Past Events – UWM Libraries

Fall 2023 (all times are Central time)

We are planning events for fall 2023, including conversations about artificial intelligence and intellectual property, workshops on Juncture, IIIF, and Python, and a multidisciplinary research series on research data.

Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: A Conversation
Wednesday, October 11 | 1:00 p.m.
Tomas Lipinski, School of Information Studies

Join us to discuss the problematic area where intellectual property rights and artificial intelligence cross paths: from the mining of data to feed large language models, to issues of attribution and permission in AI-created work.

Workshop: Building Digital Essays Using Juncture and IIIF
Thursday, October 26 | 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries

Juncture is an open-source framework to build multimedia exhibits that enables authors to build simple or complex narratives, building on other open tools. Tap into existing digital collections and incorporate high resolution images, zooming capabilities, the ability to highlight specific areas of an object, and provide context and narrative. All with web-based tools that are available to anyone! No experience necessary.

Affiliated Event! Workshop made possible by the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) and the UWM College of Letters & Sciences. Thursday lecture made possible by UWM Libraries.

The Future of Humanities Publishing Workshop
November 2 and November 3

Universities and their affiliated publishing landscapes continue to change rapidly. In the arts and humanities, presses, libraries, and humanities centers have all played different roles in publishing and dissemination. Open access and community-engaged efforts continue to redefine our work.

How might we reimagine these roles in this space of change? How do we attend to the mission of the university for humanities research generation and sharing? Join us for a two-day conversation about publishing in the humanities as we map out current roles and imagine new processes at the center, library, university, press, and regional university system levels.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2 | 4PM – 5PM

UWM Golda Meir Library, Fourth Floor Conference Center

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, “Building a More Generous University: Collaboration, Community, Solidarity”

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3 | 9AM – 12:30PM

UWM Libraries, E272

Lauren Cooper (Center for Black Digital Research, Penn State), Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (UIUC University Library), and Jasmine Mulliken (Stanford University Press), “Mapping Current and Future Roles in Humanities Publishing Projects”

Followed by role identification, asset mapping, and creative reimagining exercises facilitated by the UWM Center for 21st Century Studies.

Free and open to the public. Includes refreshments, coffee, and tea on each day.

Workshop: Python for Beginners
November 6, 7 | 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries and Karl Holten, UWM Libraries and L&S IT

This 2-day workshop will cover the basics of learning how to program using Python for data analysis. Based on the curriculum for the Software Carpentries “Programming with Python” we will cover installation, fundamentals, and data analysis (time permitting). No experience necessary.

Artificial Intelligence and Metaphor
Wednesday, November 8 | 2:00 p.m.
John Jordan, Communication

New technologies like AI require metaphors for understanding. But these metaphors do more than provide context; they shape and steer people’s attitudes and future policies. We can learn much about AI by examining the metaphors currently being used to define AI in public. Join us for a conversation with John Jordan, Associate Professor of Communication.

In order to ground the discussion, Professor Jordan has provided a short optional reading. You are highly encouraged to check it out: https://uwm.edu/libraries/wp-content/uploads/sites/572/2023/10/AI-MetaphorReading.pdf

Multidisciplinary Research Series: A collaboration between NMDSI and the UWM Libraries
Friday, November 17 | 10:30 a.m.: Anne Bonds (Geography) and Derek Handley (English) on managing research data for Mapping Racism and Resistance

The Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute, in collaboration with the UWM Libraries, will host a series of research talks to provide space for researchers across disciplines to discuss work in progress that incorporates a wide variety of data science methodologies. Talks will take place in the fall 2023 semester on Friday, October 20; and Friday, November 17, all at 10:30 a.m. in the UWM Libraries E272 (formerly the DH Lab). Please contact Purush Papatla (papatla@uwm.edu) or Ann Hanlon (hanlon@uwm.edu) if you are interested in presenting your work.

Workshop: Maps and IIIF/Juncture
Monday, November 20 | 10:00 a.m.
Ann Hanlon and Stephen Appel, UWM Libraries

Using the Juncture open-source framework as well as other open tools, including IIIF, we will introduce some basic techniques to use maps and geographic coordinates in a web-based environment. Expand your mapping capabilities!

Spring 2023

ARS Autopoetica: AI Poetry Workshop
Sasha Stiles, Artists Now! Guest lecturer and AI Poet
Tuesday, February 21 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

What do advances in AI-powered natural language processing mean for creative writers and poetic thinkers? This generative poetry workshop with Stiles, author of Technelegy and a literary pioneer, will introduce participants to the practice of writing with AI as co-author and collaborator, and explore the conceptual implications of such technological advances for language and understanding.

ChatGPT in Context: A Discussion about Artificial Intelligence
Tom Haigh, UWM History
Susan McRoy, UWM Computer Science
Thursday, March 2 | 3:30 p.m. CT

Join us for a discussion about artificial intelligence and the technologies that got us to ChatGPT – and what generative language models (and other forms of AI) might mean for knowledge work. Haigh and McRoy will put AI and ChatGPT in historical context, and present a basic framing of technologies such as large language models and neural networks that make generative AI like ChatGPT possible, and discuss both its promise and perils.

Using GitHub to Build Websites
Stephen Appel, UWM Libraries
Tuesday, March 7 | 10:00 a.m. (virtual only)

GitHub is most commonly understood as a site to share and collaborate on code. But non-coders can get a lot out of GitHub as well, including using GitHub to build digital exhibits (using Juncture, for example) and websites. Join us to learn more about GitHub, GitHub Pages, and how to make the most of GitHub as a web host.

The Race for Time: Saving Analog Video and Audio
Shiraz Bhathena, UWM Libraries
Friday, March 17 | 2:00 p.m.

Bing Crosby Enterprises gave the first demonstration of videotape in November, 1951. Since then, it has become a predominant recording format globally and has documented a massive amount of history. Unfortunately, while the technology for recording has transitioned in recent decades, the means to play back these historic recordings has declined. In fact, with the amount of working analog video decks left in the world, it is estimated that what archivists aren’t able to preserve in the next few decades may be lost forever.

Many attempt to preserve analog video and audio recordings, but few know how to do it archivally. This talk will go over the workflow of how an archive should properly preserve and digitize its video and audio recordings, why digitization is important, issues that can be encountered when working with audiotape and videotape, and why this race against time is so important. This event will be presented in both an in-person and hybrid format.

Building Digital Essays Using Juncture (virtual only)
Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries
Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 a.m.

Digital Arts and Culture (DAC) Student Showcase
Digital Arts & Culture Certificate students
Friday, April 14 | 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Students from the Digital Arts and Culture (DAC) program will showcase their work in person in the Digital Humanities Lab. No registration necessary.

Behind the Scenes of a Digital Journal: In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies
Jessica Kirzane, editor-in-chief
Thursday, April 20 | 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.

In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies is an open-access digital peer reviewed journal, journal of literary translation, forum for pedagogy, and culture blog for the field of Yiddish Studies, broadly construed. The journal began publication in 2015, under the direction of an editorial staff and board largely consisting of graduate students who were passionate about creating accessible scholarship, expanding the boundaries of Yiddish Studies, connecting and strengthening the field, presenting public scholarship and playful informal writing alongside ‘serious’ academic work, and paying editors and writers for their labor. With little experience in the nuts and bolts of publishing, they created work processes on an ad hoc basis, fueled with giddy enthusiasm and a desire to say ‘yes’ to as many different ideas for the journal as possible in order to grow it in many different directions to serve its readership – many of whom who were or would become contributors. Jessica Kirzane, who served as pedagogy editor of the journal in 2016-2018 and has been editor-in-chief of the journal since 2018, will give an overview of the publication and then pull back the curtain on practical aspects of how the journal is run, from soliciting and reviewing submissions to editing and publishing pieces, to social media presence.

Text Analysis for Digital Humanities: Pilot Workshop (Virtual only)
Karl Holten, Chris Endemann, Jennifer Patino, Mariah A. Knowles, Ann Hanlon
April 26, 27, 28 | 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Join us for this three-day introduction to text analysis methods, developed for humanities researchers. This is a pilot workshop – in addition to sharing skills, we are looking for feedback on the lessons and exercises presented. The workshop will include introductions to pre-processing for text analysis, word embeddings, word2vec, transformers, and a discussion of ethical and research commitments when using these tools. Please note – some basic experience with Python is highly recommended as a prerequisite to this workshop.

DH Teaching Fellows Alumni: Panel Discussion
Krista Grensavitch, Danielle Harms, Lisa Hager, Peter Blewett, Anne Bonds, Whitney Moon
Tuesday, May 2 | 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.

DH Teaching Fellows from our previous four cohorts will discuss the long-term outcomes for being a DH Teaching Fellow and how the program influences their teaching and classroom practices. Join us for an engaging discussion about DH in the classroom and learn more about the DH Teaching Fellows program.

Fall 2022

Building Visual Essays using Juncture
Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries
Wednesday, October 26 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CT

Using Digital Collections: IIIF Images (note: this workshop will be held in Zoom only)
Ann Hanlon and Jie Chen, UWM Libraries
Wednesday, November 2 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CT

IIIF is a set of open standards for delivering high-quality digital objects online at scale. Hundreds of cultural heritage institutions use this standard to deliver their archival objects online, including the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries. Learn how you can put this standard to use in your own work, build your own curated collections, annotate objects, and more.

Mapping Racism and Resistance in Milwaukee County: An Update and Discussion
Anne Bonds, UWM Department of Geography
Derek Handley, UWM Department of English
Monday, November 7 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CT

Anne Bonds, associate professor, UWM Department of Geography, and Derek Handley, assistant professor, UWM Department of English, will discuss their project, Mapping Racism and Resistance in Milwaukee County, about the history and impact of racist language in real estate covenants in Milwaukee, and how that research takes shape using tools like digitization, OCR, and mapping to surface patterns of racism embedded in where we live, as well as the ways that Black organizations articulated their claims for racial and spatial justice.

