Vanderbilt Digital Humanities Center

Last Friday, Miguel Cuj (HASTAC Scholar & PhD[c] in Anthropology) explained how the Covid pandemic created the opportunity to conduct remote fieldwork. Now, part of his visual research is available in a digital exhibit: mcuj.digitalprojects.network. Thank you for your visit, Miguel!

#digitalhumanities #museology #nmaam #curation #preservation

Join the DH Center's Digital Collections & Public Humanities Working Group on Friday, April 29 - 1 PM for a lecture by Katie Rainge-Briggs - Collections and Exhibitions Manager at @theNMAAM. Join using the QR code in the flyer or write us to get a link to the Zoom session.

Join the DH Center's Digital Collections & Public Humanities Working Group on April 22 at 1:00 PM for a discussion with Miguel Cuj (HASTAC Scholar & PhD[c] in Anthropology). Use the QR code or write us to get a Zoom meeting link. #digitalhumanities #foodstudies #HASTACscholars

This event was hosted by the Guatelab Seminar with the support of the Robert Penn Warren—Center for the Humanities, and the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies.

Last Friday, Dr. Marta Elena Casaús Arzú discussed the structures and history of racism in Guatemala. Thank you for your presentation, Dr. Casaús Arzú!

This event was hosted by the Black Studies and Digital Humanities Working Group, and co-sponsored by the RPW Center for the Humanities, Digital Commons, and the Center for Digital Humanities.

Thank you also to Brandon Byrd (Associate Professor of History at VU), Julia Dixon (PhD Student, History), Jessica Fletcher (PhD Student, History), and Katerina Traut (PhD Student, Political Science) for facilitating the conversation.

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Drs. Kelly Baker Josephs and Roopika Risam discuss their last edited volume, The Digital Black Atlantic (2021). Thank you for your visit! ---- #digitalhumanities #blackstudies #blackatlantic #criticaldigitalhumanities

Are we losing research opportunities because we are not focusing enough on cataloging DH projects? DH fellow Samantha Rogers believes we are, and offers an initial list of valuable DH resources focused mainly on the early modern period in our blog. vanderbilt.edu/digitalhumanit…

Miguel Cuj (HASTAC scholar at the @VandyDHCenter & PhD[c] in @VandyAnthro ) and the "GuateLAB Seminar" (supported by @RPWCenter & @VanderbiltCLACX) present Dr. Marta Elena Casaús Arzú, who will discuss racism in Guatemala on Friday, April 15th (12:00 - 1:00 pm). Talk in Spanish.

Save the date! Our 2021-2022 Mellon Fellows’ Digital Project Showcase will take place on Thursday, April 28th (4-6 pm)

Presented by The Department of French and Italian with the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies, the Department of English, The Classics and Mediterranean Studies, and the Center for Digital Humanities.

Last Friday, we had the pleasure to co-sponsor a talk by Peter Robinson (@usask): “Digital Editions of Texts in Many Manuscripts, and How to Make Them: Dante’s Commedia and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.” Thank you for your visit!

Emerge: Into the Metaverse is this Saturday. Come learn from speakers in the areas virtual reality, gaming, and augmented reality. Learn more and RSVP here: anchorlink.vanderbilt.edu/event/7915734

Yesterday, the DH fellows attended Dr. Gundolf Freyermuth's talk "Inventing Futures in Modern Media." In the session, he discussed the past and present of the representation of the future. Thank you, Professor Freyermuth, and @GreesVanderbilt for co-sponsoring this event!

On Thursday, April 14th, Dr. Kelly Baker Josephs and Dr. Roopika Risam will discuss their last edited volume 'The Digital Black Atlantic' (University of Minnesota Press). We hope to you see there!

@VandyAnthro and the American Studies Program at VU present "Storytelling as Resistance," a student-led exhibit (April 8-14). Join them today in the opening of this interactive exhibit (Buttrick Hall—3:30pm)

On Tuesday, the DH Center's Text Analysis Working Group invited Dr. Xiaoling Shu to talk about her latest book —Knowledge Discovery in the Social Sciences (UC Press)— and specific cases where text and data analysis can lead us to new findings. Thank you for your visit!

📢Deadline approaching!📢 NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication applications are due April 20, 2022. These awards support individual scholars pursuing interpretive research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. neh.gov/grants/researc…