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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…