Thursday, November 13th

12:00-2:00pm

Main Library, Digital Scholarship Lab, Flex Space (2nd Floor, West)

Join the Digital Humanities at MSU for our third annual DH Research Showcase in the MSU Main Library, Digital Scholarship Lab, Flex Space (2nd Floor, West), where recipients of DH summer funding will discuss their projects, and where we invite all faculty, staff and students working on DH projects to share their projects in process.

Please feel free to bring your own lunch.

The interdisciplinary field of digital humanities (DH) aims to bring together humanistic inquiry and digital technologies, organizing new modes of archival research, developing computer-aided methodologies for answering humanistic questions, curating digitized archives of all kinds, bringing digital platforms into the classroom in creative ways, and engaging critically with the culture of new media.

Schedule:

12:00 – 12:02PM: Introduction

12:02 – 12:17PM: Jon Keune: Creating, Maintaining, and Expanding the Bhakti Virtual Archive (BHAVA)

After briefly introducing the Bhakti Virtual Archive (BHAVA) project and website, I will describe the development timeline from receiving a DH@MSU Summer Seed Grant in 2018, through unsuccessful and successful external grant proposals, the website’s growth through the pandemic and first full incarnation in 2022, and its continued maintenance, enhancement, and new audiences.

12:20- 12:35PM: Gillian MacDonald and Morgan Fox: Expanding the Network: New Nodes and Relationships in the Revolution (1688-1692)

12:35-12:40PM: Q&A

12:40-12:55PM: Blaire Morseau: Neshnabé Nengosêk Kenomagewen (Potawatomi Star Knowledge)

Neshnabé Nengosêk Kenomagewen (Potawatomi Star Knowledge) is an Indigenous-centered digital humanities effort to sustain and share Potawatomi constellations, celestial stories, and teachings about the movements of the skies. The project’s core purpose is intergenerational: to return star knowledge to everyday use among Potawatomi families, especially youth, while offering non-Native learners a respectful window into a living intellectual tradition.

1:00 – 1:15PM: Destiny Canning: A Public-Facing StoryMap for ER, Urgent Care, and Clinic Navigation

This work-in-progress pairs humanistic inquiry into health communication, plain-language, translation, equity, with ArcGIS StoryMaps to curate an accessible directory of emergency departments, urgent cares, and safety-net clinics. We describe our metadata scheme, sourcing and verification workflow, and design decisions that prioritize readability and multilingual access. We also share early findings from user testing with Lansing community partners and international students at MSU, reflecting on ethics, accessibility, and the public-humanities role of DH in improving health literacy and care-seeking decisions.

1:20-1:35PM: Jesse Draper: Digitizing the Radical Historians Newsletter

In collaboration with the U.S. Intellectual History Association, the department of History, and LEADR, H-Net digitized The Radical Historians Newsletter (1969–2003). This project involved digitally scanning original copies of the newsletter, creating a Drupal-based home for the collection on H-Net Spaces, and storing the originals with the MSU Libraries Radicalism Special Collections.

1:35-1:55PM: Q&A

1:55 – 2:00PM: Wrap up