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Lunchtime Lecture
Turn Around – Experiencing a Story in 360 VR
A Lunchtime Lecture with Jamason Chen exploring some new ideas and methods of storytelling in a virtual reality environment will be held on Wednesday, October 18th 12:30 pm in the CTSDH, 3rd Floor, Loyola Hall.
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COMMUNITY INITIATIVE
Loyola Graduate Student Launches Girls Who Code Chapter
Neha Goel is the President and Club Facilitator of Loyola's new chapter of Girls Who Code. Learn more about the experiences and passion that led Neha to spearhead this exciting new initiative.
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OPEN HOUSE
American Archives Month at Loyola
October is American Archives Month - join Loyola's celebration with these great events.
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WORKSHOP
Text Mining with the HathiTrust Research Center Portal Workshop led by Niamh McGuigan
Niamh McGuigan leads the second of the Fall 2017 CTSDH workshops, "Text Mining with the HathiTrust Research Center Portal", at 12:30 pm Friday, October 27th in the CTSDH, 3rd floor, Loyola Hall, Room 318.
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TALK
Lecture: An Afternoon at (Virtual) Walden with Tracy Fullerton
What does it mean to translate an iconic American text – Thoreau’s Walden – into a game? Join us on Monday, November 13th from 3:00 pm until 4:30 pm in the IC 4th-floor lecture hall
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CONFERENCE
2017 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science
The 12th annual meeting of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) will be hosted by the Illinois Institute of Technology on November 17-19, 2017.
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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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CONFERENCE REVIEW
Review: Modernism and Its Texts Conference
Check back soon for our summary of the #MAIT17 events. This gathering of distinguished general editors and editors of scholarly editions of the works of some of the major figures in Modernist literature was the first of its kind. The conference was held on September 28th and 29th, 2017.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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