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Fall 2025 (all times are Central time)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Python for Beginners Workshop<\/strong>
October 9 \u2013 10 | 10:00 a.m. \u2013 12:00 p.m.
Instructor: Karl Holten, UWM Libraries\/L&S IT
Helpers: Ann Hanlon, TBA
VIRTUAL ONLY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cPlotting and Programming in Python<\/a>\u201d we will cover installation, fundamentals, and data analysis (time permitting). No experience necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cleaning up Spreadsheets: Tidy Data<\/strong>
Thursday, October 23 | 10:00 \u2013 11:30 a.m.
Nathan Humpal and Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries
VIRTUAL ONLY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you have data that you are collecting in a spreadsheet? Probably! Do you need to clean it up and make it work better? Almost certainly. Join us for a Tidy Data workshop to learn how to work with your spreadsheet data so it works for you and your research and projects. Bring your messy spreadsheets! (And we\u2019ll have sample messy spreadsheets, too, if you don\u2019t have anything immediately handy. Which is frankly hard to believe.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Artificial Intelligence: The History of a Brand<\/strong>
November 13 | 3:00 \u2013 4:30 p.m.
Thomas Haigh, UWM History
American Geographical Society Library, 3rd floor GML<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The history of AI is the history of an overhyped intellectual brand that has only very recently come to signify a set of deployable technologies with broad application and clear, if somewhat horrifying, purposes. Since its debut in 1955 the AI brand has been attached to a rotating cast of technologies with only loose connections to each other or to cognition, none of which has yet come close to delivering on the promise of creating computer systems with human-like intelligence. One AI insider characterized the story of AI as \u201cthe history of failed ideas.\u201d Yet in the process of failing, early AI researchers made vital but incidental contributions to the development of computer technology and computer science. In this talk, Thomas Haigh will explore where the AI brand came from, why it was so attractive to researchers and sponsors, and how artificial intelligence institutionalized as a subfield of computer science through research labs, curricula, textbooks, and professional associations. Haigh will also document continuities and discontinuities between our own moment and earlier cycles of AI hype and disillusionment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Slow AI: A Human Training Workshop<\/strong>
November 21 | 2:00 \u2013 3:30 p.m.
Led by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (English), Ann Hanlon (UWM Libraries), and Anne Pycha (Linguistics)
GML Fourth Floor Conference Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prompting isn\u2019t just for ChatGPT. In this workshop, we\u2019ll return our attention to older ways of writing and thinking that get hijacked by \u2013 but are also prototypes for \u2013 contemporary productivity models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first ten attendees to register will receive a notebook and pen, courtesy of the Center for 21st Century Studies Human Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Text Analysis for the Humanities<\/strong> Workshop<\/strong>
Asynchronous Lesson Modules<\/a>
Instructors: Karl Holten, Stephen Appel, Jie Chen, Stephanie Surach, Ann Hanlon
(please contact hanlon@uwm.edu<\/a> if you are interested in a live workshop)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have created learn-on-your-own lesson modules for this recently developed Carpentries workshop, a practical Introduction to Text Analysis, designed for those with Python experience (how to create functions, for loops, conditional logic, use the pandas library, etc.). Check out our Intro to Python<\/strong> workshop, October 9-10, if you need an introduction. The workshop covers Natural Language Processing (NLP) basics, API usage, data preparation, document\/word embeddings, topic modeling, Word2Vec, Transformer models using Hugging Face, and ethical considerations. Students and researchers working in the digital humanities are especially encouraged to attend! View the the lesson homepage<\/a> for an overview of the topics we will cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a pilot workshop<\/strong>, testing out a lesson that is still under development. We are also experimenting with a new delivery method by offering this as a series of asynchronous modules. The lesson authors would appreciate any feedback you can give them about the lesson content and suggestions for how it could be further improved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online course videos and lessons: https:\/\/guides.library.uwm.edu\/carpentries\/TAP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2025 (all times are Central time)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Georeferencing Historical Maps with Allmaps<\/strong>
Friday, March 28 | 10:00 a.m.
Stephen Appel
VIRTUAL ONLY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn how to use Allmaps (allmaps.org<\/a>) to georeference digitized maps from digital collections. Georeferencing makes it possible to add a historical map layer to a digital map and incorporate these valuable historical objects into digital exhibits, DH projects, and historical and geographic research. We will share tips on how to use Allmaps – a popular open source , browser-based georeferencing tool – and where to find rich troves of compatible digitized historical maps. (Hint: Right here at UWM Libraries<\/a>!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Using OpenRefine to Clean Your Data: Regular Expressions<\/strong>
Thursday, April 3 | 10:00 a.m.
Nathan Humpal
VIRTUAL ONLY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OpenRefine<\/a> is a free, powerful tool for cleaning up data in lots of formats. One especially powerful feature is using regular expressions to search for patterns in your data to convert, clean, and identify. Join us to learn more about how to use OpenRefine and get the most out of using regular expressions. We will be using the Library Carpentries OpenRefine lesson, focusing on Transformations: https:\/\/librarycarpentry.github.io\/lc-open-refine\/07-introduction-to-transformations.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Python for Beginners Workshop<\/strong>
Tuesday, April 1 and Wednesday, April 2 | 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Instructor: Karl Holten, UWM Libraries\/L&S IT
Helpers: Ann Hanlon, TBA
VIRTUAL ONLY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cPlotting and Programming in Python<\/a>\u201d we will cover installation, fundamentals, and data analysis (time permitting). No experience necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Text Analysis for the Humanities<\/strong> Workshop<\/strong>
Asynchronous Lesson Modules<\/a>
Instructors: Karl Holten, Stephen Appel, Jie Chen, Stephanie Surach, Ann Hanlon
VIRTUAL ONLY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have created learn-on-your-own lesson modules for this recently developed Carpentries workshop, a practical Introduction to Text Analysis, designed for those with Python experience (how to create functions, for loops, conditional logic, use the pandas library, etc.). Check out our Intro to Python<\/strong> workshop<\/a>, April 1 and 2nd, if you need an introduction. The workshop covers Natural Language Processing (NLP) basics, API usage, data preparation, document\/word embeddings, topic modeling, Word2Vec, Transformer models using Hugging Face, and ethical considerations. Students and researchers working in the digital humanities are especially encouraged to attend! View the the lesson homepage<\/a> for an overview of the topics we will cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a pilot workshop<\/strong>, testing out a lesson that is still under development. We are also experimenting with a new delivery method by offering this as a series of asynchronous modules. The lesson authors would appreciate any feedback you can give them about the lesson content and suggestions for how it could be further improved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online course videos and lessons: https:\/\/guides.library.uwm.edu\/carpentries\/TAP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Attentive or Absentminded: Habits of Mind in the Age of AI<\/strong>
Meghan O’Gieblyn<\/a>, author of God Human Animal Machine<\/em>, and the essay collection Interior States<\/em>, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award.
April 10, 2025 | 4:00 -5:00 p.m. (refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)
Golda Meir Library Fourth Floor Conference Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a moment when we are outsourcing many intellectual and creative tasks to machines, it’s worth thinking about the point of thinking itself. Is it a means to an end, or an end in itself? Are humans just “stochastic parrots,” mindlessly producing language in a way that is not so different from AI, as some tech luminaries contend, or is there something more going on in our minds? While these questions may seem new, they hearken back to older debates about the relationship between thought and language, freedom and necessity, and the fine line that exists between attention and automaticity. Long before the advent of digital technologies, two twentieth century philosophers, Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil, wrote about some of these questions through the lens of the technologies of their times. Their writing anticipates many of the challenges of the age of AI and calls attention to the more ordinary and insidious ways that consciousness becomes ossified by social convention, as well as the moral and political risks that arise when we fail to “think what we are doing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This event was organized by AI and the Humanities, a C21-sponsored collaboratory<\/a> formed to consider one of the most pressing questions for higher education: what is the future of humanities in the context of AI?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fall 2024 (all times are Central time)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Python for Beginners Workshop<\/strong>
October 31 and November 1 | 1:00 p.m. \u2013 3:00 p.m.
