-
Register for a Workshop!
We have some exciting workshops set up for this spring. We hope to see you there! 1/25, 12:30-2:00, Podcasting for Academics (find out more here) 2/1, 12:30-2:00, Introduction to Audio Analysis (find out more here) 2/28, 12:30-2:00, Introduction to Image Analysis (find out more here) 3/27, 12:30-2:00, Digital Collections with Omeka (find out more here) 4/3, 12:30-2:00, Exhibiting Collections through Time and Space with Neatline (find out more here) Also save the date for the Global Digital Humanities Symposium (msuglobaldh.org) in March.
-
Global DH Symposium: Registration Extended to 3/10 (FREE)
Registration, which is free, has been extended to Friday, March 10th for the Global Digital Humanities Symposium on March 16-17. Keynote speakers will include Padmini Ray Murray (Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology) and Elizabeth LaPensee (Michigan State University). The the full program and schedule. Register for the symposium for free! Email dh@msu.edu or tweet using #msuglobaldh with any questions. For more information regarding the 2017 Global Digital Humanities Symposium, go to the website here.
-
Humanities Commons Workshop, FRI 3/3
Building a Scholarly Presence with Humanities Commons Are you looking for a place to establish an academic profile? Would you like to save your research, publications, syllabi, and datasets for long term preservation somewhere safe? Do you want to connect with colleagues from across the Humanities and beyond? Humanities Commons is an expansion of MLA Commons and is open to anyone. Participants of this workshop will learn about the basic functions of Humanities Commons, see examples, and set up their own account. They will learn specifically how to: Set up an account and create a profile Join groups and create…
-
Summer Program Funding for Graduate Students (DUE 3/6)
The College of Arts and Letters and the Department of History are pleased to announce that we will be offering funding for at least one graduate student to register for one of the Digital Humanities summer development programs – such as HILT, DHSI, DHOxSS, ESU – that exist around the world. Students from any discipline at any point in their graduate program are welcome to apply. Funding provided includes registration and $300 toward travel and accommodation costs. A variety of summer training programs can qualify for this funding opportunity – Below is a list of ideas, but feel…
-
DH Spring Break Work-a-Thon on 3/7
It’s Spring Break, which means a time to relax… and a time to get some work done! Join us in LEADR for the day, March 7 (9am-5pm) to get some work done together. Bring whatever you’d like to work on, and there will be people available to provide assistance and/or to bounce around ideas. There will also be coffee, pizza, and various snacks to keep the energy up. Feel free to drop in for the whole day or just for an hour! Anyone – graduate students, faculty, undergraduates, staff – is welcome to join us for this co-working day. Digital humanities…
-
Critical Diversity in a Digital Age Cluster Hire
3 positions at the Associate or Full Professor level are open in the areas of Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities, Culturally Engaged Digital Humanities/Rhetorics, and Digital History. The College of Arts and Letters and the College of Social Science at Michigan State University invite applications for positions in the following areas at the Associate or Full Professor level: Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities Culturally Engaged Digital Humanities/Rhetorics Digital History Find the full description and posting details at http://www.cal.msu.edu/criticaldiversity The College of Arts & Letters and the College of Social Science at Michigan State University seek a group…
-
Global DH Symposium: Program Announced & (FREE) Registration Open!
We are pleased to announce the program and open registration for the 2017 Global DH Symposium! Keynote speakers will include Padmini Ray Murray (Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology) and Elizabeth LaPensee (Michigan State University). The the full program and schedule. Register for the symposium for free! Email dh@msu.edu or tweet using #msudh with any questions. For more information regarding the 2017 Global Digital Humanities Symposium, go to the website here.
-
Summer Study Abroad in London 2017 – SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY
2 scholarships are available for students in the Digital Humanities minor (or interested in the minor) for $1000 off the program fee. The deadline to apply is FEB 24. Apply here. At the beginning of summer, May 20 through June 17, students will explore changes in the arts & humanities by immersing themselves in the culture of London, one of the creative capitals of the world. The trip includes hands-on workshops and the ability to view plays, performances, museums, and galleries. This experience is a fun way for them to earn a general education requirement and fulfill electives toward the Digital…
-
LOCUS: Modeling
For this LOCUS, we partnered with the Art, Art History, & Design Department and the Media & Information Department as the topic of modeling is of particular import to those fields. Find out more about the event under the LOCUS tab here. If you weren’t able to attend, the presentation media was recorded and will be available soon. Date – December 1st, 2016Time – 3:00-5:00Location – REAL Classroom, 3W, Main Library CFP Close – 11/18/2016 Models are simplified representations that can be used to examine an idea, experiment with features and variables, or create an immersive experience. Across the arts, humanities, and social sciences, scholars…
-
Open Consultation in the Library
MSUDH and the Library are piloting a new offering: Open Consultation. This is a chance for you to to bring in your projects or other work (or send us your students) and get help finding tutorials, troubleshooting, general project management advice, etc. We thought we’d have a theme each week. That way if you’re looking for something in particular, you know which days would be best for you. The schedule for the rest of the semester is as follows: 11/3: Web Hosting and CMS basics 11/10: Data Visualization 11/17: GIS 11/24: Thanksgiving, no session 12/1: Data and Metadata 12/8: Python…
-
Join the MSUDH Email Listserv
Join the MSUDH Listserv for email updates about events and announcements on campus and beyond. Join the list at list.matrix.msu.edu/listinfo/msudh. Visit the listserv archive here.
