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SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Week*
DESCRIPTION:This year’s themes:\n\nSTE(A)M: Adding art/design/humanities to STEM disciplines.\nFilter bubbles and Internet censorship.\nAudio/hearing.\n\nThe week will include presentations and workshops featuring such diverse topics as mapping the Holocaust\, indigenous archives\, copyright and digital humanities\, digital documentation\, and digital art production. The week will also include THATCamps (ad hoc learning sessions)\, “Discovering the ‘Long’ 18th-Century: Making Connections within Gale Primary Sources” workshop\, a visit to Bangor’s ArtWalk\, Todd Presner lecture as part of the History Department’s 2017-18 Symposium Series\, and digital poet Claire Donato as part of the New Writing Series. Check out more on the official website: DigitalHumanitiesWeek.org. \nIntroduction\nThe theme of this year’s Digital Humanities Week is STEM to STEAM—a movement that proposes that the arts and humanities play a stronger role in setting the agenda for and assessing the outcome of scientific and technological research. Held from 2-6 October 2017\, this will be the fourth biennial Digital Humanities Week to focus on the ways that new technologies are transforming arts and letters\, history\, and the social sciences. Other sub-themes of the conference will include audiovisual archiving\, women and code\, copyright and net neutrality\, and technology and culture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat relevance do the arts and humanities play in a world whose swift transformation is increasingly driven by science and technology? That’s the theme of this year’s Digital Humanities Week\, a conference at the University of Maine during the first week of October whose events range from formal presentations by extraordinary speakers to ad hoc hackathons run by students. \nA growing movement known as “STEM To STEAM” aims to interject the Arts into the STEM disciplines (Science\, Technology\, Engineering\, and Mathematics). This movement’s radical premise is not simply that humanistic creators and scholars will benefit from access to digital tools\, but that traditional STEM fields need the creativity and perspective of the arts and letters to improve their diversity\, retention\, and accountability. \nIt may be hard to imagine lay citizens contributing to science in a time of Big Data and $9 billion particle accelerators. Yet the inventors of the pacemaker\, medical stents\, military camouflage\, and vehicle airbags were all artists or inspired by artists\, while today’s Nobel laureates in the sciences are seventeen times likelier than the average scientist to be a painter and twelve times as likely to be a poet. \nThis year\, speakers from MIT\, Harvard\, Dartmouth\, UCLA\, and the University of Texas–as well as other UMaine campuses and Bowdoin and Colby colleges–will demonstrate or examine art-science collaborations that have produced groundbreaking scientific discoveries\, from the use of DNA to store cultural data (the Library of Congress fits in a test tube) to audio microscopes (each microbe has its own signature sound). Other demonstrations include creating “Hypercities” by superimposing layers of historical data on an urban map; using a planetarium dome for data visualization or 3d sound; and building virtual museums to document local economies (“Blueberries\, Clams\, and Beer”). \nFounded at the University of Maine in 2011\, the biennial Digital Humanities Weeks focus on the ways that new technologies are transforming arts and letters\, history\, and the social sciences. Other subthemes of this year’s conference will include women and code\, digital storytelling\, copyright and fair use\, and others related to technology and culture. \nAll events are free and open to the public\, although the organizers request that you register on the website to ensure sufficient space for all and to target the workshops to participants’ interests. To register or learn more\, visit: http://DigitalHumanitiesWeek.org. \nDigital Humanities Week is sponsored by a CLAS Events & Experiences grant\, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center\, McBride Fund\, New Writing Series\, Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning\, and the Departments of History and New Media\, a program of the School of Computing and Information Science. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore about the STEAM theme:\nWhy STEAM?