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The Parábolas of Spanish Civil War Exiles in Mexico
Apr. 29, 2020—A presentation by Melanie Forehand, 2019-2020 Graduate Fellow
April 17: Se Young Kim on The Emergence and Future of Video Game Studies
Apr. 15, 2019—Wednesday, April 17, Center for Digital Humanities Lunchtime discussion with Se Young Kim on The Emergence and Future of Video Game Studies Video games are among the most powerful, pervasive, and lucrative cultural forms of our time. Discuss the emerging field of video game studies– major interpretive strategies, analytical approaches, research angles, and position in...
Linked Data Working Group
Jan. 30, 2019—Linked Data Working Group Mondays, 12:10- 1:00 pm, Eskind Library Training Room Anyone who is interested in Linked Data, graph databases, the Semantic Web, JSON-LD, or any other related topic is welcome to attend. We also would love to have remote participants from outside Vanderbilt. If you are interested in remoting in, or if you...
XQuery Working Group
Jan. 30, 2019—XQuery Working Group Fridays, 2:10-3:00 pm, Center for Digital Humanities (344 Buttrick) XQuery is a programming language that works seamlessly with XML and other forms of data. XQuery is a great language to learn if you are working with semi-structured data of any sort—literary texts encoded in TEI, bibliographic data in JSON, or even tabular...
Race, Gender, and Technology Working Group
Jan. 30, 2019—Race, Gender, and Technology Working Group Alternate Fridays, 1:00-2:00 pm, Center forDigital Humanities (344 Buttrick) The Race, Gender, and Technology Working Group will meet every other week at the Center for Digital Humanities on Fridays at 1 p.m., starting January 25, 2019. The purpose of the group is to engage members in key conversations regarding race,...
Library Digital Scholarship Workshop: Tools for Creating Multimodal Works
Jan. 30, 2019—Library Digital Scholarship Workshop: Tools for creating multimodal works 11:10am-12:00 pm, 418a Central Library Are you looking to create multimodal works? This workshop will look at how to leverage Adobe tools like Photoshop and Illustrator to enhance your digital scholarship. See the Scholarly Communications Digital Scholarship Workshops webpage for more information: https://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/scholarly/workshops.php If...
GIS Working Group
Jan. 29, 2019—GIS Working Group Wednesdays, 12:10-1:00 pm, Eskind Library Training Room If you have an interest in learning GIS for digital mapping projects, come to the GIS working group and learn from the ground up in smart, supportive company. Using traditional ArcGIS and open source software like QGIS and R, this working group will explore...
Humanities Data Workshop Series
Oct. 26, 2018—Humanities Data Workshop Series and Working Group This program of linked workshops is designed to help humanities scholars at any level gain experience with data in ways that are relevant to their own research work. Workshops will build on one another in sequence, but anyone may attend any session without concern for prerequisites or prior...
Apply by 10/28: HASTAC Scholars 2018-2019
Oct. 15, 2018—$500 DIGITAL HUMANITIES STIPEND OPPORTUNITY FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS: APPLY HERE The Vanderbilt HASTAC network is now accepting applications for the 2018-19 HASTAC Scholars Program. Graduate students interested in learning more about digital humanities and gaining hands-on experience are encouraged to apply. HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) is a global network of individuals...
October 29: Sara Galetti, “Mapping Stereotomy: Vaulting in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean”
Oct. 4, 2018—Monday, October 29, 4:10 pm Center for Digital Humanities, 344 Buttrick Hall Sara Galletti, “Mapping Stereotomy: Vaulting in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean” Stereotomy—the art of cutting stones into particular shapes for the construction of vaulted structures—has been practiced over a wide chronological and geographical span, from Hellenistic Greece to contemporary Texas. Yet the history...