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Research Highlight: Internment Archaeology Digital Archive
The Internment Archaeology Digital Archive (IADA) project is a digital platform and website dedicated to sharing the stories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated and interned during World War II in Idaho.
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Project: Citing Slavery
The legal profession must confront its role in slavery. Acknowledging and discussing the modern citation of slave cases is a first step.
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Fall 2023 Social Hours
Digital Humanities is holding social hours several times this semester for Faculty, Staff, and Students. Bring your lunch or just stop in to say hi! We’ll be focusing on different audiences on different days. We may include some additional treats! All social hours will happen in Project Room J of the Digital Scholarship Lab in the MSU Main Library (2nd Floor, West), 11:30AM – 12:30PM. More information coming soon! September 6, Wednesday, Social Hour, Faculty/Staff Focus September 20, Wednesday, Social Hour, Graduate Student Focus October 4, Wednesday, Social Hour, Faculty/Staff Focus: Opportunity Potluck – Tell us about a conference CFP…
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Fall 2023 Research Showcase
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…
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Distinguished Lecture: Suzanne Churchill
Watch Dr. Churchill’s lecture here: Join us for the 2023 Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Suzanne Churchill in the Green Room of the MSU Main Library (4th Floor, West) on Thursday, November 16th, 4:00-5:30pm. “THE future is limitless”: Mina Loy as a Model for Inclusive DH Designs Dr. Churchill will showcase a series of projects that develop and theorize a practice she calls “inclusive UX design.”
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THATCamp – August 2023
Register to Attend! Thursday, August 24, 2023Digital Scholarship Lab (Main Library) What is THATCamp? Why THATCamp MSU? Schedule Technology and Communication Additional Information Contact Us Register to Attend What is THATCamp? 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 want to learn and/or share. It is an event where students, staff, and faculty from any discipline and from all skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposed, led, and voted upon by the community. Why THATCamp MSU? At…
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Project Highlight: Humanities Commons
Humanities Commons is an open, not-for-profit social and professional network and knowledge exchange environment for scholars, researchers, and practitioners across the humanities and around the world.
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Project Highlight: The Current
The Current is a unique publication that allows students to participate in every aspect of creating a printed magazine, from writing to editing and design.
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Distinguished Lecture: Jacqueline D. Wernimont
Headshot of Jacqueline D. Wernimont wearing a blak blazer, purple and pink shirt, and long straight red/orange hair and slightly horned-rim glasses. Looking slightly up in front of a grey painted brick wall.
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Teaching Highlight: Language and Cultures and LEADR
Students learned about the ethics of data collection, survey design basics, and how to analyze survey results. The hands-on workshops used two free tools, Google Forms and Voyant, to collect and visualize survey data.
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What DH Means to Me: Amanda Tickner
Digital Humanities as a discipline often expands collaborative activity into humanities disciplines that traditionally have been focused on solo work, and I think this is valuable.
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Project Highlight: What America Ate
This is an interactive website and online archive about food in the Great Depression, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. What were Americans eating in the Depression?
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Alumni Highlight Miranda Madro
The following piece was originally created for the DH@MSU Newsletter and was featured in the January 23, 2023 issue. Subscribe to the Newsletter here. Alumni Highlight: Miranda Madro What is your current role/responsibilities in your job? I am an Adult Services Librarian at a public library in Virginia. Public libraries act as free community centers with a focus on equal access to information; most of my job is thinking of new, innovative ways to serve my community. I help customers find library books and navigate library resources, like our free music and eBook/eAudiobook apps. I create programs for adults, like the Diversity…
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Research Highlight: The Cube
The Cube, a space for diverse ranges of people, places, and communities to participate in communications of all kinds, from traditional book production to user experience research to web and app development.
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Text Analysis in Humanities and Social Science
Partners: Writing Rhetoric and American Cultures, Political Science, and the Social Science Data Analytics Theme: Text Analysis in Humanities and Social Science Date: 4/9/2015 Time: 3:00-5:00 Location: Main Library, 3 West, REAL Classroom Increasingly, scholars operating in a wide array of disciplines use computational methods to study digital texts. These digital texts include but are not limited to journal articles, professional proceedings, government documents, novels, websites, and social media (Twitter, Facebook, among others). How can the content of these sources be collected and analyzed to infer the underlying structure and dynamics of human intent or behavior? What computational hurdles and opportunities…
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Teaching Highlight: 3D Scanning in Learning and Experience in Museums
This semester, students in the the Arts, Cultural Management and Museum Studies course MUSM 487/887 “Museums, Arts, and Culture in the Digital Future” will be learning about creating museum learning objects by 3D scanning and 3D printing and other digital use.
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What DH Means to Me: Kuhu Tanvir
DH as a discipline and as a program at MSU is as productive as it is because it is now comfortable with being in a constant state of emergence, of coming into being.
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Undergraduate Student Profile: Taylor Hughes-Barrow
Taylor Hughes-Barrow details her experiences in Digital Studies and the opportunities she has gained from the minor.
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Project Highlight: Comics as Data
Comics as Data is an ongoing collaborative project that examines library catalog data to explore geographies of publishing and library collecting policies in North American comics.
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Research Highlight: Zach Kaiser
This new book (in full color!) by DH@MSU faculty member, Zach Kaiser, is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar monograph, which examines the role of UX design in the production and legitimation of the idea that people are both computing and computable.