-
Tableau Workshop – Tutorial
If you missed the Tableau workshop from Wed, Oct 5, 2016, you can follow along with what we learned using this tutorial.
-
Save the Date – Global DH Symposium, Mar 16-17, 2017
This day and a half symposium looks to continue in the critical and global spirit of examining digital humanities established at the inaugural Global DH Symposium in April 2016 (find out more at http://msuglobaldh.org/). Save the Date! Global Digital Humanities Symposium March 16-17, 2017 Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Free and open to the public. CFP and further details will be forthcoming in the next few weeks.
-
Reflecting on DHSI
Though it’s been a couple months since DHSI, I’ve still been thinking about the things I learned that week. But first, I want to talk about my overall impression of the summer institute. Before I walked onto UVic’s (University of Victoria) campus and became apart of the DHSI community, I thought this program would be filled with graduate students who were all attending classes that would likely be their field of study. However, I realized that the DHSI is widely attended by undergraduate, graduate, faculty, and community members from all over the world. In fact, I realized that many people…
-
Register for a Workshop!
We have some exciting workshops set up for this fall. We hope to see you there! Beginner Tools Workshop: Getting Started in the Digital Humanities Git Workshop: Git and GitHub for Humanities Data Visualization Workshop: Visualizing Data with Tableau 3D Modeling with Photogrammetry Topic Modeling Workshop: Brief Introduction to Topic Modeling Also save the date for LOCUS at the end of the semester — this edition will be on modeling, broadly.
-
Meaningful Intersections in Trendy Humanities
Summer is almost gone, and it seems a good time to reflect on the exciting opportunities it brought. To briefly introduce my reflection (though many of you already know me): my name is Cody Mejeur, and I am a PhD student in English working on video game narrative–particularly the interrelationship of narrative and play as cognitive processes. In June I had the honor and pleasure to take part in the Cognitive Futures in the Humanities 2016 conference in Helsinki, Finland, and to present my work at the “Cognition and Digitisation: Joint Future for the Humanities?” workshop that preceded the conference.…
-
Further adventures in the digital humanities?
As anticipated on this very blog, I recently spent a week in Indianapolis attending a workshop on computational text analysis at HILT 2016. We spent our time surveying a number of different tools, techniques, and concepts related to text analysis, so I walked away with a greater appreciation for data cleaning, Weka, HathiTrust, metadata, Python, and much more. The most frustrating part of the workshop was that we visited each topic so briefly and that we had so few opportunities to apply these techniques to our own work. I can’t fault the workshop organizers for these decisions—helping participants take a…
-
Getting Ready for DHSI
In order to get to DHSI in Victoria, BC I had to take two planes, four buses, and a ferry. This trip was weighing on me as I began to realize I would be up for almost two days getting to Canada. I started to ask myself, why would I spend my summer taking a class for fun? The plane ride was fine and the ferry ride was beautiful, but even when I reached land in Victoria I was still feeling uneasy. Once I retrieved my keys for the dorm, I walked around aimless for only a few minutes before…
-
New Adventures in the Digital Humanities
In a few days, I’ll be heading down to Indianapolis to attend a workshop on computational text analysis that runs from June 13th through June 16th. This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to anyone who’s had to listen to me ramble about my research: I’ve been waist-deep in R for a while now, there’s a digital methods category on my research blog, and I certainly haven’t been shy about wanting to pick up some text analysis skills to add to my repertoire. The one thing that could turn heads, though, is that I’m a PhD Candidate in…
-
Learning Data Visualization Strategies at HILT
As a I prepare to travel to Indianapolis for the HILT (Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching) Institute, I’ve been reflecting on my connection to Digital Humanities research and pedagogy. As a researcher of visual/digital rhetoric, I have been consistently fascinated by the ways researchers take diverse data sets and communicating the findings visually. The data visualizations I find most interesting are industry-based, like Graphic Designers Surveyed by LucienneRoberts+ and Stefanie Posavec, or Posavec’s blog-turned-book Dear Data. Partnering with Giorgia Lupi, Dear Data catalogs a weekly data visualization based on the personal aspects of Lupi and Posavec’s lives. My favorite week was “A week of getting dressed” (see above). Despite…