The Race for Time: Saving Analog Video and Audio

Digital Humanities Lab, Golda Meir Library / online

Presented by Shiraz Bhathena, UWM Libraries. 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 …

Building Digital Essays Using Juncture

Presented by 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, …

Artist Talk with Pat Northrup and Sam Zimmerman

Special Collections, Golda Meir Library

Please join us for a conversation in Special Collections at UWM's Golda Meir Library on Tuesday, April 11 at  4:30 p.m. to learn about Indigenous art, culture, and stories with artist and knowledge bearer, Pat Northrup (Dakota), and American Indian …

A Synesthete’s Atlas: Performing Cartography — A Presentation by Eric Theise

American Geographical Society Library, Golda Meir Library/Online

Eric Theise combines strategies from experimental film and animation, color theory, the Light and Space movement, and concrete poetry with open data and open source software to create digital maps that behave in ways never intended by the original developers. …

Digital Arts and Culture (DAC) Student Showcase

Digital Humanities Lab, Golda Meir Library

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

Author Talk: Sindiwe Magona

Digital Humanities Lab, Golda Meir Library

photo credit: Valérie Marin Le Mélée © vmlm Please join us for a special conversation with renowned South African author Dr. Sindiwe Magona on Tuesday, April 18 at 5:30 p.m. in the UWM Digital Humanities Lab, located on the second floor, …

Behind the Scenes of a Digital Journal — In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies

Digital Humanities Lab, Golda Meir Library

Behind the Scenes of a Digital Journal: In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish StudiesJessica Kirzane, editor-in-chiefThursday, 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, …

UWM Quilting Bee

Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons, Golda Meir Library

UWM Women and Gender Studies, Center for 21st Century Studies, History, Art History, and the Student Union, with support from the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts and the UWM Libraries, are co-sponsoring a Quilting Bee on April 21st to complete a tapestry that …

Text Analysis for Digital Humanities: Pilot Workshop

Digital Humanities Lab, Golda Meir Library / online

Presented by Karl Holten, Chris Endemann, Jennifer Patino, Mariah 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 …