\nEvery year software makes a new kind of decision that humans previously made themselves— from what news to read to which data to scrutinize\, from when to turn left to how long to toast our bread. In response to this trend\, pressure has been building to adapt 21st-century education to the needs of Science\, Technology\, Engineering\, and Math (STEM) fields. Some legislators have called upon universities to discount tuition for science- and technology-oriented degrees\, while outside the ivory tower massive open online courses and small-scale boot-camps have cropped up to focus on coding\, with various degrees of success. \nMeanwhile\, a small but growing counter-narrative asserted by a spate of recent books has made the case that careers restricted to quantitative and analytic skills are precisely the jobs most likely to be replaced by algorithms and robots. According to these thinkers\, the “fuzzy” skills prioritized by the arts and humanities will be more adaptable to change in the workplace. \nThe last five years have seen practitioners with a foot in both the arts and sciences propose a third way: turning STEM into STEAM by integrating the arts and humanities into science-oriented education and professions. This hybrid approach would marry the creativity of the arts with the performativity of science\, to the betterment of both. \nTurning STEM into STEAM requires more than just gathering scientists and artists together over coffee–though that’s a start. In the United States\, the cultures of science and art can seem diametrically opposed. One has ample funding from both the private sector and institutes like the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health; the other seems always in danger of losing what little government sponsorship exists in the form of the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts. One values focus and rigor; the other\, lateral thinking and spontaneity. One prepares graduates for plentiful\, lucrative jobs\, often without a sense of moral purpose; the other prepares graduates for a creative and fulfilling life\, often without economic security. One publishes in peer-reviewed journals; the other exhibits work in galleries or online. One contributes to a Silicon Valley-style\, globalized economy; the other enhances the local color that makes Maine a cherished destination. \nYet the stakes for integrating the two are high–not just to inject the arts and letters with renewed relevance in a software-driven society\, but to confront some of the gaps in the way scientists and technologists approach problems. \nEthics\nFrom gene editing to artificial intelligence to social media “filter bubbles\,” scientists and technologists have stepped into powerful new roles–and into ethical quagmires. The arts provide moral landmarks that help to navigate such momentous breakthroughs. Can you make music without harmony? Should we act like Madam Bovary? Can a painting reflect more than one point of view? To complement science’s interrogation of what is\, the arts ask what could be–and the humanities provide a cultural framework to evaluate those possibilities. \nRetention\nDespite the nationwide push by proponents such as Code.org to teach programming from kindergarten through college\, retention in computer science and related fields lags far behind the arts\, and many of the coding boot camps that cropped up in the last two years have shuttered their doors. While an ever increasing number of jobs in the 21st-century will require some understanding of programming\, it’s clear that the ways we are trying to teach code are not working for a broad swath of the people whose professions will evaporate if they don’t learn to code. \nDiversity\nOne of the most well documented deficiencies in the tech sector is the underrepresentation of women\, from the C-suites of Facebook and Google to engineering staff on the lower decks. Recent studies suggest that college is the time most women drop out of computer science and related fields. While putative causes include the lack of female peers\, professors\, and models in mass media\, another cause cited by some researchers is the lack of cultural\, ethical\, or personal connection between what is taught and what is relevant to those women’s lives. The higher percentage of women in fields such as art and design suggests a more inclusive approach to educating a technically literate future generation might be to incorporate more teaching techniques and issues from the arts. \nSample topics for discussion:\n\nIs code the new literacy?\nIs software and the Internet making the production and distribution of art more or less egalitarian?\nIs it more important to invigorate the humanities with big data\, or to humanize big data with the humanities?\nWhat are some good and bad examples of art–science collaboration? Can we derive lessons about how such entanglements work best?\nHow can artists and scientists work together\, when their expectations of success and relative resources are so different?\nAre artists best employed to portray complex scientific developments like climate change and gene editing for the lay public? Or\, instead of providing aesthetic window dressing to predetermined meanings\, can they play a more critical role in the production of scientific knowledge and technical infrastructures?\nCan artists contribute to scientific research without a background in science? Can scientists produce artwork without a background in art history or studio art?\nCan artists such as SymbioticA and Stelarc who confront the ethical challenges of today’s technologies help prepare us for future challenges?\nCan a multi-disciplinary approach made possible by STEM to STEAM help us re-design our cultural\, economic\, and political systems so they regenerate rather than destroy the ecological basis for life on our planet?