Events
Digital Humanities
Spatial Humanities & Digital Humanities Reading Group: Enchanting the Desert
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryThe Spatial Humanities interest group is hosting the first reading group event of the quarter. Explore the Stanford Press publication, Enchanting the Desert, and discuss the work with a group of faculty, graduate students and staff investigating how digital tools can enable visualization, representation and analysis of spatial questions. *Event will be hosted at the Digital […]
FreeFrom Concept to Project: A Digital Mapping Workshop for Graduate Students with Yoh Kawano
Humanities 1, Room 402Are you developing a digital map but feel unsure about your next steps? Or, having trouble reconciling the complexity of spatial theory with the nuts-and-bolts of GIS? Graduate students interested in mapping and integrating spatial thinking into their research should consider joining this workshop with Yoh Kawano. Kawano is the GIS Specialist at UCLA and a lecturer […]
FreeDigital Research Happy Hour
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGet to know the DH Research community to learn more about digital research on campus at an informal happy hour. We invite researchers across campus to discuss their work with a short, lightening style presentation. This is an opportunity to share our projects and meet new colleagues. Interested researchers are encouraged to send 1 slide that […]
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Digital Exhibit Building Symposium
McHenry Library, Digital CommonsThe Digital Exhibit Building Symposium will consider the value of curating digital exhibits, communicating with online audiences, and implementing new digital assignments in the classroom. We will also offer hands on workshops that can help you get started. By reorienting the conversation around digital exhibit building away from specific platforms, we will explore the process […]
Digital Pedagogy Round Table
McHenry Library, Room 1350Faculty and instructors from across the university will offer lightning talks about new assignments and classroom strategies that integrate technologies into their pedagogy. Join the Digital Pedagogy group for a broad introduction to innovative learning possibilities. The presentations will cover a broad range of topics, from digital exhibit building as a final class assignment to […]
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Building in Scalar and Exploring the Future of Scholarly Publishing Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 202With Craig Deitrich and Tara McPherson. This workshop will serve as an introduction to Scalar, a free, open source authoring and publishing platform designed for scholars writing media-rich, long-form, born-digital scholarship. Developed by The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture at the University of Southern California, Scalar allows scholars to assemble media from multiple sources and […]
FreeDesigning Digital Scholarship: Art, Feminism + the Digital Humanities
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWith Craig Deitrich (Claremont Colleges) and Tara McPherson (USC) The story of the digital humanities is often narrated at a decades-long history of the computational manipulation of print. What alternative histories are concealed by such a story? How might we imagine DH differently if we move beyond a focus on text toward multimodal expression and […]
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Anne MacNeil: “A new breed of critical edition: the role of digital humanities in transforming music scholarship”
Humanities 1, Room 202Hands on (Digital) Humanities with Prof. Anne MacNeil Anne MacNeil will give a demonstration of her digital humanities project, IDEA Music, and the new software toolkit, Prospect, that powers it. In the last year, MacNeil’s close collaboration with programmer Michael Newton (UNC Digital Innovation Lab) and other members of the DIL community in developing Prospect […]
FreeBrown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Wikipedia (CANCELED)
FITC, 1336 McHenry LibraryA hands-on workshop designed to construct innovative assignments using Wikipedia and its content editing platform. Building assignments that ask students to work on Wikipedia pages will help them: • Develop writing skills • Improve Media and Information Literacy • Refine Critical Thinking and Research Skills • Learn to work collaboratively The workshop will also include […]
FreeWORKSHOP: GIS for Humanists
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryLooking to start a mapping project? Curious about GIS? Start exploring the world of ArcGIS with Professors Elaine Sullivan and Barry Nickel. Join us for this introductory workshop. No previous experience with GIS necessary. Very Limited Seating. Registration Required. Preference will go to graduate students. Lunch will be served.
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