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WORKSHOP

End of Year Celebration at the CTSDH

Thursday April 26, 4:00pm - 6:00pm | CTSDH Loyola Hall, 3rd Floor

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LECTURE

Mass-digitisation and textual studies; an Australian case study
On Tuesday May 1 at 11:00AM Katherine Bode of the Australian National University in Canberra will discuss her work with the National Library of Australia's Trove database, a massive collection of historical newspapers.
DH Student Rebecca Parker Presenting at the 11th Annual Graduate School Interdisciplinary Research Symposium
DH Master's student Rebecca Parker will be showing her work on the Restoration of Nell Nelson project at Loyola's Graduate School Research Symposium.
ARTICLE

Catherine Nichols featured in Atlas Obscura
Loyola's Dr. Catherine Nichols is featured in this story describing the 19th-century museum practice of "swaps," read it here!
Conference Call

Digital Ethics Symposium Call for Abstracts
Submit your abstract for the 8th International Annual Symposium on Digital Ethics by May 11th. This year's theme is "From the Margins."
WORKSHOP

2017-18 Workshop Series Review
Thanks to all of our presenters and visitors for a wonderful season of workshops! You can find information and resources from the 2017-18 workshop series here.
Lunchtime Lecture

Lunchtime Lectures for 2017-18 Conclude
Recaps and resources from 2017-18 Lunchtime Lectures is available here
End of the Year Celebration 2018
Join us on April 26 to celebrate a year of achievement by our students and the CTSDH!
ONLINE DISCUSSION

HASTAC Pedagogy Project 2.0 Twitter Chat
CTSDH scholars participated in HASTAC Scholars' #PedagogyProject twitter chat on Wednesday, March 14th. Learn more about the chat and how to run a Twitter Chat of your own!
COMMUNITY INITIATIVE

Spring Semester of Girls Who Code now underway at Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Chicago is proud to host a chapter of Girls Who Code again this Spring semester.
STUDENTS

Professional Development Success Stories!
CTSDH and HGSA scholars met on Thursday, March 15th to eat pizza and work on their professional development. Check out our scholars' recent efforts to develop their public, professional personas.
Programs

Spring 2018 Events Calendar
Join us this spring at the CTSDH to learn about current digital projects, to discover new skills, and to rethink how we do things in the digital age.
CONFERENCE

Digital Accessibility: Assessing, Amending, and Advancing Digital Content for All -- Day Conference
Streaming link now available! LUC's Digital Humanities MA Students are proud to host this day conference as an opportunity for digital accessibility novices and experts to meet and discuss key concepts, concerns, and capabilities for individuals, project teams, and large organizations creating accessibility-aware digital content.
Project

CTSDH Launches Humanities Datebook
The CTSDH is proud to announce the launch of the Humanities Datebook, a weekly email round-up of the great humanities events happening around Loyola.
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Students

"Stones" in Pennsylvania's Best Emerging Poets
Congratulations to DH Master's student Taylor Brown for the recent publication of her poem "Stones" in Pennsylvania's Best Emerging Poets.
Students

A GitHub Garage for a Digital Humanities Course
Congratulations to DH Master's student Rebecca Parker on her recent co-authored book chapter, "A GitHub Garage for a Digital Humanities Course," in New Directions for Computing Education
COMMUNITY INITIATIVE

Loyola College of Arts & Sciences Promotes CTSDH Sponsored Girls Who Code Chapter
Check out Amanda Friedlander's story on Loyola's Girls Who Code chapter published on the College of Arts & Sciences Website.
Book

Peter Shillingsburg Publishes New Book
In this volume of collected essays, Martin J. Svaglic Chair Emeritus Peter Shillingsburg argues that literary study depends on documents, the preservation of works, and textual replication, and he traces how this proposition affects understanding.
COURSES

Virtual reality class takes learning to new dimensions
In Loyola’s first-ever Virtual Reality class, 19 students learn to tell stories using 360-degree cameras and editing software – and their professor Jamason Chen encourages them to fail.
Faculty

Machine Learning at Loyola
CTSDH Graduate Fellow Aman Meghrajani recently caught up with Dmitriy Dligach, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, to learn more about his work on the topic of machine learning.
DONOR

CTSDH Mourns Passing of Charles Whittingham '51
Learn more about the fascinating life of the alum who provided the initial endowment for the CTSDH.
CENTER PROJECT

ZettelGeist
ZettelGeist is a plaintext note-taking system, inspired by the ZettelKasten Method, which supports the familiar tried-and-true method of organizing research using a card index.
CENTER PROJECT

Decolonizing the Museum Catalogue: Engaging Community and Expanding Access to the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection
The May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection serves as an educational and research resource for students, faculty, and the public. The collection contains the work of hundreds of indigenous artists from communities in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.
Center Project

The Man Into Woman Project: Transgender Narratives, Editorial practices, and the Digital Humanities
The Man Into Woman Project aims to produce a comparative scholarly edition of Man Into Woman (or Fra Mand til Kvinde its original Danish version). This digital edition will provide searchable versions of all four editions of this work (Danish, German, British and American) as well as the German typescript and the first English language translation of the Danish edition.
Center Project

New Digital Exhibit on Women and Labor
The Women and Leadership Archives has launched a new digital exhibit, Women and Labor: The Story of Mollie West. The CTSDH is pleased to be one of the supporters of this digital resource exploring the contributions of women in the labor movement over the 20th century.
Center Project

Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project Posts 5000th Image
The JLPP reached an important milestone this week with the uploading of its 5000th image to its Flickr archive. Read more about this particular book and other accomplishments this winter.