Fall 2017 Teaching

This Fall I’m teaching two courses. The first, Foundations of Web-Based Multimedia Communications, a core offering in the Information Science + Studies Certificate,  is a lecture-section course targeted at students interested in learning HTML/CSS/JS from scratch. Students will acquire the building blocks to code their own site, and then finish…

DH2017 in Montreal

Trudi Abel and I participated in a digital pedagogy workshop at on August 8, 2017 at the Digital Humanities 2017 in Montreal, Quebec. We were part of the Innovations in Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Local, National, and International Training (2017) mini-workshop. We talked about NC Jukebox and different Archives Alive based projects.

Year 2 of North Carolina Central U-Duke DHI Fellows Program

We just launched year 2 of the North Carolina Central University/Duke University Digital Humanities Fellows program. This project is sponsored by the Humanities Writ Large initiative at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, and supports the ongoing effort to connect with and support faculty in Historically Black Colleges and Universities.…

SIGGRAPH 2017

July 30-August 3, 2017 was my first SIGGRAPH annual conference as Chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community. This year we set up an on-site exhibition screen for the Immersive Expressions online show.Our next show, Designing Knowledge, just opened up a CFP. We will continue to share information through…

NEH supported Virtual and Augmented Reality for the Digital Humanities

Duke University has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for our Summer 2018 Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities, HT-256969 Virtual and Augmented Reality for the Digital Humanities Institute (V/AR-DHI). PI: VIctoria Szabo, Art, Art History & Visual Studies and Information Science + Studies Co-PI: Philip Stern,…