2010 IDAH Fellow, Carmen Helena Téllez, professor, Jacobs School of Music, and director, Graduate Choral Studies and the Latin American Music Center, as well as the artistic director, Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, received the 2010 Tracy M. Sonneborn Award. Téllez was recognized on Nov. 4, 2010 in the IU Simon Music Center's Auer Hall, where she presented the Sonneborn Lecture.
Clara Henderson, IDAH’s Associate Director for Digital Arts and Humanities Projects, has won the 2009-2010 Esther L. Kinsley Ph.D. Dissertation Award for her dissertation, “Dance Discourse in the Music and Lives of Presbyterian Mvano Women in Southern Malawi.”
The Ethnographic Video for Instruction and Analysis (EVIA) Digital Archive Project is featured in the UC Berkeley study, “Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines” (http://escholarship.org/uc/cshe_fsc).
Decoding Digital Humanities
Last Updated on Friday, 20 April 2012 08:15
DDH is back for the 2011-2012 Academic Year!
Come to the IUB chapter of Decoding Digital Humanities! All are welcome. Decoding Digital Humanities is an informal gathering for those who are interested in all things digital, providing an opportunity to mingle, share ideas, discuss readings and raise questions surrounding the field of digital humanities. Decoding Digital Humanities chapters are active in the U.K. and Australia and provide opportunities to engage in international discussion forums.
The April meeting will take place on Friday, April 27th from 4-6pm at Wells Library E174. This meeting will focus on a screening of A Digital Renaissance: Illuminating the Iliad, a film documenting the digitization of the oldest complete copy of Homer's Iliad in Venice, in 2007. During the summer of 2007 researchers from the University of Kentucky, University of Houston, College of the Holy Cross, Furman University, and Brandeis University gathered in Venice, Italy at the Marciana Library to digitally preserve the Venetus A, the oldest existing complete text of the Homeric Iliad. Meticulously crafted in Byzantium, the Venetus A has been stored for 500 years in the Marciana Library. Its thousand-year-old pages contain handwritten notes recoding a tradition of scholarship going back to the Ptolemaic scholars of the second century BCE. In addition to digital photos, the text was also scanned in 3D with each page now fully preserved as a 3D model.
The film is one hour long and the screening will begin at 4pm, with discussion to follow. We'll have a few people who took part in the digitization project joining via Skype. Snacks will be provided! For more information and to view a trailer: http://www.vis.uky.edu/iliad.php
For more information about this meeting and other past meetings click the Read More tab below. To read more about discussions at our past meetings visit the DDH Website.
Digital Humanities Questions & Answers
Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 March 2011 13:49
DHAnswers is an initiative of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Chronicle of Higher Education's ProfHacker to create an open forum for asking and answering digital humanities-related questions. The ACH/ProfHacker collaboration is also building a community-based Q&A board, @DHAnswers, for digital humanities questions that need (just a little) more than 140 character answers!
IDAH Sponsors HASTAC Scholars
Last Updated on Tuesday, 01 November 2011 11:43
- IDAH Sponsors HASTAC Scholars for the 2011/2012 Academic Year: The following students have joined IDAH for the 2011-2012 academic year as HASTAC Scholars.
- Michael Lee, Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
- Kalani Craig, Ph.D. Candidate, History
- Scott Weingardt, Ph.D. student, History
- Tyler Pace, Ph.D. student, Informatics
- Taylor Bryant, Fine Arts
- Daniel Stein, Jacobs School of Music
2011 Fellows Retreat
Last Updated on Friday, 08 April 2011 15:38
Annual Retreat for IDAH Fellows
IDAH held its annual retreat for fellows in January 2011 at the Wells House on campus.
Clockwise: IDAH Fellow and History Professor Kirsten Sword discusses her "Mapping Antislavery" project; Vice Provost for Research, Sarita Soni, addresses participants; Markus Dickinson, Professor of Computational Linguistics, and D2I & IDAH Fellow, in conversation with Beth Plale, Director, Data to Insight Center. IDAH Fellow and Hope School of Fine Arts Professor, Margaret Dolinsky, presents on her project, "Reordering virtual reality: codifying real time experience."
UPCOMING Brown Bags
THURSDAY, APRIL 19 12-1 p.m.
Ling-Yu Hung, Department of Anthropology
“Investigating mortuary practices with GIS: the late Neolithic Yangshan cemetery in NW China”
This presentation focuses on the use of GIS (Geographic information systems) to examine 218 burials uncovered at the Yangshan cemetery (ca. 4300-4000 BP) of the Majiayao Culture in northwestern China. The abundant mortuary data at Yangshan are valuable sources for investigating its social organization. However, mortuary practices at Yangshan appears to be very complicated, including single and multiple burials, primary and secondary burials, extended and flexed burials, burials of people with different ages and sexes, and burials furnished with different types of grave goods. GIS provides a powerful tool to spatially analyze and illustrate different mortuary practices over time in this Neolithic community.
