Digital Humanities Afternoons

Join us for two talks on February 12, 2020, at 3:30 pm in the Peterson Room, Love Library (221LLS) about important project in the digital humanities. The first talk is “How (not) to run a digital humanities startup: Building our shared digital cultural heritage and connecting creatively to artists and makers through the last five millennia" by Luke Hollis, founder of  Archimedes Digital (https://archimedes.digital), a non-profit digital humanities startup focused on preserving and offering access to our shared cultural heritages, and visiting researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Hollis was a UCARE Fellow with the Walt Whitman Archive and graduated from UNL in 2010. In the past, he has assisted in the development of digital humanities research projects with over 120 cultural heritage institutions and authored software that has been adopted by the open source community for publishing classical languages datasets. Archimedes has partnered with American research centers and historical sites in over 30 countries to digital record and share our histories so that they can inspire and inform the next generations for years to come.

The second talk on “UNL Campus Archaeology: Building Digital Resources” by Dr. Effie Athanassopoulos an Associate Professor in Anthropology and Classics and Religious Studies at UNL. She is a historical archaeologist with interests in landscape, identity formation, material culture, and the role of digital technologies in teaching and research. In the past four years, Athanassopoulos has been working with archaeological collections recovered from excavations on the UNL Campus. These efforts have led to the UNL Campus Archaeology project, a research project that relates directly to Nebraska’s heritage. Through classroom based research and collaboration, the faculty/student team is analyzing and reassessing archaeological and historical materials to explore the lives of Lincoln’s residents and the city’s early urban development. A selection of this material will become available via a digital exhibit and later on as a digital archive. Her talk will provide an overview of these efforts and discuss the current state of the project.

 

Dr. Athanassopoulos’ primary research interests are in Mediterranean archaeology. She has been carrying out fieldwork in southern Greece, in the region of Nemea, and is the author of a monograph titled “Landscape Archaeology and the Medieval Countryside: Results of the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project” (American School of Classical Studies at Athens Publications, Princeton, 2016).