Using GitHub to Build Websites
Ann Hanlon and Stephen Appel, UWM Libraries
Wednesday, November 9 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CT

Register: https://uwm.edu/libraries/events/dh-lab-registration/

Spring 2022 (all times are Central time)

Friday, February 18 | 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. CT
3D Spanish Travelers
Eugenia Afinoguénova, Professor of Spanish, Marquette University; Chris Larkee, Visualization Technology Specialist, Marquette University Visualization Lab; Alexa Nelson, Undergraduate Student Class of ‘22, Design, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; Stephen Appel, GIS Specialist, UWM Libraries

Sharing their approach to visualizing time-stamped itineraries of 19th-century travel writers using historical maps and Augmented Reality programming, the presenters will address the questions that emerge at the intersection of geospatial humanities, literary mapping, GIS, and game design.

In the nineteenth century, as the network of railroads, passenger steamships, and other means of transportation expanded and roads improved, travel books became a mass-produced commercial form of writing. That was also the time when Spain emerged as one of Europe’s and the Americas’ most popular destinations. It became a staple of the journeys that often also included France, Gibraltar, and Northern Africa. The Spanish Travelers VR space, currently in prototype, brings some of these itineraries on nineteenth-century maps and allows the users to select and follow the authors’ progress, day by day, reading what they wrote and comparing their words to those of other travelers.

Registration required:
https://uwm.edu/libraries/events/dh-lab-3d-spanish-travelers/

Thursday, February 24 | 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. CT
Computational Humanities Series: Text Analysis
Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries; Karl Holten, UWM Libraries and L&S Web and Data Services; Dan Siercks, UWM L&S Web and Data Services

The identification of meaningful patterns and anomalies across large bodies of text has long been a central concern of the Digital Humanities. Text analysis, text mining, and topic modeling are all tools employed by researchers to clean, mark up, parse, analyze, and visualize word frequencies, patterns, and relationships. In this workshop, we’ll look at some exemplar text analysis projects in the Humanities, check out tools like Voyant that can provide an entry to working with text, and develop an understanding of what text analysis, text mining, topic modeling, and other terms of art mean, and the methodologies that inform this work. There is no prerequisite to join this workshop – we welcome all skill levels and avenues of interest!

Registration required:
https://uwm.edu/libraries/events/dh-lab-registration-computational-humanities-text-analysis/

Wednesday, March 2 | 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. CT (note: this will be virtual-only)
Computational Humanities Series: GIS and Mapping
Stephen Appel, UWM Libraries

Maps are a familiar tool of humanities research. Maps of places and spaces can provide useful context, help connect information based on location, and visualize patterns through time and space. Geographic Information Systems provide the humanities with digital tools to take advantage of cartographic methods and visualization, tell stories with maps, and do spatial analysis on just about any data. Learn about some ways that GIS is being employed in humanities research, including with accessible tools like story maps, desktop GIS, and online GIS.

Registration required:
https://uwm.edu/libraries/events/dh-lab-registration-computational-humanities-gis-and-mapping/

Thursday, March 10 | 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. CT
Computational Humanities Series: Game Design
Ryan House, UWM English

In our “Ludic Century,” information surrounds us, abstracted into immensely complex, global institutions and technologies through which we go about our daily lives, intimately entangled systems of data just moving around to the (algo-)rhythmic gravity of those massive constellations of data. When we approach games as a cultural form on par with bureaucracy and ritual, we can begin to make sense of the ways those institutional forces legitimize their power and status. Videogames, in particular, are well-suited to model the digital, algorithmic systems of life in the 21^st Century and beyond. The Digital Humanities provides a useful toolkit for analyzing videogames more fully than for their narrative or even mechanics, but as amalgamized, co-assembled structures of agencies. In this workshop, we’ll discuss the concept of ludoliteracy and check out no-cost, no-code ways to start putting what you or your students know about games into purposeful action, even research! There is no prerequisite to join this workshop – we welcome all skill levels and avenues of interest!

Registration required:
https://uwm.edu/libraries/events/dh-lab-registration-computational-humanities-game-design/

Tuesday, April 5 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CT
Digital Humanities Teaching Fellows Panel Discussion
Rachel Baum, UWM Foreign Languages & Literature and Jewish Studies; Lisa Hager, UWM English; Aragorn Quinn, UWM Foreign Languages & Literature; moderated by Kate Ganski, UWM Libraries

Registration required:
https://uwm.edu/libraries/events/dh-lab-registration-dh-lab-teaching-fellows-panel/

Wednesday, April 13 and Thursday, April 14 | 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. CT
Software Carpentry: Version Control with Git
Stephen Appel, UWM Libraries; Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries; Karl Holten, UWM Libraries and L&S Web and Data Services

Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This in-person, hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts of version control with git. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems. Using Git for version control is an open, reliable way to share, collaborate, track, and make your research more open. This workshop will take place in-person in the UWM Libraries Digital Humanities Lab.

Registration required:
https://uwm.edu/libraries/events/dh-lab-version-control-with-git-workshop-registration/

Thursday, April 14 | 2:30 p.m. (in-person only)
Workshop with HC Dunaway Smith
Heather Dunaway Smith, Interdisciplinary Artist

Designing interactive spatial experiences offers a unique set of challenges and opportunities. By expanding upon pre-existing visual design principles and UI/UX design patterns, we can create beautiful, compelling, and intuitive experiences. In this workshop, we will cover those principles, common workflows, best practices, and specific techniques for creating successful AR interactions.

HC Dunaway Smith is an XR artist that blends storytelling, illustration, animation, interaction, and audio into immersive art experiences. Her work has included award-winning mobile games, virtual worlds, interactive museum exhibits, interfaces for AI-generated art experiences, and AR/VR artworks.

Registration required (in-person workshop):
https://uwm.edu/libraries/events/dh-lab-hc-dunaway-smith-workshop/

Friday, April 29 | 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. CT
A New History of Modern Computing
Tom Haigh, UWM History

Join us to celebrate the release of UWM Professor of History Tom Haigh’s newest book, A New History of Modern Computing (co-authored with Paul Ceruzzi), from MIT Press.

Haigh will discuss the new overview history of computing he has written with Paul Ceruzzi, exploring the challenges involved in producing a coherent and comprehensive synthetic history of computing and the choices and trade-offs the authors made during the process. The biggest challenge is the remarkable flexibility of the electronic digital computer, which from 1945 to 2020 has evolved from a specialized and hugely expensive technology used for scientific computation to an inexpensive and ubiquitous technology embedded into devices of all kinds and used in almost every human activity. From this viewpoint, the computer became an (almost) universal machine only incrementally, a contrast with the theoretical perspective from which even the simplest programmable devices are often equated with Turing’s Universal Machine.

Haigh explains the decisions made by the book’s authors and their relationship to its multiple intended audiences. Existing overview histories have not fully engaged with now-central topics such as the Internet, smartphones and mobile apps, cloud computing, video games, digital media, or automotive computing. The era saw repeated shifts in users, producers, applications and affordances which make it hard to construct a coherent narrative. They centered each chapter on a cluster of users and applications, around which “the computer” is remade with the addition of new capabilities such as interactivity or graphical communication. Other challenges explored during the talk include the balancing of technical detail against narrative, presentation of the computer’s continuities and discontinuities with other technologies, incorporation of perspectives from social and cultural history into a technology-centered story, and engagement with an increasingly broad and diverse secondary literature.

Registration required:
https://uwm.edu/libraries/events/dh-lab-registration-for-a-new-history-of-modern-computing/

Fall 2021 (virtual)

Wednesday, October 6 | 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. CDT (virtual event)
Creative Projects in Urban History Pedagogy
Part of Urban History Month. Sponsored by the UWM Department of History

Tuesday, November 16 | 4:00 p.m. CT (virtual event)
Wingspan: A Conversation about Birds and Games
Elizabeth Hargrave, Game designer and developer of the bird-collecting game, Wingspan
https://uwm.edu/libraries/events/dh-lab-videos/#wingspan

Summer 2021 (virtual)

Sound Image History: The LGBTQ+ Audiovisual Archive Project Speaker Series

The Sound Image History speaker series celebrated the conclusion of a year-long Collections-as-Data grant funded project aimed at building a text-based data set from the archival AV materials in the UWM Archives. The UWM Libraries house the largest collection of LGBTQ+ historical and contemporary materials in Wisconsin, providing a rich record of Milwaukee’s LGBTQ+ communities. This project will make the AV materials in those collections – a format that is traditionally underutilized – much more discoverable and usable, and open pathways to new research. The LGBTQ+ AV Archive Mining Project, and this speaker series, are made possible by a grant from the Mellon-funded Collections as Data: Part to Whole initiative.

Recordings of all talks for the series are available here: https://uwm.edu/libraries/events/dh-lab-videos/sound-image-history/

Tuesday, August 24 | 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Labeling This Thing Called Life: Using Machine Learning to Automatically Generate Metadata for Oral History Collections
Tanya Clement, Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin; Maria Esteva, Research Scientist; Weijia Xu, Research Scientist, Data Intensive Computing Team, Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin

Tuesday, August 24 | 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Collections As Data, Images As Data
Taylor Arnold, Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Richmond; Lauren Tilton, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Richmond

Wednesday, August 25 | 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Accessing LGBTQ+ Resources with Digital Archives and Linked Data
K.J. Rawson, Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Northeastern University

Wednesday, August 25 | 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
The LGBTQ+ AV Archives Mining Project: Using Technology to Unearth the Spoken Archive of Queer History
Ann Hanlon, Digital Collections & Initiatives, UWM Libraries; Dan Siercks, Director L&S Web and Data, UWM; Cary Costello, Associate Professor & Director, LGBT Studies Program, UWM

Friday, August 27 | 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
R for Humanities Workshop, led by Taylor Arnold, Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Richmond; Lauren Tilton, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Richmond

Spring 2021 (all events were virtual)

Monday, February 22 | 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Viral History: Documenting COVID-19
Chris Cantwell, Assistant Professor of History, UWM; Jonathan Nelson, Collection Development Archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society; Moderated by Derek Webb, Head of UWM Archives

Video is available here: https://uwm.edu/libraries/events/dh-lab-videos/#viral

The COVID-19 crisis was and is a lived historical moment that historians and the community were eager to capture as it happened. Chris Cantwell, UWM Assistant Professor of History, and Jon Nelson, Collection Development Archivist for the Wisconsin Historical Society, will discuss two projects aimed at collecting stories, images, and objects from the community that express the impact of the crisis on daily life. The COVID-19 MKE digital archive and the COVID-19 Journal Project had similar aims and different collecting strategies – one focused on the digital and the latter emphasizing journaling as a mode of expression. Join us for a discussion about how these projects developed, how the artifacts collected speak to our experience, and the implications for community sourced documentation.

