Workshops – DH @ Ramapo College of New Jersey

Humanities Podcasting: Multiethnic Digital Storytelling (Live Streamed)

The University of Illinois at Chicago’s Digital Humanities Inititative is holding a workshop on Weds., November 11. This workshop will be led by podcasting experts and UIC alumni Deepthi Murali and Manamee Guha. We invite faculty and graduate students to join us in learning how to start a podcast of one’s own. The event will feature an introductory presentation followed by a hands-on tutorial.

Attendees should download Audacity before the workshop. Alternatively, Mac users can use Garage Band but should make sure updates are installed.

The workshop will also be livestreamed via Zoom. Registration is required for both live and virtual attendees. Zoom registration will open the beginning of November.

Schedule:

10:00-10:15 — Welcome & Introduction
10:15-Noon– Workshop leaders will present and discuss their podcasts and give an overview of the day, groups will be assigned for breakout sessions
Noon-1:00 — Lunch
1:00-2:45 — Breakout Sessions 1: technical/ idea generation
3:00-4:45 — Breakout Sessions 2: technical/ idea generation
- *all participants will take part in both breakout sessions in turn
4:45-5:15 — Q&A, Closing Remarks

Contact

Carla Barger

cbarge2@uic.edu

Digitorium 2020

The University of Alabama University Libraries is proud to announce the annual Digital Humanities Conference, Digitorium, will be held October 1-3, 2020. The conference, hosted by the University of Alabama Libraries and the Alabama Digital Humanities Center, will be entirely virtual for the first time this year. In an unprecedented time when digital literacies are critically important, Digitorium represents a timely opportunity for faculty, practitioners, and students to learn what’s possible with Digital Humanities (DH) methods and pedagogy. This year, we will offer several workshops that can help build DH skills, with tools such as Nvivo, Orange, 360 videos in VR, and Twine.

While we are disappointed that we won’t be able to meet in person, we’re looking forward to providing an opportunity for faculty, practitioners, and students worldwide to engage with discussions on Digital Humanities, hear from innovative scholars in the field, and to learn new skills through virtual workshops.

Registration is $25.00 and opens August 16^th, 2020.

For more information regarding our schedule, plenaries, and registration, please visit the Digitorium site.

Virtual May Meeting Hosted by SHU

SHU will be holding a May 29^th DH workshop virtually. It will start at 1 PM and end at 2:30 PM. Be prepared to report out about the progress of your projects. We will also set aside time for groups to work in individual Zoom sessions. Zoom details will follow.

Workshop on Digital Assignments

Breakfast 9-10am in Room B224 (Humanities and Global Studies Conference Room)

Workshop 10am-12pm in Room B118 (Computer Lab)

The goal of this workshop is to work alongside faculty doing similar projects to further develop your assignments. Each participant should bring any materials needed to work on the assignment and should post a one page description of their planned assignment on this Google Slides Presentation. We will break into working groups based on common tools or genres. The workshop will be held in a computer lab, but feel free to bring your own laptops.

Some resources that might help:

Companion to Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom, for Chapter 7, Creating Digital Assignments.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sample Assignments.

Data Visualization Workshop

DATA VISUALIZATION

A Workshop for

SHU/Ramapo Digital Humanities Grant Fellows

Friday, November 1, 2019

3:00 – 5:00 pm

Meeting Place: Seton Hall University, Schwartz Hall 112

VISITOR PARKING INFORMATION

Refreshments will be served

Data visualization is the graphical representation of information and data. It is also a form of storytelling. By using visual elements such as charts, graphs, and maps, data visualization tools provide an accessible way to see and understand trends, outliers, and patterns in data.

Some starting guides to learn more about data visualization are:

Cathy Moran Hajo will demonstrate an assignment that incorporates census data between 1860 and 1940 on the town of Mahwah, using Tableau and Word Clouds. You will also have an opportunity to try Tableau Public for yourself.

Greg Iannarella will demonstrate the strategies and tools he uses in Business Writing courses for data visualization (Google Sheets) and to promote recursive research and writing (JSTOR Text Analyzer). You will have an opportunity to try Text Analyzer. Please come with a research paper (in electronic form) to use for this part of the workshop.

In addition, we hope you’ll come prepared to join the conversation with examples of your own and with information or questions you have about creating student assignments or doing research using data visualization tools.

Please let us know if there is a tool YOU’D like to demonstrate.

Faculty Development Day

Stephen Rice, Monica Giacoppe, and Sarah Koenig, who attended Digital Humanities workshops last summer will share digital platforms that they are using to create new kinds of assignments for their classes. Learn about new pedagogical possibilities for humanities courses or other courses that deal primarily with qualitative information.

September 27 Kick Off Meeting @ Ramapo College

Thanks to all who attended our kick-off meeting for the Fall semester. We especially want to thank those who presented lightnig talks– three minutes on the projects that they are working on — that so inspired us.

WWP Advanced Institutes: Word Vectors for the Thoughtful Humanist

In 2018, the Women Writer’s Project received a grant from the NEH Institutes for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities to support a series of advanced seminars on using word embedding models in teaching and research. This program supports four institutes in 2019–2021:

An introductory institute focused on research uses of word vectors, using the WWP’s web-based Women Writers Vector Toolkit
An introductory institute focused on pedagogical uses of word vectors, using the WWP’s web-based Women Writers Vector Toolkit
An intensive institute focused on research uses of word vectors, offering a thorough, well-scaffolded introduction to RStudio through commented code samples that can be adapted for use in participants’ own work
An intensive institute focused on pedagogical uses of word vectors, including coverage of RStudio and the challenges of teaching command-line tools in a humanities context

The introductory events will use simple, open-access web tools hosted in the Women Writers Online Lab, while the intensive events will focus on using RStudio and command-line tools. All four institutes will consider how to make and assess arguments about and with text analysis data, and discuss how to assess the validity of methods, data preparation, and tool configuration. After each event, participants will receive support and guidance in implementing these techniques in their home research and teaching environments.

Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant.