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DHC-NC Monthly Newsletter
February 2023
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Updates, events, opportunities and more from the Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina.
We know it's been a while since our last newsletter, but there are updates in the works! (Keep reading for more.)
Have an update, story, event, opportunities or something else digital
humanities-related? Send it our way and we'll share it in our next
newsletter.
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Get to Know Your DHC-NC Executive Board
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The
2023-2024 Executive Board is hard at work. They’re planning the 2024
institute and updating the website, newsletter and more!
Some
of the board members took a quick break from their busy teaching,
research, mentoring, family and DHC-NC commitments to share their
thoughts on some key questions.
Get to know a bit more about what drives DHC-NC members to do digital humanities.
Spoiler: it’s about the collaboration! (And excitement – lots of excitement – about what we can use digital tools to do.)
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We're updating our newsletter
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Hopefully you noticed our newsletter's new look.
We're in the process of updating how we send and track emails from the
DHC-NC. We want to make it easier to share your news, events, updates,
opportunities and projects. And we want to make it easier for our
executive board to keep you updated on what's happening!
As we investigate efficient, affordable options, this is a preview of newsletter changes to come.
We want to hear from you - share your feedback on the new newsletter look.
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We're updating our website
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It's not just our newsletter that's getting a refresh. Our website will be getting some updates in the coming weeks, too.
Our focus is on making the website relevant, current and accessible. And
we're excited about creating a hub for all things digital humanities in
North Carolina.
Is there something you'd like to see on our website? Let us know!
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Save the date - and be a program chair - for the 2024 Digital Humanities Institute
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The 2024 Digital Humanities Institute is on our minds. As we begin planning, we have two to-do items for our members:
- Save the dates: May 17 - 18, 2024
- Volunteer to be a program chair!
This year, we're asking you, our members, to help us put on the best Digital Humanities Institute yet.
Get involved - program chairs will lead a topic area: from call to
acceptance to supporting presenters, help shape the 2024 program.
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Black Transfigurations With Mikael Owunna
February 8 | 1:30 PM Eastern | James B. Hunt Jr. Library, Teaching and Visualization Studio
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Join the African American Cultural Center and Multicultural Student
Affairs for Black Transfigurations. Multimedia artist and engineer
Mikael Owunna will present works from his artistic practice that
transfigure Black bodies into vessels of eternal life. Owunna’s artistic
practice explores the intersections of visual media with engineering,
optics, Blackness and African cosmologies. His work seeks to elucidate
an emancipatory vision of possibility that pushes people beyond all
boundaries, restrictions, and frontiers.
Owunna will participate in a Q&A after his presentation.
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Love Data Week: My Kind of Data (UNC Wilmington)
February 12-16 | varies
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For its third year, UNCW Randall Library and Research & Innovation will be co-presenting Love Data Week (February 12-16, 2024),
an international celebration of data. A series of online workshops,
panels, and spotlights about research data will be hosted throughout the
week to build campus community and highlight various aspects of data.
Recordings and recommended resources are available to access for UNCW’s Love Data Week 2023 and Love Data Week 2022.
This
year’s theme, "My Kind of Data," highlights the various representations
of “my data,” such as showcasing the work that goes into making data,
recognizing data equity and inclusion factors for the people
participating in or affected by data, and documenting the data standards
from (inter)disciplinary communities. Data is personal. It can be
created about anything, it can mean anything depending on the person,
and it can be used for countless purposes depending on the individual
need.
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Gallery Opening: 29 Days of Healing: Black Book Blitz Exhibit
February 15 | 5:30 PM Eastern | Witherspoon Student Center, African American Cultural Center, Art Gallery and Library
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Join the African American Cultural Center for the opening of the exhibition 29 Days of Healing: Black Book Blitz Exhibit.
This Black History Month exhibition will meld art and literature
together by highlighting 29 books on Black healing, spirituality and the
arts. It will be an interactive space where guests can pick up books
from our collection and check them out, watch a video montage of how
Black folks experience healing and spirituality through literature, art
and togetherness in the community. Guests at the exhibition opening will
be able to interact with literature from our library catalog, view
artistic photos along the walls, read quotes from our book display and
engage in thoughtful conversation while enjoying each other's company
and yummy finger food and hot tea.
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Immersive Black History Month Timelines Exhibit
February 15 (+ other dates) | noon Eastern | D. H. Hill Jr. Library, Cyma Rubin Visualization Gallery
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Explore African American history at NC State University in our Immersive Black History Month Timelines Exhibit. Curated by Todd Kosmerick (University Archivist) and Taylor Wolford
(Special Collections Librarian), this exhibit features materials from
the Special Collections Research Center and unveils stories of
resilience, achievement, and cultural influence that have had a profound
and lasting impact on the campus community and beyond.
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If, Then: Technology and Poetics
February 16 | 1:00 PM Eastern
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Lillian-Yvonne Bertram will give a reading and craft talk from their soon-to-be released (February 15) chapbook, A Black Story May Contain Sensitive Content. The winner of the 2023 New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM chapbook contest, A Black Story May Contain Sensitive Content confronts,
nuances, questions, and imagines the role of computation, particularly
AI, when it comes to crafting poetry about race and gender.
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Preserving History: The Russell School of Durham County
February 17 | 10:00 AM Eastern | D.H. Hill Jr. Library, Innovation Studio
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In
the early 1900s, more than 800 Rosenwald Schools — schools for Black
students built through philanthropic donations and funds raised by
activists — were built in North Carolina. This number was, by far, more
than any other state, however only a few of these school buildings still
exist today.
