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ANNUAL REPORT
Read the 2018-19 Annual Report
From new graduating MA students to major new grants, the CTSDH had a banner year in 2018-19. Learn more about all that our research center and graduate program accomplished!
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GRANT
Loyola Awarded 2019-20 AAUW Community Action Grant for Girls Who Code
The American Association of University Women has awarded Elizabeth Hopwood, PhD, Loyola University Chicago with a Community Action Grant for 2019-20 to provide sixth to twelfth-grade girls with free classes in coding and computer skills through its Girls Who Code chapter.
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CONFERENCE
University of Chicago to host Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science 2019
The Call for Papers was just issued for DHCS 2019 to be held Nov 9-10, 2019 at the David and Reva Logan Center at the University of Chicago. Click through for more information.
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Article
'Tactical History' and the Digital Archive
Karen Sieber MA '18 (History) reflects on the work that went into creating Visualizing the Red Summer digital archive, a comprehensive digital archive, map, and timeline of riots and lynchings across the United States in 1919.
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RESEARCH
New Article by Paul Eggert and Desmond Schmidt on Harpur Critical Archive
Learn about how this project required them to reject traditional encoding in XML-TEI in favor of other solutions to represent 2700 versions of his 700 poems in newspaper and manuscript form.
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GRANT
Loyola and Shepherd Universities Awarded Grant to Create American Revolution Loyalist Database
The Omohundro Institute for Early American Studies has awarded Kyle Roberts, PhD, Loyola University Chicago, and Benjamin Bankhurst, PhD, Shepherd University, with a Lapidus Digital Collections Fellowship for 2019 to provide undergraduate students a chance to develop in-demand skills in the Digital Humanities and create a website that will give online access to rare manuscript records.
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Call for Papers
Call for Abstracts: 9th Annual Digital Ethics Symposium
The Center for Digital Ethics & Policy at Loyola University Chicago (digitalethics.org) will be holding its 9th annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics on November 7th & 8th, 2019. Abstracts for papers related to digital ethics should be submitted by May 20th, 2019.
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Workshops
Unessays, Data Analysis, and 360 VR
We expanded our research toolkit this year! Taught by talented scholars, our workshops provided hands-on training and discussion for interested students, faculty, staff, and members of the community.
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Lunchtime Lectures
A Year of Lunchtime Lectures
Lunchtime Lectures provide talented scholars with the opportunity to share their Digital Humanities work with interested students, faculty, staff, and members of the community over lunch throughout the academic year.
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CTSDH People
Loyola Women in STEM
Congratulations to CTSDH Fellow Eunice Montenegro for being featured in this story, highlighting the different ways female students excel in STEM fields at Loyola!
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Publication
Caughie Co-Authors Digital Humanities Article
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Caughie, Director of the Man Into Woman Project, and her co-author Dr. Sabine Meyer on the publication of their article based on the scholarly edition of Man Into woman. The article is titled "From Work to Tech: Digital Archives and Queer Narratives." Click to read the article.
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Essay
New Essay on Digital Pedagogy by Loyola Students
"Digital Paxton: Collaborative Construction with Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Collections" by Loyola doctoral student Kelly Schmidt, recent graduate Kate Johnson, and scholar Will Fenton reveals the pedagogical possibilities of digital archives.
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Major Grant
Loyola Awards Grant to Commemorate 150-year History
The Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, Public History Program, and the University Libraries are the recipients of a three-year grant to help prepare for the university’s 150th anniversary celebration which takes place in 2020.
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