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- Date:
- 2024-04-05
- Main contributors:
- Sean Purcell
- Summary:
- Medical science’s long history of extractionism—especially in the United States from Black and Indigenous communities—hangs over the libraries and digital databases which knowledge workers generally work. So much of medicine’s history depends on the remains, biomater and biometrics stolen in the process of research. This paper presents a digital humanist intervention to this problem, through the description of the development and implementation of a custom built, open source digital dissertation template—the Opaque Online Publishing Platform (OOPP). The platform, built for a dissertation that interrogates the moments when human subjects were made into research objects (specimens) in the fight against tuberculosis, gives knowledge workers a set of tools to make their primary evidence opaque. Borrowed from postcolonial philosopher Eduard Glissant, opacity refers to an individual’s personal refusal to be ingested into western knowledge practices. Expanding this notion, the OOPP enables scholars to apply opacity back onto the bodies of exploited subjects reproduced in photographs, illustrations, and case studies so commonly found in biomedical research publications. The opacity practiced in the dissertation platform speculatively reimagines what medical history might look like if medical knowledge divested their exploitative objects.
- Date:
- 2019-11-20
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities, Sylvia Fernandez
- Summary:
- While cartography is a colonialist product when unrepresented individuals or communities utilize and recreate these tools they serve to contest a colonial cultural record. With respect to U.S.-Mexico borderlands, toxic discourses have continuously altered its history, social dynamics, culture, local and binational relationships. This presentation brings to the forefront initiatives that create alternative cartographies that challenge colonialist impositions such as: Borderlands Archives Cartography (BAC), a transborderlands project dedicated to locate, map and facilitate access to nineteenth and mid-twentieth century U.S.-Mexico borderlands newspapers; and Torn Apart / Separados, a mobilized humanities project that intervenes in the United States’ immigration debates with data narratives illuminating the effects of the government’s policy of separating families and the infrastructure subtending immigration enforcement. These initiatives use GIS tools to interpret data and archival material in new ways, enabling to see patterns otherwise invisible in static maps. BAC and Torn Apart digital maps and visualizations pose new questions contest established narratives, creates alternative forms of mapping and activate a knowledge production shaped from the ground-up. With this in mind, these alternative cartographies function as a historical and cultural record of the present and become resources to resist impositions in the future.
- Date:
- 2019-05-16
- Main contributors:
- Sara Duke, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
- Summary:
- My research project topic models the letters of Alexander Hamilton. I will compare the results of a topic model of Hamilton's outgoing correspondence from his arrival in the American colonies (after October 1772) to his death (July 1804) with the lyrics from Hamilton: An American Musical. In doing so, I study the extent to which the vocabulary of Hamilton's letters shape the musical's lyrics,and how this shift reflects changes in perceptions of his place within eighteenth-century American political culture. This project serves as the foundation for my MLIS digital humanities capstone project.
- Date:
- 2018-09-21
- Main contributors:
- Isabel Alvarez Echandi, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
- Summary:
- Date:
- 2024-04-05
- Main contributors:
- Lydia Nixon
- Summary:
- This project engages with two key questions in the field of empirical ecocriticism: How can literature matter in an era of climate crisis? And, what impact do environmental texts have on their audiences? I seek to expand this emergent field through a study of ecopoetry in social media spaces, examining how people interact with environmental poetry on Instagram. My project has primarily been concerns with laying a foundation for future research by 1) developing a methodology for studying user engagement, and 2) using text analysis tools such as Voyant to develop productive research questions. Ultimately, I argue that studying environmental poetry on Instagram can contribute to the field of empirical ecocriticism in two important ways: analyzing popular poems to understand how ecopoetry might reorient readers toward the nonhuman world, and analyzing poems with a high number of tagged users to understand what poetic elements tend to elicit a community-building reader response.
- Date:
- 2023-04-14
- Main contributors:
- Justin Bailey
- Summary:
- In 2021 Eskenazi School Assistant Professor and Justin Bailey began to develop computational design algorithms for drafting techniques in order to incorporate systematic design methods into his process of researching fabrication, form, and material in furniture and lighting as a method to output a variety of formal outcomes as iterations of the same code applied to varying. This method, built primarily on Computer Aided Design techniques, considers the connection points between two sides of a joint within the design fabrication process. Through this proposal, Justin Bailey hopes to use the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities Fellowship in conjunction with knowledge gained through the 2021 research to explore coding for material joints and connections in greater depth, focusing on code development, sustainable material use, and attachment methods within digitally fabricated forms to develop a resulting code and body of work used to create batch iteration works of functional furniture and lighting design.
