Start Over Unit Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities

44. 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...

45. 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...

46. 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...

47. 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...

48. 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...

50. 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...

51. 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...

52. 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...

53. Wu Faculty Fellow Presentation (30:58)

Date:
October 3, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Ellen Wu; Himani Bhatt
Summary:
OVERREPRESENTED places Asian Americans at the center of the intersecting histories of race-making, policy, and democracy in age of affirmative action. Three burning questions animate this study. Fi...

54. 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...

55. 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...

56. 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 ...

57. 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...