DH@MSU holds a variety of events over the course of the year. In addition to the events that DH@MSU organizes, check out the calendar of events going on around MSU that may be of interest to the community. Below the calendar is a list of past events, including links to slides and recordings, where available.
Events This Semester – Spring 2023
- THATCamp Virtual 2023, January 6, 2023
- MSU Global Digital Humanities Symposium March 13-15th (Virtual), March 17th (In Person)
- Faculty Meeting and Celebration, April 19, 4PM-5:30PM, MSU Main Library, Green Room (RSVP)
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Past Events
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Fall 2022
- August 26, 8:45AM-3:30PM- THATCamp MSU
- September 13, 12:00PM-1:00PM (Virtual), Digital Humanities Research Highlights, Dr. Christina Boyles and Dr. Catherine Ryu
- October 3, 4:00PM-5:30PM, DH Distinguished Lecture, Dr. Kimberly Christen “Always Coming Home: Relations of Repair in the Digital Humanities“
- November 3, 12:00PM-2:00PM DH Locus: Comics, Data, & Community
- December 1, 4:00PM-5:30PM, DH Faculty Meeting and End of Semester Celebration
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Spring 2022
- January 28, 9:30AM-3:00PM (Virtual) THATCamp MSU
- February 24, 4:00-5:30PM (Virtual), Local Distinguished Lecture: Sharon Leon, “From Scholar to System to Scale: Generating Meso-level Historical Data to Recover the Lived Experiences of Enslaved People”
- March, 23-25 Global Digital Humanities Symposium
- April, 21, 4:00PM-5:30PM, End of Semester Celebration and Awards Ceremony
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Fall 2021
- August 26, 9:00AM-2:00PM THATCamp MSU
- September 22, 12:00-1:00PM, Digital Humanities Research Highlights
- Kate Birdsall, “The Cube: Superheroes Die in the Summer”
- Christina Boyles, “An Update on the Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico”
- Jessica Stokes, “Wingin’ It: The Material of Re-Storying the Ramayana”
- Stephanie Vasko, “Synthesizing the Sound of Space”
- October, 12, 4:00-5:30PM (Virtual), DH Distinguished Lecture: Jacqueline Wernimont, “Visceral Data: Renderings that Matter” (video recording available)
- November 4, 2:00-4:00PM (Virtual), Locus: Spin-offs: The MI Diaries Project as a Starting Point
- December 2, 4:00PM – 5:30PM (Virtual) End of Semester Celebration (cancelled)
Spring 2021
- January 18, THATCamp Lite, 10:00am-12:00pm
- April 1, End of Semester Celebration
- April 12-15, Global Digital Humanities Symposium
Fall 2020
- August 27, THATCamp MSU
- September 18, 12:00-1:00pm, Digital Humanities Research Highlights
- October 6, 12:00-1:15pm, Distinguished Lecture: Victoria Szabo, “The Virtual in the Digital: Post-DH Approaches to Collaborative Scholarly Practice”
- November 4, 12:00-2:00pm Locus: Intersections of Digital Technology and Gender Studies
- December 2, End of Semester Celebration
Spring 2020
- January 14, Digital Humanities Speaker Series
- Max Evjen on “Collaboration, Iteration, and Exchange: Academic Museums as Digital Laboratories”
- February 11, Digital Humanities Speaker Series
- Erik Ponder on “Sites of Memory: Creating Immersive Content for Scholarly Inquiry”
- Joyce-Zoe Farley on 1967 Detroit and the Role of Oral History and Digital Projects in the Preservation of Memory
- Tianyi Kou on “Multiculturalism in the German Football World”
- March 26-27, Global Digital Humanities Symposium (Symposium website)
- April 23, End of Semester Recognition Celebration
Fall 2019
- August 22, THATCamp MSU (schedule)
- September 10, Speaker Series
- Alice Lynn McMichael & Autumn Painter, “Campus as Laboratory: An Oral History of MSU’s Campus Archaeology Program” (project website)
- Kristen Mapes, Computational Analysis of Digitized Images from the Roman de la Rose Digital Library (image analysis slides)
- October 10, Workshop – Introduction to Drupal, led by Kate Topham
- October 22, Speaker Series
- Matthew Handelman and Ryan Carty, “Visualizing German-Jewish Intellectual Life in the Twentieth Century”
- Soohyun Cho on the “Eye-tracking and Text Analysis”
- November 4, Distinguished Lecture – Catherine Knight Steele, “Black feminists taught me: Lessons for the digital humanities from digital black feminism” (recording available with MSU login credentials)
- November 21, Locus Mini-Symposium
Spring 2019
- February 5, Tool Time – Visualizing Maps and Networks with Vistorian (Vistorian slides and sample data), led by Kristen Mapes
