Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures: Humanities in a Digital Age Symposium On November 11th, the University’s new Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures hosted a daylong symposium on “The Humanities in a Digital Age.” The symposium included two panels—one on Access & Ownership and the other on Research & Teaching—and two keynote…. More.
Johannes Kepper & Julian Dabbert: MEI, or Musical Editions Improved
MEI, or Musical Editions Improved On November 4th, the UVa Music Library and the Scholars’ Lab welcomed Dr. Johannes Kepper, Entwicklung/Betreuung Kooperationspartner at the Edirom Project, and Mr. Julian Dabbert, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter on Project TextGrid at the University of Paderborn. Dr. Kepper and Mr. Debbert discussed the requirements, characteristics and benefits of digital editions based…. More.
Tim Powell, Revitalizing Jefferson’s Vision for Preserving Native American Languages
Revitalizing Thomas Jefferson’s Vision for Preserving Native American Languages On September 28th, the Scholars’ Lab welcomed Tim Powell, Director of Native American Projects at the American Philosophical Society where he oversees the Native American Endangered Languages Digital Archive. Dr. Powell is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of…. More.
Tim Sherratt, Confessions of an Impatient Historian
Confessions of an Impatient Historian On June 8th, the Scholars’ Lab welcomed visiting scholar Tim Sherratt, digital historian, web developer and cultural data hacker who’s been developing online resources relating to archives, museums and history since 1993. Tim is currently employed by the National Museum of Australia, as well as being an Adjunct Associate Professor…. More.
Scholars’ Lab Grad Fellows, “Digital Therapy” Talks
Scholars’ Lab Grad Fellows Chris Clapp, Tom Finger and Alex Gil Our Grad Fellows in Digital Humanities are asked to make a final presentation the results of their work at springtime luncheon talks. This April, our 2010-2011 fellows (Chris Clapp, Department of Economics; Tom Finger, Corcoran Department of History; and Alex Gil, Department of English)…. More.
Andrew Hankinson, “Applications of the Music Encoding Initiative in Optical Music Recognition”
Applications of the Music Encoding Initiative in Optical Music Recognition On April 20th, the Scholars’ Lab welcomed visiting scholar Andrew Hankinson, a PhD candidate in the Distributed Digital Music Archives and Libraries Lab at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. Mr. Hankinson’s talk introduced work at the Distributed Digital Music Archives and Libraries…. More.
Myron Gutmann, “Data Access for Research and Teaching in the Twenty-First Century”
Data Access for Research and Teaching in the Twenty-First Century On May 6th, Myron Gutmann, Head of the NSF’s Social, Behavioral & Economics Directorate and Professor in the Department of History at the University of Michigan, spoke as part of the UVa Digital Humanities Speaker Series. Mr. Gutmann’s talk was jointly sponsored by the Scholars’…. More.
John Unsworth, “Idiosyncrasy at Scale”
Idiosyncrasy at Scale: Data Curation in the Humanities On March 25th, John Unsworth, Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign spoke as part of the UVa Digital Humanities Speaker Series. This is a speaker series jointly sponsored by SHANTI, IATH, and the Scholars’ Lab at UVa…. More.
Jeremy Boggs: A Plea for Open Digital Humanities Work
Hello there, Scholars’ Lab fans! Visiting Scholar Jeremy Boggs spoke in the Scholars’ Lab on March 3, giving a talk entitled A Plea for Open Digital Humanities Work: or, A DH Grad Student Reflects on Years of ‘Study’. Jeremy will join the faculty of the Scholars’ Lab full time in June, as our new Humanities…. More.
Mark Sample: Haunts: Place, Play, and Trauma
Prof. Mark Sample re-imagines locative media tools as platforms for renegotiating space and telling stories in literary, critical, and creative contexts.