\nAbout Digital Humanities Week\n\n“Inaugurated in 2011\, the biennial Digital Humanities Week (#dhweek) at the University of Maine explores the impact of digital research and publication tools on artistic creation and humanities scholarship. \nThe theme of the 2017 Digital Humanities Week will be STEM to STE(A)M–a movement proposing that the arts and humanities play a stronger role in setting the agenda for and assessing the outcome of scientific and technological research. The 2017 conference will also cover other germane topics\, from audiovisual archiving to women and code to copyright and net neutrality. \n\nFor more information about these events\, contact jippolito@maine.edu or call 207 581-4477 or follow the Twitter hashtag #dhweek.” – Digital Humanities at UMaine \nPartially sponsored by the McGillicuddy HC\, as well as History\, the New Writing Series\, Intermedia\, and the Emera Center.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/digital-humanities-week/
LOCATION:University of Maine\, Wells Conference Center\, Stevens Hall\, North Stevens Hall\, The Union\, Folger Library\, and The Page Farm Museum\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:digital humanities,Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:Presner Lecture: Experimental Knowledge in the Age of Digital Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Todd Presner\, a digital historian and Professor of Germanic Languages\, Comparative Literature\, and Jewish Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles will deliver a lecture titled “Experimental Knowledge in the Age of Digital Humanities.” Presner is also the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies and the Chair of the Digital Humanities Program. Anne Knowles\, UMaine Department of History\, recruited Presner to visit UMaine. She describes him thus: \n“Todd’s creativity has found many outlets\, from the path-breaking online project HyperCities to promoting hybrid forms of digital and print publishing and his leadership of Jewish Studies at UCLA. His warm support for digital scholarship does not inhibit his frank critiques of the problems digital work raises for humanists. His views on these trends are fascinating.” \nThe October 2nd lecture will be a broad\, deeply knowledgeable overview will explore how digital work is changing humanities scholarship. \nIn addition to the Monday event\, Presner will be a guest lecture in Knowles’s grad seminar\, Tuesday October 3rd at 4PM in Stevens Hall\, room 310. Todd will be talking about several of his digital projects. Visitors very welcome! \n \n  \nThe event is part of the History Department’s 2017-18 Symposium Series and the 2017 Digital Humanities Week. \nClick above to go to the official Digital Humanities Week website.\n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/presner-history-lecture/
LOCATION:Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium\, Barrows Hall\, University of Maine\, Orono\, ME\, 04468\, United States
CATEGORIES:digital humanities,History Department symposia,History Event,Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:Discovering the "Long" 18th Century: Making Connections within Gale Primary Sources
DESCRIPTION:Location: Library Classroom\, 1st floor Fogler Library (near the “Union” entrance) \nThis workshop will provide an overview of critical primary sources available to scholars at the University of Maine seeking to enhance their digital humanities research.  Representatives from Gale will review their Primary Sources platform\, including core primary source databases available through Fogler Library.  We will also learn about recent research enhancements that may not easily be found within the normal library discovery tool environment\, including term frequency\, term clusters\, downloadable OCR\, and other integrated workflow tools.  Bring your own laptop\, or use one provided by Fogler Library.  Part of Digital Humanities Week. \nClick above to go to the official website.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/discovering-long-18th-century-making-connections-within-gale-primary-sources/
LOCATION:Library Classroom\, Fogler\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:digital humanities,History,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171005T163000
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SUMMARY:New Writing Series: Claire Donato*
DESCRIPTION:As part of Digital Humanities Week\, the New Writing Series is bringing digital poet Claire Donato to campus. Donato has an MFA from Brown University and describes herself as “a writer\, artist\, and curator thinking about animals\, architecture\, desire\, exceptionalism\, nothingness\, pedagogy\, personal taste\, suffering\, and synaesthesia.” \nThe event is free and open to the public. \n  \n  \nCheck out Donata reading from the banned book Lunch Poems by Frank O’Hara below. \n\nPhoto from Donato’s website. \nThis event is sponsored by McGillicuddy HC.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/new-writing-series-claire-donato/
LOCATION:Allen and Sally Fernald AP/PE Space\, Stewart Commons IMRC\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:digital humanities,New Writing Series,Poetry,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171006T170000
