*This newsletter is compiled by undergraduate student Taylor Hughes-Barrow, in collaboration with Kristen Mapes and Max Evjen. If you have any questions or would like to add anything to the newsletter, contact Hughe356@msu.edu
In This Newsletter:
- Upcoming Events
- Global Digital Humanities Highlights
- Student Highlight: Oliviah Brown
- Project/Presentation Highlight: American Religious Sounds Project
- Learning Opportunity: Timeline JS
- Register for Fall DH Classes!
- DH Slack - Connect to DH Broadly!
- Join the DH minor!
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Upcoming Events
- Thurs, Mar 30, 3:00-6:00pm, Open VR in the Digital Scholarship Lab (2nd floor west)
- Sat, April 1,
- Sun, April 2, 1:00-3:00pm, AI Sonic Art Workshop (DSL Classroom/Lab: Main Library, 2 West)
- Tues, April 4, 3:00-6:00pm, Open VR in the Digital Scholarship Lab (2nd floor west)
- Wed, April 5, 4:00-5:00pm, Learn QGIS: Making a color shaded map in QGIS (DSL Classroom/Lab: Main Library, 2 West and online)
- Thurs, April 6, 3:00-6:00pm, Open VR in the Digital Scholarship Lab (2nd floor west)
- Tues, April 11, 3:00-6:00pm, Open VR in the Digital Scholarship Lab (2nd floor west)
- Thurs, April 13, 3:00-6:00pm, Open VR in the Digital Scholarship Lab (2nd floor west)
- Fri, April 14, Deadline to apply for Professional Development Funding
- Tues, April 18, 3:00-6:00pm, Open VR in the Digital Scholarship Lab (2nd floor west)
- Wed, April 19
- Thurs April 20
- Mon, April 24, 9:30-11:00am, Studying AI in the Classroom Coffee Hour (DSL Project Room J (Main Library, 2 West)
- Tues, April 25, 3:00-6:00pm, Open VR in the Digital Scholarship Lab (2nd floor west)
- Thurs, April 27, 3:00-6:00pm, Open VR in the Digital Scholarship Lab (2nd floor west)
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 Global DH Symposium Highlights
Thank you to all the presenters, attendees, planning committee, MSU libraries staff, student workers, volunteers, and everyone who made the 8th annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium such an amazing event!
We had over 130 attendees from 18 countries!
Countries: Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Switzerland, UK, USA
We had a variety of amazing presentations, panels, workshops and discssuion that were so informative followed by such rich discussions!
 
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If you weren't able to join us, recordings of the presentation will be posted soon on our channel: MSU Digital Humanities
Recordings of past years’ presentations are available on Youtube here.
The proceedings from the 2021 and 2022 Symposia are available here through Humanities Commons. |
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Student Highlight: Oliviah Brown
What is your current major/minor?
I double major in English and professional/public writing, and minor in digital humanities.
How did you find Digital Humanities?
I found digital humanities from signing up for a digital humanities study abroad program during the summer of 2022. Before signing up, I hadn’t ever heard about the minor, but after being immersed in the studies, I fell in love with it.
What do you like most about Digital Humanities?
What I love most is that I get to be a part of a team researching and putting together history and stories into something we create on our own.
How is Digital Humanities enriching your academic experience?
Digital Humanities is enriching my education by throwing me challenges - practices, technologies, and knowledge that I haven’t had to face before - and allowing me to build something that’s enriched with what I’ve brought to my experience in the DH minor and what I’ve learned from it.
What have you learned so far that you didn’t expect about Digital Humanities?
I’ve learned just how much the humanities aspect interacts with the digital. We put people, history, and arts at the forefront of our work while using the digital to supplement our research.
What advice might you have for other students as it relates to Digital Humanities?
My advice would be to come into this minor ready to be challenged and to be willing to make connections with your peers.
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Project Highlight:
The American Religious Sounds Project (ARSP), is a collaborative research initiative co-directed by Amy DeRogatis (Michigan State University) and Isaac Weiner (Ohio State University), which aims to offer new resources for documenting and interpreting the diversity of American religious life by attending to its varied sonic cultures. The Project has centered on: (1) the construction of a unique sonic archive, documenting the diversity of everyday religious life through newly produced field recordings, interviews, oral histories, and related materials; and (2) the development of a digital platform and website, which draws on materials in our archive to engage users in telling new stories about religious diversity in the U.S. In the fall of this year, the project is drawing to a close, and its collection will be accessioned to the Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State.
"The American Religious Sounds Project (ARSP)  Gallery features curated digital exhibits about religious sound produced between 2014 and 2022. Some of these exhibits were created by award grantees and other scholarly contributors, based on their academic research. Others were developed by ARSP staff members, organized around materials from the ARSP’s extensive archive of audio recordings. Collectively, they explore religion as an audibly complex social, political, environmental, and embodied phenomenon and ask us to consider how our understanding of religion in America changes when we begin by listening."
Through June 30, 2023, the MSU Museum is hosting an exhibition created by the project, called the Sounds of Religion. The exhibit is part of the Smithsonian and is on display on two floors of the MSU Museum. Check it out! |
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Learn About A Digital Humanities Tool!
TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet!
Advantages to using Timeline JS:
Free & browser based
Non-commercial & open source
No coding needed
Easy to embed or share the link
Pushes students to think about credit and captions, and opens up the conversation about metadata
Lively substitute for powerpoint slides
Try it out! Here is a link to Brief intro slides with a tutorial on how to create your own timeline!
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 Register for Fall DH Classes!
Sign up for DH courses for this fall! This document is an updated list of courses for upcoming classes through Fall 2023 year that are eligible for the DH Minor.
If you are interested in doing a course that isn't on this list ask the DH advisor, Patricia Walters, if the course may count, or if you can work with the instructor to incorporate DH into the class so that it can count toward the DH Minor.
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DH Slack - Connect to DH Broadly
We encourage all in the DH@MSU Community who have an MSU email address to join and engage in discussion and information/resource sharing on the MSUDH Slack group. The Slack group can be accessed via a browser and/or by downloading the app on your device and then signing into the MSUDH community.
Sign Up
To sign up for the MSUDH Slack Group, go to msudh.slack.com/signup. Note that you must signup using your MSU email address.
After signing up, you’ll be added to several “channels” by default:
- #general – Space to introduce yourself, ask questions or share announcements with the community, and discuss DH
- #events – Space to share information about upcoming events; also serves as a reminder feed from the community calendar
- #random – Space to share and discuss things that may be off-topic to DH but are fun or interesting
- #thatcamp – Conversation space for the annual THATCamp Unconference
- #dhresources – Space for sharing tools, tutorials, readings, and other DH resources with the community
In addition to these channels, users can direct message individuals or small groups, and users can create private channels for projects or other work.
Check out this page for more information. Please reach out with questions about signing up, accessing, and using Slack by contacting dh@msu.edu or direct messaging Kristen Mapes or any of the DH team members on Slack!
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Want to Join the Digital Humanities Minor?
How to Complete the Minor
- Declare the Minor
- 15 credits | Can be completed in 1 year
- Required courses: DH285 (Fall) & DH340 (Spring)
- Elective Courses: 6 credits
- Capstone Experience: 3 credits
Capstone Experience
- Capstone Course – Create a digital portfolio, connect with the digital humanities community, and focus on professionalization for life after MSU
- Study Abroad – Several options, including in the UK, Greece, and beyond
- Intern with a DH lab or faculty-led project – Hands-on experience doing digital humanities work in the real world
Discover more details about how to complete the DH Minor
Ready to join?
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