Presented by Dr. Alison Donnelly, Associate Professor, UWM Dept. of Geography. Dr. Donnelly will discuss the importance of monitoring shrubs and trees in Downer Woods to understand how climate change will impact temperate deciduous forests in general. She monitors the... Read more
Sasha Stiles, Artists Now! Guest lecturer and AI PoetTuesday, 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... Read more
Marco Polo “The Court of Kublai Khan,” Book II, Chapters 1-12 of The Travels (1298/99) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected text. Any version of the text may be used to prepare for discussion,... Read more
Presented by Tom Haigh, History (co-author, A New History of Modern Computing, MIT Press, 2021) Susan McRoy, Computer Science (author, Principles of Natural Language Processing, 2021, https://uwm.pressbooks.pub/naturallanguage/, and Chair, Computer Science) Join us for a discussion about artificial intelligence and the technologies... Read more
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... Read more
Lynn Nottage Sweat (2015) Optional: See the UWM Theatre performance of Sweat in Kenilworth 508, April 19-23. No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected text. Any version of the text may be used to prepare for discussion,... Read more
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,... Read more
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.
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... Read more