- February 12, Speaker – The Hallowed Grounds: Race, Slavery, and Memory, Hilary N. Green (recording)
- February 28, Colloquium
- Stephanie Mahnke (PhD Candidate in the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Department) “The Underground Project: Mapping Lansing’s LGBTQ Heritage”
- Julian Chambliss (Professor of English) “Making History: Podcasts as Digital Humanities Projects”
- March 12, Tool Time – Tips for Working with Data in Excel, led by Megan Kudzia
- March 21-22, Global Digital Humanities Symposium (Symposium website)
- April 9, Tool Time – Soundcite, led by Andy Boyles Petersen
- April 17, Colloquium
- Eric Rodriguez (PhD Candidate in the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Department) “Building Collectives: On the Building Healthcare Collectives Project” (BHC slides)
- Valentina Denzel (Assoc Professor of French Literature) “Legacies of the Enlightenment: Project History and Lessons Learned”
Fall 2018
- September 6, Workshop – Getting Started with Digital Humanities (Getting Started workshop slides), led by Kristen Mapes, Brandon Locke, Megan Kudzia, & Devin Higgins
- September 19, Colloquium – with presentations by Kate Birdsall and Erica Holt & Daniel Fandino
- September 25, Tool Time – Chronicling America (Chronicling America tutorial), led by Brandon Locke
- October 5, Workshop – Playing and Breaking Games, led by Catherine Ryu (Breaking Games slides)
- October 17, Colloquium – with presentations by Jon Keune and Alexandra Hidalgo
- October 23, Tool Time – TAGS: Twitter Archiving, led by Kristen Mapes
- November 7, Workshop – Regular Expressions for Digital Humanities, led by Tianyi Kou and Megan Kudzia
- November 13, Tool Time – Snappy Summaries, led by Megan Kudzia
- November 15, Lecture: N. Katherine Hayles, “Do Computers Participate in Meaning-Making?” (recording available with MSU login credentials)
- November 29, Locus: Narrative
Spring 2018
- February 6, Workshop – Introduction to Data Visualization and Tableau, led by Kristen Mapes (Tableau workshop slides)
- February 7, Workshop – Introduction to Audio Analysis, led by Michael Laney
- March 22-23, Global Digital Humanities Symposium (Symposium website)
- April 3, Workshop – Introduction to Game Making with Twine, led by Cody Mejeur and Howard Fooksman (Twine workshop slides)
Fall 2017
- September 7, Workshop – Getting Started in the Digital Humanities: Beginner Tools (Getting Started workshop slides), led by Kristen Mapes, Brandon Locke, Megan Kudzia, Devin Higgins
- October 11, Workshop – Preparing and Exploring Local Public Data with Tableau (Public Data workshop slides, Public Data workshop dataset, Tableau tip sheet), led by Brandon Locke and Kristen Mapes
- October 19, Workshop – Experimental Design in the Digital Humanities, led by Laura McGrath and Cody Mejeur
- November 1, Workshop – Getting Started with Content Management Systems and Web Publishing (CMS workshop slides), led by Megan Kudzia and Marco Seiferle-Valencia
- November 9, Workshop – Security and Privacy in Online Scholarship (Security workshop slides), led by Lindsay Blackwell, Brandon Locke, Megan Kudzia
- November 15, Workshop – Crash Course in Research Data Management (Data Management workshop slides), led by Scout Calvert
Spring 2017
- January 25, Workshop – Podcasting for Academics (Podcasting workhsop slides), led by Yelena Kalinsky
- February 1, Workshop – Introduction to Audio Analysis (Audio Analysis workshop slides), led by Michael Laney
- February 28, Workshop – Introduction to Image Analysis (Image Analysis workshop slides) (prepping ImagePlot document) (ImagePlot documentation), led by Cody Mejeur
- March 16-17, Global Digital Humanities Symposium (Symposium website)
- March 27, Workshop – Building Digital Collections with Omeka (Omeka workshop materials, including slides and tipsheets), led by Scout Calvert, Megan Kudzia, and Kristen Mapes
- April 3, Workshop – Exhibiting Collections through Time and Space with Neatline (Neatline instructions and tutorial), led by Brandon Locke and Scout Calvert
Fall 2016
- September 8, Workshop – Getting Started in the Digital Humanities: Beginner Tools (Getting Started workshop slides), led by Kristen Mapes, Devin Higgins, Megan Kudzia, Brandon Locke, & Alice Lynn McMichael
- September 20, Workshop – Github and Git for Humanists (Github workshop slides) (Github tutorial), led by Megan Kudzia
- October 5, Workshop – Visualizing Data with Tableau (Tableau tutorial), led by Kristen Mapes
