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Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico (AREPR)
Summer 2021 Seed Grant Funding Submitted by Christina Boyles Summer 2021 Highlights: Hosting 2 workshops to train students and community partners on best practices for collaboration, collection, and technology. Developing customized themes and modules for Omeka S to support multilingual and community-based project work with the support of our developer, Ivy Rose. Developing a metadata
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THATCamp- August 2021
Thursday, August 26, 2021 Location: Online, plus an optional in-person social at the end of the day Register to attend! (Register by Sunday, August 22, 2021) THATCamp (which stands for “The Humanities and Technology Camp”) is a gathering where the agenda is set by attendees on the day of the event based on what people
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Graduate Student Profile: Justin Wigard
Justin Wigard received the Graduate Certificate in Fall 2020. While at MSU, he has worked on DH projects related to comics, games, and literature. Two prominent projects include creating an Open Educational Resource and organizing an international Wikidata editing event, both which lower barriers of access to the MSU Comic Arts Collection. His primary Digital Humanities project is his dissertation, titled Level 101: A Video Game About Video Games, a playable video game that he wrote, coded, and programmed to teach players about video game history, design, and theory.
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THATCamp – January 2021
UPDATED Monday, January 18, 2021Location: Online! Register to attend! (Register by Sunday, January 17, 2021) In light of recent changes to the MSU Spring Semester schedule, THATCamp will be a shorter event than originally planned and will run from 10:00am to 12:00pm. The event (THATCamp Lite) will take place virtually, and has been modified from
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CURBED3: Using DH Visualization to Understand Location, Cultural Identity, and the Public Imaginary
Summer 2020 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Divya Victor, Julian Chambliss, and Natalie Phillips Overview & Project Goals Inspired by Professor Divya Victor’s forthcoming book Curb (2021), CURBED3 is a web-based multimedia space that seeks to visualize instances of racial othering in the United States. The DH@MSU Summer Seed Grant supported Digital Humanities and
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Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico
Summer 2020 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Christina Boyles Puerto Rico’s recent spate of natural and man-made disasters has led to greater public attention on governmental disaster-response methods–prioritization of urban centers, slow distribution of resources, and limited communication with those in need–often leaving marginalized and vulnerable communities to fend for themselves. Individuals and communities
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Transferring the website “Legacies of Enlightenment” to Humanities Commons
Summer 2020 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Valentina Denzel, Tracy Rustler, and Michael Stokes The DH@MSU summer seed grant allocated during the summer of 2020, allowed Valentina, Tracy, and Michael to migrate the website “Legacies of the Enlightenment: Humanity, Nature, and Science in a Changing Climate” to Humanities Commons (an open access, open source
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“Level 101: A Video Game About Video Games”-Game Development in a Global Pandemic
Summer 2020 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Justin Wigard Prior to receiving the 2020 DH Summer Seed Grant, I was the recipient of a 2018 DH Summer Seed Grant, and that report can be found here. Since 2018, this project has grown from a pedagogical DH project into my dissertation; as such, I applied
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THATCamp- August 2020
Thursday, August 27, 2020Location: Online! Register to participate! (Please register by Thursday, August 20) DH@MSU is continuing an annual (FREE) THATCamp each August targeted at MSU faculty, staff, and students for a few reasons: This event will operate under the Code of Conduct for THATCamp MSU (also available through the shortlink: go.cal.msu.edu/thatcampcode). Schedule How the
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Visualizing German-Jewish Intellectual Life in the Twentieth Century
Summer 2019 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Ryan Carty and Matthew Handelman In the summer of 2019, the DH@MSU Summer Seed Grant enabled Ryan and Matt to build the code for prototype visualizations of archival data of German-Jewish intellectual correspondences during the Weimar Republic. This work is part of a larger, ongoing project, also