- Date:
- 2021-11-17
- Main contributors:
- Edis Sánchez, Heather Sloan, Theresa Quill
- Summary:
- This workshop will begin with a discussion of ethics in working with spatial data, and features a special talk by researchers Edis Sanchez and Heather Sloan on ways to ethically conduct community research. Community Mapping and Participatory GIS are popular research methods that seek to engage research subjects as collaborators and empower communities. But these same tools can also unintentionally endanger vulnerable populations, or even outright exploit them. This workshop will begin with a discussion of ethics in working with spatial data, and features a special talk by researchers Edis Sanchez and Heather Sloan on ways to ethically conduct community research, using their project on traditional drum making in the Dominican Republic as an example.
- Date:
- 2024-04-05
- Main contributors:
- Joe Larson
- Summary:
- This project investigates emotive verbs in Spanish and their alleged factivity. Factivity was first described as a semantic property of certain predicates by Kiparkski and Kiparski (1970). Recent empirical studies with English data have found that factivity may not necessarily be entirely determined by the semantics of the verb, but rather subject to certain pragmatic and syntactic constraints. Thus, this project seeks to replicate these previous studies, but with Spanish data. Using two different corpora, one with journalistic data and the other with oral data, I extracted sentences with emotive predicates with que (corresponding to the relative pronoun that in English) complements. I then adopted different diagnostics for factivity from previous authors on English to Spanish with the goal of testing each sentence’s factivity. I obtained tentative results from my own judgment and diagnostics, which I plan on comparing to the judgements of native speakers.
- Date:
- 2023-04-14
- Main contributors:
- Claire Woodward
- Summary:
- Victim Stories are powerful in evoking emotional responses by portraying the process of suffering. I argue that before The First World War, German antiwar literature relied on impassioned emotional pleas whereas thereafter, characters are led by rational compassion, comparing affective character reactions to suffering in Bertha von Suttner's Lay Down Your Arms (1889) and Erich Maria Remarque's All is Quiet on the Western Front (1928). Von Suttner's novel focuawa on Martha, a woman not physically engaged in combative war but affected by widespread domestic harms from war and perceptive to those on the front. Alternatively, many post-Great War narratives suggest a sense of futility. War would-be heroes like Remarque's soldier Paul become victims of the chaotic war machine, surviving or dying entirely by chance and watching others condemned to the same fate. A textual analysis of word frequency in Lay Down Your Arms and All is Quiet on the Western Front demonstrates some key differences between these antiwar texts before and after The Great War in how the words "compassion," "pain," "happiness," and "death" (Mitleid, Schmerz, Glück, and Tod) appear. I also provide narrative arcs to differentiate the emotion-driven response of von Suttner's Martha with Remarque's rationally compassionate character Paul.
- Date:
- 2024-04-05
- Main contributors:
- Dhakir Abdullah
- Summary:
- This project serves as a springboard effort in seeking to foreground, through a digital library, the history that chronicles Herman C. Hudson’s role as Vice Chancellor of Afro-American Affairs, specifically, from the years 1970-1975, where he helped to create a unique and academically sound Black Studies department through administrative savvy and institution building. In this way it moves in much the same direction as this author’s dissertation and seeks to build upon it; yet the two research undertakings dovetail in that where the dissertation tells the story through discursive means, the digital library hopes to come to fruition in the form of a visual representation of that same history. On this background, and at present, this project seeks to provide a visual narrative of the ways in which Hudson became the first Vice Chancellor for Afro-American Affairs in 1970 while simultaneously becoming the founding chair of the then Afro-American Studies department. It is the author’s hope to preserve this important history through the digital sphere as an open educational resource which will make this history more accessible to those within and beyond the university walls. In providing this visual journey, the author places primary sources from different repositories in conversation with each other. For example, materials utilized were discovered at the Indiana University Archives, the Lilly Library, the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Archives and more in an effort to provide a more robust story of the aforestated happenings.