Thursday, March 11 | 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Pattern and Code (workshop)
Ahree Lee, multi-media artist working in video, photography, sound and interactive installations (ahreelee.com)

Registration is now closed.

Did you know the first computer program was written by a woman and that the design of the first computers was inspired by the jacquard weaving loom? New media and textile artist Ahree Lee will share her most recent body of work, which explores the interconnections between weaving and computing, and the often-overlooked but essential role of women in the development of coding. Additionally she will lead participants in a weaving activity to experience the interconnections between fiber-related arts and computing through hands-on making. The DH Lab will mail weaving supplies to participants ahead of the workshop date.

Wednesday, March 17 | 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
A Celebration of World Water Day: Mapping the Connections among Indigenous People
Margaret Noodin, College of Letters & Science, Stacie Sheldon, User Experience Researcher and Web Designer, Lacey Meyers, Content Editor, and Willow Lovecky, Content Editor; with introduction by Melissa Scanlan, Director of the Center for Water Policy, School of Freshwater Sciences

Video is available here: https://uwm.edu/libraries/events/dh-lab-videos/#connections

The Mapping Indigenous Connections project provides a visual guide to the many Native American nations that are part of the Anishinaabe Confederacy. Led by Margaret Noodin, 2019-2020 Water Policy Scholar, the project focuses on more than 140 Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi nations. Linked by the Anishinaabemowin language, these communities are located around the western Great Lakes. Join us for a discussion about the possibilities and limitations of visualizing community via mapping, and how projects like this can recenter ideas of identity, such as relating to a water body, in a digital space. This event is in celebration of the U.N.’s World Water Day and co-sponsored by the Center for Water Policy, UWM School of Freshwater Sciences and Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education.

Wednesday, March 31 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Voices of Gun Violence: Collaboration in the Digital Humanities
Barbra Beck, Associate Professor of Public Health at Carroll University, Portia Cobb, Associate Professor of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres at UWM, Debra Gillispie, Founder of Mothers Against Gun Violence, Leslie Harris, Associate Professor of Communication at UWM, Erin Sahlstein Parcell, Associate Professor of Communication at UWM, Michelle Trujillo, Associate Lecturer Professor of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres at UWM, Kaija Zusevics, Associate Researcher at the Center for Urban Population Health

Video is available here: https://uwm.edu/libraries/events/dh-lab-videos/#voices

Voices of Gun Violence is a public digital humanities project that offers a platform for the often untold stories of gun violence in the Milwaukee area. The project bridges contributions ranging from community members, to public health scholars, to visual and audio arts experts. In this round table we will discuss common issues that arise from complex collaborations, and we will have plenty of time for discussion. Questions include: How can a project sustain meaningful community/academic collaboration? How can the digital humanities offer a platform for scholars ranging from the sciences to the arts? What processes help the development of collaboration? What are different ways that we can think about products that emerge from the digital humanities?

Wednesday, April 28 | 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Digital Humanities Lab Teaching Fellows: Panel Discussion
Krista Grensavitch, History and Women’s and Gender Studies; Danielle Harms, English; Maureen McKnight, English; Amanda Seligman, History; Moderated by Kate Ganski, UWM Libraries

Video is available here: https://uwm.edu/libraries/events/dh-lab-videos/

Join the DH Lab’s 2020-21 Teaching Fellows cohort for a thoughtful discussion about the integration of DH methods and tools in their fall 2020 classes, the impact of the pandemic on teaching, and how technology closed some loops and reconnected others.

Fall 2020 (all events are virtual)

October 13-14 | 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (two-part workshop)
R for Social Science (Two-part virtual workshop)
led by certified instructors from the Carpentries community.R is a powerful and free programming language and environment for data analysis, data mining, and visualization. This workshop will use RStudio, a free integrated development environment that you load on your desktop, and that makes programming in R much easier. We will be working with instructors from the Data Carpentries, a community of researchers and instructors with a mission to “provide researchers high-quality, domain-specific traning covering the full lifecycle of data-driven research.” A rough outline of the workshop can be found here: https://datacarpentry.org/r-socialsci/

No prior knowledge or skills with R or RStudio are required to join the workshop. This workshop will be especially helpful for anyone interested in working with textual and spatial data, especially data collected for social science, humanities, and cultural heritage research. Please contact me with any questions.

This workshop is made possible as part of the LGBTQ+ AV Archive Mining Project, part of the Mellon-funded Collections-as-Data: Part to Whole initiative.

Wednesday, October 28 | 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
The Interdisciplinary Dynamics of Machine Learning Design for Libraries, Museums and Archives: the AI4AV Case
Maria Esteva, Research Scientist, and Weijia Xu, Research Scientist, Data Intensive Computing Team, Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin

In this presentation Dr. Esteva and Dr. Xu will introduce a research project in which their team uses Machine Learning to predict labels to describe archival audio collections. The case study will be the conduit to explain the project’s design, the methods used, and how its goals align with best practices and values in LAMs. The team works in many projects involving use of computational methods to organize, describe, manage, and preserve digital records and data. From their inception and throughout their development the team identifies, and also discover along the way, the roles, skills, and intersections, that contribute to highlight and accomplish their interdisciplinary nature in the context of digital libraries and archives. In the process, projects are steered, assessed, interpreted, and improved, and build up towards a much needed corpus of experience incorporating computational methods in LAMs practices.

~~Monday, October 19 | 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.~~
Rescheduled: Monday, November 9 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Community with a Dash of Hierarchy:
Using Social Tools for Better Student Engagement
Krista-Lee Malone, UW-Madison

We live in unprecedented times. Our universities, our students, and ourselves were not prepared for this, but that doesn’t mean it has to be less than amazing – despite the laments of many. In this talk I will discuss my use of Twitch, an online streaming service, and Discord, a group communication platform, to conduct my online classes. Both platforms were originally built for gamers as social spaces, and decidedly not designed for educational purposes. By using the socially constructed architectures of these platforms rather than the perceived rigidity of LMSs such as Canvas, I found students almost immediately displaying productive behaviors I had previously struggled to encourage. Some of the experimental teaching methods I will discuss here began pre-covid, in the winter of 2019, and others arose in response to campuses closing in March 2020. This is an important distinction because many negative (and positive) articles and opinion pieces being published about online teaching since March 2020 have been reactionary to covid-times. While this was of course understandable in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic, it is time to move beyond this stage and look at what benefits and limitations online education really has to offer.

Krista-Lee Malone is an Anthropology PhD and faculty associate for the game design certificate at UW-Madison. She streams weekly from both her teaching channel and her research channel (twitch.tv/gameranthro). Her past research includes anthropological research on MMORPGS and educational games in Taiwan – where she also worked as a cultural consultant and quest designer. Currently, she is researching issues of gender and engagement on her research Twitch channel and educational engagement on her teaching channel.

November 17-18 | 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. (two-part workshop)
Library Carpentries (Two-part virtual workshop)
Led by certified instructors from the Carpentries community

Library Carpentry workshops teach data science skills with an eye toward library and information science related tasks, and will be useful to anyone working with messy data and looking for better tools to manage it. The lessons introduce terms, phrases, and concepts in software development and data science, how to best work with data structures, and use regular expressions in finding and matching data.

This workshop series will focus on Introduction to Working with Data/Regular Expressions and OpenRefine, “a power tool for working with messy data.” Specific workshop curriculum for November 17-18 can be found here: https://tadamus.github.io/2020-11-17-uwm-online/

Wednesday, December 2 | 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Mapping Prejudice: Visualizing Structural Racism in the Urban Landscape

Anne Bonds, Associate Professor, Geography, UWM
Derek Handley, Assistant Professor, English, UWM
Kirsten Delegard, Project Director, University of Minnesota Libraries
Ryan Mattke, Co-Director and Project Manager, UMN Libraries
Kevin Ehrman-Solberg, Digital and Geospatial Director, University of Minnesota

The Mapping Prejudice project is using GIS, optical character recognition, and crowdsourcing to build spatial databases of racial covenants for Minneapolis and other American cities. These covenants were used in the 19th and 20th centuries to prevent people who were not white from owning or occupying property. While now illegal, covenants continue to impact the racial geography of cities across the United States today and undergird many of our contemporary racial disparities. This talk will feature an overview of the methods used to build Mapping Prejudice and how researchers are beginning to use those methods to map and understand the impact of racial covenants in Milwaukee.

Summer 2020

Wednesday, July 29 | 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Humanities Data in R (virtual workshop)
led by Taylor Arnold (Mathematics and Computer Science) and Lauren Tilton (Digital Humanities) from the University of Richmond
*Register here: https://uwm.edu/libraries/events/humanities-data/

Humanities Data in R will provide an introductory overview to the R programming language and its applications in the Humanities, especially regarding text analysis and visualization.

