Category: #BUDSC16
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Public Humanities, Early American Studies, and the Digital Revolution
Jim Egan and Patrick Rashleigh (Brown University) Can the digital turn in humanities scholarship produce more fruitful engagements between post-secondary institutions and the many publics that exist outside the academy? To engage this and related questions, this presentation will focus on Mapping Colonial American Publishing (http://cds.library.brown.edu/mapping-genres/), a collaborative project that uses library catalog data from…
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Re-Envisioning Japan: Recuperating Ephemeral Histories through Collaborative Digital Curation, DH Pedagogy, and Web-Based Publication
Joanne Bernardi, Nora Dimmock, and Iskandar Zulkarnain (University of Rochester) Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in Visual and Material Culture (REJ) is a faculty-library collaboration that models scholarship realized and communicated through creative curation and a multimedia digital archive. This digital archive represents an original collection of tourism, travel and educational ephemera documenting changing representations of…
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The Collinwood Fire: Steampunk, Non-Fiction, and Historical Haiku
Michael Newbury and Daniel Houghton (Middlebury College) Though mostly forgotten today, the Collinwood School fire of 1908 killed 172 grade-school children and raised an international clamor for the redesign of school buildings. A team of faculty, staff, and students at Middlebury College have tied together short computer-animated movie, archival footage, advertisements, and photographs to create…