- Date:
- 2022-04-22
- Main contributors:
- Stokes, Brandon
- Summary:
- This project will examine the interviews conducted in my research on housing and the making of Black Chicago. Through oral interviews with former residents of different neighborhoods in Chicago, oral histories allow researchers to gain an understanding on how blackness seen through the eyes of everyday black people.These interviews and oral histories are a crucial component to understanding the culture of Black Chicago and assist a wider audience greatly in a compelling and original research on housing for African Americans in Chicago and contribute to the greater conversation regarding intersections of race, class, and policy. In this presentation, I will illustrate how oral histories give voice to everyday people and key pieces into gaining insight on Black people and the joys of everyday blackness. This project contributes to wider conversations surrounding Black Chicago and the future of Black people in the city and how the local history contributes to the present realities. The current crisis in many urban areas across the United States and looks at how issues such as community and housing have been addressed for the African American middle class and the urban poor. Through this conversation, I add how the oral histories of residents can contribute to current the policy discussions had within the urban Black communities concerning the intersection of race and class.
- Date:
- 2018-11-01
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities, Mary Borgo Ton
- Summary:
- How do we encourage students to read material closely and carefully? What can mark-up show us about the content and context of archival material? This workshop discusses TEI, an internationally-recognized mark-up language, as a framework for analyzing literature, historical documents, and images. We'll use a paper-based activity to explore the manuscript of Frankenstein with a particular focus on the content and editorial history of Mary Shelley's classic novel. No prior experience with mark-up languages needed!
- Date:
- 2021-03-01
- Main contributors:
- Allie Martin
- Summary:
- Like cities around the globe, Washington, DC has been gentrifying for decades. As a result, the city’s overall population has soared while the Black population has decreased from its peak Chocolate City status in the 1970s. These processes of gentrification are often studied longitudinally, where we see neighborhoods shift in racial demographics, socioeconomic status, and cultural formation over a given period of time. In this talk, I use a digital sound studies approach to recast gentrification as interruption, as jagged disruptions to everyday Black life in DC. These ruptures are a crucial part of the city’s gentrification story, and yet are often overlooked in favor of a more reductive narrative of displacement. Using music and soundscape analysis, I consider gentrification as the sonic disruption of Black life: through sirens, the displacement of music scenes, and the criminalization of sound. These stories, drawn from DC’s rapidly gentrifying Shaw neighborhood, are intended to broaden conversations about gentrification and help us to listen against everyday sonic harms.
- Date:
- 2020-11-10
- Main contributors:
- Christy Hyman, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Erik Nelson, Indiana University Bloomington, Arrianna Planey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Heidi Rae Cooley, University of Texas at Dallas, Girmaye Misgna, University of Pennsylvania
- Summary:
- Experts explore the disenfranchisement and disruptions of 2020, and examine how mapping can help us make sense of crucial issues both during this historic year and beyond. Five guests across a range of disciplines—including public health, media studies, digital humanities, and library science—came together for a moderated panel discussion to discuss issues related to political ecologies of health and disease, relationships between bodies and technology, data access and geospatial methodology as applied to humanities and social sciences.
- Date:
- 2020-11-17
- Main contributors:
- Arrianna Planey
- Summary:
- There is growing interest in geographic information science and spatial analysis in public health research and practice, with emphasis on place-based interventions. However, given the spatialization of social inequity, these tools and methods can be used to reproduce the status quo if we do not critically apply spatial thinking when we use spatial methods and tools for public health problems. In this talk, I impress the importance of place for public health and discuss potential remedies and directions.
- Date:
- 2023-11-13
- Main contributors:
- Pouyan Shahidi
- Summary:
- IU scholars from history to area studies, diaspora studies, art history, geography, history of science and more benefit from visualizing and analyzing data on maps in their research, teaching, and publications. Any piece of data that is associated with a location on the Earth can be visualized and analyzed using Global Information Systems (GIS) software. The end results, comprises a variety of digital assets including but not limited to digital maps, geospatial databases, charts, and web apps that can be published in, or linked to books, articles, and websites, or as independent databases to be used by other scholars. It is even possible to create “storymaps” on platforms that allow you unfold your narrative while taking your reader on a tour of visualized data on maps and using multimedia. Like in the case of other digital humanities methods, learning how to work with software and platforms is much easier that what the fancy outcome of them might suggest in the first glance. In this two-part asynchronous workshop, we intend to, first, give IU faculty and students an overview of what GIS can do for them through highlighting a few works by their peers; and second, to quickly direct them to easy-to-follow workflows that breakdown the process of build a digital mapping project into simple steps. These workflows, which can be used in your research projects or for your in-classroom pedagogical needs, covers a variety of ArcGIS desktop and online platforms. The contents of the workshop are a mixture of brief texts, screen shots and short screen recordings, as well as links to external sources for diving deeper into narrower technical matters. This asynchronous workshop will be gradually updated to cover more GIS skills that might be useful in humanities, arts, and social sciences.
