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HASTAC Scholars Project Showcase
The HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Scholars Program gives undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to develop their Digital Humanities interests and showcase their DH research and projects to a broader audience. Each year, around 100 new Scholars from dozens of disciplines and a variety of...
Latinx Digital Studies Symposium on 30 April
Dr. Omaris Zamora's class on Latinx Lit + Performance is hosting a Latinx Digital Studies Symposium to showcase final projects on Tuesday, April 30th from 4pm to 6pm in Watson Library 455. ...
Using Python in Humanities Research: A Conversation with Jonathan Lamb
Jon Lamb (Associate Professor of English, University of Kansas) explains why Python, the programming language, is suitable for humanities research and shares an example from his text analysis research on Shakespeare's Othello. He also notes that IDRH is a gathering place to bring together people working on different kinds of...
Facilitating an exchange of ideas on digital scholarship: A conversation with Elspeth Healey
Elspeth Healey, Special Collections Librarian at the Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas, explains how the Digital Humanities Seminar (co-sponsored by the Hall Center for the Humanities) provides a forum for conversation and exchange of ideas on digital humanities. She also adds that faculty and staff at the...
Engaging students through digital pedagogy: A conversation with Whitney Sperrazza
Whitney Sperrazza, Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Humanities at the Hall Center for the Humanities, shares how her class on Digital Feminist Archives incorporated digital pedagogy. Students studied, transcribed, and developed digital projects around an early modern text. Learn more about this assignment on the Spencer Research Library blog. The Institute...
Dr. Paloma Vargas Montes, visiting scholar in residence, at KU from April 1-14
The University of Kansas Libraries, along with support from the Institute of Digital Research in the Humanities and other campus sponsors, will host visiting scholar Dr. Paloma Vargas Montes from Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico from April 1-14. Dr. Vargas Montes holds a PhD in History (École des Hautes Études...
Creating scholarly networks through the digital humanities: A conversation with Mariah Crystal
Mariah Crystal, PhD candidate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas, on how digital humanities has opened up opportunities for engaging students through digital pedagogy and creating scholarly networks. Mariah is a HASTAC Scholar (2017-2019) at KU. Her research focuses on women in the Namibian independence...
Supporting a campus culture of digital scholarship - A conversation with Brian Rosenblum
In the next few weeks, IDRH will be releasing short videos about our digital humanities initiatives for the KU community. In this first video, Brian Rosenblum, Co-Director of IDRH,speaks about how IDRH supports the KU community in pursuing digital scholarship and digital pedagogy. Watch this short video to learn more...
Play and Build Workshop: 2d Character Design
Join PhD student in French and HASTAC Scholar Clarisse Barbier and FMS professor/Indigenous media theorist Joshua Miner for this introductory Play-and-Build workshop on video game design. ...
Digital Storytelling & the Humanities: A post-conference report from the 2017 DH Forum at the University of Kansas
Back to the 2017 Forum site...