UNT Day of DH
A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (Day of DH) is an international celebration of technology and the humanities. Join UNT librarians, faculty, staff, and students to learn about digital humanities concepts, projects, and tools. Come hear about digital humanities projects on campus and in the Libraries, learn about specific tools like Timeline JS, ARCGIS, and RAW. And join us afterwards for a Happy Hour at East Side (117 E Oak St.) at 4pm.
Event Registration and lunch option.
Schedule
9:00-10:00 | Breakfast & Blogging | Come have a muffin and write your Day of DH post for the DH@UNT blog |
10:00-10:30 |
ARCGIS Demo Douglas Burns (Libraries) |
Learn how mapping software ARCGIS can enrich your research |
10:30-11:00 |
Preserving Lamkang Shobhana Chelliah & Levi Acord (Linguistics) |
Discover a project to create a dictionary of a language spoken in northeast India. |
11:00-Noon |
Library Lightning Round John Martin, Marcia McIntosh, Pamela Andrews, Laura Treat, Courtney Jacobs, & Maristella Feustle (Libraries) |
Learn about digital projects and resources in the UNT Libraries |
Noon-1:00 |
Digital Pedagogy Brownbag Spencer Keralis (Libraries & English), with students Sydney Kim, Keifer Mauldin, and Megan Gardiner |
Student's from Dr. Keralis's ENGL2220 World Lit class will demonstrate their class project using Timeline JS |
1:00-2:00 |
Linguistics Lightning Round with Shobhana Chelliah, Sumshot Kular, Sadaf Munshi, Alexis Palmer, Melissa Robinson, Xian Zhang (Linguistics) |
Digitally-enabled Linguistics at UNT: from documentation of endangered languages to detection of abusive language online |
2:00-3:00 |
Administration Roundtable Denise Baxter (CVAD), Martin Halbert (Libraries) |
This roundtable offers a chance for students to ask UNT Administrators about digital scholarship prospects and priorities. |
3:00-3:30 |
Portal Newspapers in the Classroom Ana Krahmer (Libraries) |
Learn about how scholars and students are using digital newspapers for teaching and learning |
3:30-4:00 |
Visualizing MOMA Data George Dawson (CompSci & Libraries) |
Get a student perspective on doing dataviz with public data from the Museum of Modern Art |
Sponsored by the UNT Libraries Digital Humanities and Collaborative Programs Unit, the UNT Libraries Digital Scholarship Work Group, the Critical Digital Pedagogy Faculty Network, and Digital Frontiers.