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SUMMARY:Downtown Bangor ARTober Kick-Off Event*
DESCRIPTION:ARTober Kick-Off Event *coincides with the Bangor ArtWalk \nBangor Arts Exchange\n193 Exchange Street\, Bangor\n5-8 pm\, Friday\, October 6 \nThe kick-off event will be held in the new Bangor Arts Exchange (BAE) building and will be the public debut of this exciting new space. A great deal of foot traffic is expected because of the excitement about this significant downtown development and since the kick-off will coincide with the ARTwalk in downtown Bangor. There will be a free reception and performances at the Bangor Arts Exchange\, including student art\, cultural\, and/or humanities work. \nThe ARTober kick-off will occur simultaneously with the Downtown Bangor ArtWalk. The ArtWalk event is quite extensive and includes a free reception and tour at the UMaine Museum of Art (40 Harlow St.). \nDon’t want to drive? Please join the free UMaine bus trip from campus to the ARTober kick-off event and the Downtown Bangor ArtWalk. The first-come\, first-served bus will leave from the Collins Center for the Arts parking lot at 4:30 pm and return to that location at about 8:15 p.m. The bus attendees can attend the free reception and performances at the Bangor Arts Exchange\, free reception and tour at the UMaine Museum of Art\, and have time to explore on their own. This trip is co-sponsored by the Office of Student Life\, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center\, and the CLAS Advising Office. \n  \nAbout ARTober: \nARTober was founded in 2015 when the City of Bangor declared it “The Month of the Arts” with the goal of having October dedicated to celebrating arts and creative culture throughout Bangor. \n  \nARTober 2017 Co-Sponsors and Organizers \nCo-Sponsors: \nMcGillicuddy Humanities Center\, University of Maine\, Orono\nBeal College\nEastern Maine Community College\nHusson University\nUniversity of Maine\, Augusta-Bangor \nInstitutional Organizer: \nCity of Bangor Commission on Cultural Development. \n  \nPart of
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/downtown-bangor-artober-kick-off-event-artwalk/
LOCATION:Bangor Arts Exchange\, 193 Exchange Street\, Bangor\, MD\, 04401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,digital humanities,Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:Maine Humanities Council's Think & Drink: Who's watching whom?
DESCRIPTION:Who’s watching whom?\nPhysical surveillance by and of the police\nThe second of the Bangor Think and Drink events. MC’d by our Faculty Advisory Board member Darren Ranco and sponsored by our friends at the Maine Humanities Council. Check out the December event as well.  \nThis year’s topic focuses on policing\, protection\, community\, and trust in the 21st century: “policing in Maine\, its intersection with race\, and how our local experience connects with what we see across the rest of the United States.”
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/maine-humanities-councils-think-drink-whos-watching/
LOCATION:Nocturnem Draft Haus\, 56 Main St.\, Bangor\, ME\, 04401\, United States
CATEGORIES:digital humanities
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SUMMARY:2020 Visions: The Humanities at UMaine
DESCRIPTION:The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center invites community members\, faculty and students to attend a showcase of current research and creative projects in the humanities. The event\, “2020 Visions: The Humanities at UMaine\,” will be held on Friday\, January 31\, 2020 at the Buchanan Alumni House from 2-5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. \nThe afternoon will begin at 2:00 p.m. with a poster session and digital project display in the Andrews Leadership Hall of Buchanan Alumni House. Attendees have the opportunity to converse one-on-one with students and faculty across diverse fields in the humanities about their research. Heavy hors d’oeuvres will be served. \nAt 3:00 p.m. students from the Opera Workshop will perform in the McIntire Room\, followed by brief remarks by Dean Emily Haddad from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences\, and Professor Margo Lukens\, Director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center. \nThe highlight of the event will be a research slideshow beginning at 3:30 p.m.\, where faculty from a variety of different humanities disciplines and university departments will present brief overviews of their recent research and creative projects. \nThe day’s events aim to highlight the diverse interdisciplinary expertise and interests of our academic faculty and staff involved in research and teaching on campus\, and outward-facing humanities work. This afternoon will also familiarize the public with the roles of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center\, from student fellowships and faculty grants to campus lectures\, performances and community outreach. \nThe following day\, Saturday\, February 1\, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center is also organizing Bangor Humanities Day\, a city-wide celebration of local humanities initiatives off campus in the local area. A full schedule of Saturday’s events will be available on the MHC website soon. \nMore information about the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center is available online or by emailing mhc@maine.edu.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/2020-visions-the-humanities-at-umaine/
