Thomas Garrison, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Ithaca College 12–2 PM, December 6, 2019Douglass CommonsCommunity Room, 401University of Rochester, River Campus Thomas Garrison is an archaeologist at Ithaca College who uses LiDAR – a laser-based remote sensing technology – to uncover lost Mayan cities beneath the jungle canopies of Guatemala. By digitally removing the forest cover, Garrison has […]
Category: DH Lunches
Please join us for a discussion with Shannon Symonds, Curator for Electronic Games and Co-chair of the Women in Games initiative. 12-2PM, October 29, 2019Douglass CommonsCommunity Room, 407University of Rochester River Campus Note: This event will take place at Douglass Commons instead of Rush Rhees Library, which is our usual venue. Shannon Symonds is Curator for Electronic Games and Co-chair […]
Join us for an interactive discussion on virtual reality and its uses in exploring special collections with Stephen Galbraith (Curator, Cary Graphic Arts Collection, RIT) and Shaun Foster (Associate Professor of 3D Digital Design, RIT). 12-1PM, December 7, 2018 Rossell Hope Robbins Library 416 Rush Rhees Library University of Rochester River Campus The Virtual Cary Collection is a digital humanities […]
Jayne Lammers, Warner School of Education 12-1PM, November 6, 2018Humanities Center, Conference Room D Please join us for a roundtable discussion on digital methodologies and the ethics of pedagogy and classroom practice with Jayne Lammers, Associate Professor, Director of Secondary English Teacher Preparation, and Associate Director in the Center for Learning in the Digital Age (LiDA) […]
Lisa Nakamura, Professor of American Cultures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Thursday, October 19, 2017, 1pmGamble Room, Rush Rhees Library 361 Lisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is one of the leading scholars in the field of critical […]
James J. Brown, Jr., Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Digital Studies Center, Rutgers University-CamdenRobert A. Emmons, Jr., Assistant Professor of Fine Arts and Associate Director of the Digital Studies Center, Rutgers University-Camden Friday, September 22, 2017, 12pmHumanities Center, Conference Room D In 2014, Robert Emmons and Jim Brown launched the Rutgers-Camden Archive […]
Dorothy Kim, Assistant Professor of English, Vassar College Friday, April 14, 2017, 1pmGamble Room, Rush Rhees Library Responding to digital humanities’ issues with openness, race, disability, LGBTQ, feminist, and other kinds of non-normative bodies in the field, Dorothy Kim will outline a set of practical steps to #decolonizeDH, or to make it less white, heteropatriarchal, […]
Joe Easterly, Digital Humanities Librarian, University of RochesterMargie Searl, Research Curator, Memorial Art GalleryLu Harper, Art Librarian, Memorial Art Gallery Friday, December 2nd, 2016, 1 pmMorey Hall Room 321 Please join us for an in-depth discussion of a new digital project due to be launched by early December: the Sibley Watson Digital Archive, a collaborative […]
Dr. Tamar Carroll, Dr. Lisa Hermsen, Dr. Rebecca Scales of Rochester Institute of Technology Friday, September 23rd, 2016, 12:00pmGamble Room This fall, undergraduates at the Rochester Institute of Technology were offered a new major in the College of Liberal Arts: Digital Humanities and Social Sciences. RIT is among a rising contingent of institutions addressing the call […]
Video Games and Learning
Kristina Textor, Warner School of EducationFriday, February 5th, 2016, 12:00pm321 Morey Hall Textor delivered a talk on ‘Video Games and Learning’, in which she argued for the pedagogical value of video games. During a fellowship at the National Museum of Play in 2014, she researched ways for games to develop players’ understanding of gender roles. Her […]
The Changing Face of the Library
Kyle Parry, Mantra Roy, and Marie L. TurnerFriday, November 20, 2015, 12:00 pm321 Morey Hall In May of this year, the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries announced their award of a $100,672 Officer’s Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a pilot program: The Digital Humanities Institute for Mid-Career Librarians. This training […]
Lisa Hermsen and Shaun FosterFriday, September 18, 2015, 12:00 pmGamble Room (#361) of Rush Rhees Library Our presenters on September 18 were Lisa Hermsen (Professor and Caroline Werner Gannett Endowed Chair of English) and Shaun Foster (Assistant Professor of 3D Digital Design) of the Rochester Institute of Technology. Hermsen, Foster, and a team of RIT […]
A Digital Humanities Lunch with Measures for JusticeKeturah Bixby (Data Wrangler)Hillary Livingston (Research Fellow) Wednesday, March 6, 2019 | 12-2PMVISTA Collaboratory, Carlson LibraryUniversity of Rochester River Campus Measures For Justice (MFJ) is an independent non-profit organization that collects data from criminal justice agencies across the U.S. to measure the performance of local criminal justice. If […]