Events

Participants and instructors will gather on the campus of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in Indianapolis, Indiana for our our 7th year of HILT.

The Early Modern Songscapes platform was launched at a two-day international symposium held 8-9 February 2019 at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies in Toronto, Canada.   The conference attracted nearly 7…

The marquee event of the Frankenreads project is a free, public, live-streamed reading of the full text of Frankenstein at the headquarters of the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, DC on October 31st, 2018. The full text will take…

What happens to digital humanities inquiry when we begin with Black culture, Black thought, and Black persons at the center of our endeavors? How does this shift challenge and expand both the humanities and the digital? What happens to Black and…

This was the 6th year of HILT! Participants and instructors gathered from Monday, June 4 to Friday, June 8 on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition to the conference’s day-time sessions, participants…

The Music Encoding Conference is the annual focal point for the Music Encoding Initiative community. Music encoding is a critical component of the emerging fields of digital musicology, digital editions, symbolic music information retrieval, and…

An informal closing to Endangered Data Week 2018. Continue the conversation over drinks and snacks. An open-ended conversation on the impacts of endangered data in all its varieties and forms. From personal data to tax-funded public research data…

This hands-on session will seek to address a topic that has important impacts for both individual researchers and the larger endangered data landscape: personal data preservation. This workshop will feature two segments: first, an overview of data…

_Participants: _Kelley O’Neal (UMD Libraries), Maddie Clybourn (Prince George’s County Memorial Public Library System), Jessica Lu (Post-Doc with African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities), Amy Wickner (UMD Special Collections and…

_Panelists: _Jen Serventi (Office of Digital Humanities, NEH), Angus Murphy (UMD Department of Plant Science & Landscape Architecture), Joanne Archer (UMD Special Collections and University Archives), and Catherine Knight Steele (UMD Department of…

Understanding the contents of institutional and digital collections and their connections to other related material can be daunting. Increasingly researchers, institutions and a broader public can work together, using crowdsourcing and linked open to…

We welcomed 126 participants to HILT for our 5th anniversary year from Monday, June 5 to Friday, June 9! Participants and instructors gathered in **Austin, Texas **on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. HILT was hosted on campus by the…

Full schedule will be posted closer to the date of the conference. Wednesday May 31, 2017: pre-conference workshops; opening keynote address; reception Thursday June 1, 2017: panels, workshops and sessions; banquet dinner Friday June 2, 2017: panels…

With the support of the Getty Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Department of Art History and Archaeology and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) of the University of Maryland, College Park, present Art…

Social media platforms enable connection and sharing among friends, family and colleagues, while offering unprecedented opportunities for getting ideas out to much larger audiences. Political events such as the Arab Spring and social movements like…

We welcomed 100 participants to HILT from Monday, June 13 to Friday, June 17! Participants and instructors gathered in **Indianapolis, Indiana **on the campus of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

You are invited to join the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland for the project launch of “Synergies: Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture (#AADHum),” sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This…

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland, and the National Endowment for the Humanities cordially invite you to its first public screening at 7:30pm on the evening of…

Popular understanding of the Internet's physical reality has changed dramatically in the past half-decade, with consequences for privacy and security. Drawing on the research in his book, "Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet," Blum will…

Both days of this workshop will take place in the same location: Rolfe Hall, Center for Digital Humanities Learning Lab, Room 2118. The closest parking structure to this location is Parking Structure 5, 302 Charles E. Young Drive, North 90095. This…

HILT 2015 occurred from Monday, July 27 to Friday, July 31 on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, located in Indianapolis, IN and was sponsored by the Center for Digital Scholarship at the Indiana University-Purdue…

**Instructors: **Katie Shilton (iSchool), Ricky Punzalan (iSchool), Trevor Munoz(MITH) This third workshop in the Digital Humanities Incubator 2014-2015 series will explore ethical concerns, public memory, and data management strategies for research…

Location: Jones Room, Woodruff Library DAY 1 8:30 – 9:00 am Registration and Coffee 9:00 – 9:15 am Welcome Session 1: Led by Dr. Tina Herzberg 9:15 – 9:45 am: Lecture Philip M. Ferguson, Emily Nusbaum, “Disability Studies: What Is It?”, Research…

**Instructors: **Cody Buntain (Computer Science) Nick Diakopoulos (Journalism) Jen Golbeck (Information Studies) Ben Shneiderman (Computer Science) This conclusion to the “Researching Ferguson” teach-in series will focus on analytics for discovering…

**Instructors: **Ed Summers (MITH) Josh Westgard (Libraries) Now that you have collected your Twitter data, how do you use it to help answer your research questions? This workshop will help you do that by describing the anatomy of a Tweet, the…

**Instructors: **Ed Summers (MITH) Porter Olsen (MITH) Laura Wrubel (GWU) In this 90 minute workshop we will introduce and lead a hands on demonstration of tools for collecting data from Twitter, such as the Ferguson collection mentioned above. We…

This first session is a reconvening of our Ferguson constituency, comprising faculty and students who attended one of the two first sessions in October and December at MITH, or who expressed interest separately. We will also be inviting others who…

DAY 1 8:30 – 9:00 am Registration and Coffee 9:00 – 9:15 am Welcome Session 1: Led by Dr. Tina Herzberg 9:15 – 9:45 am Philip M. Ferguson, Emily Nusbaum, “Disability Studies: What Is It?”, Research & Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities…

Inspired by the model pioneered at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), the Humanities Intensive Learning & Teaching Institute is in its second year at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Hosted August 4-8, 2014, on…

Carrying out computational research with digital materials requires that both scholars and information professionals understand how to manage and curate data over its entire lifetime of interest. Participants will learn how to: Model humanities data…