Instructor: Karl Holten, UWM Libraries\/L&S IT
Helpers: Stephen Appel, Ann Hanlon, Jie Chen, Stephanie Surach
VIRTUAL ONLY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cPlotting and Programming in Python<\/a>\u201d we will cover installation, fundamentals, and data analysis (time permitting). No experience necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Text Analysis for the Humanities<\/strong> Workshop<\/strong>
November 14 and 15 | 8:30 a.m. \u2013 4:30 p.m. (11\/14) and 8:30 a.m. \u2013 12:30 p.m. (11\/15)
Karl Holten, Stephen Appel, Jie Chen, Stephanie Surach, Ann Hanlon
VIRTUAL ONLY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join this recently developed Carpentries workshop for a practical Introduction to Text Analysis, designed for those with Python experience (how to create functions, for loops, conditional logic, use the pandas library, etc.). Check out our Intro to Python<\/strong> workshop<\/a>, October 31-November 1, if you need an introduction. The workshop covers Natural Language Processing (NLP) basics, API usage, data preparation, document\/word embeddings, topic modeling, Word2Vec, Transformer models using Hugging Face, and ethical considerations. Students and researchers working in the digital humanities are especially encouraged to attend! View the the lesson homepage<\/a> for an overview of the topics we will cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a pilot workshop<\/strong>, testing out a lesson that is still under development. The lesson authors would appreciate any feedback you can give them about the lesson content and suggestions for how it could be further improved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Building an Archive of Language, Identity, and Diaspora: The Yiddish Book Center\u2019s Wexler Oral History Project<\/strong>
Wednesday, February 7 | 3:30 p.m.- 4:30 p.m.
Christa P. Whitney, Producer and Co-Director<\/em>
GML E272<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does one create an archive? What is oral history? What is informed consent? How can archival work be simultaneously reparative and generative? In this workshop, we\u2019ll dig into the practical and theoretical aspects of creating a digital archive\u2014specifically, an oral history archive about a language and culture with presence around the world: Yiddish. Christa P. Whitney will draw on her experience of traveling extensively and building a digital oral history\u2014the Yiddish Book Center\u2019s Wexler Oral History Project\u2014since 2010 to present key aspects, challenges, and delights of digital recording, digital archives, and the face-to-face relationship building that underpins it all. We\u2019ll explore oral history theory, interviewing techniques, workflows, editing and curation, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christa P. Whitney, Producer and Co-Director<\/em><\/strong>
Christa is the director of the Yiddish Book Center\u2019s Wexler Oral History Project, a growing collection of more than 1,000 in-depth video interviews about Yiddish language and culture with people of all ages and backgrounds. Originally from Northern California, Christa discovered Yiddish while studying comparative literature at Smith. She has studied Yiddish language at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute, the Workers Circle, and the Yiddish Book Center. For the past ten years, she has traveled near and far recording oral history interviews, while also managing a video archive and producing documentary films and web features about all aspects of Yiddish language and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sponsored by Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies, in partnership with Jewish Museum Milwaukee <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Writing for the Underground<\/strong>
Thursday, February 15 | 3:00 p.m.