LOCATION:Buchanan Alumni House
CATEGORIES:Art,CLAS event,digital humanities,English Department,History,Lecture,MHC Fellows,Performing Arts,Poetry,Public Humanities,Wabanaki
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SUMMARY:Black Digital History Lunch and Learn: A DH Pop In
DESCRIPTION:The McGillicuddy Humanities Center and the Multicultural Student Center are holding a Black Digital History lunch and learn on Wednesday\, February 26\, 2020 at 12 p.m. in the Multicultural Student Center on the 3rd floor of Memorial Union. Stop by for lunch. Leave with new tools in your knowledge arsenal. \nKaren Sieber from the McGillicuddy Humanities Center will discuss digital humanities tools and resources for remembering\, teaching\, examining\, understanding\, and celebrating the Black experience in America. \nFrom interactive maps and timelines to digital archives and databases\, pop in to learn more about ways in which the digital humanities can help us better understand topics like slavery\, Reconstruction\, the long Civil Rights movement\, Urban Renewal\, and even hip-hop history.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/black-digital-history-dh-pop-in/
LOCATION:Multicultural Student Center\, 3rd floor\, Memorial Union\, Orono\, ME\, United States
CATEGORIES:digital humanities,Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:DH Pop In: Building Digital Timelines
DESCRIPTION:Building off of the success of the Black Digital History event this spring\, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center will be continuing their DH Pop In series throughout the year to show the potential and accessibility of the digital humanities for research and classroom use. Spearheaded by the MHC’s Humanities Specialist Karen Sieber\, each event will showcase a different tool or digital project\, and teach users how to use similar methods in their own research or creative work\, including mapping\, textual analysis and digital exhibits. \nThe next DH Pop In will be Monday\, August 3\, at 1PM. Sieber will show virtual attendees how to build quick\, easy\, free interactive timelines using the tool TimelineJS. No experience is necessary. Possibly uses include building virtual timelines to help students make sense of jam-packed survey classes\, harnessing the power of timelines to organize graduate school comps notes\, and using timelines to break down big ideas for a general audience. This tool also allows for collaborative remote work for classrooms meeting virtually. \nEmail mhc@maine.edu to get the link to register for the DH Pop In. \nSieber’s own digital humanities work has received national attention in recent years. The site Digital Loray (www.digitalloray.org) received the National Humanities Alliance’s “Humanities For All” award. The map\, timeline and digital archive on the race riots of 1919 that she built (www.visualizingtheredsummer.com) is used in classrooms around the country and has reached hundreds of thousands of users.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/dh-pop-in-building-digital-timelines/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,CLAS event,Communication and Journalism,digital humanities,English Department,Folklife and Oral History,History,Philosophy Department Colloquium Series,WGS
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200818T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200818T140000
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SUMMARY:DH Pop In: Simple Mapping
DESCRIPTION:Building off of the success of the Black Digital History event this spring\, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center will be continuing their DH Pop In series throughout the year to show the potential and accessibility of the digital humanities for research and classroom use. Spearheaded by the MHC’s Humanities Specialist Karen Sieber\, each event will showcase a different tool or digital project\, and teach users how to use similar methods in their own research or creative work\, including mapping\, textual analysis and digital exhibits. \nThe next DH Pop In will be Tuesday\, August 18\, at 1PM. Sieber will show virtual attendees how to build quick\, easy\, free interactive maps and guided tours using the tools StoryMapJS\, GoogleMaps and Clio. No experience is necessary. Possibly uses include building interactive maps to help students make sense of jam-packed survey classes\, harnessing the power of maps to organize research notes\, and breaking down big ideas spatially for a general audience. These tools also allow for collaborative remote work for classrooms meeting virtually. \nEmail mhc@maine.edu to get the link to register for the DH Pop In. \nSieber’s own digital humanities work has received national attention in recent years. The site Digital Loray (www.digitalloray.org) received the National Humanities Alliance’s “Humanities For All” award. The map\, timeline and digital archive on the race riots of 1919 that she built (www.visualizingtheredsummer.com) is used in classrooms around the country and has reached hundreds of thousands of users.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/dh-pop-in-simple-mapping/