Experts on computer vision and visual culture, Taylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton lead the Distant Viewing Lab at the University of Richmond. The lab develops computer vision methods designed for accessing, analyzing, and exploring images. A major focus of the lab is developing algorithms and techniques that enable search and discovery, particularly for cultural heritage. With funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the lab is creating the Distant Viewing Toolkit for the Analysis of Moving Images, a Python library for moving image analysis.

Dr. Taylor Arnold is Assistant Professor of Statistics in the department of mathematics and computer science. He studies massive cultural datasets in order to address new and existing research questions in the humanities and social sciences. He specializes in the application of statistical computing to large text and image corpora. Research products take on several forms: book length manuscripts, technical reports, new software implementations, and digital projects intended for broad public consumption.

Dr. Lauren Tilton is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Richmond. Her research focuses on 20th century U.S. visual culture. She is director of Photogrammar, a digital public humanities project mapping New Deal and World War II documentary expression funded by the NEH and ACLS, and co-author of Humanities Data in R: Exploring Networks, Geospatial Data, Images and Texts (Springer, 2015). Her scholarship has appeared in journals such as American Quarterly, Archive Journal, and Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. She received her PhD in American Studies from Yale University.

This workshop is funded by the LGBTQ+ Audio Archive Mining Project, part of the Collections as Data: Part to Whole project funded by the Mellon Foundation.

Spring 2020

February 14
Edward Shanken, Deus ex Poiesis: A Manifesto for the End of the World and the Future of Art and Technology
Ed Shanken is an Associate Professor of Digital Art and New Media at the University of California Santa Cruz. He writes and teaches about “the entwinement of art, science, and technology with a focus on interdisciplinary practices involving new media. His recent scholarship addresses art-science collaboration, surveillance culture, sound art and ecology, systems theory, and bridging the gap between new media and contemporary art.” He will join us for brown bag discussion followed by a talk at C21. Co-sponsored by the Center for 21st Century Studies.

12:00 p.m.
Brown Bag Discussion, UWM Libraries Digital Humanities Lab
3:30 p.m.
Lecture: Deus ex Poiesis: A Manifesto for the End of the World and the Future of Art and Technology, Curtin 175

*Saturday, February 15 | 2:00–4:00 at Saint Kate Arts Hotel, Arc Theater, 139 E. Kilbourn, The World After Us Panel Discussion
Scholarly experts come together for a special panel discussion, including: Kennan Ferguson, UWM Professor of Political Science; Jennifer Johung, UWM Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Architectural History; and Nathaniel Stern, UWM Professor of Art and Design at Peck School of the Arts and Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Special guests include Amanda Boetzkes, Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at University of Guelph, Ontario, Edward Shanken, Associate Professor of Digital Art and New Media at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Coe Douglas, artist, writer, and filmmaker.

*Please note that the February 15 panel discussion is not a DH Lab event and takes place at the Saint Kate Arts Hotel

March 5 and 6
Michelle Caswell on Urgent Archives: Communities, Representation, and the Fight Against (Symbolic) Annihilation
Michelle Caswell is an Associate Professor of Archival Studies in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles where she is Director of UCLA’s Community Archives Lab. She is the author of Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia (University of Wisconsin, 2014).
Co-sponsored by the Choosing the City Research Collaborative Research Team, funded by the UWM Office of Research

March 5 | 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Urgent Archives: Communities, Representation, and the Fight Against (Symbolic) Annihilation, Michelle Caswell
Please note: This talk will take place in the UWM Libraries 4th floor conference center
In the 1970s, feminist communication scholars first proposed the term “symbolic annihilation” to describe the ways in which women are absent, underrepresented, or misrepresented in mainstream media. Taking this concept as a starting point, the first part of this talk will examine the ways in which mainstream archival practice has symbolically annihilated communities of color and LGBTQ communities through absence, underrepresentation, and misrepresentation. In the face of such symbolic annihilation, marginalized communities have formed their own independent community-based archives that empower them to establish, enact, and reflect on their presence in ways that are complex, meaningful, and substantive. In the second part, this talk will examine the relationship between symbolic and actual annihilation. Symbolic annihilation both precedes and succeeds symbolic annihilation in that communities are rendered nonexistent, invisible, or expendable before they are subject to violence, and then, after violence, such acts are often rendered invisible or expunged from the record, magnifying and mimicking the violence itself. In the wake of such archival silences and misrepresentations, communities often conjure up imaginary records, that is, records that do not actually exist but are collectively imagined to fill affective voids left by existing bureaucratic and legalistic records. This talk will end with an examination of such impossible archival imaginaries and a proposition for all of us to “imagine otherwise,” that is, to conceive of and build a world in which communities that have historically been and are currently being oppressed are fully empowered to represent their past, construct their present, and envision their futures as forms of liberation.
March 6 | 9:30 a.m.
Bagel Hour discussion with Michelle Caswell
Digital Humanities Lab
Join us for an informal discussion over bagels and coffee with Michelle Caswell.

March 12 | 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Jessica Kirzane, Collaborative Digital Open Access Publishing and Community Building: In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies
In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies was founded six years ago by a group of then-graduate students to be a central location for the field of Yiddish Studies. It is a free, open-access digital platform without academic affiliation, with a mission to extend the boundaries of the field while fostering community within the field. The journal publishes not only peer reviewed articles but also literary translations, pedagogical resources, and a culture-oriented blog. In geveb’s Editor-in-chief Jessica Kirzane will discuss how the flexibility of the journal’s born-digital platform and its independent funding model open up new arenas for scholarly publishing and collaboration. Her talk will focus especially on the pedagogy section of the journal, which reorients the field of Yiddish studies toward the kind of work many of its practitioners perform day in and day out.

Jessica Kirzane is the Editor-in-Chief of In geveb, and Assistant Instructional Professor in Yiddish at the University of Chicago.

*March 12 | 7:00 p.m. at the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies, 3367 N. Downer Ave.
Book launch: Diary of a Lonely Girl: or The Battle against Free Love, by Miriam Karpilove, translated by Jessica Kirzane
First published serially in the Yiddish press in 1916–18, Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love is a novel of intimate feelings and scandalous behaviors, shot through with dark humor. From the perch of a diarist, Miriam Karpilove’s novel offers a snarky, melodramatic criticism of radical leftist immigrant youth culture in early twentieth-century New York City. Squeezed between men who use their freethinking ideals to pressure her to be sexually available and nosy landladies who require her to maintain her respectability, the narrator expresses frustration at her vulnerable circumstances with wry irreverence. The novel boldly explores issues of consent, body autonomy, and women’s empowerment and disempowerment around sexuality, courtship, and politics.

*Please note that the 7:00 p.m. book launch is not a DH Lab event and takes place at the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies, 3367 N. Downer Ave.

~~April 24 | 2:00-4:00 p.m.~~ CANCELED | Please stay tuned for updates on alternative venues
DH Teaching Fellows Panel and Showcase
Join the DH Lab’s Teaching Fellows as they discuss their integration of DH methods and tools in their fall 2019 classes. Join us at 2:00 p.m. for an informal “open house” featuring projects and assignments; panel discussion at 3:00 p.m.

Dylan Barth (CETL/Women’s and Gender Studies)
Peter Blewett (English)
Aims McGuinness (History)
Whitney Moon (Architecture)

Fall 2019

October 2 | 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
The Urban Observatory: Better Cities through Imaging
Gregory Dobler, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy & Administration; Physics; Resident Faculty Representative, DSI Faculty Council, University of Delaware.
With millions of interacting people and hundreds of governing agencies, urban environments are the largest, most dynamic, and most complex macroscopic systems on Earth. All of that complexity can be boiled down to interactions between three fundamental components of cities: the human, natural, and built environments. As an astrophysicist turned urban data scientist, I will describe the newly created “Urban Observatory”. Much like astronomers learn about the inner workings of the Universe just by examining pictures of the sky, we are teasing apart the complex interactions of urban systems using techniques from astronomy on images of urban skylines. I will show how this data from the Urban Observatory can provide new insights into cities as living organisms that consume energy, have environmental impact, and display characteristic patterns of life and how that new understanding can be used to improve city functioning and quality of life for its inhabitants.

This talk is organized by The Milwaukee Urban Observatory, supported by the UWM Office of Research through the Collaborative Research Team Development Program. Cosponsored by the UWM Libraries DH Lab, Urban Studies Programs, Department of Geography, Department of Physics, and Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures at SARUP. This event is free and open to the public. For more information please email: mke-uo@uwm.edu.

October 22 | 4:00 p.m.
Twitch Workshop
Casey O’Ceallaigh (English)

October 23 | 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Technology Initiatives Social
4th Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

October 30 | 3:30 p.m.
Directions in DH: Queer Zine Archive Project
Joyce Latham (SOIS), Milo Miller (QZAP), and Sarah Cooke (SOIS/WGS)
Milo Miller (L&S), Joyce M. Latham (SOIS), and Sarah Cooke (SOIS/WGS) will present the process, procedures, and preliminary findings behind their 2019 RACAS grant : “How we say who we are: the language of identity in the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP).” The initiative draws on the community archive, housed here in Milwaukee, comprised of zines created by members of the international queer community. The team will discuss the technical infrastructure, digitization process, term analysis, and theoretical impacts of the project at both the community and scholarly levels.