Neil Horsky, Artist, Adjunct Instructor at UWM & MIAD<\/em>
American Geographical Society Library (3rd floor GML)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neil Horsky will talk about his work as an arts journalist at an independent newspaper, The Boston Compass, and how audience demographics and organizational capacity shape research methods, form, content, and style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Visual Essays using Digital Archives: Juncture and IIIF<\/strong>
Wednesday, March 13 | 10-11:30
Ann Hanlon and Jie Chen, UWM Libraries
Virtual only<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Python for Beginners Workshop<\/strong>
April 10, 11 | 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Instructor: Karl Holten, UWM Libraries\/L&S IT
Helpers: Stephen Appel, Ann Hanlon, Jie Chen, Stephanie Surach<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cPlotting and Programming in Python<\/a>\u201d we will cover installation, fundamentals, and data analysis (time permitting). No experience necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Text Analysis for the Humanities<\/strong> Workshop<\/strong>
April 15, 16, 17 | 8:30-12:30 (virtual only)
Chris Endemann, Karl Holten, Jennifer Pati\u00f1o, Ann Hanlon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join this recently developed Carpentries workshop for a practical Introduction to Text Analysis, designed for those with Python experience (how to create functions, for loops, conditional logic, use the pandas library, etc.). Check out our Intro to Python<\/strong> workshop<\/a>, April 10-11, if you need an introduction. The workshop covers Natural Language Processing (NLP) basics, API usage, data preparation, document\/word embeddings, topic modeling, Word2Vec, Transformer models using Hugging Face, and ethical considerations. Students and researchers working in the digital humanities are especially encouraged to attend! View the the lesson homepage<\/a> for an overview of the topics we will cover. Hosted online by the UW-Madison Data Science Center. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a pilot workshop<\/strong>, testing out a lesson that is still under development. The lesson authors would appreciate any feedback you can give them about the lesson content and suggestions for how it could be further improved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When Silicon Hallucinates: Deception Machines in an Age of Ontological Crisis<\/strong>
Thursday, April 18 | 4:30-5:30
David Witzling, PSOA
GML American Geographical Society Library (3rd floor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the present moment, “truth” is becoming an increasingly contested term.  Between fake news, UFO disclosure, and popular deep fakes, generative AI will play an increasingly prominent role in complicating perceptions of “reality.”  The role of AI systems in our unfolding ontological crisis will fall along multiple lines: deception as an implicit and explicit design goal for AI systems; the autonomous nature of AI bots in an increasingly online world; the increasingly deregulated corporate interests funding the development of AI systems; and the protected “speech” status of public-facing corporate information systems.  Curbing the development of AI systems might sound like an anti-progress position, but it is also one firmly grounded in the economics of diminishing returns, and a humanistic conception of “government for the people.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DH Teaching Fellows Panel<\/strong>
Thursday, April 25 | 2:00 p.m.
Drew Blanchard (English, CGS), Anushmita Mohanty (English), Sarah Schaefer (Art History)
GML E272<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join us for a discussion with the 2023 DH Fellows Teaching cohort, and how they grappled with new tools for building digital archives, analyzing poetry, and using games to understand storytelling. And how AI intervened to help us think about voice and expression. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fall 2023 (all times are Central time)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: A Conversation<\/strong>
Wednesday, October 11 | 1:00 p.m.
Tomas Lipinski, School of Information Studies<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Workshop: Building Digital Essays Using Juncture and IIIF<\/strong>
Thursday, October 26 | 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Affiliated Event! <\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Future of Humanities Publishing Workshop<\/strong>
November 2 and November 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2 | 4PM<\/strong> – 5PM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UWM Golda Meir Library, Fourth Floor Conference Center<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathleen Fitzpatrick<\/a>, \u201cBuilding a More Generous University: Collaboration, Community, Solidarity\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3 | 9AM<\/strong> – 12:30PM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UWM Libraries, E272<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lauren Cooper<\/a> (Center for Black Digital Research, Penn State), Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe<\/a> (UIUC University Library), and Jasmine Mulliken<\/a> (Stanford University Press), \u201cMapping Current and Future Roles in Humanities Publishing Projects\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Followed by role identification, asset mapping, and creative reimagining exercises facilitated by the UWM Center for 21st Century Studies.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Free and open to the public. Includes refreshments, coffee, and tea on each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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<\/a>” we will cover installation, fundamentals, and data analysis (time permitting). No experience necessary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Artificial Intelligence and Metaphor<\/strong>
Wednesday, November 8 | 2:00 p.m.