- Date:
- 2023-11-13
- Main contributors:
- Pouyan Shahidi
- Summary:
- IU scholars from history to area studies, diaspora studies, art history, geography, history of science and more benefit from visualizing and analyzing data on maps in their research, teaching, and publications. Any piece of data that is associated with a location on the Earth can be visualized and analyzed using Global Information Systems (GIS) software. The end results, comprises a variety of digital assets including but not limited to digital maps, geospatial databases, charts, and web apps that can be published in, or linked to books, articles, and websites, or as independent databases to be used by other scholars. It is even possible to create “storymaps” on platforms that allow you unfold your narrative while taking your reader on a tour of visualized data on maps and using multimedia. Like in the case of other digital humanities methods, learning how to work with software and platforms is much easier that what the fancy outcome of them might suggest in the first glance. In this two-part asynchronous workshop, we intend to, first, give IU faculty and students an overview of what GIS can do for them through highlighting a few works by their peers; and second, to quickly direct them to easy-to-follow workflows that breakdown the process of build a digital mapping project into simple steps. These workflows, which can be used in your research projects or for your in-classroom pedagogical needs, covers a variety of ArcGIS desktop and online platforms. The contents of the workshop are a mixture of brief texts, screen shots and short screen recordings, as well as links to external sources for diving deeper into narrower technical matters. This asynchronous workshop will be gradually updated to cover more GIS skills that might be useful in humanities, arts, and social sciences.
- Date:
- 2023-11-13
- Main contributors:
- Pouyan Shahidi
- Summary:
- IU scholars from history to area studies, diaspora studies, art history, geography, history of science and more benefit from visualizing and analyzing data on maps in their research, teaching, and publications. Any piece of data that is associated with a location on the Earth can be visualized and analyzed using Global Information Systems (GIS) software. The end results, comprises a variety of digital assets including but not limited to digital maps, geospatial databases, charts, and web apps that can be published in, or linked to books, articles, and websites, or as independent databases to be used by other scholars. It is even possible to create “storymaps” on platforms that allow you unfold your narrative while taking your reader on a tour of visualized data on maps and using multimedia. Like in the case of other digital humanities methods, learning how to work with software and platforms is much easier that what the fancy outcome of them might suggest in the first glance. In this two-part asynchronous workshop, we intend to, first, give IU faculty and students an overview of what GIS can do for them through highlighting a few works by their peers; and second, to quickly direct them to easy-to-follow workflows that breakdown the process of build a digital mapping project into simple steps. These workflows, which can be used in your research projects or for your in-classroom pedagogical needs, covers a variety of ArcGIS desktop and online platforms. The contents of the workshop are a mixture of brief texts, screen shots and short screen recordings, as well as links to external sources for diving deeper into narrower technical matters. This asynchronous workshop will be gradually updated to cover more GIS skills that might be useful in humanities, arts, and social sciences.
- Date:
- 2023-11-13
- Main contributors:
- Pouyan Shahidi
- Summary:
- IU scholars from history to area studies, diaspora studies, art history, geography, history of science and more benefit from visualizing and analyzing data on maps in their research, teaching, and publications. Any piece of data that is associated with a location on the Earth can be visualized and analyzed using Global Information Systems (GIS) software. The end results, comprises a variety of digital assets including but not limited to digital maps, geospatial databases, charts, and web apps that can be published in, or linked to books, articles, and websites, or as independent databases to be used by other scholars. It is even possible to create “storymaps” on platforms that allow you unfold your narrative while taking your reader on a tour of visualized data on maps and using multimedia. Like in the case of other digital humanities methods, learning how to work with software and platforms is much easier that what the fancy outcome of them might suggest in the first glance. In this two-part asynchronous workshop, we intend to, first, give IU faculty and students an overview of what GIS can do for them through highlighting a few works by their peers; and second, to quickly direct them to easy-to-follow workflows that breakdown the process of build a digital mapping project into simple steps. These workflows, which can be used in your research projects or for your in-classroom pedagogical needs, covers a variety of ArcGIS desktop and online platforms. The contents of the workshop are a mixture of brief texts, screen shots and short screen recordings, as well as links to external sources for diving deeper into narrower technical matters. This asynchronous workshop will be gradually updated to cover more GIS skills that might be useful in humanities, arts, and social sciences.