Sound Series

October 8 | 11:00 a.m.
Editing Sound Part I
Carrie Wade (UWM Libraries)

October 14 | 11:00 a.m.
Editing Sound Part 2
Carrie Wade (UWM Libraries)

October 21 | 2:00 p.m.
The Tools We Use to Record Sound
Jeff Loomis (JAMS)

November 6 | 2:00 p.m.
Making Scenes and Telling Stories
Jane Hampden Daley (JAMS) and Chris Cantwell (History)

November 13 | 2:00 p.m.
Interviewing Subjects: Journalistic
Jane Hampden Daley (JAMS)

November 20 | 4:00 p.m.
Interviewing Subjects: Oral Histories
Nan Kim (History)

Spring 2019

Friday, January 25 | 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
The LACUSL Speaker Series Presents Bringing Memory Home or a Journey of Rebuilding: The Digital Repatriation of the Archive of Radio Haïti-Inter
Dr. Laura Wagner, Radio Haiti Project Archivist at Duke University
Please note: This event took place in the American Geographical Society Library (3rd floor, Golda Meir Library); the DH Lab was a co-sponsor

February 14 and 15
Steph Ceraso on Sounding the Humanities,
Dr. Ceraso is an Assistant Professor of Digital Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Virginia. She recently published Sounding Composition: Multimodal Pedagogies for Embodied Listening, where she proposes an expansive approach to teaching with sound through the concept of multimodal listening. Her talk will explore the role of embodied inquiry in podcast production and argue for an experience-based, multisensory approach to creating podcasts in the classroom. We’ll also host a morning discussion session geared especially toward instructors, faculty, and librarians, to talk about the challenges and rewards of “sonic pedagogy.”

Thursday, February 14 | 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Sounding the Humanities: Podcast Production, Writing, and Embodied Inquiry
Friday, February 15 | 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Bagels and Discussion about Writing with Sound: Challenges and Rewards

Tuesday, March 12 | 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
DH Teaching Fellows, Panel Discussion and Open House
Join the DH Lab’s Teaching Fellows as they discuss their integration of DH methods and tools in their fall 2018 classes. Join us at 1:00 p.m. for an informal “open house” featuring projects and assignments; panel discussion at 2:00 p.m.

Monday, March 25 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
What is Collaborative Ethnography? And how do you start doing it?
Elizabeth Campbell, Appalachian State University
Eric Lassiter, Marshall University
Campbell and Lassiter will introduce what collaborative ethnography is (and what it is not), cover contemporary fields of collaboration, briefly survey the different kinds and approaches to collaborative research, and suggest ways to begin such projects.

Tuesday, March 26 | 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Is This All Made of Light? An Introduction to the Immersive Media Lab
Chris Willey (PSOA)
Chris Willey is Director of Immersive Media Lab in the Kenilworth Square East building. He will discuss the work and thinking behind the Immersive Media Lab, how it all works, and projects underway.

Tuesday, April 30 | 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Podcasting the Past: An Evening with Ben Franklin’s World
Liz Covart, Digital Projects Editor for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and WUWM’s Mitch Teich
Liz Covart is the Digital Projects Editor for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and host of the widely-popular “Ben Franklin’s World.” Join us for a conversation on podcasting the past with host of WUWM’s Lake Effect Mitch Teich. Please note: This event takes place in the UWM Libraries 4th floor conference center.

Wednesday, May 1 | 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Podcasting Workshop with Liz Covart in the Digital Humanities Lab
Join us to learn directly from podcasting expert Liz Covart about what it takes to make a great podcast that reflects on the past and speaks to the present.

Thursday, May 2 | 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Ethics, Technology, and Human Rights
Sabelo Mhlambi, Fellow, Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Carr Center for Human Rights
Technological advancements in fields such as Artificial Intelligence present significant ethical questions and implications for societies around the world. Join us for an exploration of the intersections between ethics, emerging technologies and human rights with Sabelo Mhlambi, Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Carr Center for Human Rights. Mr. Mhlambi’s research examines the ethical implications of technology in the developing world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, along with the creation of tools to make Artificial Intelligence more accessible and inclusive to underrepresented communities.
Co-sponsored by the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, Department of Communication, Department of English, Department of Philosophy, Digital Arts and Culture Program, UWM Libraries Digital Humanities Lab, and the UWM Center for International Education.

Friday, May 10 | 9:00 a.m.
Academic Publishing & Presenting with IEEE Breakfast
Co-sponsored by the UWM Libraries & IEEE, this free breakfast event is open to all students, faculty, staff and area alumni. Event details and registration link: https://uwm.edu/libraries/event/academic-publishing-ieee/

Brooke Slavens, PhD., Associate Professor, Occupational Science & Technology and Biomedical Engineering; Director of the Mobility Lab; Director of the PhD Program in Health Sciences
George Hanson, PhD., Professor and Department Chair, Electrical Engineering
Thomas Haigh, PhD., Associate Professor, History
(moderator) Linda Kopecky, Head, Research Services, UWM Libraries

Fall 2018

October 26 | 11:00-12:30
The Business of Immersive Media
J. Dietenberger (UWM Student Affairs Innovation & Technology Acceleration

November 12 | 3:00-4:00
Bubbler Talk in the DH Lab
Lauren Sigfusson and Mitch Teich (WUWM)

November 29 | 2:00-3:30
Growing the Social Imagination: The Freedom Trail on Trial
Neil Horsky (Community artist based in Boston)

Sound Workshops

September 18 | 2:00-3:30
Using Machines: The Tools We Use to Record Sound
Jane Hampden Daley and Jeff Loomis (JAMS)

October 3 | 2:00-3:30
Storyboarding and Making Scenes
Jane Hampden Daley (JAMS) and Chris Cantwell (History)

October 15 | 2:00-3:30
Collecting Sound I: Collecting the Outdoors
Steve Wetzel (PSOA Film)

October 22 | 2:00-3:30
Collecting Sound II: Ambient Sound and Active Tape
Steve Wetzel (PSOA Film)

November 14 | 2:00-3:30
Interviewing Subjects
Jane Hampden Daley (JAMS) and Michael Gordon (History)

Date TBD | Time: TBD
Editing Sound
TBD

Data Visualization Workshops

September 21 | 12:00 – 1:00
Quantitative Data Visualization
Kristin Briney (UWM Libraries)

September 28 | 12:00 – 1:00
Qualitative Data Visualization
Kristin Briney (UWM Libraries)

Spring 2018 events

February 16 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM – Lessons Learned: Panel Discussion of Process and Products by the First Cohort of the Collaborative Research Team Development Grants (Office of Research)
February 19 | 3:00 PM – “Working on it” GIS and High Performance Computing, Dan Siercks, L&S IT, Stephen Appel, UWM Libraries, Wei Xu, PhD Candidate, Geography
Humanitarian Open Street Map Mapathons, Led by the UWM GIS Club
February 23 | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
March 30 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
April 27 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
March 2 | 12:00 PM – Data Visualization 101 Workshop: Make Better Charts
Kristin Briney, UWM Libraries
March 6 | 4:00 PM – The Impact of Open Textbooks in Large Enrollment Courses
Han Joo Lee, Psychology, Dawn Erb, Astronomy, Kristin Woodward, UWM Libraries, Amy Mangrich, CETL
March 9 | 12:00 PM – Data Visualization 102 Workshop: Workshop Your Charts
Kristin Briney, UWM Libraries
March 28 | 3:30 PM – Curating your Online Presence
Chris Cantwell, UWM History and Jaclyn Kelly, Milwaukee Public Museum
April 4 | 3:00 PM – Look Here! How Artists use Library Collections to Make New Work: A Panel Discussion Look Here! Artists and UWM Librarians
April 6 | 12:00 PM – Visualizing Asia: Images | History | Digital (brown bag discussion) Julia Adenay Thomas, Associate Professor of History, Notre Dame University
April 10 | drop in anytime between 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM – Digital Pedagogy Fair
UWM Faculty, Instructors, and Teaching Assistants
April 24 | 2:00 PM – Workshop: Cheap 3D Scanning
Dr. Gabriel Menotti, Lecturer in Editing and Multimedia at Ufes (Brazil), Fulbright Visiting Scholar at C21-UWM
April 26 | 3:00 PM – Opportunities with High Performance Computing in the Humanities
Dan Siercks, L&S IT
April 27 | 12:30 PM, UWM Libraries DH Lab – Videographic Criticism: What Is It, Why You Should Be Doing It, Dr. Bridget Kies and Allain Daigle.
April 27 | 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM, Merrill Hall, Room 131 – Slow Burn: A Conversation about Impeachment, the Presidency, and Podcasting, Leon Neyfakh, Slate Magazine and Mitch Teich, WUWM
May 11 | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM, UWM Digital Humanities Lab – Workshop: MUDs, MOOs, and Why They Still Matter
Geoff Gimse and Kristopher Purzycki (English)
May 14 | 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM, UWM Libraries Scholarly Communication Series: Beyond Journal Publishing, Dr. Amanda Seligman, Professor and Chair, UWM Department of History; UWM Faculty Panel with Tips and Strategies for paths to academic publishing beyond journals; UWM librarians with resources and tools for getting started

Fall 2017 events (August – December 2017)

September 20 | 4:00 PM – Digital Pedagogy Demonstration:
Gigapixel for Historical Methods
Jasmine Alinder, UWM History
September 27 | 4:00 PM – Digital Pedagogy Workshop:
Gigapixel
Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries
October 4 | 3:00 PM – Student Learning and the BLC Field School
Arijit Sen (Architecture), Guha Shankar (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress), Chelsea Wait (Doctoral Student), Kaitlin Malliet (Graduate Student), Bella Biwer (Undergraduate Student)
October 6 | 12:00 PM
Data Management Workshop
Kristin Briney, UWM Libraries
October 6 | 1:30 PM
HASTAC Scholars Information Session
October 11 | 3:00 PM – “Working on it” Research Round Tables:
Visualizing Pharmaceuticals Funding Networks with R Shiny
Scott Graham, UWM English
Co-sponsored by the UWM Office of Research
October 13 | 2:30 – 4:30 PM – From the Office of Research: Writing Collaborative Proposals: Learning from Experience.” Many federal and non-federal funders are supporting research projects that involve multiple collaborators across a variety of disciplines, but developing collaborative proposals can be challenging. If you are interested in learning how to write successful proposals with your collaborators, the Office of Research is hosting the panel discussion Writing Collaborative Proposals: Learning From Experience. UWM faculty panelists will share what worked – and what didn’t work in developing their research collaborations, and offer suggestions on how to identify and overcome obstacles.
October 18 | 3:00 PM – “Working on it” Research Round Tables:
Next Generation PhD
Jason Puskar, UWM English
Co-sponsored by the UWM Office of Research
November 2 | 3:30 PM – Directions in DH:
Victorian Prehistory of the Digital
Jason Puskar, UWM English
November 7 | 4-5 PM – Getting Access to Public Information: Demystifying the Open Records Process
Jessica McBride, Senior Lecturer Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies;
Julie Kipp, UWM Public Records Custodian; and
Matt Richardson, SmartWave CEO and Milwaukee Open Data advocate.
November 16 | 3:30 PM – Directions in DH:
The Overpass Light Brigade and Spaces of Appearance
Lane Hall, UWM English and Lisa Moline, PSOA
December 1 | 12:00 PM – Data Visualization Workshop
Kristin Briney, UWM Libraries
December 6 | 2:00 PM – “Working on it” Research Round Tables:
The World After Us: Speculative Media Sculpture Project
Nathaniel Stern, UWM PSOA and Carol J Hirschmugl, UWM Physics
Co-sponsored by the UWM Office of Research
December 15 | 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM – Art and Fair Use Workshop, Tomas Lipinski, UWM SOIS.

