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April 16, 12pm

Join Deanna Shemek, DHX co-Chair and Professor of Italian and European Studies at UCI;  Anne MacNeil , Associate Professor of Music, UNC-Chapel Hill; and Alex Borucki, Associate Professor of History at UCI, in a conversation about building digital humanities projects within the confines of global lockdown. After brief presentations of their projects (IDEA: Isabella d’Este Archive and Slave Voyages), the speakers will engage with participants about strategies, obstacles, and workarounds for digital projects, including insights from our experience in 2020.

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/DHXProject21

 

The proposed session will give attendees the opportunity to learn from NEH senior program officer, Jennifer Serventi, about the many funding opportunities offered by the Endowment. She will cover the programs offered by the Divisions of Research Programs, Education Programs, Preservation and Access, Public Programs, and the Offices of Digital Humanities and Challenge Grants.  In her presentation, she will address two related questions: 1) What opportunities are available to faculty and staff, with a particular focus on support for digital projects? and, 2) What kinds of strategies can they employ to take advantage of them?

She also will  discuss ways that faculty and staff can participate in NEH projects and special initiatives beyond applying for an award directly from NEH. Examples of these opportunities include serving as a peer review panelist, advising documentary films or podcasts, evaluating archival collections as an advisory board member, participating in educational seminars and institutes, conducting research with support of a fellowship from an independent research institution, or becoming involved in the work of your state humanities council.

RSVP HERE

 

 

Join us for a talk led by Johanna Drucker, Breslauer Professor and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA.

In a talk titled “Visualizing Catastrophe: Ethics of Aesthetics,” Dr. Drucker will examine the ethics of aesthetic qualities in visualizations used to present data related to climate change, pandemics, and other catastrophic events.

Join us for this important and timely talk!

Watch the talk HERE.

When: November 3-6, 2020

Register for the workshop here. 

This workshop series will introduce attendees to the text data and computational tools of HathiTrust. HathiTrust operates a repository of over 17 million items digitized at a network of partner libraries. This massive collection of text is available for computational text mining primarily through the tools and services of the HathiTrust Research Center. Attendees of this workshop will gain hands-on experience with these data and tools in order to become more familiar with the opportunities for research HathiTrust makes available. The series will include 4 workshops. You can sign up for just 1, or for the entire series. No experience is required, but prior exposure to text analysis concepts would be beneficial.

To learn more, check out the program schedule here. 

 

When: July 23-October 1, 2020, 2-3pm

Are you interested in creating visual stories with include images and custom maps? A story can effect change, influence opinion, and create awareness—and maps are an integral part of storytelling. Join us for a 6-part workshop covering how to use ESRI StoryMaps to tell compelling stories. For more information contact kaned@uci.edu or please see the website (https://guides.lib.uci.edu/storymaps.)

• • • 7/23/20 2-3 PM – StoryMaps: overview of software (Intro to stories page, cover image, title, etc.)
    • 8/6/20 2-3 PM – StoryMaps : build your narrative (text formats, button and separator lines, multimedia options)
    • 8/20/20 2-3 PM – StoryMaps: making maps
    • 9/3/20 2-3 PM – StoryMaps: immersive features
    • 9/17/20 2-3 PM – StoryMaps: finishing your StoryMap (embeds, adjusting the design, and publishing and sharing)
    • 10/1/20 2-3 PM – StoryMaps: share your StoryMap

 

Platform Crash Course

When: Mar 3, 1-2:30pm

Where: HG 1341

A discussion/presentation of the most popular digital platforms for carrying out and managing humanities research. Have a platform or tool you are curious about? Have one that you use and like and would like to share? Contact us: dighum@uci.edu.

DH Reading Group

When: First meeting: Feb 25, 3:30-5:00pm

Where: HG 1341

Join us for this new monthly series where we engage with current scholarship through reading and discussion. All are welcome, regardless of experience with DH. Come get acquainted! At our first meeting we will read two chapters from the book Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 (University of Minnesota Press):

• • • “No Signal without Symbol: Decoding the Digital Humanities” (David M. Berry, M.Beatrice Fazi, Ben Roberts and Alban Webb)
    • “Mixed Methodological Digital Humanities” (Moacir P. De Sa Pereira)

Learn to Code with Me

When: Jan 23, Feb 6, Feb 20, & Mar 5, 3:30-4:30pm

Where: MRC 164

We will continue learning Python with an emphasis on analyzing web text. All are welcome, even if you have never attended any previous session. Check the library’s website for more info: https://guides.lib.uci.edu/learntocodewithme

DHX produced its inaugural newsletter filled with updates and information about upcoming events.  View the 2020 Winter Quarter Newsletter below, or download here.

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