Events
Digital Humanities
Works in Progress Session: Mapping Liminal Jewish Spaces with Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer
Humanities 2, Room 259Literature graduate students, Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer will present their digital works-in-progress as part of their ongoing work related to the Venice Ghetto and Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination. Sponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment. Katie Trostel,"Shifting Zones of Memory": Digitally Mapping Marjorie Agosín's Cartographies: Meditations on Travel (2004)” […]
Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Film and Video
McHenry Library, Room 1350Join us to learn how to integrate film and video into your pedagogy. This workshop will include an introduction to the new Learning Glass in the FITC, which allows you to face the camera when you record a lecture with a “blackboard,” and discussion about creating video assignments. We will cover technology, tools, and instructions […]
Zephyr Frank: “Beyond Eyeballmetrics: Visualization and Analysis in Digital Scholarship”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPart of the Hands on (Digital) Humanities Series This talk explores the boundary between visualization and analysis in contemporary digital scholarship. It argues for a shift in focus from creating visualizations (and related tools) toward a more robust analytical practice based on quantitative measurement. In this sense, visualization is seen as a useful but often […]
Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Multimedia & Audio
FITC, 1336 McHenry LibraryInterested in creating multimedia presentations to support your lectures or creating short narrated videos that students can listen to before class? Join us over lunch to learn how. This workshop will include an introduction to the kinds of tools available for use in the FITC and a discussion about designing assignments that include multimedia and […]
WORKSHOP: Coding for Humanists with Fabiola Hanna
Humanities 2, Room 259Interested in coding, but not sure where to start? Fabiola Hanna, a new media artist and PhD Candidate in the department of Film and Digital Media, will walk us through the basics of coding for the web. Following Hanna’s short introductory workshop in December, this more intensive session will offer instruction for writing in HTML, styling with CSS, and […]
Digital Humanities Reading Group
Cowell Senior Commons Room Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHypercities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities by Todd Presner, David Shepard, and Yoh Kawano Join the Digital Humanities Working Group will meet to discuss Hypercities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities. Elaine Sullivan will lead our discussion about Hypercities and the impact of mapping on Humanities research. For a copy of the selected […]
Workshop with Miriam Posner: "How Did They Make That?"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDirections in Digital Humanities presents: Miriam Posner UCLA Head-and-Shoulder Hunting in the Americas: Exploring Lobotomy’s Visual Culture Workshop: How Did They Make That? The catch-all term “digital project” can refer to a daunting array of technologies and methods. For a newcomer (or even an experienced practitioner), it can be hard to know where to start. […]
Miriam Posner: “Head-and-Shoulder Hunting in the Americas: Exploring Lobotomy's Visual Culture”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by the University Library Between 1936 and 1967, Walter Freeman, a prominent neurologist, lobotomized as many as 3,500 Americans. Freeman was also an obsessive photographer, taking patients' photographs before their operations and tracking them down years — even decades — later. In this presentation, Miriam Posner details her efforts to understand why Freeman was […]
Quantifying Creativity: Art through the Eyes of Computation
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by the Data Science Initiative Is the experience of art uniquely human? Can algorithms be artistic producers? Or, do machines remove the context and meaning from creativity? As artificial agents generate media and evaluate originality, how will we draw the line between human and machine aesthetics? How will the relationship between art, and […]
Digital Pedagogy: New Possibilities for Teaching with Canvas
McHenry Library, Room 1350Co-sponsored by FITC and Academic Affairs UCSC is piloting the Canvas learning management system in the 2015-2016 academic year. Learn more about how Canvas can help manage your course materials and facilitate interactive online student engagement. A brief presentation will be followed by a series of demonstrations and opportunities to experiment with Canvas. Learn how […]