- October 26, Workshop – 3D Modeling with Photogrammetry, led by Alice Lynn McMichael
- November 15, Workshop – Brief Introduction to Topic Modeling (Topic Modeling workshop slides) (Topic Modeling tutorial), led by Spencer Greenhalgh
- December 1, LOCUS – Modeling (Locus program)
Spring 2016
- January 20, Workshop – Github and Git for Humanists, led by Megan Kudzia
February 10, Workshop – Interactive Data Visualization with R- February 24, LOCUS – Access in a Digital Environment (Locus program)
- March 23, Workshop – Text Analysis with Natural Language Toolkit, led by Devin Higgins
- March 31, Speaker – Building ARCS Between Old and New Archaeological Research
- April 8, LOCUS – Global Digital Humanities
- April 8- April 9, Global Digital Humanities Symposium (Symposium website)
Fall 2015
- September 9, Workshop – Getting Started with Humanities Data: Beginner Tools (Getting Started workshop slides), led by Kristen Mapes, Devin Higgins, Thomas Padilla, Bobby Smiley, & Brandon Locke
- September 16, Reading Group – Programming for Humanists
- September 23, Workshop – Getting Data: Collections, Documents, and the Web, led by Thomas Padilla & Brandon Locke
- September 30, Reading Group – Large Scale Text Analysis with R, led by Laura McGrath
- October 7, Workshop – Introduction to Data Visualization (Visualization workshop slides) (Visualization tutorial), led by Kristen Mapes & Bobby Smiley
- October 14 , LOCUS – Pedagogy in a Digital Age (Locus program & recordings)
- October 21, Workshop – Introduction to Open Web Mapping, led by Katy Meyers Emery
- October 23, Speaker – Darwin’s Semantic Voyage: Exploration and Exploitation of Victorian Science in the Reading Notebooks, Colin Allen
- October 28, Reading Group – Digital Publishing
- November 4, Workshop – Introduction to TEI, led by James Walters
- November 11, Reading Group – Undergraduate Labor Ethics
- November 18, LOCUS – Visualizing and Narrating Space (Locus program & recordings)
- December 4, Workshop – D3 JS Workshop (D3 JS workshop video recording) (D3 JS tutorial) (D3 JS workshop etherpad notes)
Spring 2015
- January 20, Workshop – Web Based Mapping (Mapping workshop slides), led by Kristen Mapes & Bobby Smiley
- January 28, Reading Group – Topic Modeling, led by Sean Pue
- February 3, Workshop – Mapping with QGIS (QGIS resource guide), led by Kathleen Weessies
- February 11, Reading Group – Corpus Selection, led by Erin Beard
- February 17, Workshop – Data Preparation for Digital Humanities Research (Data Prep workshop slides) (Data Prep tutorial), led by Thomas Padilla
- February 25, LOCUS – Spatial Analysis in Humanities and Social Sciences (Locus program & recordings)
- March 16, Speaker – Why I Don’t Do Digital Humanities: Regional Collaboration in the Digital Liberal Arts, William Pannapacker
- March 17, Workshop – Text Analysis with Python (Python workshop slides) (Python reference guide), led by Devin Higgins & Thomas Padilla
- March 24, Speaker – Approaches to Analysis of Verbal Data, Cheryl Geisler
- March 25, Reading Group – What is the Dark Side of DH?, led by Matt Handelman
- April 2, Workshop – Humanities Data Creation, led by Brandon Locke & Thomas Padilla
- April 9, LOCUS – Text Analysis in Humanities and Social Sciences (Locus program & recordings)
- April 15, Reading Group – Ethnicity & Race in DH, led by Ellen Moll
- May 1, Speaker – New Possibilities for Historical Reconstructions with Unity 3D and Azimuth, James Coltrain
- May 27-30, HASTAC Conference (Conference website)
Fall 2014
- September 10, Workshop – Getting Started with Humanities Data: Beginner Tools (Getting Started workshop slides), led by Kristen Mapes, Devin Higgins, Thomas Padilla, Bobby Smiley, & Brandon Locke
- September 18, DH Brownbag Lunch
- September 24, Workshop – Omeka: Showcasing Digital Collections (Omeka workshop slides), led by Brandon Locke & Kristen Mapes
- October 2, DH Brownbag Lunch – Project Management (Project Management notes)
- October 8, Workshop – Introduction to Digital Mapping (Mapping workshop slides), led by Kristen Mapes & Bobby Smiley
- October 16, DH Brownbag Lunch
- October 29, Workshop – Principles of Network Analysis (slides) (Network Analysis tutorial) (Network Analysis data), led by Thomas Padilla & Brandon Locke
- October 3o, DH Brownbag Lunch
- November 5, Workshop – Reading from a Distance: Introduction to Text Analysis (Text Analysis workshop slides), led by Devin Higgins & Thomas Padilla
- November 13, DH Brownbag Lunch