DH Curious? Don't know where to start? Join us in the Digital Scholar Studio (GL540) Tuesday, January 21st, from 2-3pm! This workshop will give a very brief overview of the digital humanities, its core values, and some popular tools and methods. It is open to everyone in the FIU community who is interested in DH. For questions or to RSVP, email dscholar@fiu.edu....
[caption id="attachment_795" align="alignleft" width="300"] A screenshot from Memory of Cuban Nation[/caption] In 2017 the Czech NGO Post Bellum partnered with FIU to record stories of Cuban dissidents and activists who fought for freedom in Cuba. The project was funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic through the Transformation Cooperation Program and the stories are now available online as part of the Memory of Nations digital collection,...
Join us in the Digital Scholar Studio (GL 540) Tuesday, December 10th, from 2-3PM to learn what makes a better survey--whether for research or assessment--that will minimize ambiguity and bias in responses, and increase participation. The workshop will also cover what to do with your data after you have collected it. Taught by expert survey designer and Digital Archives Librarian Kelley Rowan and open to anyone...
Join us in the Digital Scholar Studio (Green Library 540) on Thursday, November 14th, at 2pm, for a workshop on digital storytelling using the free web tools TimlineJS and StoryMapJS. This workshop will be taught by Dr. Hadassah St. Hubert and is open to anyone in the FIU community with an interest in DH or digital scholarship tools and methods. For questions or to RSVP, please email...
dLOC is hosting multiple free events this week around archiving local Caribbean diasporic communities. See the flyers for more information: NAPOctober25EventFlyer NAPOctoberDLOCEvents ...
The University of Houston US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) is providing stipends of up to $7500 to scholars to advance their work on US Latinx digital humanities projects. For more information see the call for proposals here: https://artepublicopress.com/recovery-program/grantsinaid/...
Join us in the Digital Scholar Studio On Thursday, October 10th, at 2pm for a free GIF-Making workshop. We will be exploring FIU's unique digital collections and getting ready for GIF IT UP, an international cultural heritage GIF-making competition sponsored by DPLA and Europeana. If you've always wondered how to make your own GIF, this is your chance to learn!! Wait, what is a GIF?? A GIF is...
Are you interested in digital humanities, but you don't know where to start? Are you already working on something great and just want to share? Open Studio is a weekly chance to consult with a DH Librarian, discuss digital scholarship methods and tools, exchange ideas, and form connections with colleagues from different programs and departments. Stop by and check it out! When: Tuesdays, 11am-1pm Where: The Digital Scholar Studio, Green Library...
Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage and the University of Houston-Downtown are hosting the XV Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference, February 20-22, 2020 in Houston, Texas. The theme of the conference is "Histories and Cultures of Latinas: Suffrage, Activism, and Women's Rights." The full call for proposals is linked here: Recovery CFP...
Reviews in Digital Humanities, a new peer-reviewed journal that seeks to offer scholarly evaluation of projects in digital humanities, has issued its first call for projects with a deadline of September 1st, 2019. [mkdf_blockquote text= title_tag="h2" width=""]The goal of Reviews in Digital Humanities is to foster critical discourse about digital scholarship in a format useful to other scholars. The journal publishes project overviews written by project...