To help preserve their history, Kevin Oliver, head of the Department of Teacher Education and Learning Sciences in the NC State College of Education, and Angela Wiseman, an associate professor in the College of Education, have created a virtual tour of the Historic Russell School, which is the last Rosenwald School remaining in Durham County.
Join us for this open-to-the-public event in some of Hill Library's exciting high-tech spaces — the iPearl Innovation Studio, North Forum and the Cyma Rubin Visualization Gallery — to
learn about the Rosenwald Schools and the Russell School through a
panel interview with individuals who attended the school, virtual
reality tours via headset, a gallery exhibition of 360-degree photos of
the school and a multimedia exhibit with interviews, videos and photos.
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Cartographic and Digital Misfits: Early Modern Chorography and Modern Cartesian Software
February 21 | 2:00 PM Eastern
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Join us for an online presentation from Dr. Ed Triplett, Associate Professor of the Practice at Duke University.
This
talk will describe some of the conclusions drawn through the creation
of a research and development project that seeks to bring
"chorographies" (also known as "city views") into digital mapping
environments that acknowledge the pseudo-perspectival nature of these
early modern sources. Following a brief description of chorography,
which was a ubiquitous form of spatial visualization in the
16th-18th centuries, Dr. Triplett will outline how he and his partners
developed the "Sandcastle Workflow" - a multiple-software technique that
combines image annotation and procedural modeling to translate
chorographies into explorable 3D scenes. The case study that will be
described in most detail is known as the Livro das Fortalezas (Book of
Fortresses) - a bound collection of 120 perspective drawings and 51 plan
drawings of 55 castles along Portugal's border with Spain that was
drawn and assembled in 1509-1510.
This program is sponsored by the Humanities, Data, and Technology Carolina Seminar.
Questions? Contact Amanda Henley.
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The Ongoing Fight for Freedom: Stories of NC’s Black Veterans
February 25 | 3:00 PM Eastern | Friday Conference Center (UNC-Chapel Hill)
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“The Ongoing Fight for Freedom: Stories of NC’s Black Veterans” is a
one-man presentation & performance elevating Black freedom fighters
and veterans with North Carolina connections – known & unknown, on
and off the traditional battlefield – who have engaged in over 400 years
of a struggle for freedom, liberty, and equality. Their sacrifices,
resistance, and resilience have contributed to American democracy, even
as they were denied the full rights of citizens. Through listening to
their stories in this production, we can gain a deeper understanding of
our nation’s founding ideals, and harness the hope to continue the work,
together, of making those ideals a reality for all.
The show is approximately 75-minutes long, followed by a 30-minute audience “talk-back” with Q&A and discussion.
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Map Your Data and Tell a Story
February 27 | 10:00 AM Eastern | Witherspoon Student Center, African American Cultural Center Library
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This
workshop is an introduction to location-based, or geospatial, data and
how to work with the data using ArcGIS Online (AGOL), a cloud-based GIS
platform. We will learn to convert field observations from a table into a
map layer, and then style our layer to best represent our data. We will
then work with this map in StoryMaps, which provides a great way to
share images, stories, and maps in one place. Please bring a laptop with
you! Presented by NC State University Libraries.
This event is part of the Office of Undergraduate Research Spring Seminar Series.
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A fire side-style discussion about the birth of grassroots activism in Charlotte
February 28 | 6:00 PM Eastern | Halton Room (UNC Charlotte)
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A
fire side-style discussion with NC Representative Kelly M. Alexander
Jr. and UNC Charlotte professor Dr. Willie Griffin about the birth of
grassroots activism in Charlotte starting in the 1930s and into the
1970s. They will discuss Charlotte’s influence on the nationwide Civil
Rights movement with special attention to battles on the home front.
In
collaboration with the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts
+ Culture and the National Endowment for the Humanities "Big Read."
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Introduction to Digital Humanities
March 5 | 2:00 PM Eastern
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Digital
publishing? Computational methods? What makes up the digital
humanities? This workshop will provide history and context to the term
“digital humanities” across different disciplines. With a focus on the
use of digital tools, methods, and sources, this workshop will provide
recommendations and resources for attendees to start on their digital
humanities project. By the end of the workshop, attendees will have
knowledge of the various kinds of digital humanities and how to begin
their own digital humanities projects.
This workshop is offered by [UNC-Chapel Hill] University Libraries and will be led by librarians Rolando Rodriguez and Sarah Morris.
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Author Talk: The Intersection of Fashion and Disability
March 5 | 7:30 PM Eastern | James B. Hunt Jr. Library, Teaching and Visualization Studio
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For
centuries, the fashion industry has denied access to those whose bodies
don’t conform to normative physical and cultural stereotypes. In this
program, Kate Annett-Hitchcock, professor emerita of the Wilson College
of Textiles at NC State, will discuss her new book, The Intersection of Fashion and Disability: A Historical Analysis. The book explores developments that enable people who live with disabilities to participate in the fashion world.
Following her talk, members
of the North Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Association will engage in a
panel discussion about their experiences with fashion, including
accessibility of products and their views on current branding and retail
options for people who live with disabilities in the United States.
The Hunt Library's Teaching and Visualization Lab will
allow attendees to engage with an array of immersive visuals, including
historic photos used by Annett-Hitchcock in her research.
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Opportunities & Resources
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Digital Humanities Resource Guide (UNC Charlotte)
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Atkins Library has created several resources to support students, faculty and staff interested in Digital Humanities (DH).
Highlights include:
- A UNC Charlotte Digital Humanities Discussion Group.
- A request form for workshops, training and networking.
- Library services to help incorporate digital humanities projects into courses.
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Highlighted Projects & Presentations
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