Join us on January 20th, 3:00pm to 5:00pm, in the MSU’s main library’s REAL classroom for the spring semester’s start to the Michigan State University Digital Humanities Workshop Series. Curious about Github and Git? Want to learn how to use them to manage data, code, digital projects, and collaborative document editing? During this workshop we will provide a low barrier introduction to Github and Git that will show you their potential value and offer some hands on experimentation. The instructors for this workshop are Megan Kudzia and Thomas Padilla. register here: http://classes.lib.msu.edu/view_class.php?class_id=153 See the slides for this workshop here. photo: “GitHub Shows Border,…

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For those who missed the workshop on December 4, there is a recording available, as well as the workshop tutorial and notes! Workshop materials available: Video recording of the workshop – [begin just after the 17 minute mark. It cuts off early, unfortunately.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIrZjVH0Zcg&feature=youtu.be Tutorial materials for the workshop created by Emily Dolson – http://emilydolson.github.io/D3-visualising-data/ Notes and chat from the workshop in Etherpad – https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/d3js-workshop Friday, December 4, 2015 12:00-3:15pm MSU Main Library, 3-West Instruction Room Free + snacks and coffee will be provided. RSVP at go.cal.msu.edu/d3js Sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters Digital Humanities Program, Social Science Data Analytics, and…

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Thursdays from 12:00-1:30 in the Main Library, Collaborative Technology Lab, W101C Have a question or idea about Digital Humanities? Come chat with the DH librarians!

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Join us for an invited talk, “Darwin’s Semantic Voyage: Exploration and Exploitation of Victorian Science in the Reading Notebooks”. Speaker: Colin Allen, Provost Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University Date: 10/23/2015 Time: 12:00-2:00 Location: Main Library, Room W444 Description: During the 23 years between his voyage on the Beagle and publication of The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin meticulously documented the books he read. His Reading Notebooks thus enable the study of inputs to his creative process between 1837 and 1860.  We located digitized full texts of 670 of his nonfiction readings (390 of which he classified as…

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Please consider taking part in the first LOCUS symposium of the semester – “Pedagogy in a Digital Age”. CFP extended to 10/2! 

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Michigan State was delighted to host the HASTAC 2015 conference! See hastac2015.org for videos of a number of sessions and for further information.

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Join us for a Road to HASTAC Speaker Series talk on “New Possibilities for Historical Reconstructions with Unity 3D and Azimuth” given by James Coltrain of University of Nebraska, Lincoln Dr. Coltrain will give at talk on Friday, May 1, 10:00-11:30am in 255 Old Horticulture, and he will give a workshop on May 1, 1:00-2:30pm in 112 Old Horticulture. Registration for the workshop is strongly encouraged leadr.msu.edu/3dworkshop This talk will focus on current issues facing the use of historical 3D reconstructions in digital humanities projects, and Azimuth 3D, a web application for displaying scenes built in the Unity 3D online…

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Join us on Wed, April 15 from 12-1pm (Location: Espresso Royale) for the final DH Reading Group of Spring 2015. Ellen Moll will lead a discussion on ‘Ethnicity and Race in Digital Humanities’ based on the following articles.  Don’t worry – they each rather short. Please read as many of the articles as possible in advance of the discussion, but also feel welcome to attend even if you haven’t had a chance to read it all! Tara McPherson, 2012, Why are the Digital Humanities So White? Or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation, Debates in the Digital Humanities, print edition, http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/29 Lisa Nakamura, 2008,…

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LOCUS is a new series of presentations from people at MSU doing work in DH. The second is Apr 9, 3pm. Click here for more info. LOCUS: Call for Participation (full information found at digitalhumanities.msu.edu/locus/next) Partners: Writing Rhetoric and American Cultures, Political Science, and the Social Science Data Analytic Initiative Submit Proposal( CFP Closes – 3/31/2015  4/3/2015) – dts@mail.lib.msu.edu Register (space is limited)  – http://classes.lib.msu.edu/view_class.php?class_id=125 Date: 4/9/2015 Time: 3:00-5:30 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…

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Join us on Wed, March 25 from 5-6pm (Location: Beggars Banquet) for the third DH Reading Group of Spring 2015. Matt Handelman will lead a discussion on “What is the Dark Side of DH?” based on the following articles. Please read as many of the articles as possible in advance of the discussion, but also feel welcome to attend even if you haven’t had a chance to read it all! Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Lisa Marie Rhody, 2014, Working the Digital Humanities: Uncovering Shadows between the Dark and the Light, differences 25.1, http://www.lisarhody.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/WorkingDH_WHKChun_LMRhody.pdf Adam Kirsch, 2014, Technology is Taking Over English Departments:…