Spring 2017 events (January – May 2017)

February 14 | 4:00 PM – Data Management 101: Love Your Data, Kristin Briney, UWM Libraries. Does your research data need a little love? Come to this special Valentine’s Day session to learn how to manage it better. Instead of chocolate and flowers, we’ll be covering backups, documentation, and much more!
February 16 | 4:30 PM – Twitter Scraping Workshop, led by Dan Siercks, L&S IT. Learn about using R to directly access Twitter data for scraping and analysis, and explore and visualize timelines, hashtags and “following” information systematically across multiple Twitter accounts
February 17 | 3:30 PM – Serious Play: NAGG: Not A Gamer’s Girlfriend, Krista-Lee Malone, UWM, This group is [a] gaming group dedicated for women by women,” reads the first Facebook post explaining NAGG. NAGG, which stands for Not A Gamer’s Girlfriend, was started in August 2016. It is the latest attempt to create a women-centered space through the geek bar 42 Lounge.
February 21 | 1:00 PM – Stopping Fake News: The Work Practices of Peer-to-Peer Counter Propaganda, Maria Haigh, UWM School of Information Studies. The Ukrainian website StopFake.org has turned fact checking into a counter-propaganda weapon in the country’s conflict with Russia. Faced with a coordinated campaign in which paid social media trolls and Russian state media work together to propagate fake news, in a process we dub “peer-to-peer propaganda,” the StopFake team has combined the kind of online media monitoring described by Pablo Boczkowski with a mission inspired by Western fact checking sites. Their aim is to interrupt the spread of fake news stories by having rebuttals shared on social media. We document the history of this group, describe its work practices, and situate them within previous analyses of online news dissemination. This case illustrates that virtual Internet groups can, at least in the short term, undertake work that once required a centralized, well-financed team. StopFake is a test case for journalistic resistance to state-sponsored fake news campaigns which shows some promise in bringing attention to the problem via social media shares and international coverage in traditional media. The study is a collaborative work of Maria Haigh (UWM), Thomas Haigh (UWM), and Nadine Kozak (UWM) with StopFake journalists.
March 3 | 1:00 PM – Why is it so hard to agree on the facts? Objectivity, institutional facts, and the contested epistemology of fact-checking, Lucas Graves, UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. What a journalism review called the “fact-checking explosion” in American journalism revolves around a very specific mission: to hold public figures accountable for false or misleading claims. The reporters who practice this kind of journalism form an increasingly self-aware movement within the profession, one grounded in a shared critique of conventional, “he said, she said” objective reporting. What are the origins of this controversial style of news, and how does it challenge conventional notions of objectivity? This talk reviews the roots of political fact-checking within the “interpretive community” of US journalism, and then offers a provisional epistemology of fact-checking grounded in the notion of “institutional facts.” Such facts are much less stable than we sometimes suppose, and help to account for both fact-checking practices and the controversy they invite. Sponsored by the Social Studies of Information Research Group (SSIRG), School of Information Studies, the Center for 21st Century Studies, and the DH Lab.
March 10 | 12:00 PM – Data Visualization 101: Make Better Charts, Kristin Briney, UWM Libraries. With the trend toward collecting ever more data, it’s increasingly important to present that data effectively. Often, that means with a chart. This sessions reviews how to pick the right chart for your data and how to streamline that chart to best tell your story.
March 16 | 11:00 AM – GIS Data for Earth and Environmental Sciences (workshop), Stephen Appel, American Geographical Society Library
March 27 | 4:00 PM – The Orange Story: a Cinematic Digital History Project, Jasmine Alinder, UWM History (and student researchers). The Orange Story is the first installment in a larger project called “Japanese American WWII Confinement: A Cinematic Digital History Project” that combines originally-scripted narrative film with historically-grounded archival content in a seamless online experience. Alinder and her student researchers are working closely with filmmakers and web designers to research, design, and curate the archival sections of the project. Funded by the National Park Service’s Japanese American Confinement Sites grant, it is an innovative project that seeks to leverage the emotional power of historically-based fiction film to engage audiences, particularly high school and college students, who might not be familiar with this history.
March 29 | 3:30 PM – Introduction to Interactivity, Nathaniel Stern, UWM PSOA. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn the basics of motion-tracking, body-tracking, and amplitude-tracking towards interactivity and real-time effects, using Cycling74’s development environment, Max. They will see how input data is analyzed for computers to “understand” these interactions and have the opportunity to produce one small, creative project
March 30 | 2:00 – 4:00 PM – Git and Github: Version Tracking for the Humanities, Geoff Gimse, UWM English. This workshop will provide a basic introduction to Git, version tracking, and the GitHub platform and why these tools have become so useful for scholars in the digital humanities. Participants will learn how to use and create Git repositories, add and commit files, and create and manage different branches of their projects. During this workshop, participants will also use the collaborative tools that GitHub provides, working on creating issues, forking repositories, and merging submissions from other users. At the end of the session, users should have a general idea of how to use Git and the GitHub platform. They will understand the differences between the two, be able to make decisions about when to use them, and be better prepared to use them for managing their own projects.
This workshop is geared for audiences who are interested in learning about how version tracking works, how GitHub encourages collaborative development, and how these tools might be useful in their online projects and documents. In particular, this workshop is aimed at humanities scholars who may be producing digital texts with or without programmatic elements. It does not require any previous experience with programming or software development.
March 31 | 3:30 PM – Serious Play: Consoles, Platforms and Identity (and your student loan).
April 3 | 12 PM – The Challenges of Digital Humanities, Dr. Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School. Come to the DH Lab for an informal discussion with Dr. Mary Sarah Bilder about the Challenges of Digital Humanities projects. Prof. Bilder will discuss aspects of the digital research for her prize-winning book Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention and her prize-winning bibliography DH project Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Colonies: An Annotated Digital Catalog. Mary Sarah Bilder is Founders Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. She holds a BA in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a PhD in the History of American Civilization/American Studies from Harvard University.
Prof. Bilder will be delivering the inaugural Jere McGaffey lecture (based on the book) in Greene Hall at 3:30 p.m.
April 3 | 5:00 PM – Somos Latinas, Eloisa Gómez, M.S., and Dr. Andrea Teresa “Tess” Arenas, The Somos Latinas History Project is a community based research project comprised of interviews and archival collections of Latina activists of Wisconsin for the Wisconsin Historical Society.
April 5 | 12:00 PM – Brown Bag with Lisa Park, Join us for an informal workshop/brown bag session with Artists Now! guest lecturer, Lisa Park. Lisa Park has developed a series of performances using EEG (brainwave sensor) as a vehicle for manifesting her inner states and to obtain a real-time feedback of her thoughts and emotional reactions. Park is a recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in the category of Digital/Electronic Arts and she is a member of NEW INC, New Museum’s first museum-led incubator program in art, technology, and design since Fall 2014. Ms. Park will engage DH Lab attendees with a demo of biometric feedback and discuss her experience and advice working with digital/electronic tools, art, and performance.
April 13 | 11:00 AM – GIS Data for the Social Sciences and Humanities (workshop), Stephen Appel, American Geographical Society Library
April 18 | 12:00 PM – Endangered Data Brown Bag Discussion, Join us for a discussion to kick off Endangered Data week. We will review two current articles on data rescue efforts:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/02/02/researchers-download-federal-data-amid-concerns-over-future-access
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/army-old-guard-archivers-federal-data-safer-think/
April 20 | 2:00-4:00 PM – Document Management and Workflow using GitHub, Geoff Gimse, UWM English. This workshop will focus on the use of GitHub and Git for document management and development. As part of the workshop, users will learn about different markup languages (AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, and Markdown), why they were developed, and how they are used today. They will then discover how these languages work as part of a documentation management and publication toolchain and how those toolchains work to provide greater flexibility for authors and greater access for different audiences. Participants will then walk through the creation of a sample document workflow using Git and GitHub. This workshop will take users a bit deeper into certain aspects of Git and will introduce them to several different tools that can aid in creating accessible and open documents ready for multiple presentation formats. While these topics will be more in-depth, users of all skill levels are welcome to attend and follow along.
This workshop is geared for audiences that are interested in working with, collaborating on, and managing digital texts and publications in Git and Github. It will be particularly useful scholars interested in open and collaborative publishing in a variety of contexts. While this will be a deeper dive into a specific use-case for Git and Github, no previous experience with design or development is required.
April 21 | 12:00-2:00 PM, Live webinars on Endangered Data:
12:00 – 1:00 PM: Live webinar: Endangered Accountability: A DLF-Sponsored Webinar on FOIA, Government Data, and Transparency. Join members of the Digital Library Federation’s new working group on Government Records Transparency and Accountability for a live conversation about government data and records transparency. In this webinar, we’ll dig below the headlines to talk about the current state of FOIA, the difference between “records” and “data,” and what, actually, is at risk in this current moment. Featuring presentations by Alex Howard of the Sunlight Foundation, Denice Ross from New America, and Deputy Director Nikki Gramian and Management Analyst Amy Bennett from the National Archives FOIA Ombudsman’s Office.
1:00 – 2:00 PM: Live webinar: Raising Awareness and Engaging your Community through DataRescue. DataRescue events to archive Government data and web content have exploded across the Nation. In this webinar, U of Minnesota Government Documents Librarian, Alicia Kubas, will talk about the context for this initiative, the process of hosting a DataRescue event, and how it can mobilize your community and bring awareness to the issue of vulnerable online Government information.
April 21 | 3:30 PM – Serious Play: Game Studies – a career in that?
April 28 | 1:00 PM – Visualizing U.S. Census Data (workshop), Stephen Appel, American Geographical Society Library
May 5 | 3:30 PM – Serious Play: Wrap-up session
May 12 | 12:00 PM – Internet Privacy Workshop, Kristin Briney, UWM Libraries.

