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161. Project Management Through Poster Design (38:12)

Date:
April 5, 2019
Main contributors:
Mary Borgo Ton; Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities
Summary:
Giving a poster presentation for a class or a conference? In the throes of a research project and need some clarity? This workshop explores poster design as a tool for organizing your research and ...

162. Research Driven Art (1:25:38)

Date:
March 19, 2019
Main contributors:
Caroline Sinders; Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
Summary:
Caroline Sinders is an artist and researcher exploring how new kinds of data sets, be it emotional data, traumatic data, or political data can then affect algorithms. How can these outputs be actua...

164. Network Analysis and Geography (1:05:55)

Date:
February 5, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Daniel Story; Kalani Craig
Summary:
Want to visualize and study a network in geographic space? We'll do a hands-on exercise with the powerful network analysis software Gephi. Learn about what files Gephi needs to create a network, so...

165. Introduction to Network Analysis Tools (1:00:40)

Date:
January 28, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities; Mary Borgo Ton; Kalani Craig
Summary:
Interested in using network analysis in your research or teaching? Come to this hands-on session where we will deal with the basics of cleaning and formatting your data and loading it into the simp...

166. 10_Telling War: An Exploration of Form (17:22)

Date:
January 15, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Lisa Silvestri
Summary:
With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Telling War, a veteran based initiative, explores manifestations of the veteran voice through a variety of story forms such as papermaki...

168. 02_Soldiers Write the War: World War II, Vietnam and the War on Terror (46:53)

Date:
January 14, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; John Bodnar
Summary:
This paper will explore the way American soldiers from three different wars wrote about their experiences. It will attempt to unravel the fragile relationship between patriotic accounts of war tha...

170. 04_Remembering Vietnam: An Experiment in Civic Engagement (43:46)

Date:
January 14, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; David S. Ferriero
Summary:
Ferriero will discuss the planning process for a major exhibit on the Vietnam War within the context of the mission of the National Archives. Particular focus will be on how the principles of Open...

173. 07_Who Gets to Tell the Vietnam War Story (18:55)

Date:
January 14, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Heather Stur
Summary:
For as much as has been written and produced about the Vietnam War, the voices telling the story have remained much the same. Historians and journalists have privileged American male combat veteran...

174. 08_Blood Sacrifice and Clashing American Narratives of the Vietnam War (18:31)

Date:
January 14, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Edward Linenthal
Summary:
The mass slaughter of 1864-1865 in the American Civil War eroded traditional belief in martial sacrifice as redemptive, blood shed for the new birth of the nation. Narratives in tension continued t...

176. FrankensTEIn: Teaching Archival Material through Mark-Up (1:04:34)

Date:
November 1, 2018
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-rec...

177. The Franken Assignment: Going Beyond the Essay (1:01:02)

Date:
October 24, 2018
Main contributors:
Mary Borgo Ton; Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
Summary:
Are you eager to try new forms of assignments but are not sure where to start? Looking for resources to help students build engaging and interactive final projects? In this workshop, we'll explore ...

178. Data Mining for Humanists (1:04:08)

Date:
September 25, 2018
Main contributors:
Kalani Craig; Michelle Dalmau; Tassie Gniady
Summary:
From the open, largely unstructured text of the novel, to the structured world of social-network entries, to the automated comparison of photographs on a pixel-by-pixel basis, data mining has a bro...

180. What Can Mapping and Spatial Analysis Do for You? (1:03:29)

Date:
September 25, 2018
Summary:
Digital mapping offers a variety of options that range in complexity from dropping a point on your smartphone's mapping application to analyzing statistical differences in different geographies to ...