual Reality environments to support language acquisition and transcultural contact. On...
Monday, October 24: Conversations with Carsten Strathausen
Oct. 20, 2022—The Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities is delighted to welcome Carsten Strathausen, Professor of English and German and Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair in Humanities at the University of Missouri, for a series of events this October. Introducing Adapting Kafka: Objectives, Methodology, Results Monday, October 24, 10:30 am-12:00pm, Center for Digital Humanities Join us to learn...
2021-2022 Working Groups
Aug. 20, 2022—Past Working Groups Spatial Humanities Working Group Jul. 10, 2021—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 Maps, and Mapbox, as well as representative projects in the digital humanities. In...
2022-2023 Undergraduate Opportunities
Aug. 16, 2022—Undergraduate Practicum Awards In 2022-2023, the Center for Digital Humanities will award a number of $1,000-$2,500 awards to support undergraduate involvement in digital humanities project labs led by Vanderbilt faculty. Working Groups, Public Events, Immersion Undergraduate students are always welcome to join the working groups, workshops, and events hosted at the DH Center. DH Center...