Events
2020-2021 Mellon Fellows Projects
Apr. 25, 2021—Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities Presents: The 2020-2021 Mellon Fellows’ Digital Project Showcase Update (4/30/2021) Missed our event? View the project video from the showcase. Event Details: When: Thursday, April 29th from 4 PM to 5 PM central Zoom link: https://vanderbilt.zoom.us/j/94415192123?pwd=VThXU2oxK2t0cGExWmd3TUZRQWJWdz09&from=addon#success Event overview: Welcome remarks from Mickey Casad and Lynn Ramey Overviews of our fellows’...
AI and Human Intelligence Series
Mar. 28, 2021—AI and Human Intelligence: A Series of Conversations Sponsored by the Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities and the Vanderbilt Data Science Institute Deep Learning, Ethics, and Human Culture April 6, 2021 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Central Time Dr. Jesse Spencer-Smith from the Vanderbilt Data Science Institute will present the current state of the...
Pivoting During the Pandemic: Navigating Job Markets in Uncertain Times
Feb. 3, 2021—Spring 2021 Professionalization Series From Literature Analysis to Metadata Analysis: Q&A with Bonnie Griffin, International Taxonomy Analyst Indeed.com Tuesday, February 9th at 7 PM After completing her PhD in French Literature at Vanderbilt University in March of 2020, Bonnie Griffin accepted a position as Taxonomy Analyst for Indeed’s French market. Pursuing both academic and...
Roopika Risam at McGill University: Abolitionist Digital Pedagogies
Sep. 16, 2020—On Thursday, September 17, the McGill University Digital Humanities Initiatives presents the first talk in its Spectrums of DH virtual lecture series: “Abolitionist Digital Pedagogies: Beyond ‘Decolonizing’ the Classroom,” by Roopika Risam. Contact the organizers on facebook or email them at mcgill.digitalhumanities (at) gmail.com for a link to the live online event. During and immediately...
Digital Humanities Bootcamp 2020, August 17-19
Jul. 24, 2020—Registration is now open for Mellon Digital Humanities Bootcamp 2020 Curious about Digital Humanities? Have a digital project idea that needs a kick start? Looking for ways to get creative in your research? Join us online this August 17-19, 2020 for Mellon Digital Humanities Bootcamp, an intensive hands-on introduction to digital humanities across the disciplines,...
October 3-4, 2019: Ian Bogost — Humanities and Computing
Sep. 30, 2019—This week the Center for Digital Humanities and the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy will be hosting Ian Bogost, game designer, Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, and contributing editor at The Atlantic. We would love to have you and your students join us at the following events...
2019-2020 Working Groups
Aug. 26, 2019—The Center hosts a number of working groups for scholarly discussion, project development, and skills training. See below for schedules and details. 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...
June 21-22, 2019: Mellon Digital Pedagogy Symposium
May. 28, 2019—The 2019 Mellon Digital Pedagogy Symposium offers a focused, hands-on introduction to undergraduate humanities teaching using digital methods – both commonplace (e.g. Twitter, podcasts) and potentially unfamiliar (e.g. interactive timelines, digital exhibits, video essays). Register now to take part in workshops, seminars, and breakout discussion sessions on: Exploring successful digital projects for humanities education Creating,...
April 23: Conversation on Digital Literary Studies with Don Rodrigues
Apr. 19, 2019—Tuesday, April 23, 1:00-2:30 pm, Center for Digital Humanities (344 Buttrick) A Conversation on Digital Literary Studies with Don Rodrigues On Tuesday, April 23 from 1:00-2:30 pm, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Don Rodrigues (English, Vanderbilt University, 2018) will discuss his scholarship and experiences at the intersection of digital humanities and the study of English literature. He...
April 17: Se Young Kim on The Emergence and Future of Video Game Studies
Apr. 15, 2019—Wednesday, April 17, Center for Digital Humanities Lunchtime discussion with Se Young Kim on The Emergence and Future of Video Game Studies Video games are among the most powerful, pervasive, and lucrative cultural forms of our time. Discuss the emerging field of video game studies– major interpretive strategies, analytical approaches, research angles, and position in...