01/24/2012

Cargill gives lecture on Dead Sea Scrolls digital project

On Feb. 1, 2012 Dr. Robert Cargill, Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Iowa, will present a digital model of the archaeological site of Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Cargill will guide the audience through the site using digital “fly through” technology, enabling the audience to get “up close and personal” with Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Full information can be found at the Classics and Religious Studies site.

01/11/2012

Seefeldt to present on Mapping project

CDRH Faculty Fellow Doug Seefeldt will share some of the findings from “Mapping Buffalo Bill’s Great Plains,” a digital history research project that examines and displays multiple perspectives on Great Plains history via the lens of the early life and times of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. This event will be at 3:30pm on Jan. 18, 2012 in the Center for Great Plains Studies, 1155 Q St., Lincoln, NE. For complete details visit here.

12/15/2011

Omaha Ponca Database View Is Now Available

Linguists and others interested in more in-depth information about the Omaha language may view the working database behind the Omaha Ponca Digital Dictionary.

12/13/2011

Pytlik Zillig, Ramsay Receive Mellon Grant

Brian Pytlik Zillig and Stephen Ramsay of the CDRH recently received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to further their work on textual analysis through a program called Abbot. You can read the full announcement from UNL communications here.

12/06/2011

Every Week website available

Every Week Magazine, published from 1915-1918, was a significant magazine phenomenon of its day, with a weekly circulation of 600,000 copies. The contents provide a rich cultural resource for those interested in the World War I home front, popular fiction, advertising, and constructions of race and gender during this period. Until the development of this digital edition, the magazine could be accessed by scholars and readers only with great difficulty due to its embrittled condition and rarity. Magazines provided courtesy of the University of Wisconsin.

11/17/2011

New CDRH video introduction

UNL Communications has put together a new video available here highlighting just a couple of the Center’s more than 30 projects.

10/11/2011

UNL announces Digital Humanities cluster hire

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) announces a cluster hire in digital humanities: over the next three years the university intends to hire six tenure-line faculty members across a number of departments (and additional staff) to further propel this signature program. For more information, please visit the CDRH announcement.

09/23/2011

Will Thomas talk on C-SPAN

William G. Thomas, III, University of Nebraska-Lincoln History Department Chair and Author of “The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America” will be part of a discussion about the presidential election of 1896 and explore the life of William Jennings Bryan. This program will air on C-SPAN at 7pm central time.

07/08/2011

Ramsay gives Digging Into Data talk

Associate Professor Stephen Ramsay recently gave a lecture titled “Prison Art” at the Digging Into Data conference held in Washington D.C. Please click here to read The Chronicle of Higher Education article.

05/11/2011

Cather announcement streamed

The announcement of the recently received Charles E. Cather Collection at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was streamed live May 12, 2011 at 10 a.m. The video for the announcement can be viewed here. Present at the announcement were Guy Reynolds, professor of English and director of the Cather Project at UNL, and Andrew Jewell, editor of the Willa Cather Archive. The UNL Communications office also has a complete write up of the event here.

This new addition gives UNL the largest single collection of Cather material anywhere.

04/13/2011

Price discovers new Whitman papers

Hillegass University Professor of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and CDRH co-director Ken Price recently discovered a large collection of handwritten Walt Whitman documents.

“A huge collection of government documents handwritten by Walt Whitman when the poet was a federal clerk has been unearthed. The find, announced on Tuesday by the National Archives, gives scholars a detailed guide to the national and political issues—such as war crimes, voting rights, and westward expansion—that Whitman encountered in Washington during the Reconstruction era. The documents also bring to life an under appreciated side of the poet: his life and work as a bureaucrat.”

To read the entire Chronicle for Higher Education article click here

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has made a short video of Professor Price explaining this finding here.

04/12/2011

“Railroads, the Making of Modern America, and the Shaping of the Great Plains” Wed @ 3:30

“Railroads, the Making of Modern America, and the Shaping of the Great Plains” is the topic of the Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies. William G. Thomas III will speak from 3:30-5 p.m., April 13 in the Great Plains Art Museum.

The seminar and a 3 p.m. reception at the museum are free and open to the public.

Click here for the full announcement

03/22/2011

Fellowships Available for Digital Humanities Research

The UNL Center for Digital Research in the Humanities is seeking proposals from faculty for its 2011-12 fellowship in interdisciplinary digital humanities research.

Digital projects are often collaborative, multi-year undertakings of a scale that exceeds that of an article or monograph. In the best cases, a project significantly alters scholarship in a field of study. The deadline for applications is 5 p.m., April 29. For additional details about the application, expectations and examples of projects, go to the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities website.

03/01/2011

Price, Winkle to speak on “Changing Places”

CDRH Co-Director Ken Price and Civil War Washington project co-director Ken Winkle will participate in a panel discussion “Changing Places: The Geographic Turn in the Digital Humanities” on March 10 at 3:30 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum. Winkle will be presenting on the Civil War Washington project and Price will moderate the event, which also features Eric Sanderson, Senior Conservation Ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, and Philip Ethington, Professor of History and Political Science at USC. The panel is sponsored by the Plains Humanities Alliance, The Center for Great Plains Studies, the Department of English, the Department of History, the Convocations Committee and the Research Council.

02/28/2011

CIC visit to feature CDRH

During this week’s visit to UNL, the CIC (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) is looking to learn more about the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. CIC Executive Director Barbara McFadden Allen recently told the Scarlet, “UNL really looks to have the most coherent strategy for integrating digital scholarship into humanities. Most universities do not have as well-articulated a strategy. We think UNL will provide a model that can be transplanted to other universities in the CIC.”

02/16/2011

Ramsay quoted in Chronicle of Higher Education

CDRH fellow Stephen Ramsay was quoted in an article titled Hard Times Sharpen the MLA’s Lens on Labor and the Humanities, which appeared on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s web site.

02/07/2011

Price on panel discussion at TILTS

On February 4, Ken Price joined Neil Fraistat and Diane Davis in a panel discussion “What is Digital Humanities” at the Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies in Austin. A lively discussion of the history, scope, institutional politics, and future of the digital humanities ensued. More can be read about the TILTS conference here.

01/24/2011

Walter presents at “Off the Tracks”

Katherine Walter, CDRH co-director, presented on the “established centers” and “hiring and promotion” panels at “Off the Tracks: Laying new lines for digital humanities scholars,” held at MITH Jan. 20-21, 2011. Tanya Clement and Doug Reside, principal investigators, facilitated the meeting as part of their NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up grant project.

01/21/2011

Jewell co-edits new DH book

CDRH faculty member Andrew Jewell is co-editor (with Amy Earhart) of the new book The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age (University of Michigan Press). The book features chapters by many eminent Americanists active in digital scholarship, including UNL/CDRH faculty Jewell, Brian Pytlik Zillig, Amanda Gailey, Susan Belasco, and Kenneth M. Price. The book is currently available through University of Michigan Press’s site: http://press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=353224

10/14/2010

Audio Stream of “Scholarship in the Digital Age: Professional Evolutions”

The audio of the “Scholarship in the Digital Age: Professional Evolutions” presentation by Stefan Tanaka, Amanda Gailey, and Fotis Jannidis is now on the Nebraska Digital Workshop page. The three presenters give in-depth information on how they view and use the digital humanities in their scholarly work as well as its future.