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6. 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...

9. 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...

10. 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...

12. 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...

14. 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...

17. 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. 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...

23. 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...

24. 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...

31. Audacity File Management (07:35)

Date:
October 11, 2021
Main contributors:
Sean Purcell
Summary:
Asynchronous pedagogy materials for digital storytelling.

33. Audacity Recording Audio (06:34)

Date:
October 11, 2021
Main contributors:
Sean Purcell
Summary:
Asynchronous pedagogy materials for digital storytelling.

36. Black Glitch in the Hour of Chaos (1:27:02)

Date:
November 30, 2016
Main contributors:
Marisa Parham
Summary:
How might we conceptualize "the digital” as a kind of mediation that articulates the time and space of diasporic experience? In answer, Parham's talk will explore rememory, affective excess, and gl...

38. 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...

41. 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...

42. Choosing a Digital Method: Making Digital Objects (52:29)

Date:
September 21, 2017
Main contributors:
Kalani L. Craig; Tassie Gniady
Summary:
From installations overlaid on the world around us to reprints of otherwise inaccessible archaeological finds that we can handle at will, digital objects help us interact with and understand the wo...

43. 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 ...

44. Chromik Lightning Talk (2019 Spring Symposium) (02:05)

Date:
May 16, 2019
Main contributors:
Joanna Chromik; Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
Summary:
This project examines publicly available statements about sex and sex work in light of the #MeToo movement and in response to the passing of the FOSTA-SESTA. It focuses on the online efforts of sex...