Digital Humanities Colloquium
November 16: David Bodenhamer, “Developing the Spatial Humanities: More than GIS”
Nov. 16, 2016—Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities (344 Buttrick Hall), Wednesday, November 16, 4:10 p.m. Developing the Spatial Humanities: More than GIS What contributions have spatial technologies such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) made to the humanities—and what problems have they raised for humanists and social scientists? This presentation explores how scholars are reaching beyond GIS to...
October 29: Amanda Visconti, “Public + Participatory: Infinite Ulysses and a more open humanities”
Oct. 29, 2016—Curb Center, Saturday, October 29, 10:00 am Keynote Address for Vanderbilt THATCamp Public + Participatory: Infinite Ulysses and a more open humanities We need more digital humanities projects that aren’t just hypothetically accessible to the public (“we put it on the web: everyone can now use it”), but are designed for supporting, valuing, and growing...
October 27: A Decade of Digital Humanities at Vanderbilt: Roundtable Discussion of the Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies Digital Archive
Oct. 27, 2016—Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities (344 Buttrick Hall), Thursday, October 27, 4:10 pm A Decade of Digital Humanities at Vanderbilt: Roundtable Discussion of the Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies Digital Archive This panel will discuss some of the trials and triumphs of our international team who for more than a decade have worked...
A Decade in Digital: Collaborations with the ESSSS Digital Archive
Oct. 27, 2016—Hello Everyone, I’m Angela Sutton, one of the postdoctoral fellows at the Digital Humanities Center here at Vanderbilt. I also have the privilege of working with the brand-new office of the digital archive of Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies (ESSSS), right around the corner in Buttrick 341. The archive holds over 600,000 unique...