May 28 – 31, 2024
Blog Post
Due Friday, May 31:
Write up to 500 words describing 1) your interest in the Fellowship program, 2) your project idea(s), and 3) what you hope to learn through the fellowship experience.
Tuesday, May 28
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Library Lab (Bertrand Library, Lower Level 1 room 025)
- Welcome and introductions
- Expectations for the summer
- Introduction to Digital Scholarship
- Reading: Kathryn Wymer, “Reasons to Engage with the Digital Humanities” (from Introduction to Digital Humanities: Enhancing Scholarship With the Use of Technology)
- Group Activity: What is DH? What is not DH?
Lunch as a group at the Bison
Paid for by L&IT
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, Library Lab
- Introduction to literature reviews and bibliographies
- Keeping a research journal
- Zotero and Zotero set-up guide (Zotero overview video)
- Mind mapping and topic development
- MindMup
- Goals and audience activity
Homework: DH Definitions
Due on Thursday, May 30:
Visit the What is Digital Humanities? website and flip through some of the definitions offered (click “new quote” to generate a new definition). Write down 1-2 definitions that resonate with you and bring them to Thursday’s session.
Wednesday, May 29
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Hildreth-Mirza Humanities Center (HMHC), room 113
- Creating blog posts in WordPress
- Sample text and images for placeholders
- Writing for the web workshop with Brandon Karcher (Manager, Instructional Technology)
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
- Schedule a time to meet with your librarian partner
- Gianna Depina – Jason Snyder
- Jackline Masetu – Jill Hallam-Miller
- Malika Ali – Mary Broussard (start with Carrie)
- Thandeka Bango – Ben Hoover
- Campus-wide summer research ice cream social! Everyone is welcome for frozen treats, cookies, and candy.
Thursday, May 30
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, HMHC 113
- Introduction to Copyright with Eloise Stevens (Scholarly Communications Officer)
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, HMHC 113
- What is digital scholarship?
- Reading: Miriam Posner, “What’s Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities”
- Individual check-ins with Carrie and Claire
Friday, May 31
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM, HMHC 113
- Group Viewing and Discussion: Jessica Marie Johnson, “DH Against Enclosure” (video)
- Dr. Johnson’s Life x Code: DH Against Enclosure
- Project Management Tools
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, HMHC 113
- Independent work time