Digital Humanities Research Showcase

Thursday, October 19

12:00-2:00pm

Main Library, Green Room (4th Floor West)

Join the MSU Digital Humanities Program for our inaugural DH Research Showcase, where recipients of DH summer funding and faculty/staff and students will discuss their projects in process. Join us for a wonderful day of DH projects!

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 for the Day

  • 12PM: Intro
  • 12:10PM: Daniel Fandino: Lady Nijo: Travel, Tourism, and Pilgrimage in 13th and 14th Century Japan
  • 12:20PM: Daniel Trego: MOCAP Dance Exchange
  • 12:30PM: Aubree Marshall: Merging LEADR and CAP – Utilizing StoryMaps to Tell a Story as a method utilizing time, space, and media.
  • 12:40PM Discussion/Questions
  • 12:50PM: Dani Willcut: Mapping Food Networks
  • 1:10 PM: Kara Haas: Unlocking Squareland Mysteries: The development of Squareland Digital Field Trips
  • 1:30 PM: Garth Sabo & Matthew Rossi: Marsh Time
  • 1:45 – 2:00PM: Discussion/Questions