• The Collapse of the USSR: A Living Archive on the End of the USSR and Afterward

    Summer 2019 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Martha Olcott The funding that I received from the Digital Humanities program helped support my attendance at the European Summer University in Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig, where I completed the 2-week course on Humanities Data and Mapping Environments, and supported some of the cost

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  • Campus as Laboratory: An Oral History of MSU’s Campus Archaeology Program

    Summer 2019 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Autumn Painter and A.L. McMichael The primary goal of this project is to span best practices in oral history research and archaeology, while promoting the public outreach missions of both Campus Archaeology Program (CAP) and MSU. The project began with a series of interviews with the founder

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  • THATCamp- August 2019

    Thursday, August 22, 2019Digital Scholarship Lab (Main Library) What is THATCamp? THATCamp stands for “The Humanities and Technology Camp.” It is an unconference: an open, inexpensive meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposed on the spot. An unconference is to a conference what a seminar is

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  • The Longhua Civilian Assembly Center: 1943 to 1945

    The Longhua Civilian Assembly Center: 1943 to 1945 Summer 2018 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Daniel Fandino and Erica Holt Summary of seed grant activity The summer seed grant from DH@MSU allowed for the collection of photos, documents and other information on the Longhua Civilian Assembly Centre in Shanghai, China. Background of the Longhua

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  • The Weeping Season

    The Weeping Season Summer 2018 Seed Grant Funding Report Report submitted by Alexandra Hidalgo Project Synopsis When I was a child, my father embodied magic with every step and word. He was a black belt in Karate who could walk on his hands, and he meditated over a glass of water every morning, inviting me

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  • Level 101: A Video Game About Video Games

    Level 101: A Video Game About Video Games – Interdepartmental Collaboration, Tutorials, and Pre-Production Summer 2018 Seed Grant Funding Report Report submitted by Justin Wigard and Beth LaPensée   Project Overview We applied for the DH Summer Seed Grant to further the development of Level 101, a video game developed with the program Unity that

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  • Theme and word analysis in the contemporary corrido (Mexican Ballad)

    Theme and word analysis in the contemporary corrido (Mexican Ballad)   Summer 2018 Seed Grant Funding Report Report submitted by Miguel A. Cabañas and Mary Ann Lugo   Thanks to the support of Digital Humanities at MSU, our Theme and Word Analysis of the Corrido initiative has evolved from a proposal to a collaborative, textual-analysis

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  • Bhakti Virtual Archive

    Bhakti Virtual Archive (BHAVA)   Summer 2018 Seed Grant Funding Report Report submitted by Jon Keune and Gil Ben-Herut   Summary of seed grant activity   The summer seed grant from DH@MSU enabled us to create a set of static image mockups that were integrated into a basic website that demonstrates the search capabilities of

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  • Digital & Community Publishing Collective

    Digital & Community Publishing Collective Summer 2018 Seed Grant Funding Report Report submitted by Kate Birdsall and Emily Jenkins The Digital & Community Publishing Collective (DCPC) at MSU is a new initiative that will centralize support for a broad range of publishing activities, including a monthly magazine, a literary journal, scholarly journals, a community of

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  • Summer Seed Grant Recipients

    We were very pleased to support 6 digital humanities projects during the summer! They are listed below, and the project leaders will present about their projects during the Fall DH Colloquium series. The Weeping Season, film by Alexandra Hidalgo (see the trailer here) Bhakti Virtual Archive (BHAVA) project (formerly, Connected Bhakti Bibliographies Database), led by

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