RIT Digital Humanities

For those less familiar with RIT's room numbering system, this is the Stan McKenzie Commons and the Dane R. Gordon Seminar Room respectively, both on the first floor.

RIT DHSS has projects at #ImagineRIT, located in both the Polessini Center, as well as the @RIT_LiberalArts building, rooms 1251 and 1202! Check us out and learn about what DHSS Capstone students have been working on all year!

Turmoil in Thudor facilitates civil political discourse using 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons. They are running a roleplaying-focused one-shot for 4-5 players (up to 3 games max depending on how many players arrive). Characters and dice will be provided.

Hey RIT DHSS students! For the last two semesters, a group of our DHSS Capstone students have been building their own D&D module. Now they are conducting a Playtest and you are invited. Any DH students are welcome to come to EAS-2372 on March 23rd, 6PM-10PM!

We did this thing. @RIT_LiberalArts @RIT_artdesign @VignelliCenter Opens Monday 2/21 #UniversityGallery #LearningByDoing Curated, organized, installed and done by #MuseumStudies

Come see the hard work of the MUSE-360 class, exhibited in University Gallery from February 21 to March 4!

It has been a minute since we lasted sent an update to twitter! To catch up on some of the RIT Digital Humanities work, make sure to check out the capstone project showcase site developed from the class of 2020! dhssprojectshowcase.rit.edu #RIT #RITDHSS

The New Media Writing Prize is looking for submissions. Deadline 11/24. Student prize deadline 12/5. newmediawritingprize.co.uk/faq/

DHSS: If you haven't already, check out Light&Sound, less than a month away and lots of RIT involvement lightandsound.org

Job requiring undergrad DH degree at U Waterloo, Project Manager for Archives Unleashed uwaterloo.ca/careers/projec…. Check it out!

Interesting research on optical character recognition for historical/multilingual documents. Take part: ocr.northeastern.edu.

Special issue of the Black Scholar on the convergence of black studies and the digital humanities: tandfonline.com/toc/rtbs20/47/…

DHSS students Mitchell Cartner and Christine McCullough presenting their research at the Undergraduate Symposium on Friday. Great work!

"The New Wave in Digital Humanities." Great profiles, including @miriamkp who visited RIT last year. insidehighered.com/digital-learni…

New book for free download: introduction to "the mathematics that digital humanists are likely to encounter” digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/55/

Check out Enslen’s cool DH data visualization of Dias’ “Canção do Exílio,” one of the most popular poems of all time youtube.com/watch?v=G5uewu…

What are required readings in the field? What should every DHSSer know? One's you've taught or read, or wish read. Let us know!

DH folks, this is required reading: “studying media through new media” github.com/jentery/routle… by the awesome @jenterysayers

For the GoT DHers, this is a cool visualization project plus references Vignelli, whose archives are at RIT! citylab.com/design/2014/12…

A non-academic DH job: airbus-sv.com/jobs/4 They're looking for applicants with undergraduate DH degrees. Check it out!