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Movements through Time and Space: Visualizing a Literary Journey by Ethnic Koreans in China
Seed Grant Summer 2022 Report Catherine Ryu and Olivia Hale Project Description Our project’s main goal in the summer of 2022 was to pilot a viable digital humanities approach to visualizing the movements through time and space in the writings by ethnic Koreans in China (Map 1-a). This diasporic community is situated in the area known as Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture (Map 1-b), which was established in 1955. Among 55 officially recognized ethnic minorities in China, Koreans are known as “a model ethnic minority.” Key distinguishing aspects of this community include their robust cultural activities and high-level education. Their literary…
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THATCamp – January 2023
Date: January 6th, 2023 Location: Online Register to attend! 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. At DH@MSU THATCamp, we create space for meeting fellow members of the community in informal networking sessions, and we encourage people to share their work in…
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Research Highlights 2022
DH Summer Funding Recipient Presentations: Tuesday, September 13th, 12:00PM-1:00PM (Eastern) Virtual Event REGISTER HERE Dr. Christina Boyles “AREPR and Omeka S: Developing Tools for the DH Community” Dr. Catherine Ryu and Olivia Hale “Movements through Time and Space: Visualizing a Literary Journey by Ethnic Koreans in China” Join us for engaging presentations by Dr. Christina Boyles, and Dr. Catherine Ryu with Olivia Hale. This event will be virtual on Zoom, on Tuesday, September 13th, 12:00PM-1:00PM Eastern. Register here!
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Comics, Data, and Community
Thursday, November 3rd, 2022, 12:00PM-1:30PM MSU Libraries, Digital Scholarship Lab, Flex Space, 2nd Floor West How does graphic narrative shape contemporary debates about identity and culture? What new knowledge can we create at the intersection of comics and Digital Humanities? What does it mean to use comics as data, or create comics from data? This Locus draws on the diverse community of MSU scholars who explore comics, sequential art, and digital storytelling in their research and teaching. We encourage wide participation from scholars in any discipline to share developments in their research at any stage (including brainstorming, works in progress,…
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DH Faculty Meeting and Celebration
Thursday, December 1st, 4:00PM-5:30PM MSU Libraries, Green Room, 4th Floor West Please join us as the Digital Humanities at MSU community comes together toward the end of the semester! The DH Faculty will begin the gathering with a brief faculty meeting, and all are welcome. After the meeting portion of the event, we look forward to gathering around food to hear about successes and opportunities, and to reconnect and socialize.
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Distinguished Lecture: Kimberly Christen
“Always Coming Home: Relations of Repair in the Digital Humanities“ Monday, October 3rd, 2022, 4:00PM-5:30PM MSU Libraries, Green Room, 4th Floor West Digital Humanities, like many scholarly pursuits, relies on the territorial, cultural, and intellectual property of Indigenous peoples, communities, and nations to build projects, create products, and publish materials. The physical spaces we inhabit at universities and the collections, data, archives, and texts that produce the fodder for DH projects all have colonial roots and ongoing settler colonial logics embedded within them. In this talk, I propose a reparative theoretical framework based in Indigenous relations to kin, territories, material…
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THATCamp- August 2022
Register to Attend! Friday, August 26, 2022Digital Scholarship Lab (Main Library) What is THATCamp? Why THATCamp MSU? Schedule Technology and Communication Additional Information 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 DH@MSU THATCamp,…
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THATCamp- January 2022
Friday, January 28, 2022 Location: Online Register to attend! 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. At DH@MSU THATCamp, we create space for meeting fellow members of the community in informal networking sessions, and we encourage people to share their work in…
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Materializing Multiple Futures: Printing Jatayu’s Wing
Summer 2021 Seed Grant Funding Submitted by Jessica Stokes The project Wingin’ It: A Material Re-Storying the Ramayana is an attempt to make material and tangible parts of a speculative cinema piece and role-playing game crafted around the vulture Jatayu. An exalted character in the Ramayana epic tradition, the vulture Jatayu is known for his courage and loyalty. When Ravana abducts Sita and whisks her away in his flying chariot, it is the fearless Jatayu who tries to stop him. An aerial battle ensues, but Ravana eventually prevails, chopping off Jatayu’s wing, disabling him from fight and flight, and eventually…
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Superheroes Die in the Summer
Seed Grant Summer 2021 Report Submitted by Kate Birdsall The Cube The Cube, in its role as the only publishing nexus of its kind at MSU, currently has three distinct operational wings that provide significant experiential learning, mentorship, and professional development opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. In its second operational wing, The Cube’s director, graduate assistant, and paid undergraduate interns review new proposed projects, accept or reject them based on budgetary constraints and funding (provided by clients, grants, or other internal support, e.g. special project for XA), direct them, and scaffold them. Due to limited internal funding, The Cube…
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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 ingestion strategy using Google Forms, ensuring that logging data is easy and accessible for our students and community partners. Processing bilingual metadata for ~75 oral histories from individuals and community organizations in Puerto Rico. The Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico (The Emergency Response…
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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 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. At DH@MSU THATCamp, we create space for meeting fellow…
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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 an all-day unconference to reduce the time asked of participants in light of the changes to the semester start date. THATCamp is an unconference: an open, less formal meeting where students, staff, and faculty from any discipline and from all skill levels learn and build…
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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 Literary Cognition Lab’s (DHLC) first fellow in our Public Humanities Fellow program. Our goal is to aid Professor Victor in developing her digital praxis. Borrowing heavily from Professor Victor’s book, which utilized geolocation data to highlight instances of racial othering in public spaces, our central…
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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 were and are highly dependent upon local traditions, oral knowledge, and community organizing. These knowledge systems are key to surviving the conditions lived and experienced in Puerto Rico, and they serve as powerful resources for future disaster response protocols. In response, I am working with…
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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 nonprofit network), and to create an eponymous research group on HC. The website and the research group are part of a larger, multifaceted and interdisciplinary research project that unites scholars from around the globe, working in various disciplines to examine the lasting effects of the…
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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 for the 2020 DH Summer Seed Grant to further the development of Level 101, a serious game that is being developed with the program Unity to address gaps in game studies and higher education. This grant went towards three components of research and development in…
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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 day will work Technology and Communication Register to Participate Schedule All times are Eastern Daylight Time How the day will work Virtual Meet and Greet Using breakout rooms, we will have 3 short meet and greet opportunities. This means that groups of 4-6 will be…
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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 funded by a Digital Humanities Fellowship from the Research Association Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel, to map the social networks that constituted German-Jewish intellectual life in the early twentieth century, especially those networks surrounding liberal-democratic newspaper the Frankfurter Zeitung and the philosopher, journalist, and later film critic,…