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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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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…
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Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico (AREPR)
Summer 2021 Seed Grant Funding Submitted by Christina Boyles Summer 2021 Highlights: Hosting 2 workshops to train students and community partners on best practices for collaboration, collection, and technology. Developing customized themes and modules for Omeka S to support multilingual and community-based project work with the support of our developer, Ivy Rose. Developing a metadata ingestion strategy using Google Forms, ensuring that logging data is easy and accessible for our students and community partners. Processing bilingual metadata for ~75 oral histories from individuals and community organizations in Puerto Rico. The Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico (The Emergency Response…
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CURBED3: Using DH Visualization to Understand Location, Cultural Identity, and the Public Imaginary
Summer 2020 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Divya Victor, Julian Chambliss, and Natalie Phillips Overview & Project Goals Inspired by Professor Divya Victor’s forthcoming book Curb (2021), CURBED3 is a web-based multimedia space that seeks to visualize instances of racial othering in the United States. The DH@MSU Summer Seed Grant supported Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Lab’s (DHLC) first fellow in our Public Humanities Fellow program. Our goal is to aid Professor Victor in developing her digital praxis. Borrowing heavily from Professor Victor’s book, which utilized geolocation data to highlight instances of racial othering in public spaces, our central…
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Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico
Summer 2020 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Christina Boyles Puerto Rico’s recent spate of natural and man-made disasters has led to greater public attention on governmental disaster-response methods–prioritization of urban centers, slow distribution of resources, and limited communication with those in need–often leaving marginalized and vulnerable communities to fend for themselves. Individuals and communities were and are highly dependent upon local traditions, oral knowledge, and community organizing. These knowledge systems are key to surviving the conditions lived and experienced in Puerto Rico, and they serve as powerful resources for future disaster response protocols. In response, I am working with…
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Transferring the website “Legacies of Enlightenment” to Humanities Commons
Summer 2020 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Valentina Denzel, Tracy Rustler, and Michael Stokes The DH@MSU summer seed grant allocated during the summer of 2020, allowed Valentina, Tracy, and Michael to migrate the website “Legacies of the Enlightenment: Humanity, Nature, and Science in a Changing Climate” to Humanities Commons (an open access, open source nonprofit network), and to create an eponymous research group on HC. The website and the research group are part of a larger, multifaceted and interdisciplinary research project that unites scholars from around the globe, working in various disciplines to examine the lasting effects of the…
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“Level 101: A Video Game About Video Games”-Game Development in a Global Pandemic
Summer 2020 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Justin Wigard Prior to receiving the 2020 DH Summer Seed Grant, I was the recipient of a 2018 DH Summer Seed Grant, and that report can be found here. Since 2018, this project has grown from a pedagogical DH project into my dissertation; as such, I applied for the 2020 DH Summer Seed Grant to further the development of Level 101, a serious game that is being developed with the program Unity to address gaps in game studies and higher education. This grant went towards three components of research and development in…
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Visualizing German-Jewish Intellectual Life in the Twentieth Century
Summer 2019 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Ryan Carty and Matthew Handelman In the summer of 2019, the DH@MSU Summer Seed Grant enabled Ryan and Matt to build the code for prototype visualizations of archival data of German-Jewish intellectual correspondences during the Weimar Republic. This work is part of a larger, ongoing project, also funded by a Digital Humanities Fellowship from the Research Association Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel, to map the social networks that constituted German-Jewish intellectual life in the early twentieth century, especially those networks surrounding liberal-democratic newspaper the Frankfurter Zeitung and the philosopher, journalist, and later film critic,…
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The Collapse of the USSR: A Living Archive on the End of the USSR and Afterward
Summer 2019 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Martha Olcott The funding that I received from the Digital Humanities program helped support my attendance at the European Summer University in Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig, where I completed the 2-week course on Humanities Data and Mapping Environments, and supported some of the cost of James Madison College student team members attending HILT course on Getting Started with Data, Tools and Platforms (which I attended along with Michael Downs and Bridget McBride), as well as ILiADS (which I attended along with Michael Downs, Sofia Cupal and Ryan Lumsden, and…