John Jordan, Communication<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New technologies like AI require metaphors for understanding. But these metaphors do more than provide context; they shape and steer people\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute<\/a>, 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<\/a>) or Ann Hanlon (hanlon@uwm.edu<\/a>) if you are interested in presenting your work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Workshop: Maps and IIIF\/Juncture<\/strong>
Monday, November 20 | 10:00 a.m.
Ann Hanlon and Stephen Appel, UWM Libraries<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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ARS Autopoetica: AI Poetry Workshop <\/strong>
Sasha Stiles<\/a>, Artists Now! Guest lecturer and AI Poet<\/em>
Tuesday, February 21 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Using GitHub to Build Websites<\/strong>
Stephen Appel, UWM Libraries<\/em>
Tuesday, March 7 | 10:00 a.m. (virtual only)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GitHub<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Race for Time: Saving Analog Video and Audio<\/strong>
Shiraz Bhathena, UWM Libraries<\/em>
Friday, March 17 | 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Building Digital Essays Using Juncture<\/strong> (virtual only)
Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries<\/em>
Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Digital Arts and Culture (DAC) Student Showcase<\/strong>
Digital Arts & Culture Certificate students<\/em>
Friday, April 14 | 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students from the Digital Arts and Culture (DAC) <\/a>program will showcase their work in person in the Digital Humanities Lab. No registration necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fall 2022 <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Building Visual Essays using Juncture <\/strong>
Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries<\/em>
Wednesday, October 26 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

IIIF<\/a> 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<\/a>. Learn how you can put this standard to use in your own work, build your own curated collections, annotate objects, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Using GitHub to Build Websites<\/strong>
Ann Hanlon and Stephen Appel, UWM Libraries<\/em>
Wednesday, November 9 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GitHub<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022 (all times are Central time)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Friday, February 18 | 3:00 \u2013 4:00 p.m. CT <\/strong>
3D Spanish Travelers<\/strong>
<\/strong>Eugenia Afinogu\u00e9nova, Professor of Spanish, Marquette University; Chris Larkee, Visualization Technology Specialist, Marquette University Visualization Lab; Alexa Nelson, Undergraduate Student Class of \u201822, Design, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; Stephen Appel, GIS Specialist, UWM Libraries<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s and the Americas\u2019 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\u2019 progress, day by day, reading what they wrote and comparing their words to those of other travelers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thursday, February 24 | 1:00 \u2013 2:30 p.m. CT <\/strong>
Computational Humanities Series: Text Analysis<\/strong>
<\/strong>Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries; Karl Holten, UWM Libraries and L&S Web and Data Services; Dan Siercks, UWM L&S Web and Data Services<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019ll 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 \u2013 we welcome all skill levels and avenues of interest!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday, March 2 | 1:00 \u2013 2:30 p.m. CT  (note<\/em>: this will be virtual-only)<\/strong>
Computational Humanities Series: GIS and Mapping<\/strong>
<\/strong>Stephen Appel, UWM Libraries<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thursday, March 10 | 1:00 \u2013 2:30 p.m. CT
Computational Humanities Series: Game Design
<\/strong>Ryan House, UWM English<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our \u201cLudic Century,\u201d 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. Video games, in particular, are well-suited to model the digital, algorithmic systems of life in the 21st<\/sup> Century and beyond. The Digital Humanities provides a useful toolkit for analyzing video games more fully than for their narrative or even mechanics, but as amalgamated, co-assembled structures of agencies. In this workshop, we\u2019ll discuss the concept of ludoliteracy<\/em> 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 \u2013 we welcome all skill levels and avenues of interest!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tuesday, April 5 | 2:00 \u2013 3:00 p.m. CT<\/strong>
Digital Humanities Teaching Fellows Panel Discussion<\/strong>
