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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 of James Madison College student team members attending HILT course on Getting Started with Data, Tools and Platforms (which I attended along with Michael Downs and Bridget McBride), as well as ILiADS (which I attended along with Michael Downs, Sofia Cupal and Ryan Lumsden, and…
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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 of CAP, Dr. Lynne Goldstein, followed by the creation of an accessible, public-facing web presence from which to share the oral history and media documentation of twelve years of CAP. The DH@MSU Seed Grant funded the project team’s research assistant to transcribe the audio interviews…
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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 to a lecture, what a party at your house is to a church wedding, what a pick-up game of Ultimate Frisbee is to an NBA game, what a jam band is to a symphony orchestra: it’s more informal and more participatory. (From: http://thatcamp.org/about) Why THATCamp…
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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 Civilian Assembly Center This project aims to preserve the history of the former Longhua Civilian Assembly Center through the creation of a publicly accessible digital archive. The Longhua Civilian Assembly Center served to house close to 2000 foreign residents of Shanghai from 1943 to 1945…
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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 to help him predict the future through what I saw in the water with my mind’s eye. Every afternoon we would sit on the floor and imagine a flying carpet under us. We told each other about the world we flew over, one brimming with…
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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 addresses a pedagogical gap in higher education. This grant was to go towards three components of research and development in order to further the development of Level 101: 1) Unity development assets, 2) video games created with Unity, and 3) research texts associated with game…
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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 project exploring violent themes in the contemporary corrido and narco-corrido from the 1960s to the present. In the past six months, we have assembled a project team, narrowed the scope of our inquiry, and begun designing a research strategy for our theme and word 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 the Bhakti Virtual Archive (BHAVA) that we are working to build: http://www.regionalbhakti.org/bhava/walkthrough/. We contracted with Addis Enterprises (AE) of Lansing, who consulted with us about what we were looking for in a user interface, pointed out issues that we will need to address when it…
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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 feminist filmmakers, a collaborative fandom, a blog, and a zine. The collective will offer publication resources for students and organizations at Michigan State University and for members of Greater Lansing and mid-Michigan communities. The DCPC will utilize its unique position within the Department of Writing,…
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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 Jon Keune Digital & Community Publishing Collective (DCPC), led by Kate Birdsall Theme and Word Analysis in the Corrido from the Frontera Collection project, led by Miguel Cabañas Level 101 – A Video Game about Video Games, led by Justin Wigard and Elizabeth LaPensée The…
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Job Opportunity: Specialist in Literature, Cognitive Science, and Digital Humanities
The College of Arts and Letters (CAL) at Michigan State University seeks a continuing system specialist in Literature, Cognitive Science, and Digital Humanities (DH) to participate in ongoing initiatives in history of the mind, literary cognition, and digital humanities as manager of the Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Lab (DHLC) and academic specialist in digital humanities. Please see the full listing at http://careers.msu.edu/cw/en-us/job/499309/specialist-teachercontinuing for more information. Review of applications will begin July 2, 2018 and will continue until the position is filled. Applications must be submitted electronically to the Michigan State University Human Resources website, http://careers.msu.edu/. For more information contact…
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2018 Global DH Symposium Videos are up!
Videos from the 2018 Global Digital Humanities Symposium are now available on YouTube. Check them out here!
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DH@MSU Summer Seed Grants
Deadline: May 10, 2018 Total funding available: $2,000 DH@MSU invites proposals for seed grants to support digital humanities projects in research, teaching, and public outreach, in any humanistic or related discipline of the university during summer 2018. DH@MSU summer seed grants are designed to support collaborative projects that might include Textual analysis: digital editions; websites that invite linguistic, social, and historical analysis of texts; text aggregation sites; the development of tools for digital analysis. Geospatial approaches to literary texts and historical problems. Network analysis of literary texts and historical problems. Data-mining of large corpora for insights into genres, discourses, and…
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Global DH Symposium – Register by March 9!
Global Digital Humanities Symposium March 22-23, 2018 Main Library, Green Room Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan msuglobaldh.org #msuglobaldh Keynote speakers: Schuyler Esprit (Dominica State College) Lisa Nakamura (University of Michigan) Registration is still open! Please register by: Friday, March 9 Free and open to the public. Register at http://msuglobaldh.org/registration/ Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to continue its symposium series on Global DH into its third year. We are delighted to feature speakers from around the world, as well as expertise and work from faculty and students at Michigan State University in this two day symposium. Program…
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Learn about MSU DH on the Liberal Arts Endeavor Podcast!
On Monday, February 22, 2018, Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Kristen Mapes went on the Liberal Arts Endeavor podcast to talk about the world of DH at MSU. You can listen to the podcast below and on Soundcloud here:
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Scholarship Opportunity for Summer Study Abroad in DH
Students in the Digital Humanities Minor have the opportunity to apply for a $2000 scholarship to attend the Technology, Humanities, and the Arts in London study abroad program in Summer 2018! If a student is interested in the scholarship and not yet enrolled in the minor, they are welcome to add the minor immediately before applying for the scholarship. With this scholarship, the program fee for this study abroad program is only $1500! In order to apply for the scholarship, the student must be enrolled in the DH minor and have filled out the study abroad application form. The scholarship…
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State-of-the-Art Digital Scholarship Lab Opening Week: Feb 5-9
Grand Opening February 5th – 8th, 2018 Please join us for a week of digital scholarship events and programming, designed for users from beginner to advanced. Come see what the lab has to offer, meet potential collaborators, and enter for a chance to win a 3D-printed Sparty! About the Lab A partnership between the Michigan State University Libraries and the College of Arts & Letters, the Digital Scholarship Lab is an 8,000-square-foot space in the Main Library, featuring a 360-degree immersive visualization room that accommodates up to 20 students along with a Virtual Reality room for experimentation with VR headsets.…
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Global Digital Humanities Symposium – Registration Open & Keynotes Announced!
Join us on March 22-23 for this FREE symposium! We are thrilled to announce that our two keynote speakers are Schuyler Esprit (Dominica State College) and Lisa Nakamura (University of Michigan)! Registration is now open! Please register by: Friday, March 9 Free and open to the public. Register at http://msuglobaldh.org/registration/ Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to continue its symposium series on Global DH into its third year. We are delighted to feature speakers from around the world, as well as expertise and work from faculty and students at Michigan State University in this two day symposium. The…
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Study Abroad: Technology, Humanities, & the Arts in London (Summer 2018)
25 May – 23 June 2018 Technology Humanities, and the Arts in London dh.cal.msu.edu/studyabroad In this program, students will explore changes in arts and humanities through hands-on workshops, attend plays and performances, visit museums and galleries, converse with guest speakers, go on a day trip outside the city, and immerse themselves in the culture of London, one of the creative capitals of the world! The program is open to students from any major and has the option to fulfill and IAH requirement. For a four week program in London, the program fee is also low, at $3500, which includes apartment…
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We are on Slack!
Join MSUDH on Slack – just sign up using your @msu.edu email address at msudh.slack.com. It’s a great way to keep up on DH resources, events, and amusing cat emojis. Once you’re signed up, join the channels #events and #dhresources.