2021-2022 Working Groups
Past Working Groups
Spatial Humanities Working Group
Jul. 10, 2021—Spatial Humanities The Spatial Humanities working group will investigate technologies, scholarly methods, and political practices related to geospatial data in humanistic research. It will survey a range of tools, including ArcGIS, QGIS, Story Maps, and Mapbox, as well as representative projects in the digital humanities. In addition to each group member pursuing their own mapping…
3D and Immersive Environments Group
May. 6, 2021—Meeting dates for 2021-2022 Every other Friday at 11 AM Next meeting: October 22nd Meeting agenda from October 1st This group focuses on developing skills for humanities researchers interested in 3D and immersive environments through a combination of scholarly and instructional readings and discussion, hands-on creation workshops, critiques of existing projects, and project development. To…
Games Working Group
May. 6, 2021—Meeting dates for 2021-2022 to be determined This group focuses on the intersection of the fields of game studies, pedagogy, and digital humanities. It will explore issues in gaming including representation, pedagogical applications of games, and game design. Throughout the year, this group will combine practice, play, and the creation of games and other digital…
Black Studies and Digital Humanities Working Group
May. 6, 2021—This working group explores the relationship between the fields of Black Studies and the Digital Humanities. In this inaugural year, our meetings will range from shared readings of published scholarship, discussions of digital and/or print works-in-progress, workshops, and invited lectures. Through these various formats, our aim will be to collectively advance scholarly discussions and interventions…
Creating Digital Collections and Exhibits Working Group
May. 6, 2021—Meeting dates to be determined This working group will offer a practical introduction to creating repositories and curating collections. Throughout the year, this group will learn metadata best practices and web-publishing platforms such as Omeka and Scalar for the display of archives, scholarly collections, and exhibitions for public-facing humanities scholarship. To join the group and…
Text Analysis Group
May. 6, 2021—Meeting dates for 2021-2022 to be determined This working group offers a practical introduction to computational tools for text analysis including OCR, data cleaning, coding, text mining software, and network visualization platforms. This group will be facilitated and organized by Dani Picard (danielle.r.picard at vanderbilt dot edu) and Mark Schoenfield (mark.l.schoenfield at vanderbilt dot edu),…