Category: History
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Showcasing Local Phoenix History: The Park City Mall Project
At the very end of this past fall semester, Dr. Jacqueline Wernimont asked if I would be interested in participating in the Park Central Mall project as its primary researcher in addition to continuing to contribute as a member of the HASTAC Communications and Digital Content Development team, and I gladly accepted. The Park […]
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Seven Years On, Looking Back, and Japan Disasters Digital Archive
Another year passes and brings us further on from the tragedies of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. I was safely at work in the suburbs of Tokyo that day, but had visited Tōhoku many times and have friends there. This year the anniversary crept up on me. How did I let this pass from my […]
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HASTAC’s First Conference and Press Release (June 30, 2003): Way Back #HASTAC
DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 30, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 26 Last week, I worked with two of HASTAC’s earliest developers, Casey Alt and Zach Pogue, and we were able to excavate some early HASTAC online resources that had been lost for a decade or so. This is a […]
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#SouthwesternDH: Regional Collaborations and Local Histories
(cross-posted from recoveryprojectappblog.wordpress.com) A couple of weeks ago, my colleagues, Dr. Gabriela Baeza Ventura (Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston and Executive Editor at Arte Público Press) and Elizabeth Grumbach (Director of Digital Content and Special Programs for HASTAC @ ASU and Project Manager for the Nexus Digital Research Co-op at Arizona […]
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Reporting out on Archives Against Amnesia (#1: Performance)
Sunday March 4, 2018 Curators, archivists, academics, artists, and activists from Canada, the U.S., and South Africa spent three days talking together about how we make meaning from and with archives at Archives Against Amnesia , a University of Iowa Global Provost’s Forum and Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Humanities Symposium. It was a really […]
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Interview with Purdom Lindblad
This interview is part of the HASTAC Interviews Collection lead by Director of HASTAC Scholars, Kalle Westerling. Purdom Lindblad is the Assistant Director of Innovation and Learning at Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities (MITH). She has an MA in American Studies from Michigan State University and an MS in Information Science from the School […]
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CFP – “Pirandellian Transactions: Text, Context, Cultural Negotiation” – MLA 2019
The Pirandello Society of America is excited to announce our call for abstract submissions for the 2019 MLA Convention in Chicago, where we will host a panel on “Pirandellian Transactions: Text, Context, Cultural Negotiation.” Please consider submitting your proposal! Call for Papers: Pirandellian Transactions: Text, Context, Cultural Negotiation 2019 MLA Convention, Chicago This […]
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New Issue of JITP: Re-viewing Digital Technologies and Art History
Calling all art historians and digital research and pedagogy enthusiasts! Issue Twelve of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, “Re-viewing Digital Technologies and Art History” is now live! Read peer-reviewed and open access articles on digital research and student-centered pedagogical methods for art history. According to the editors, “the essays in this special issue attest […]
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Digital Humanities at the University of Kansas: Professor Dave Tell
This fall, I attended the Digital Humanities Forum at the University of Kansas (KU). At the conference, I was inspired by KU Professor Dave Tell’s presentation about his work in the digital humanities preserving the legacy of Emmett Till. Professor Tell has worked as part of a team to create an online memorial which educates […]
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At the Intersection: Race and Comics at the Schomburg Black Comic Book Festival
I had the opportunity to participate in the 6th annual Black Comic Book Festival at the Schomburg in NYC. I attended the first Black Comic Book Festival in 2013 and since that time this event has only grown. You can watch a live stream of the event here. It was great to be invited back and […]