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Join us for a Road to HASTAC Speaker Series talk on “Approaches to Analysis of Verbal Data” given by Cheryl Geisler of Simon Fraser University Dr. Geisler will give a talk on Monday, March 23, 4:00pm in Bessey Hall, Room 300 (Writing Center). She will also give a workshop on Tuesday, March 24, 10:00am – 3:00pm in B342 Wells Hall. This talk and workshop are part of the WRAC Department’s Speaker Series as well as the Road to HASTAC Speaker Series. As scholars and teachers, we often find ourselves with access to copious amounts of texts, talk, or other verbal…

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Please join us for a Road to HASTAC Speaker Series talk by William Pannapacker of Hope College: “Why I don’t do Digital Humanities: Regional Collaboration in the Digital Liberal Arts”. The talk will consider the promise and challenges of engaging with digital technology in an undergraduate context, the criticisms made of Digital Humanities, as practiced in research universities, and the possibilities for collaboration between different kinds of institutions with a focus on the Great Lakes College’s Association’s Mellon-sponsored Digital Liberal Arts Initiative. Pannapacker offers a unique perspective on the Digital Humanities coming from the vantage of a liberal arts college.…

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This workshop will provide an introduction to using Python programming and the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) to prepare and analyze text, covering the basics of Python data types along with an overview of NLTK text analysis tools. Register Tuesday, March 17 2015 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Location: Old Horticulture, Room 112

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Join us for the 3rd workshop of the semester, Tues Feb 17, given by MSU Digital Scholarship Librarian Thomas Padilla, on Data Preparation for Digital Humanities Research, from 12-1:30pm in the Library’s REAL Classroom (3rd floor West). Learn data preparation principles that will help you refine how you prepare data for a wide range of Digital Humanities research. Principles learned during the workshop will be applied through hands on work with Open Refine. Registration is encouraged. Please register here.   Image from Flickr user Ian-s

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LOCUS is a new series of presentations from people at MSU doing work in DH. The first is Feb 25, 3pm. Click here for more info. LOCUS: Call for Participation (full information found at digitalhumanities.msu.edu/locus) Spatial Analysis in Humanities and Social Science Partners: German Studies & Anthropology Digital technology has brought about a renewed interest in geographic space in humanities and social science research. Projects using spatial analysis or cultural mapping take many different forms: aggregated data layered on geographic information systems (GIS), archaeological or archival objects tied to their places of origin, a visualization tool to illustrate differences in…

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Join us on Wed, Feb 11 from 5-6pm (Wells Hall 2nd Floor Atrium) for the second DH Reading Group of Spring 2015. Erin Beard will lead a discussion on Corpus selection based on the following articles. Please read as many of the articles as possible in advance of the discussion, but also feel welcome to attend even if you haven’t had a chance to read it all! Ted Underwood, 2014, Distant Reading and the Blurry Edges of Genre, http://tedunderwood.com/2014/10/22/distant-reading-and-the-blurry-edges-of-genre/ Mark Algee-Hewitt and Mark McGurl, 2015, Between Canon and Corpus: Six Perspectives on 20th-Century Novels, Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet 8, http://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet8.pdf…

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Join us for the 2nd workshop of the semester, Tues Feb 3, given by MSU Map Librarian Kathleen Weessies, on Mapping with QGIS, from 12-1:30pm in Wells B-125. QGIS is an open source GIS program that will allow you to map your research data, analyze it, and create attractive map layouts.  In this workshop you will learn how to acquire and display GIS shapefiles, map a list of addresses, perform a spatial analysis, and create a layout. Registration is encouraged. Please register here.

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LOCUS is a new series of presentations from people at MSU doing work in DH. The first is Feb 25, 3pm. Click here for more info. LOCUS: Call for Participation (full information found at digitalhumanities.msu.edu/locus) Spatial Analysis in Humanities and Social Science Partners: German Studies & Anthropology Digital technology has brought about a renewed interest in geographic space in humanities and social science research. Projects using spatial analysis or cultural mapping take many different forms: aggregated data layered on geographic information systems (GIS), archaeological or archival objects tied to their places of origin, a visualization tool to illustrate differences in…

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Join us on Wed, Jan 28 from 12-1pm in Linton 120 for the first DH Reading Group of Spring 2015. Coffee will be provided! Sean Pue will lead a discussion on Topic Modeling based on the following articles. Please read as many of the articles as possible in advance of the discussion, but also feel welcome to attend even if you haven’t had a chance to read them all! Megan R. Brett, 2012, Topic Modeling: A Basic Introduction, Journal of Digital Humanities, 2.1, http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-1/topic-modeling-a-basic-introduction-by-megan-r-brett/ David M. Blei, 2012, Topic Modeling and the Digital Humanities, Journal of Digital Humanities, 2.1, http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-1/topic-modeling-and-digital-humanities-by-david-m-blei/ Benjamin M. Schmidt,…

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Join us for this term’s first workshop, 1/20, 12-1:30pm “Web Based Mapping” on StoryMap Js & Google Maps Engine. Register in advance at lib.msu.edu/dh/events

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