[EVENT] Digital Humanities Day 2019

Event Name: Digital Humanities Day 2019
Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Time: 08:00 a.m. to 03:30 p.m.
Location: Schmitt Hall 135
Registration: Spring 2019 Digital Humanities Day go to the Center’s HawkSync Event Page

The Center for the Digital Humanities is hosting its annual Digital Humanities Day 2019.

ALL MONTCLAIR STATE FACULTY, ADJUNCTS, STAFF AND STUDENTS WELCOME

Schedule of Events:

That’s a Digital Humanities Project?

8:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.

This session will focus on the wide range of projects that are considered Digital Humanities. Projects from Digital Humanities Centers across the globe will be looked at, in diverse areas.

“Mapping Montclair Memories: The Italians of Montclair Oral History Project” with Marisa Trubiano

10:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.

The subject of this presentation will be the move from the collection phase of an oral history project to making it open and accessible. We are learning how to use new tools like MAXQDA and ArcGIS to allow for the evaluation of oral histories at the clip and segment level. In addition, a tool like ArcGIS will allow us to trace and make visual the Montclair expression of the transnational Italian experience, by mapping connections and memories that defy boundaries of time, space and language. These first steps have proven somewhat “messy” and confounding at times, but always exhilarating, for the way they are helping us chart the project’s future.

Also joining the conversation will be Montclair History Center Director, Jane Eliasoff, and Board Member Donato Di Geronimo as well as Dr. Trubiano’s two research assistants, Rosanna Coviello and Domenica Russo.

Community of Practice: Oral History and Digital Humanities, led by Dr. Trubiano

11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

This Community of Practice will be led by Dr. Marisa Trubiano of the Modern Languages and Literatures department.  The meeting will focus on oral histories and related research specifically, and generally on Dr. Trubiano’s Italian Voices of Montclair Project.

Community of Practice: Game Mechanics & Learning

12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.

THIS IS THE PRELIMINARY MEETING FOR THIS COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE.  DETAILS WILL BE DISCUSSED AT THIS MEETING REGARDING ADDITIONAL MEETINGS OF THIS CoP DURING THE SEMESTER.

When playing a game, the player will repeat the same action multiple times until the task is accomplished.  Why are individuals willing to accept failure as part of the learning process OUTSIDE the classroom, but have a completed different attitude IN the classroom.

The session will talk about the design mechanics involved in game design that are transferable to learning design, specifically the try-fail-learn cycle and reflection cycle both during and after an event, both tenets of Donald Schon’s Reflective Practice.

Community of Practice: Using GIS in Digital Humanities Research led by Dr. Julie Landweber and Kyla Izquierdo

12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

This informal session will focus on a discussion of issues that arise for the novice humanities user of GIS. Briefly: when a scholar has location-based historical data, and has a vision of how to represent that data spatially and chronologically, what sorts of questions arise? What sorts of learning needs to happen? As one begins to learn how to deploy GIS software, these questions only grow: how to make the software do things (practical questions) intersects with what cartographic representation can mean (theoretical questions).

“Creating an Early Modern French Caribbean Digital Database” with Dr. Julie Landweber

1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.

This session explores getting started in building a digital humanities project. Dr. Julie Landweber created a database that will transform eighteenth-century census data and historical maps from the French Caribbean into digital data that can be used for Geographic Information System mapping projects. This database will become a classroom and research tool that enables students and scholars to visually analyze commodity production and population shifts in the French Caribbean across space and time, in ways previously unavailable to historians, and inaccessible to undergraduates.

Story Map of Orange, NJ – Research Update

2:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Dr. Chris Matthews will discuss the digital public history resource: “Everything You Want to Know About the American city You Can Learn in Orange, NJ”. This project employs ESRI’s Story Map platform to tell a multimedia history of Orange. This session will be a research update on the digital humanities project.

This project was a 2017 CDH Digital Humanities Summer Grant Award winner.

Community of Practice: Story Mapping and Related Platforms led by Dr. Chris Matthews

3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

While it is well known that mapping and other visualizations provide valuable ways to engaging and understanding social and spatial data, ESRI’s Story Map platform provides a relatively easy format for bring together multiple media in a narrative frame that allows data related to space, place, history, and culture to be interwoven to support both research and accessible public understanding. Moreover, Story Mapping is just one of many platforms. This Community of Practice is designed to discuss and share efforts to work with these platforms to enhance both research and teaching.