Fall 2016 events (September – December 2016)

September 28 | 12:00-1:00 – Digital Pedagogy Brown Bag: Viral media mashups, Remixes, and Fair Use in the Classroom, led by Marc Tasman. Bring your lunch!
October 5 | 4:00-5:30 – Newest Americans: Stories from the Global City.
Sponsored by Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures, the Chipstone Foundation, DH Lab at the UWM Libraries, and The Center for 21st Century Studies.
October 12 | 12:00-1:00 – Digital Pedagogy Brown Bag: Classroom Uses for the Twine Platform, Kris Purzycki, DH Lab Intern and UWM English.
October 14 | 12:00-1:00 – Data Management 101, Kristin Briney, Data Services Librarian.
October 25 | 1:30-2:30 – Milwaukee Data: An Introduction.
October 27 | 12:00-1:00 – Open Access Week Brown Bag: Books in the UWM Digital Commons, Caroline Seymour-Jorn and Matthew Knachel.
October 28 | 3:30-5:00 – Serious Play presents: New Models of Game Publishing: Early Access, Steam Greenlight, Episodic Games and Narrative, presented by Justin Schumaker.
November 2 | 4:00-5:00 – Directions in Digital Humanities: The Music of Leo Kottke: Mining the Archives to Develop Pedagogical Materials, John Stropes, Director of Guitar Studies, PSOA, Benjamin Kammin, Josh Lane.
November 4 | 12:00-1:00 – Writing a Data Management Plan, Kristin Briney, Data Services Librarian.
November 15 | 12:00-1:00 – Brown bag discussion on Milwaukee Community Data, with Matt Richardson, Milwaukee Community Database Project Director and Founder, Milwaukee Data Initiative
November 16 | 4:00-5:00 – Directions in Digital Humanities: The Digital Yiddish Theater Project, Joel Berkowitz, Director, Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies
November 30 | 4:00-5:00 – Directions in Digital Humanities: Opportunities with High Performance Computing for the Humanities, Dan Siercks, College of Letters and Science Information Technology Office
December 7 | 12:00-1:00 – Look Here! Satellite Landscapes: A brown bag discussion with Jenny Odell, Visiting artist, Stanford University.
December 14 | 12:00-1:00 – User-Centered Digital Public History: a brown bag discussion with Sharon Leon.

Spring 2016 Events (January – May 2016)

February 9 | 11-12:30 – Twitter for Academics (workshop), presented by Kristin Briney
February 12 | 2:00-3:30 – Serious Play Discussion: Identity Negotiation in RPGs with Krista-Lee Malone
February 23 | 1:00-3:30 – Geek Week event: Playing with Data
February 24 | 6:30 – Technophiles Podcast: Remixing Culture with guest, Marc Tasman
February 25 – Data for the Humanities: Workshop and Discussion, presented byJustin Schell, Head of Shapiro Design Lab, University of Michigan Library, andThomas Padilla, Digital Scholarship Librarian, Michigan State University. Co-sponsored by the DH Lab, theYear of the Humanities, the Social Studies of Information Research Group (SSIRG) and the UWM Libraries.
- 10:00 – 12:00 noon: Making things with Humanities Data: A Workshop:
- 3:00 – 4:30: What is Humanities Data: A discussion with Justin Schell and Thomas Padilla.
February 29 | 11-12:30 – CartoDB Workshop presented by Eliza Bettinger
March 10 | 11-12:30 – LaTEX Workshop presented by Nathan Humpal
March 22 | 2:30 – Directions in Digital Humanities: We Didn’t Start the Fire…But We Tweeted About It, presented by Genevieve McBride (UWM History), Jaclyn Kelly, (Milwaukee Public Museum), and UWM graduate students Samantha Schwarz and Margaret Spiegel.
March 23 | 6:30 – Technophiles Podcast: Modernizing the Museum, Guests Julian Jackson (head of exhibits) and Greg Post (IT director), Milwaukee Public Museum
March 25 | 10:00AM – Community-engaged DH. An informal discussion with Laurie Marks. cussion. Faculty actively working in this area will also share their projects.
March 25 | 2:00PM – Harun Farocki’s Parallel I-IV. Carl Bogner, Senior Lecturer and Graduate Faculty in the UWM Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres.
April 20 | 6:30 – Technophiles Podcast: Filament Games with guest, Dan Norton
April 22 | 2:00-4:00PM – Natasha Schüll, New York University. Addiction by Design: From Slot Machines to Candy Crush. Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Year of the Humanities, and the DH Lab.
May 2 | 10:00AM – Conducting Paperless Research: Dissertation Research Projects in the Digital Era, presented by Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi, UWM Urban Studies Program.
May 4 | 3:30-4:30PM – Serious Play presents A Discussion: Computer Game Study at UWM.
May 5 | 3:00-4:00PM – Ethnographic Methodologies for the Study of Online Communities, presented by Heather Brinkman, UWM Anthropology PhD Student.

Fall 2015 Events (August – December 2015)

August 26, 2015 | 10AM-3PM – Oral History in the Digital Age: Workshop, Doug Boyd (U of Kentucky Libraries, Director of Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History) and Troy Reeves (U of Madison, Head of Oral History Program)
September 17, 2015 | 4PM – The Milwaukee Data Initiative (MDI), Matt Richardson, MDI Founder. MDI is “an advocacy workgroup to change the way Milwaukee uses and shares critical data.”
September 23, 2015 | 6:30 PM – Technophiles Podcast: Apps & Startups, with Krista-Lee Malone and guest Jake Gill (Director of Skritter)
October 1, 2015 | 4PM – Open Refine Workshop, Kristin Briney, Eliza Bettinger, Ann Hanlon, Nathan Humpal (UWM Libraries)
October 22, 2015 | 4PM – Data Management for Researchers (book party), Kristin Briney (UWM Libraries)
October 23, 2015 | 1:30PM – 4PM – Digital Yiddish Theater Project, Debra Caplan, Baruch College, City University New York, “Social Networking the Interwar Yiddish Stage: Visualizing a Pre-Digital Viral Phenomenon” and presentation by Amanda Seligman, UWM History, “The Encyclopedia of Milwaukee as DH Model: Concept, Logistics, Funding“
October 14, 2015 | 6:30 PM – Technophiles Podcast: Games & Society, with Krista-Lee Malone and guest Thomas Malaby (UWM Anthropology)
October 28, 2015 | 4PM – Directions in Digital Humanities, “Working on ENIAC: The Lost Labors of the Information Age presented by “Thomas Haigh (SOIS)
November 5, 2015 | 4PM – GIS Workshop: QGIS, Eliza Bettinger (UWM Libraries)
November 18, 2015 | 6:30 PM – Technophiles Podcast: Electronic Literature, with Krista-Lee Malone and guest Stuart Moulthrop (UWM English)
Friday, December 11th, 2015 | 1:30PM -Serious Play goes Analog: Modular Games and Booster Expansions: Hosted by Justin Schumaker and Brian Keilen
Thursday, December 17th, 2015 | 12PM – Brown-bag discussion: Speaking at UWM TEDx presented by Marc Tasman and Kristin Briney

Spring 2015 Events (January – May 2015)

