Digital Scholarship Lab

Literary New Orleans

admin — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:01:16 +0000

Gettysburg College conference

admin — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:40:10 +0000

Scott Nesbit moderated the panel, “New Media and the Future of Civil War History” at the Gettysburg College conference, The Future of Civil War History: Looking Beyond the 150th.

DSL Awarded Grant

admin — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:53:33 +0000

The Digital Scholarship Lab has been awarded a $750,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the digital atlas of American history project.

Educause

admin — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:17:58 +0000

Ed Ayers presented the keynote at the Annual Educause Conference in Denver entitled “Discovery in a Digital World”.

Educause

rnelson2 — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:01:37 +0000

Rob Nelson spoke at Educause 2012 on the opportunity and challenges for liberal arts colleges interested in engaging with the digital humanities as part of a panel on “Digital Scholarship at Liberal Arts Colleges.”

NEH Topic Modeling in Humanities Research

rnelson2 — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 13:54:28 +0000

Rob Nelson spoke on “Analyzing Nationalism and Other Slippery ‘Isms’” at the NEH-sponsored workshop Topic Modeling in Humanities Research at MITH.

Nelson presents at Digital Humanities 2012

rnelson2 — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:33:35 +0000

Rob Nelson made a presentation “Means and Ends in Civil War Nationalism and the Digital Humanities” at the Digital Humanities 2012 conference in Hamburg, Germany as part of a panel on topic modeling. A recording of the presentation is available online.

Nelson and Nesbit Present at SCWH Meeting

rnelson2 — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:44:09 +0000

Rob Nelson and Scott Nesbit each presented papers on a panel “Maps, Models, Machines: New Methods in Civil War History” at the Society of Civil War Historians Biennial Meeting in Lexington, Kentucky. Nelson’s paper was titled “Bullets and Ballots: The Instrumental Uses of Civil War Nationlism”; Nesbit’s (co-written with Grant DeLozier, Grant T. Floyd, John McIntosh, and May Yuan from the University of Oklahoma) “Mapping All the Troops.”

Visualizing Emancipation in the Chronicle

admin — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:40:46 +0000

The Chronicle of Higher Education has written an article on the DSL’s latest project, “Visualizing Emancipation.”

Visualizing Emancipation in the Times-Dispatch

snesbit — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:37:38 +0000

The Richmond Times-Dispatch featured the Digital Scholarship Lab’s recent project, “Visualizing Emancipation” in today’s paper.