Join us on Friday, March 13, 3:30PM-5PM, Main Library, Green Room (4th Floor West) as we are proud to feature Natalie Phillips for our 2026 Distinguished Lecture! Connecting Digital Humanities to Reader-Response and Audience Studies  This talk will explore how we can use DH tools, not only to analyze and archive texts, but to powerfully reconnect them with the experiences of diverse readers and audiences. We begin with a series of experiments that combine digital, cognitive, and literary methodologies to investigate what readers pay attention to and remember in both an fMRI study of reading a chapter from Jane Austen…

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Coregulating with Water: Building Resilient Community with Toxic Watersheds Through Art-Science Dr. Jordan’s talk will be a hybrid event: in-person at the MSU Main Library, Digital Scholarship Lab, Flex Space, and virtual over Zoom at the following registration link.

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Watch Dr. Churchill’s lecture here: Join us for the 2023 Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Suzanne Churchill in the Green Room of the MSU Main Library (4th Floor, West) on Thursday, November 16th, 4:00-5:30pm. “THE future is limitless”: Mina Loy as a Model for Inclusive DH Designs Dr. Churchill will showcase a series of projects that develop and theorize a practice she calls “inclusive UX design.” Graduate Student Lunch with Dr. Churchill Digital Humanities is arranging a lunch for graduate students to meet with Dr. Churchill on Thursday, November 16th, 2023, 12:00-1:00pm in Linton Hall 120. Graduate Students from any discipline…

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Headshot of Jacqueline D. Wernimont wearing a blak blazer, purple and pink shirt, and long straight red/orange hair and slightly horned-rim glasses. Looking slightly up in front of a grey painted brick wall.

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“From Scholar to System to Scale: Generating Meso-level Historical Data to Recover the Lived Experiences of Enslaved People” Thursday, February 24, 2022, 4:00-5:30pm Please join the entire DH@MSU Community in launching our new annual Local Distinguished Lecture! We are thrilled to hear from Sharon Leon as she speaks about her work. Find the abstract below, and register to attend here. Abstract: How shall we represent their lives? The careful and responsible representation of what we can know about the lived experiences of the enslaved is a central focus of current digital work both for historians and for library and archives…

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“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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