January 21, 2015 | 12PM – Digging into Data: Open Refine Workshop presented by Kristin Briney, Eliza Bettinger, Ann Hanlon, Brad Houston (UWM Libraries)
February 11, 2015 | 12PM – Digging into Data: Regular Expressions Workshop presented by Kristin Briney (UWM Libraries)
February 13, 2015 | 12PM – “Service-Learning Reflection: Creating Assignments, Facilitating Discussion, and Grading it All,” presented by the Center for Community-Based Learning, Leadership, and Research (CCBLLR), Click for Informational Flyer
February 26, 2015 | 11AM – Methods in Digital Humanities: Scalar, presented by Matt Russell (DH Lab)
February 27, 2015 | 9AM – 1PM – Directions in Digital Humanities: “Using Copyright to Your Advantage in the Digital Humanities,” presented by Tomas Lipinski (School of Information Studies)
March 4, 2015 | 4PM – Directions in Digital Humanities: “Stitching History from the Holocaust: A Digital Humanities Lab Project,” presented by Rachel Baum (Jewish Studies), Will Tchakirides (History), Ann Hanlon (Libraries)
March 11, 2015 | 12PM – Digging into Data: GIS Workshop presented by Eliza Bettinger (UWM Libraries)
March 13, 2015 | 12:30PM – Open Education Week Presentation: “Open Textbooks: Access, Affordability, and Academic Success” presented by Dave Ernst (founder of the Open Textbook Network)
March 24, 2015 | 11AM – Methods in Digital Humanities: Imageplot, presented by Matt Russell (DH Lab)
March 26, 2015 | 3 PM – Serious Play series, “Re-releases, Remakes, and Remembrances: Preserving the Cultural History of Video games,” presented by Nathan Humpal.
This informal talk will focus on the unique difficulties of preserving Videogames both as physical or digital objects, and as cultural artifacts. Questions discussed include: What barriers exist for preserving a videogame? What are we preserving when we preserve a game? How can we preserve multiplayer experiences?
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March 27, 2015 | 10:30AM – “Unraveling Ersatz Facts: Methods for Online Fact Checking,” presented by Olga Yurkova and Tatiana Matychak (Stopfake.org), sponsored by the Social Studies of Information Research Group
April 2, 2015 | 4PM – Invited talk/workshop, “Hide the Metrics and Scare the NSA! Net Art as Artistic Research,” Ben Grosser (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), sponsored by the Digital Arts and Culture certificate program
April 3, 2015 | 9 – 11:30AM – Data Day in the UWM DH Lab, presentations by Scott Graham (English), Rebecca Klaper (Freshwater Science), Rina Ghose (Geography)
April 3, 2015 | 1:30 – 4PM – (Data Day Workshop), “Workshop on R,” (Digital Humanities Lab), presented by Dave Armstrong (Political Science). Click for information on and description of R (statistical computing software)
April 8, 2015 | 4PM – Directions in the Digital Humanities: “Digital Humanities in the iSchool” presented by Tanya Clement (University of Texas at Austin), co-sponsored by the Social Studies of Information Research Group
April 9, 2015 | 10AM – “Digital Humanities in the iSchool: Opportunities and Challenges” roundtable discussion, presented by Tanya Clement (University of Texas at Austin), co-sponsored by the Social Studies of Information Research Group
April 16, 2015 | 1:30PM – “Locating the Literary History of Word Processing: A Discussion About Media Archaeology, Computer History, and the (Digital?) Humanities,” symposium presented by Matthew Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland/MITH), co-sponsored by the Social Studies of Information Research Group
More information: http://www.socialstudiesof.info/node/76
April 17, 2015 | 12PM – Directions in Digital Humanities, “War; What is it Good For? Playing with Conflict Simulation (A Hands-On Game Design Workshop), presented by Matthew Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland/MITH), co-sponsored by the Center for 21st Century Studies
April 23, 2015 | 3PM – Serious Play: Gamergate, presented by Alexis Dalbey, Steve Cuff, and Rachel Kinnard.

Fall 2014 Events (September – December 2014)

September 19, 2014 | 12PM – Digital Pedagogy Brown Bag presented by Amanda Seligman (History).
September 29, 2014 | 2PM – Digital Humanities Methods: Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching presented by Trevor Berman (UWM Libraries) and Yuko Nakamura (PhD candidate in Architecture). Workshop Resources
October 1, 2014 | 12PM – Digging Data Workshop: Measuring Research Impact presented by Kristin Briney (UWM Libraries).
October 3, 2014 | 12:30PM – Interactive Symposium: “What Can Information Schools Contribute to the Digital Humanities?” presented by Anabel Quan-Haase (University of Western Ontario).
October 3, 2014 | 3PM – Serious Gaming: Minecraft presented by Stuart Moulthrop (English) and Kris Purzycki (PhD candidate in English).
October 7, 2014 | 1PM – Digital Humanities Methods: StoryMapJS presented by EJ Basa (PhD candidate in English: Media, Cinema, Digital Studies).
October 16, 2014 | 12PM – “Best Practices in Service-Learning Pedagogy” (Presentation for the Community Engaged Scholars Network (CESN) of the Center for Community-Based Learning, Leadership and Research); Presented by Cindy Clough(College of Health Sciences), Shelleen Green (Peck School of the Arts), Mark Keane(School of Architecture & Urban Planning).
October 17, 2014 | 9AM – Invited Talk “From Memory to Action: Discussing the Civic and Public Humanities”, presented by Sarah Pharaon (Program Director for North America, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience).
October 20, 2014 | 12PM and Afternoon Panel | 3:30PM – Century for 21st Century Studies/Social Studies of Information Research Group – DH Lab Panel on “What counts in DH?” Cheryl Ball (Illinois State University), Jon McKenzie (UW Madison), T. Mills Kelly (George Mason University).
October 27, 2014 | 2PM – Digital Humanities Methods: Scalar presented by Matthew Russell (DH Lab, CETL, Comparative Literature).
October 31, 2014 | 1PM – Invited Talk on two digital history projects: “Letters of 1916” & “Contested Memories: the Battle of Mount Street Bridge” presented by Susan Schreibman (Professor of Digital Humanities at National University of Ireland Maynooth).
November 5, 2014 | 4PM – “Directions in the Digital Humanities” speaker series: Games in the Era of Digital Production presented by Thomas Malaby (Anthropology).
November 12, 2014 | 2PM – Digital Humanities Methods: Omeka and Neatlines presented by Will Tchakirides (PhD candidate in History).
November 19, 2014 | 12PM – Digging into Data: Text Encoding Initiative presented by Nathan Humpal (UWM Libraries)
November 21, 2014 | 3:30PM – Serious Gaming: Destiny presented by Nathan Humpal (UWM Libraries).
November 21, 2014 | 12PM – Doing Digital History Round Table presented by Joe Austin (History), Elana Levine (Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies), Mark Vareschi (History, UW Madison)
December 4, 2014 | 12PM – E-book Production with Adobe InDesign presented by Hal Hinderliter (Principal at Hal Hinderliter Consulting Services).

Spring 2014 Events (January – May 2014)

January 29, 2014 – “Direction in Digital Humanities” speaker series: An Interactive Visualization of Segregation in Milwaukee presented by Jerome Knapp (Director at Historic King Drive Business Improvement District).
February 20, 2014 – “Direction in Digital Humanities” speaker series: Users, makers, and infrastructure: digital humanities in the undergraduate classroom presented by Marie Hicks (Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology).
February 27,2014 – Into the Rift: Demoing the Oculus Rift presented by Matt Belskie (Educational Technology Coordinator, School of Education, UWM).
March 12, 2014 – ELMCIP (Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice), the Knowledge Base, and Visualization-based Analysis of a Field presented by Scott Rettberg (Professor, department of linguistic, literary and aesthetic studies, University of Bergen, Norway).
March 13, 2014 – “Directions in Digital Humanities” speaker series: Multi-touch Data for Creative Musical Control on the iPad presented by Kevin Schlei (Lecturer, Composition and Music Technology, UWM).
March 27, 2014 – Digital Yiddish Theater Workshop: Maps, Manuscripts and Monsters: A Survey of Model DH Projects presented by Ann Hanlon (Head, Digital Collections and Initiatives, UWM Libraries).
March 28, 2014 – Digital Yiddish Theater Workshop: Introduction to Digital Editions and the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).
March 28, 2014 – Digital Yiddish Theater Workshop: The Map in the Machine: GIS and the Humanities.
March 29, 2014 – Virtual Yiddish Theater Workshop: Breaking the Silence on Yiddish Popular Music.
April 2, 2014 – Serious Play series The Lone Protagonist in Adventure Games, 1980-2013 presented by Nathan Humpal (Metadata and Cataloging Librarian, UWM Libraries).
April 3, 2014 – “Directions in Digital Humanities” speaker series: Digital History and Interpretation presented by Rob Nelson (Director for the Digital Scholarship Lab, Associate Professor of American Studies,University of Richmond).
April 9, 2014 – “Direction in Digital Humanities” speaker series: Global MKE: Using Digital Pedagogy to Explore a City presented by Shelleen Greene (Associate Professor, Writing and Critical Thinking, Director of Graduate Studies, UWM).
April 18, 2014 – Human/Technology Interface for Performing Arts presented by Kia Ng (Director, Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Research in Music, University of Leeds).
April 23, 2014 – “Direction in Digital Humanities” speaker series: We Have Never Been Digital: Lessons from the History of Information Technology Tom Haigh (Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, UWM).
May 1, 2014 – “Direction in Digital Humanities” speaker series: Sea and Spar and Portals Between presented by Stuart Moulthrop (Professor, Department of English, UWM).

Fall 2013 Events (September – December 2013)

September 12, 2013 – “Directions in the Digital Humanities” speaker series: Planning the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee presented by Amanda Seligman (History, UWM).
September 15, 2013 – UWM Libraries Digital Humanities Lab Open House.
October 1, 2013 – Data Workshop: Creating a Data Management Plan presented by Kristin Briney (Data Service Librarian, UWM Libraries).
October 10, 2013 – “Directions in the Digital Humanities” speaker series: YouTube Video Comments presented by Marc Tasman (Journalism, Advertising and Media Studies, UWM).
October 14, 2013 – Digital History Virtual Presentation: Programming Historian presented by Adam Crymble (King’s College London).
October 17, 2013 – Lecture: Mobile Live Art and Music Performance presented by Georg Essl (Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Music, University of Michigan).
October 23, 2013 – Data Workshop: Data Management 101 presented by Kristin Briney (Data Service Librarian).
October 24, 2013 – “Directions in the Digital Humanities” speaker series: The U.S. Teenager’s Debut: Criminalization and Newspapers in the 1940s presented by Joe Austin (History, UWM).
October 29, 2013 – Digital History Virtual Presentation: Ideology and Algorithms presented by Rob Nelson (University of Richmond).
November 1, 2013 – Lecture: There’s an App for that Book: The New (inter)Face of Literary Editing presented by Olin Bjork (English, University of Houston).
November 6, 2013 – Video Games as Interactive Learning Tools for Critical Intervention in the Disciplines for Digital Humanities .
November 8, 2013 – Institutionalizing Science and Technology Studies Within Interdisciplinary Environments presented by Paul Edwards (University of Michigan, School of Information and History).
November 12, 2013 – Digital History Virtual Presentation: Isaac Newton’s Virtual Archive presented by Rob Iliffe (University of Sussex).
November 14, 2013 – Serious Play: Grand Theft Auto V demo and Gaming Open House.
November 22, 2013 – 3D Technique presented by James Coltrain (University of Nebraska).