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2018 Spring Digital Humanities Day

10:00 a.m. Learn and Share at the 2018 Spring Digital Humanities Day

The Center for the Digital Humanities is hosting the 2018 Spring Digital Humanities Day.

The day’s events will include presentations from CHSS faculty, productive discussions about Digital Humanities, and open Lab sessions

Date and Time: Wednesday, March 28th, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Location: Schmitt Hall 135

10:00AM Open Lab Session

from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Come to Schmitt Hall, room 135 and learn about our resource lab, meet our staff and faculty, and the type of work we do at the Center for the Digital Humanities. We encourage those interested in working with the Center to come to this session and ask how we could assist you in your digital humanities project

11:00 a.m. Learn about the Digital Humanities

11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

With 817 different definitions of digital humanities at https://whatisdigitalhumanities.com/, this growing field of interest has sparked both interest and controversy.  This moderated conversation will briefly review how we got where we are today with the Digital Humanities and show examples of digital humanities projects. There will also be time for Q&A.

12:00 p.m. A Story Map of Orange, NJ - Spring Digital Humanities Day Presentation by Dr. Christopher Matthews and Sophie Hudzik

from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Montclair State University Anthropology professor Christopher Matthews and graduate student Sophie Hudzik will present: “A Story Map of Orange, NJ”. 

1:00 p.m. An Introduction to GIS?

1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

This guided conversation will include a brief introduction to what geographic information systems are, review of a few of the more popular applications, and leave plenty of time for Q&A.

2:00 p.m. Open Lab Session

from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Come to Schmitt Hall 135 and learn about our resource lab, meet some of the support team, and see what type of work we do at the Center for the Digital Humanities. We encourage those interested in working with the Center to stop by and see how we could assist you in your digital humanities project.