The Digital Humanities Collaborative initiative is excited to bring you four special sessions at this year's Research Day conference on March 27 in A&S Auditorium. Our sessions focus on new, cutting-edge research in the humanities and digital technologies. Join us for oral papers followed by a roundtable discussion of a panel comprised of nine undergraduate and graduate students representing disciplines from across campus, and moderated by Dr. Daniel Holcombe, associate professor...
PSST! Students! This talk about artificial intelligence is meant for YOU. Please join us for the closing keynote address of Research Day, 4 - 5 pm in A&S Auditorium, for the special presentation by Dr. Cynthia Alby, “The New AI: Can It Make You Smarter? Could It Destroy Us All? The Answer Will Be Yes.” Refreshments will follow. Description: How can AI enhance your learning, and how can it also fool you into thinking you've learned when you haven't? Could it ruin you personally? Could...
The Digital Humanities Collaborative will host a talk on Feb. 23, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. in the library, room 376 by Dr. Juli Gittinger, assistant professor of South Asian Religions, Department of Philosophy, Religion and Liberal Studies. In this presentation, Dr. Juli Gittinger will briefly introduce the idea of digital ethnography (and its relationship to “traditional” ethnography) and how, as a discipline/tool, it has evolved in the various ages of the Internet. She will then show a...
The Digital Humanities Collaborative will host a talk on Feb. 23, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. in the library, room 376 by Dr. Juli Gittinger, assistant professor of South Asian Religions, Department of Philosophy, Religion and Liberal Studies. In this presentation, Dr. Juli Gittinger will briefly introduce the idea of digital ethnography (and its relationship to “traditional” ethnography) and how, as a discipline/tool, it has evolved in the various ages of the Internet. She will then show a...
Tableau is a powerful data visualization tool used to refine and integrate data with effective display graphics, both static and dynamic. In the digital humanities, Tableau lends itself extremely well to exploring trends in data and creating interesting interactive devices to communicate to an audience. In this two-hour workshop, we will gather and organize basic humanities data and publish a functional visualization to share with others. If you have a research project underway, please...
Tableau is a powerful data visualization tool used to refine and integrate data with effective display graphics, both static and dynamic. In the digital humanities, Tableau lends itself extremely well to exploring trends in data and creating interesting interactive devices to communicate to an audience. In this two-hour workshop, we will gather and organize basic humanities data and publish a functional visualization to share with others. If you have a research project underway, please...
What do you think about artificial intelligence? The Digital Humanities Collaborative is organizing a roundtable discussion of students from across campus, including graduate students, to be held on Research Day, March 27. We invite students to share their academic or personal uses of AI, fascinating discoveries, concerns about AI's impact on jobs or the environment, questions about ethical issues and copyright and more. Interested students must submit their name by Tuesday, Jan...
Have you made a great podcast or story map on a humanities topic? How about a digital map or publication of your research? Or maybe you've made a data visualization or networking graph? These are all examples of digital humanities scholarship. Students are invited to submit proposals for oral or poster presentations of their DH scholarship to be presented at the Research Day conference on March 27. Presenters with exceptional work will be eligible for cash prizes from the Digital Humanities...
Have you made a great podcast or story map on a humanities topic? How about a digital map or publication of your research? Or maybe you've made a data visualization or networking graph? These are all examples of digital humanities scholarship. Students are invited to submit proposals for oral or poster presentations of their DH scholarship to be presented at the Research Day conference on March 27. Presenters with exceptional work will be eligible for cash prizes from the Digital Humanities...
Friday's "ChatGPT in the Classroom" workshop has been moved to the A&S Auditorium due to very high demand. Workshop activities will assume that attendees have access to ChatGPT and Microsoft Word, Google Docs or similar during the talk. Attendees can create a free ChatGPT account in advance at https://chat.openai.com/. This hands-on workshop will introduce educators to the practical use of ChatGPT for writing instruction. The workshop will have a particular focus on how ChatGPT and...
