Events
Digital Scholarship Commons
Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums
Kresge Town HallDigital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums 2.22.17 from IHR on Vimeo. Event Photos: The new National Museum of African American History and Culture and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum both translate difficult, often traumatic, histories into museum exhibitions and invite audiences of all ages to contend with narratives of […]
Undergraduate Digital Research Symposium
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibrarySponsored by Center for Jewish Studies, Digital Scholarship Commons, University Library, IHR With support from the Koret Family Foundation The Digital Scholarship Commons is thrilled to announce the first Undergraduate Digital Research Symposium on April 19, 2017. At UC Santa Cruz, undergraduate students are engaged in creative, critical research using digital tools and platforms. This […]
Digital Pedagogy Showcase
Humanities 2, Room 359Get some syllabus inspiration! The inaugural cohort of the Digital Instruction Project lead this Brown Bag Session about developing and implementing new digital assignments in their classes. Join us as we discuss the benefits and challenges of adding digital tools into your syllabus and pushing your students to try new forms of scholarly writing. The panel […]
Digital Humanities Happy Hour
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesShare your digital research with the DH community! Join the DH Research Cluster to learn more about DH research on campus at an informal happy hour. We invite researchers across campus to share their work with a short, lightening style presentation. The introductions will be open-mic style, do you do not have to prepare in advance. This is an opportunity to meet new […]
Opening Reception: New Visualization Spaces in the Digital Scholarship Commons
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryCelebrate two new Visualization spaces in McHenry Library and the campus partnerships that enhance digital scholarship at UCSC. The David Kirk Digital Scholarship Commons is thrilled to formally launch the VizWall, a large scale visualization installation, and the VizLab, a Virtual Reality and 360 Lab. These new spaces are built through partnerships between the University […]
Dr. Angus Forbes: “Immersive Interpretation – Exploring Data in Virtual Reality”
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryEvent Photos: Immersive Interpretation: Exploring Data in Virtual Reality Angus Forbes (UCSC, Computational Media) Forbes will discuss the opportunities for exploring and analyzing data using contemporary display technologies, such as interactive video walls, ambisonic theaters, and virtual reality headsets. I present a range of projects that examine novel ways of representing scientific and cultural datasets, […]
Danny Snelson: “The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats”
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryEvent Photos: The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats Danny Snelson (UCLA, English) As you read these lines, the Utah Data Center continues its process of deciphering untold exabytes of information collected by the NSA. This enterprise, like certain strands in the digital humanities and the corporate world alike, stakes its hopes for meaningful […]
Digital Research and Teaching Symposium featuring Undergraduate Digital Research and Innovative Pedagogy
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryThis event will showcase the independent, digital research and classroom work of undergraduate students alongside the innovative assignment design and pedagogical experimentation of faculty and graduate students. Join us in the morning to focus on undergraduate digital research and in the afternoon for an in-depth discussion about new methods in active and engaged pedagogy. […]
Anne Donlon, “Making Scholarship Open with Humanities Commons”
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryLearn how scholars have used Humanities Commons to work in public and to publish open access work. Scholars have used Humanities Commons to support their work in a number of ways: finding collaborators, researching, drafting, sharing work in progress, getting informal and formal feedback, publishing on a Commons site, or sharing work published elsewhere in our open access repository. This presentation will explore several options for engaging a broader […]
Stories from the Epicenter (Podcast Launch Event)
Virtual EventYou’re invited to join us for the launch of our ten-part documentary podcast, Stories from the Epicenter, which explores the experience and memory of the Loma Prieta Earthquake in Santa Cruz County through oral history records and interviews with current residents of Santa Cruz and Watsonville. The event will include a moderated discussion with the podcast […]