“Digital Humanities describes efforts to study digital technologies and culture, employ computational practices in research and teaching, and reflect upon the impact of the digital. The Digital Humanities Initiative at SDSU promotes such critical engagement by providing a (virtual) hub for innovation and collaboration across (but not limited to) campus."

 

Virtual Book Talk featuring Joanna Brooks, Associate Vice President of Faculty Affairs and Student Success, a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at SDSU, and the Co-founder of DH@SDSU, who will present on her recent book: Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and The Problem of Racial Innocence (Oxford UP, 2020). Register here.

Friday 11/13: 1pm-2pm 

In this fifth and final podcasting workshop, we'll explore ways of keeping on track with your production, including using project management tools/approaches and keeping your audio files organized. Register here.

Tuesday 11/17: 1pm-2pm  
Thinking Critically with ClioVis

ClioVis: Interactive Digital Timeline Software combines the best features of digital timeline, mind-mapping, and presentation software to help your students make analytical connections. Designed by UT-Austin history professor Dr. Erika Bsumek, ClioVis enables students to synthesize information into interconnected timelines (or, for science classes, pathways). This tutorial will go over how ClioVis works and how you can use it in your classes. Register here.

"Study of the digital compels innovation in research methods and perspectives as well as the forging of new partnerships conducting this work. Digital Technologies create new ways of seeing, knowing, and communicating; new modes of distributing resources, ideas and information, and new interfaces among diverse human conditions."

This past fall, the DH Center launched a new podcasting workshop series and the DH Initiative hosted a number of inspiring DH lectures and book talks. Talks included a book talk and interview with Jessica Pressman, author of Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age (Columbia UP, Fall 2020), sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society, Something Wicked: A Macbeth Video Game and Critical Making, part of a new Digital Shakespeare series with the Center for the Study of Media and Performance, and a book talk and conversation with the authors of Talking #BrownTV.

Recordings of our archived lectures and workshops are posted here and at the SDSU Digital Humanities Initiative's YouTube Channel. You can also access workshop slides and additional podcasting resources here, as well as, here. 

By the Association for Computers and the Humanities

The ACH offers a guide to aid DH centers, labs, developers, and other technologists be aware of racially-charged terminology enclosed in the tools they use. This guide offers resources for using socially respectable terms. Contributors of this article include Patricia Hswe, Pamella Lach, Rebecca Sutton Koeser, Caitlin Pollock, Rachel Starry, Lauren Tilton, Amanda Visconti, Brandon Walsh. To read the article, click here.

This word cloud was created from Tweets made by SDSU students toward Digital Humanities, as well as, evaluations completed by students regarding Digital Humanities coursework.