LOCATION:ME
CATEGORIES:digital humanities,Public Humanities,workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200925T083000
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SUMMARY:Virtual NEH Grant Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, September 25\, 2020\, the University of Maine’s McGillicuddy Humanities Center will offer a virtual workshop on applying for NEH grants. It will be conducted by Mark Silver\, Senior Program Officer in the Division of Research Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities. The workshop is open to the public. Anyone interested in learning about NEH funding opportunities and application strategies is invited to attend\, although space is limited and priority will be given to those in the Mid-Coast\, Downeast and Highlands regions of Maine. The workshop will run from 8:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Although the event is free\, you must register in advance. Registration is now open using this link.  \nDuring the first half of the workshop\, Dr. Silver will provide an overview of a variety of NEH funding opportunities and offer guidance for writing competitive proposals. In the second half of the workshop\, he will run a mock application review panel\, where panelists will discuss and rank sample proposals using NEH guidelines to provide insight into how applications are evaluated and recommended for NEH funding. \nDr. Silver will also be available during the afternoons of Thursday\, September 24\, and Friday\, September 25\, to meet virtually with prospective applicants to discuss their projects and offer advice about their proposals. Those interested in scheduling a twenty-minute appointment will be asked to submit a one-page single-spaced overview of their project in advance. \nFor more information\, email mhc@maine.edu or follow us on social media.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/virtual-neh-grant-writing-workshop/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Canadian Studies,Center for Poetry and Poetics,CLAS event,Communication and Journalism Event,digital humanities,English Department,Folklife and Oral History,History,Performing Arts,Philosophy Department Colloquium Series,Poetry,Wabanaki,WGS
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210122T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210122T113000
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SUMMARY:DH Pop In: Using Canva to Market Your Event or Research
DESCRIPTION:The McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s next DH Pop In event will be Friday\, January 22\, at 11AM. The MHC’s Humanities Specialist Karen Sieber will show participants how to use a free\, easy-to-use program called Canva to design event flyers\, social media posts\, brochures\, powerpoints\, resumes and more. Email mhc@maine.edu for the link to join.  No digital skills or design aesthetic needed. \nWhile not a digital humanities tool per se\, as humanities events\, outreach\, and employment move to a virtual format\, learning design skills using programs like Canva will allow participants to better promote their events and research and engage with the public. \nThis event is part of an ongoing “DH PopIn” series which introduces students and faculty to easy-to-use tools and methods in the digital realm that help explore and share the humanities in new and exciting ways. The series will also feature virtual chats with noted digital humanities practitioners from across the country to discuss the process building a variety of different projects\, from GIS mapping to textual analysis. \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/dh-pop-in-canva/
LOCATION:ME
CATEGORIES:digital humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210225T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210225T203000
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SUMMARY:The Atlantic Black Box: Reckoning with  New England's Complicity  in the Slave Trade
DESCRIPTION:Atlantic Black Box is a public history project that empowers communities throughout New England to take up the critical work of researching and reckoning with our region’s complicity in the slave trade and the broader slave economy. This grassroots historical recovery movement is powered by citizen historians and guided by a broad coalition of scholars\, community leaders\, archivists\, museum professionals\, antiracism activists\, and artists. \n\nOn February 25\, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.