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<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday, April 13 <\/strong>and<\/em> Thursday, April 14 | 9:00 \u2013 11:00 a.m. CT<\/strong>
Software Carpentry: Version Control with Git<\/strong>
Stephen Appel, UWM Libraries; Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries; Karl Holten, UWM Libraries and L&S Web and Data Services<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thursday, April 14 | 2:30 p.m. (in-person only)<\/em>
Workshop with HC Dunaway Smith
<\/strong>Heather Dunaway Smith, Interdisciplinary Artist<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HC Dunaway Smith<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Friday, April 29 | 3:00 \u2013 4:00 p.m. CT<\/strong>
A New History of Modern Computing<\/strong>
Tom Haigh, UWM History<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join us to celebrate the release of UWM Professor of History Tom Haigh\u2019s newest book, A New History of Modern Computing<\/em> (co-authored with Paul Ceruzzi), from MIT Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s Universal Machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haigh explains the decisions made by the book\u2019s 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 \u201cthe computer\u201d 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday, October 6 | 10:00 \u2013 11:30 a.m. CDT (virtual event)<\/strong>
Creative Projects in Urban History Pedagogy
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Tuesday, November 16 | 4:00 p.m. CT (virtual event)<\/strong>
Wingspan: A Conversation about Birds and Games<\/strong><\/em>
Elizabeth Hargrave<\/strong>, Game designer and developer of the bird-collecting game, Wingspan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sound Image History: The LGBTQ+ Audiovisual Archive Project Speaker Series<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Sound Image History<\/em> speaker series celebrated the conclusion of a year-long Collections-as-Data<\/a> 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\u2019s LGBTQ+ communities. This project will make the AV materials in those collections \u2013 a format that is traditionally underutilized \u2013 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<\/a><\/em> initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tuesday, August 24 | 10:00 \u2013 11:00 a.m.<\/strong>
Labeling This Thing Called Life: Using Machine Learning to Automatically Generate Metadata for Oral History Collections
<\/strong><\/em>Tanya Clement<\/strong>, Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin; Maria Esteva<\/strong>, Research Scientist; Weijia Xu<\/strong>, Research Scientist, Data Intensive Computing Team, Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tuesday, August 24 | 2:30 \u2013 3:30 p.m.<\/strong>
Collections As Data, Images As Data
<\/strong><\/em>Taylor Arnold<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Richmond; Lauren Tilton<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Richmond<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday, August 25 | 10:00 \u2013 11:00 a.m.<\/strong>
Accessing LGBTQ+ Resources with Digital Archives and Linked Data<\/strong><\/em>
K.J. Rawson<\/strong>, Associate Professor of English and Women\u2019s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Northeastern University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday, August 25 | 11:00 a.m. \u2013 12:00 p.m.<\/strong>
The LGBTQ+ AV Archives Mining Project: Using Technology to Unearth the Spoken Archive of Queer History
<\/strong><\/em>Ann Hanlon, <\/strong>Digital Collections & Initiatives, UWM Libraries; Dan Siercks<\/strong>, Director L&S Web and Data, UWM; Cary Costello, <\/strong>Associate Professor & Director, LGBT Studies Program, UWM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Friday, August 27 | 9:00 a.m. \u2013 12:00 p.m.<\/strong>
R for Humanities Workshop<\/strong><\/em>, led by Taylor Arnold,<\/strong> Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Richmond; Lauren Tilton<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Richmond<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring 2021 (all events were virtual)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Monday, February 22 | 3:00 \u2013 4:00 p.m.<\/strong>
Viral History: Documenting COVID-19<\/strong><\/em>
Chris Cantwell<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History, UWM; Jonathan Nelson<\/strong>, Collection Development Archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society; Moderated by Derek Webb<\/strong>, Head of UWM Archives<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thursday, March 11 | 2:30 \u2013 4:30 p.m.<\/strong>
Pattern and Code (workshop)<\/strong><\/em>
Ahree Lee<\/strong>, multi-media artist working in video, photography, sound and interactive installations (ahreelee.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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<\/a> 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. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday, March 17 | 3:00 \u2013 4:00 p.m.<\/strong>
