Digital Humanities Talk Series, 2007-2008
Digital mapping, virtual worlds, infinite archives, web based
annotation ,
and online journals formed the substance of last year's first five
Digital
Humanities talks. The series restarts next week, and continues
through to
May with four further talks, covering multimedia history archives,
Tibetan
Himalayan digital libraries, virtual historical worlds, and one art
foundation's perspective on the digital humanities.
We invite you to come along and learn more about developments in these
areas, starting Wednesday February 27th, at 2:00 PM. Details of that
talk,
and subsequent ones, are below. All are welcome. Refreshments will be
served.
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Talk 6
Title:
What if We Could See History?
Speakers:
Ed Ayers; President, University of Richmond
Andrew J Torget, Director, Digital Scholarship Lab, University of
Virginia
When:
Wednesday, February 27, 2008; 2:00pm
Where:
Lamont Forum Room, Lamont Library
Abstract:
What does history look like? If the patterns embedded in sources
could move
across the landscape of American history, what would we see? If we
could
reconstruct the movements of millions of people and the great political
battles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, what new questions
would
we ask? Edward L. Ayers and Andrew J. Torget will discuss their
experiments in visualizing social processes in American history,
offering
their perspective on how historians might see things we’ve not been
able to
see before.
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Talk 7
Talk Title:
The Tibetan Himalayan Digital Library: Digital Humanities and New
Approaches
to Area Studies
Speaker:
David Germano,
Associate Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of
Virginia
When:
Thursday, March 13, 2008; 4:00pm
Where:
Barker Center, Room 133
Abstract:
How does digital technology enable new practices and visions in the
humanities? What would happen if universities and colleges took to
heart
distributed knowledge production and publication in this context? What
social reconfigurations of the Academy might be brought into being
through
use of such technologies? David Germano will discuss experiments relying
upon texts, visualizations, spatial representations, audio-video, social
networking and more in relation to Tibet as a base to discuss emergent
answers to these questions in the field of digital humanities.
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Talk 8 (Hosted by IIC)
Talk Title:
Digital Models of Ancient Rome
Speaker:
Bernie Frischer, Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the
Humanities, University of Virginia
and
Dean Abernathy, Associate Director of IATH, Assistant Professor of
Architecture, University of Virginia
When:
Wednesday April 16, 2008; 4:00pm
Where:
IIC
60 Oxford Street
Room 330
Abstract:
Making Culture Virtual: Recent 3D Modeling Projects at the Institute for
Advanced Technology in the Humanities.
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Talk 9
Talk Title:
Art History and the Digital Humanities - One Foundation's View
Speaker:
Max Marmor; President, Samuel H. Kress Foundation
When:
Thursday, May 15, 2008; 2:00pm
Where:
Barker Center, Room 133
Abstract:
The history of art has always been fundamentally dependent upon
technology,
and has often been an early adopter of emerging technologies,
beginning with
the glass lantern slide decades ago and continuing through the era of
the
35mm slide. With the emergence of digital technologies, art
historians are
now coming to grips with the challenges and opportunities new media
pose for
their field.
The Samuel H. Kress Foundation has, since its inception in 1929, been
strongly committed to the discipline of art history, and especially
to the
study, teaching, and conservation of European art and architecture,
with a
special focus on the period spanning antiquity and the early 19th
century.
Over the past century the Foundation has been a reliable source of
funding
for dissertation research and travel, for post-graduate fellowships, and
quite generally for scholarship and publishing in the field. In
pursuing
its mission, the Foundation has also been strongly committed to the
entire
information support infrastructure that has enabled art history to
flourish
in this country, helping libraries to acquire books and journals,
helping
them acquire image archives in various media, etc. The Kress
Foundation is
now grappling with the best way to engage with digital technologies
in the
context of its abiding mission and the needs of the key communities
it seeks
to serve.
In this talk, Max Marmor – the recently appointed President of the Kress
Foundation – will share his early thoughts about “Art History and the
Digital Humanities” and the contributions the Kress Foundation hopes
to make
in this domain, while also seeking guidance from his audience as to
ways in
which the Foundation can be most helpful to the discipline of art
history as
it navigates the new waters of the “digital humanities.”
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