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MSUDH Workshop: Github and Git for Humanists
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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Workshop: D3.js for Interactive Data Visualization
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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DH Library Office Hours
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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Darwin’s Semantic Voyage
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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Pedagogy in a Digital Age
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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HASTAC 2015 at MSU
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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James Coltrain, 3D Reconstructions, Road to HASTAC Speaker Series, May 1
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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Reading Group: Ethnicity & Race in Digital Humanities, Wed, Apr 15, 12pm
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: Text Analysis in Humanities & Social Science, CFP EXTENDED to 4/3
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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Reading Group: What is the Dark Side of DH?, Wed, March 25, 5pm
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:…