DH Afternoons is a forum dedicated to supporting and celebrating Digital Humanities work being done by students, staff, and faculty on campus. Please join us to learn about the exciting advancements being made by the DH community here at UNL.
September 12, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Platte River South, Nebraska Union
2024 DH Summer Fellows
Please join us for our first DH Afternoon of the year, featuring presentations from the four DH Summer Fellows and moderated by Carrie Heitman.
Akua Agyeiwaa Denkyi-Manieson: Gold Coast Novels, focuses on novels written by African authors during Britain’s colonial occupation, 1821 to 1957. This project aims to digitize four novels published in the Gold Coast, between 1886-1943.
Andrea Wagh: Hidden Histories: Jewish Children in Occupied France, 1939-1942 aims to create interactive maps to visually trace the lived experiences of Jewish children and the network of French orphanages that hid them during the Holocaust.
Héctor Palala Martínez: Kematz'ib' para gritar: Preserving and Integrating Mayan Languages to Enhance Multilingual Literacy in Nebraska K-12 Schools. Rooted in the Abya Yala framework, which prioritizes indigenous knowledge, the project focuses on Mayan-speaking students' experiences to develop culturally responsive curriculum supporting young multilinguals.
Malik Rasaq: Translating African Women Poets, is a decolonial intervention focused on linguistic revitalization. Its goal is to translate the poems of selected African women poets into Yoruba as a way of promoting the language while also providing accessibility to these writers and their poems for native Yoruba speakers and language learners who are unfamiliar with them and their works.
March 20, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Love Library South 102 Auditorium
Aaron Pattee
"CITADEL: Computational Investigation of the Topographical and Architectural Designs in an Evolving Landscape”
September 5, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Peterson Room, 221 Love Library South
2023 DH Summer Fellows
Please join us for our first DH Afternoon of the year, featuring presentations from the four DH Summer Fellows and moderated by Carrie Heitman.
Samantha Gilmore - “Building a Digital Edition of a Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Copway's American Indian”
MacKayla Kelsey - “Designing an Emerging Media Arts (EMA) Toolkit for Teachers” by Mackayla Kelsey
Hanna Varilek - “The BookTok Collective: Building an Interactive Digital Collection of BookTok Content”
Makena Nail - “Under Which Conditions Do Books Get Banned? Analyzing United States Book Banning Through Time”
March 21, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Witt Room, 224 Love South
Brianna Devalk & Tristan Curd
Please join us for our first DH Afternoon of 2023 on Tuesday, March 21, from 3:30 to 4:30pm in the Witt Room. Brianna DeValk and Tristan Curd will be discussing their work on the Orphan Train Project--specifically the data collection process, organization, and potential uses. They will also be soliciting feedback about the formation of a website that allows both descendants and researchers to easily access the names and data.
November 14, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Witt Room, 224 Love Library South
Andrew Varsanyi
"Automating the Archive: Using Microsoft tools to Automate Archival Data Collection and Organization”
November 17, 2022
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Peterson Room, 221 Love South
Ella DurhamDH Practicum Student
We will be hearing from Ella Durham, a graphic designer and graduate student completing a practicum at the CDRH. Ella will offer brief highlights and reflections from the recent Petitioning for Freedom design studios and thoughts on incorporating Design Justice principles into DH projects.
2021-2022
| Speaker(s) | Presentation |
|---|---|
| Antje Anderson, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Sarita Garcia, Paul Grosskopf, Kaci Nash, Andy Pederson, Greg Tunink, Laura Weakly, Cory Young | DH Afternoons Lightning Round |
| Adrian Wisnicki, Associate Professor, English Caitlin Matheis, M.A. Student, English | One More Voice |
| Ng’ang’a Wahu-Mũchiri, Assistant Professor, English | Ardhi Initiative |
| Andy Pederson, CDRH Project Specialist | CDRH Website |
| Sarah Karle, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture | Prairie States Forestry Project |
2020-2021
| Speaker(s) | Presentation |
|---|---|
| CDRH Community Engagement Committee/td> | Conversation on the Green |
| Veronica N. Duran, Doctoral Candidate, History | Nuestras Historias: "Chicanos form Mexican student organization" at University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| Dr. Robert Shepard, Assistant Professor, Geography | Historical GIS and the Experiential Perspective |
| Beth S. Dotan, Graduate Assistant, Teaching, Learning, & Teacher Education | Nebraska Stories of Humanity |
| Dr. Catherine Medici-Thiemann, Instructor, Women’s and Gender Studies | Visualizing the Sidney Network: Using Network Analysis to Understand Women’s Place |
2019-2020
| Speaker(s) | Presentation |
|---|---|
| Laura Weakly, Metadata Encoding Specialist, University Libraries | All That Glitters Will Not Be Encoded: Fun Finds and Fiction in Historical Correspondence |
| Dr. Brian Pytlik Zillig, Digital Initiatives Librarian, University Libraries Dr. Stephen Ramsay, Susan J. Rosowski Associate University Professor, English | Muybridge I |
| Linda Garcia Merchant, Doctoral Student, English | Telling a Lie, Praxis as Purpose: Teaching Intro to DH Estilo Chingona |
| Dr. Ng'ang'a Muchiri, Assistant Professor, English | A Rhetorical Reading of the 1902 Edward VII & Menelik II Addis Ababa Treaty |
| Luke Hollis, Founder and Engineer, Archimedes Digital | How (not) to run a digital humanities startup: Building our shared digital cultural heritage and connecting creatively to artists and makers through the last five millennia |
| Dr. Effie Athanassopoulos Associate Professor, Anthropology and Classics | UNL Campus Archaeology: Building Digital Resources |
2018-2019
| Speaker(s) | Presentation |
|---|---|
| Dr. Michelle Tiedje, Project Manager | Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project |
| Dr. Jeannette Eileen Jones, Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies | To Enter Africa from America: The United States, Africa, and the New Imperialism, 1862-1919 |
| Jonathan Cheng, Doctoral Student, English | Text Mining Physical Characterization in 20th Century Novels |
| Dr. Heather Richards-Rissetto, Assistant Professor of Anthropology | Keeping Data Alive |
| Rachel Gordon, Megan Ekstrom, Riley Jhi, UCARE | George Eliot Archive |
| Dr. Liz Lorang, Associate Professor in University Libraries, Courtesy Associate Professor in English Dr. Leen-Kiat Soh, Professor of Computer Science | Aida: Image Analysis for Archival Discovery |