Loyola University Chicago
Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
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Lunchtime Lecture: Sustainability for Digital Projects and Their Communities
Community technology projects underpin so much of the digital humanities and libraries, but building these communities and maintaining them over time is not easy. Various models for sustainability have been tried over the past 150 years, and there are some clear better practices to follow when planning projects. Margaret Heller, Digital Services Librarian at Loyola University Chicago Libraries will discuss the special challenges in making community digital academic and library projects sustainable, based on her 2019 book, Community Technology Projects: Making Them Work.
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Podcasting: Why, How and You
Join Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW, associate professor of social work, and founder and host of the award winning Social Work Podcast for his workshop, "Podcasting: Why, How and You," from 11:30 am 12:30 pm on Friday, October 11th at the Water Tower Campus.
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Lunchtime Lectures
People-Powered Digital Humanities: Opportunities for Engagement and Collaboration on the Zooniverse Platform
In this session, attendees will hear about digital humanities research taking place on Zooniverse.org. Subjects will include the aims and outcomes of crowdsourcing projects being hosted on the platform; internal research being conducted involving the evaluation of newly-built tools for online crowdsourced transcription; and how Zooniverse makes tools for crowdsourcing available to the public free of charge.
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LECTURE
The 2019/20 Edward Surtz Memorial Lecture to be held in late February
Founded in 1973, the Edward Surtz Memorial Lecture year after year has featured innovative trans-historical and cross-disciplinary work in the humanities. Save the date, February 26th, 2020, to participate in the continuation of this tradition.
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CONFERENCE
Upcoming: "Editions and Manuscripts of Middle English Poetry"
Join us Saturday, October 12th, 2019 on the fourth floor of the Information Commons for "Editions and manuscripts of Middle English poetry," a conference that will feature five lectures on late medieval English poems and the manuscripts and editions that transmit them.
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COMMUNITY INITIATIVE
It's time for the Girls Who Code Fall 2019 Semester at CTSDH!
After securing two grants last year, we are so excited to announce the new session of Girls Who Code, which begins in September. Details inside!
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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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