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6. 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...

7. 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...

9. Why Use Digital Methods in Arts and Humanities? (55:36)

Date:
September 12, 2019
Main contributors:
Kalani L. Craig; Michelle Dalmau; Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities
Summary:
Digital image manipulation, social network analysis and data mining can change our perceptions of the world around us, but they also require careful critical use. This presentation will take arts &...

10. 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...

11. 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...

12. 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...

13. Why Use Digital Methods in Arts and Humanities Classrooms? (58:16)

Date:
September 25, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Kalani L. Craig; Michelle Dalmau
Summary:
We're all buried in the digital world when we work on our own arts & humanities projects - whether it's reading the digital copy of an article, snapping smartphone photos of related work, or collab...

15. Choosing a Digital Method: Mapping (44:17)

Date:
September 7, 2017
Main contributors:
Mia Partlow
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 ...

16. Choosing a Digital Method: Data Mining (35:47)

Date:
August 31, 2017
Main contributors:
Kalani L. Craig
Summary:
Data mining encompasses a several different approaches to exploring large swaths of information, from the open largely unstructured text of the novel to the structured world of social-network entri...

18. Dismantling Borders' Toxic Discourses and Colonial Cultural Records (1:00:52)

Date:
November 20, 2019
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.-Mexi...

19. Approaches to public data and archives: Mapping as a form of activism (1:18:08)

Date:
November 20, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities ; Sylvia Fernandez
Summary:
Toxic discourses towards the Mexico-United States borderland and its communities have continuously altered history, social dynamics, culture, among other things that are part of this region. Meanwh...

20. Academic Libraries; Mapping; Public Engagement; Public Participation (1:30:02)

Date:
November 20, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities; Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Summary:
Working in public, and with the public, can enable scholars to build vital, sustainable research communities, both within their fields, with other scholars in different fields, and with folks off-c...

22. 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...

24. 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...

25. 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...

28. 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...

29. Data for Digital Arts and Humanities Research (1:01:00)

Date:
September 26, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Sara Duke; Michelle Dalmau
Summary:
Digital methods such as mapping, data visualization and network analysis offer opportunities to interrogate, explore, and answer research questions. What underlies each of these digital methods are...

30. Scholarly Communications for Arts and Humanities (1:08:07)

Date:
October 1, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Kalani L. Craig; Michelle Dalmau
Summary:
While we often think about the end form - website, digital journal, online resource - when we talk about digital scholarly communications, the work of digital arts and humanities publishing starts ...

32. Geographies of Disruption: Mapping to Make Sense of 2020's Sociopolitical Upheaval (44:00)

Date:
November 10, 2020
Main contributors:
Christy Hyman, University of Nebraska Lincoln; Erik Nelson, Indiana University Bloomington; Arrianna Planey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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 rang...

40. Placing Environmental Lead Exposure on Notice (46:19)

Date:
November 16, 2020
Main contributors:
Erik Nelson
Summary:
Lead is a ubiquitous environmental contaminant that causes numerous adverse health effects in children, particularly neurological and neurobehavioral deficits, lower IQ, slowed growth, and anemia. ...

45. Why use Digital Methods in Arts & Humanities Research? (1:01:00)

Date:
August 26, 2022
Main contributors:
Pouyan Shahidi; Vanessa Elias
Summary:
A hands-on workshop on approaches and tools for digital research. This hands-on workshop will introduce you to approaches and tools for conducting digital arts and humanities research. We will begi...

51. Factivity of Emotive Verbs in Spanish (03:16)

Date:
April 5, 2024
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 e...

55. A Geography of Occupations (04:03)

Date:
April 5, 2024
Main contributors:
Mikaela Martinez Dettinger
Summary:
Holocaust Memorialization in the Baltic States is fraught with competing memory narratives stemming from the spatial and chronological proximity of Soviet violence and the Holocaust. This project s...

58. Digital Opacities: Remediating the History of Medicine (04:03)

Date:
April 5, 2024
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 generall...

70. Bringing the Field Recording Home: Sampling the Everyday (1:24:00)

Date:
March 12, 2021
Main contributors:
Andrew (Drew) Daniel ; M.C. (Martin) Schmidt
Summary:
Where, exactly, is “the field” implied by field recording? Can you make a “field recording” inside your own home? What does the widespread dissemination of portable recording devices mean for the f...

74. Ethics in GIS & Community Mapping (1:41:00)

Date:
November 17, 2021
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 r...

75. When All Things Could Speak (24:39)

Date:
April 22, 2022
Main contributors:
Sarah Martin
Summary:
With my project, "When All Things Speak" I've been working on the artistic work that blends archival research, digital design, and folklore specific to the central and Southern central regions of I...

80. Women and Citations in Jewish Studies (19:10)

Date:
April 22, 2022
Main contributors:
Sarah Imhoff
Summary:
Women make up about half of Jewish Studies scholars, and they are 42% of tenure-track faculty at R1 universities. Yet in peer reviewed journals, women made up only about a quarter of cited authors....

81. Intro to Humanities Data: Transforming Evidence into Data (55:15)

Date:
January 16, 2018
Main contributors:
Michelle Dalmau; Mia Partlow
Summary:
Digital tools for mapping, data visualization, and network analysis offer opportunities to discover, answer, and present research for scholars working in the arts and humanities. But these methods ...

86. Antiwar Sentiment in German Storytelling Traditions (03:29)

Date:
April 5, 2024
Main contributors:
Claire Woodward
Summary:
My dissertation traces patterns of empathy in German storytelling from the last 200 hundred years. While doing close readings of dramas, novels, film, and museums, I also used textual analysis to e...

90. Alternative Food Media as Site of Radical Praxis (03:30)

Date:
April 14, 2023
Main contributors:
Mallika Khanna
Summary:
In 2012, before beginning an overhaul of its public communications service that produced LinkNYC, the City of New York relied on 13 telecom companies to provide service to its network of public pay...

91. The Artist Augmented: AI in the studio (03:30)

Date:
April 14, 2023
Summary:
The Artist, Augmented: AI in the Studio is an art and writing project that explores the impact of generative AI on the artistic process from the perspective of an artist practitioner. Through a ser...

92. Harnessing DH to Write and Teach Black Women's History (59:31)

Date:
April 14, 2023
Main contributors:
Jazma Sutton
Summary:
This talk will chronicle Dr. Jazma Sutton's interests in the Digital Humanities and how she uses it's tools and resources to amplify the voices and experiences of Black women in the rural Midwest. ...