\, the project’s creator’s will discuss the origins of the project\, finding collaborators\, and why this important work is as necessary now as ever. Sponsored by the McGillicuddy Humanities Center as part of their ongoing mission to support the digital and public humanities. Free and open to the public with registration. Register here to get the Zoom link. \n\nMore about Atlantic Black Box’s creators: \n\n\nDr. Meadow Dibble: Meadow Dibble is a Visiting Scholar at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. She received her PhD from Brown University’s Department of French Studies and taught at Colby College from 2005–08. Today\, she is editor of The International Educator newspaper. In 2018\, following a brutal awakening to the reality of her hometown’s deep investment in the business of slavery\, she launched Atlantic Black Box\, a public history initiative devoted to researching and reckoning with New England’s role in the slave trade.\n\nDr. Kate McMahon attended the University of Southern Maine for both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees\, and completed her Ph.D. in History at Howard University in May 2017. Her dissertation\, The Transnational Dimensions of Africans and African Americans in Northern New England\, 1776–1865\, explores the complexities of the shipbuilding economies of northern New England\, their connections to the slave trade\, and how Africans and African Americans resisted slavery and racism. Her current research agenda focuses on the connections between northern New England and the illegal slave trade to Brazil and Cuba\, ca. 1830-1850.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/atlantic-black-box/
LOCATION:ME
CATEGORIES:digital humanities,History,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210405T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210405T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T052306
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SUMMARY:Virtual Hidden History Tour of Campus - RESCHEDULED
DESCRIPTION:The McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s new “Hidden UMaine” tour aims to highlight key people\, moments and places in campus history that often go overlooked\, including the experiences of the first students of color\, early efforts to create inclusive student groups like Wilde Stein\, or moments of unrest. \nRESCHEDULED DUE TO POWER OUTAGE: \nJoin us on Tuesday\, April 6 at 7 p.m. for a virtual tour of hidden campus history. Free and open to the public. Click here to join the virtual tour.  \nThe MHC’s humanities specialist Karen Sieber is overseeing the project\, which stems from work students started in Professor of History Liam Riordan’s fall of 2020 Public History class.  Using digital public history and mapping methods\, Sieber has been working with history students Luke Miller and Elizabeth Dalton\, in collaboration with archivists at Fogler Library\, to research and curate a tour featuring a dozen lesser-known stories within campus history. \nMiller will highlight stories behind the first Black student on campus\, as well as World War II soldiers from the Class of ‘44. Dalton\, who is also a McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellow\, will discuss her research into student employment and financial aid during the Great Depression\, and numerous stories of remarkable women in campus history. Sieber\, too\, has added her own research on the Courtney Brothers incident\, as well as a tour stop featuring the efforts of Dr. Ted Mitchell to establish the Native American Studies program and the Wabanaki Center on campus. \nThe team is building the tour in Clio\, a website and app that will allow users to take the tour in person or virtually\, with options to add additional resources\, historic photographs and an audio tour. Dalton has also created an Instagram page to highlight some of the individual stories\, which can be found at @hidden_umaine. The tour has the potential to expand in the future through additional classroom collaborations across a number of fields. \nFollowing the event a link to the tour on the Clio app will be found at: https://umaine.edu/mhc/hiddenhistory/. \nContact karen.sieber@maine.edu with questions.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/hidden-history/
LOCATION:ME
CATEGORIES:digital humanities,History,MHC Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240207T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240207T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T052306
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SUMMARY:“Bméndan: In search of a cartography of responsibility”
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, February 7 at 3:00 pm in the IMRC\, award-winning cartographer Margaret Pearce will conclude her mini-residency at the University of Maine with a talk about her own research on mapping. As part of her residency\, Pearce led student workshops on mapping–for those new to cartography and for students with previous experience in GIS. \n\n\n \nPearce‘s talk\, titled “Bméndan: In search of a cartography of responsibility\,” is free and open to the public.\n\n\n \nFor more information\, contact the McGillicuddy Humanities Center at mhc@maine.edu.\n\n\n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/bmendan-in-search-of-a-cartography-of-responsibility/
LOCATION:Stewart Commons IMRC\, Stewart Commons\, University of Maine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:digital humanities,History,Lecture,Symposium
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