Upcoming Events
The newly formed Holographic ensemble will give two community concerts this week in Bloomington. Included on the program is John Gibson's Blue Traces, in a version for piano, electronics, and string orchestra. Concerts are at Bloomington High School North on Thursday (at 8 pm) and at Russian Recording Studio (1021 S Walnut) on Friday (at 8 pm). Concerts are free.
Upcoming Opportunities
Summer 2012 NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
Spatial Narrative and Deep Maps: Explorations in the Spatial Humanities
June 18-29, 2012
Call for Proposals: Applications due Friday, February 3, 2012
The Virtual Center for Spatial Humanities (VCSH), a multidisciplinary collaboration among Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI), Florida State University, and West Virginia University, is pleased to announce an NEH Advanced Institute for summer 2012 designed to advance exploration of key topics in the spatial humanities. The institute will offer scholars the opportunity to discover the benefits of a spatial-analytical approach to humanities scholarship and to explore how to bend geo-spatial technologies, including GIS and Web 2.0 tools, to the needs of the humanities. Two areas of emphasis will be spatial narratives and deep maps. Fellows participating in the program will learn both by engaging with a variety of existing projects as well as through the production of a prototype project in collaboration with the VCSH team. Fellows also will have an opportunity to present their own work and to contribute to scholarly and Web products that result from the institute.
The institute will meet in Indianapolis from June 18 to 29, 2012 and will be administered by IUPUI’s Polis Center. It will draw upon a multidisciplinary faculty from the three collaborating institutions, as well as leading scholars in the field of spatial humanities from the US and UK, and will be supported technically by the advanced technology group of the Polis Center. The institute schedule will allow time for fellows to interact with the staff and to seek advice for their own projects or project ideas, but the primary focus will be on how to use geo-spatial technologies to enhance the narrative and analytical traditions of the humanities. The fellows will work with project staff to develop a prototype deep map to support multi-scalar and contingent analysis of problems of interests to humanists. To focus this work, the institute will explore the spatial contexts of American religion, using the Digital Atlas of American Religion, an NEH-supported project of VCSH, and the multi-faceted evidence from the Polis Center’s six-year study of the intersection of religion and urban culture in a mid-sized American city.
About the fellowships:
Up to 12 fellowships will be awarded to individuals or teams who demonstrate serious interest in the application of geo-spatial technologies to problems in the humanities. While scholars in all humanities disciplines are eligible to apply, we are especially interested in collaborating with those who have experience in one or more geo-spatial technologies as well as scholars who have thought about the spatial dimensions of American religion.
During the institute, fellows will explore central issues in the spatial humanities, including such topics as database structures and information architectures, interactive design, and collaborative research, while situating these concerns within the fields of American history and religious studies. Guest lecturers during the summer include Ian Gregory (historical GIS and digital humanities, Lancaster University), Anne Knowles (historical geography, Middlebury College), Katy Börner (informatics and advanced visualization, Indiana University), and Art Farnsley (sociology of religion, IUPUI), among others. Institute leaders are David Bodenhamer (history, IUPUI), John Corrigan (religious studies, Florida State), and Trevor Harris (geography, West Virginia University).
All fellows will participate in a two-week residency June 18-29 at IUPUI. The residency will include colloquia and working sessions in which participants collectively will develop project foundations and address relevant issues in spatial humanities. Fellows also will be provided the opportunity to present their own projects. Applicants need not be proficient with geo-spatial technologies but must demonstrate some level of engagement with them as well as with spatial questions and analyses. Evidence of the capacity for successful collaboration and for scholarly innovation is required. Fellowship awards will include a stipend of $3,000 for each participant, as well as a travel allowance. Accommodation and meal costs will be the responsibility of each fellow, but the institute will seek to arrange low-cost housing for participants. We welcome scholars from all career levels, from advanced graduate student to full professor.
About the proposals:
Proposals should include the following:
• Two to three-page statement of how participation in the institute will fit the scholarly and professional goals of the applicant.
• One-page description of the applicant’s experience with geo-spatial technologies and spatial analysis.
• Brief CV (maximum of three pages).
• Letter of support from department chair for non-tenured faculty or from dissertation advisor for doctoral candidates.
Projects that articulate a clear understanding of the potential of spatial humanities and the problems associated with the use of geo-spatial technologies in humanities scholarship will be regarded favorably.
Electronic applications are required. Submit to ddearth@iupui.edu.
Deadline for applications: Friday, February 3, 2012. Fellowship recipients will be notified in mid April, 2012.
Questions may be directed to ddearth@iupui.edu.
Presentations, Conferences, and Calls for Papers
- IDAH Manager of Systems Development, Will Cowan attends OAC Workshop March 2011
- IDAH Co-Director Suzanne Lodato attends MITH Workshop January 2011
- Téllez Delivers Sonneborn Lecture Nov 4, 2010, Auer Hall
- DH2011 Call for Pre-Conference Workshops and Tutorials: Deadline Nov 1, 2010
- DH2011 Call for Papers: Deadline Nov 1, 2010
