A Special MITH Unconference
Presentations (in order of appearance)
Jennifer Guiliano, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities: Building an Accessible Future for the Humanities Ryan Cordell, Northeastern University: Uncovering Reprinting Networks in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers (Keynote presentation) Nancy Wicker, The Catholic University of America and Lilla Kopár, University of Mississippi: Project Andvari: A DigitalPortal to the Visual World of Early Medieval Northern Europe Nikki Silva and Anne Wootton, Kitchen Sisters: Pop Up Archive: standardized preservation and distribution of culturally significant audio Clifford Anderson, Vanderbilt University: XQuery Summer Institute: Advancing XML-Based Scholarship from Representation to Discovery Anne McGrail, Lane Community College: Bringing Digital Humanities to the Community College and Vice Versa
Location
All events will take place at: MITH 0301 Hornbake Library (inside Non-Print Media) University of Maryland College Park, MD
Schedule
10:00 – 10:15 am Welcome and Introductions 10:15 – 10:45 am Amanda French, George Mason University More than one person has proposed the creation of a THATCamp bingo card, and certainly one of the squares on such a card would have to be “collaboration,” while a good candidate for another square would be “project management”—both are perennial topics at THATCamp. In this talk, I will engage in some general musings about the nature of that amorphous mass we call a “project,” but I will also relate the particular history of and deliver some specific data concerning the THATCamp project. A sneak preview: since its start in 2008, THATCamp, The Humanities and Technology Camp, has seen more than 170 events held or planned worldwide and has provided digital training and professional development to more than 6000 people, most of them humanities scholars, students, or professionals. Whether we consider it one project or many, THATCamp has become an essential feature of the digital humanities landscape, and it is time for some perspective on it. 10:45 – 11:00 am Break 11:00 am Project Discussions begin This event is not sponsored by, or offered on behalf of, the U.S. Government, the National Endowment for the Humanities, or its Office of Digital Humanities. This is entirely optional.
Logistical Information
The University of Maryland serves as the flagship educational institution for the State of Maryland and attracts talented faculty, students, and staff from throughout the DC Metro region. Enrolling over 37,000 undergraduate and nearly 11,000 graduate students during the term, UMD will be a quiet campus during the Institute giving participants plenty of opportunities to enjoy the local amenities. Restaurant Guide
Getting Around
The unconference will take place on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. Directions to and from Campus are available. The UMD 104 Metro will transport attendees to and from the College Park Metro stop.
Getting Here
From BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport Using Public Transporation: B30 metrobus to Greenbelt Metro $3.10 cash, and exact change is needed (Green Line) then Greenbelt Metro to College Park Metro stop (only one stop) $3.00 (Smart Trip Fare). For information on other metro fares, please click here. Also, the MARC-Penn-line trains connect BWI airport with the New Carrollton Train Station. Click here for MARC Train fares. Super Shuttle Costs: $32.00 one-way. From Washington Reagan National Airport Using Public Transporation: Washington Reagan National Metro (Yellow Line) to College Park Metro (Green Line) switch from Yellow Line to Green Line at L’Enfant Plaza $3.35 (less if not during rush hour). Super Shuttle: $28.00 one-way. From Dulles International Airport Using Public Transporation: Washington Flyer Bus to West Falls Church Metro ($9) then West Falls Church Metro (Orange line) to College Park Metro (Green line). Switch from Orange Line to Green Line at L’Enfant Plaza ($3.90 or less if not during rush hour). Super Shuttle: $39.00 one way
Parking
Visitor parking is primarily available in four parking garages and two surface lots which have been converted to pay by space digital pay stations. Current rates are $3.00 per hour, with a $15.00 per day maximum and a $5.00 per day maximum on Saturday and Sunday.
Accommodations
MITH recommends the Marriott Inn and Conference Center, located on the University of Maryland campus, a ten minute walk to Hornbake Library where the workshop will be held. A LEED-certified green hotel, the Marriott Inn provides 300-thread-count linens, flat screen televisions, and complementary wireless internet access.We also recommend the Marriott Greenbelt located 3.5 miles from the campus as well as the Holiday Inn Washington-College Park, located 2.5 miles from campus. The Holiday Inn offers a local shuttle to campus, by request at the front desk.
Speakers
Amanda French is currently Research Assistant Professor and THATCamp Coordinator at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, helping scholars worldwide organize their own version of The Humanities and Technology Camp, “an inexpensive, open meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposed on the spot.” Before that, she was an Assistant Research Scholar in the Archives and Public History program at New York University, where she helped develop a model curriculum emphasizing digital skills, and where she developed and taught the graduate course “Creating Digital History.” Before that, French taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Victorian poetry and poetics, the Victorian period, and academic research methods for the digital age as a Teaching Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University. She held the Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2004 to 2006.
Jennifer Guiliano is Assistant Director at MITH, leading development activities including grant writing and staff coordination, and a Center Affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Jennifer received a Masters of Arts in History from Miami University (2002), and a Masters of Arts (2004) in American History from the University of Illinois before completing her Ph.D. in History at the University of Illinois (2010). She has previously served as Associate Director of the Center for Digital Humanities, at the University of South Carolina where she was also a Research Assistant Professor of History. Jennifer is interested in image analytics associated with authorship related questions, and how computing transforms both the questions humanists can ask as well as the answers that can be generated with digital tools, methods, and pedagogies.
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