Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Fall forums of Digital Humanities Afternoons announced


Last year’s successful forum series continues this Fall 2019, with a new line up of discussions dedicated to supporting and celebrating Digital Humanities (DH) work being done by students, staff, and faculty on campus. Please join us to learn about the exciting advancements being made by the DH community here at Nebraska.

On September 25, 2019, at 3:30 pm two projects by three speakers will be presented in the Peterson Room (221), Love Library. Laura Weakly, metadata encoding specialist in the University Libraries, will talk about the interesting finds and challenges that can be encountered when trying to encode correspondence in her talk “All that Glitters Will Not Be Encoded: Fun Finds and Fiction in Historical Correspondence.”

Professors Brian Pytlik Zillig, digital initiatives librarian, and Stephen Ramsay, Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor, English Department will discuss “Muybridge I,” a collaborative art installation involving animation by Pytlik Zillig and music by Ramsay. The work, a looping three-minute video, originates in the photography of Eadweard Muybridge, Victorian photographer and author of the seminal “The Human Figure in Motion,” published in 1887.

On November 13, 2019, the next DH Afternoon will feature discussions by Linda Garcia Merchant, co-founder, Chicana Por Mi Raza Digital Memory Collective, and Dr. Ng'ang'a Muchiri Assistant Professor, English. The discussion will be held in the Dudley Bailey Library (Room 228), Andrews Hall. 

For more information about the series, visit: https://cdrh.unl.edu/dh-afternoons

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