Recent event at UNC-Chapel Hill: HGIS Carolina Presents: Historical GIS and the Digital Humanities: A Conversation at the Intersection Friday, November 18, 2011 2PM, Davis 214 (Davis Library on UNC-CH Campus) Panelists: Victoria Szabo (Duke) Richard Marciano (UNC) Pam Lach (UNC) Moderator: Susanna Lee (NC State) “This will be the…
A Primer for Digital Media Authorship: Placing the Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition of 1851
Wired! at Lunch series presentation on current research projects and future directions. This presentation combined my interest in the affordances of digital media authorship with the potential for specific interventions around an historic exhibition and its associated materials and contexts. Slidedeck PDF.
19th Century Caribbean Cholera Project Published!
Deborah Jenson , Victoria Szabo, and the Duke FHI Haiti Humanities Laboratory Student Research Team, Cholera In Haiti and Other Caribbean Regions, 19th Century, edited by Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol. 17 no. 11 (November, 2011) http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1711.110958.) [abs]. I was the second author, and the…
Gaming the Real: The Convergence of Maps, Social Media, and Virtual Worlds at SLSA 2011
Gaming the Real: The Convergence of Maps, Social Media, and Virtual Worlds, Society for Literature, Science & the Arts (SLSA), Kitchener, Ontario, September 16, 2011. Slidedeck here as PDF. SLSA Program.
SIGGRAPH 2011 “Tracing Home” Gallery Augmented Reality Experience
V.E. Szabo, Augmented SIGGRAPH/Vancouver (August, 2011) (Augmented Reality experience juxtaposing Art Gallery work with local Vancouver sights via an augmented reality browser). See the Layar App on iPhone/iPad and search for SIGGRAPH 2011 Art Gallery.
Kenan Institute for Ethics “Good Question” series
The Kenan Institute asked me to respond to the following question for their “Good Question” series of brochures circulated around campus and online in Spring 2011: What happens when we blur the line between what is virtual and what is real, and what are the dangers or opportunities in doing…
Writing in 3D: Immersive Virtual Writing as Authorship and Critique
“Writing in 3D: Immersive Virtual Writing as Authorship and Critique”, NC Symposium on the Teaching of Writing, February 05, 2011. Slidedeck PDF. Panelist on “Virtual Worlds: Pedagogies of Play” session.
Online “Office Hours” on Teaching with New Media
This live-streamed interview aired on October 30, 2009. The news blurb is linked here. This was fun to do, but also a bit weird to talk to myself, with only HAL for company…