A Celebration of World Water Day: Mapping the Connections among Indigenous People
<\/strong><\/em>Margaret Noodin, <\/strong>College of Letters & Science, Stacie Sheldon<\/strong>, User Experience Researcher and Web Designer, Lacey Meyers, <\/strong>Content Editor, and Willow Lovecky, <\/strong>Content Editor; with introduction by Melissa Scanlan<\/strong>, Director of the Center for Water Policy, School of Freshwater Sciences<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mapping Indigenous Connections<\/em><\/a> 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.\u2019s World Water Day and co-sponsored by the Center for Water Policy<\/a>, UWM School of Freshwater Sciences and Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday, March 31 | 12:00 \u2013 1:00 p.m.<\/strong>
Voices of Gun Violence: Collaboration in the Digital Humanities
<\/strong><\/em>Barbra Beck<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Public Health at Carroll University, Portia Cobb<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres at UWM, Debra Gillispie<\/strong>, Founder of Mothers Against Gun Violence, Leslie Harris<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Communication at UWM, Erin Sahlstein Parcell<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Communication at UWM, Michelle Trujillo<\/strong>, Associate Lecturer Professor of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres at UWM, Kaija Zusevics<\/strong>, Associate Researcher at the Center for Urban Population Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Voices of Gun Violence<\/em><\/a> 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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday, April 28 | 1:00 \u2013 2:00 p.m.<\/strong>
Digital Humanities Lab Teaching Fellows: Panel Discussion<\/strong><\/em>
Krista Grensavitch<\/strong>, History and Women\u2019s and Gender Studies; Danielle Harms<\/strong>, English; Maureen McKnight<\/strong>, English; Amanda Seligma<\/strong>n, History; Moderated by Kate Ganski<\/strong>, UWM Libraries<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join the DH Lab\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fall 2020 (all events are virtual)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

October 13-14 | 10:00 a.m. \u2013 1:00 p.m. (two-part workshop)<\/strong>
R for Social Science (Two-part virtual workshop)<\/strong><\/em>
led by certified instructors from the Carpentries community<\/a>.R is a powerful and free programming language and environment for data analysis, data mining, and visualization. This workshop will use RStudio<\/a>, 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 \u201cprovide researchers high-quality, domain-specific training covering the full lifecycle of data-driven research.\u201d A rough outline of the workshop can be found here: https:\/\/datacarpentry.org\/r-socialsci\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This workshop is made possible as part of the LGBTQ+ AV Archive Mining Project<\/a>, part of the Mellon-funded Collections-as-Data: Part to Whole<\/a> initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday, October 28 | 3:00 p.m. \u2013 4:30 p.m.<\/strong>
The Interdisciplinary Dynamics of Machine Learning Design for Libraries, Museums and Archives: the AI4AV<\/a> Case<\/strong><\/em>
Maria Esteva<\/a>, Research Scientist, and Weijia Xu, Research Scientist, Data Intensive Computing Team, Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, October 19 | 2:00 p.m. \u2013 3:00 p.m.
<\/del>Rescheduled:<\/em> Monday, November 9 | 2:00 \u2013 3:00 p.m.
<\/del><\/strong>Community with a Dash of Hierarchy:
Using Social Tools for Better Student Engagement
<\/em>Krista-Lee Malone, UW-Madison<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We live in unprecedented times. Our universities, our students, and ourselves were not prepared for this, but that doesn\u2019t mean it has to be less than amazing \u2013 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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November 17-18 | 12:00 p.m. \u2013 4:00 p.m. (two-part workshop)<\/strong>
Library Carpentries (Two-part virtual workshop)
<\/strong><\/em>Led by certified instructors from the Carpentries community<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This workshop series will focus on Introduction to Working with Data\/Regular Expressions<\/a><\/strong><\/em> and OpenRefine<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, \u201ca power tool for working with messy data.\u201d Specific workshop curriculum for November 17-18 can be found here:  https:\/\/tadamus.github.io\/2020-11-17-uwm-online\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday, December 2 | 10:00 a.m. \u2013 11:30 a.m.<\/strong>
Mapping Prejudice<\/a>: Visualizing Structural Racism in the Urban Landscape<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em> digital archive<\/a> and the COVID-19 Journal Project<\/a><\/em> had similar aims and different collecting strategies \u2013 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n