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Workshop
Workshop: Gale-Cengage Digital Scholar Lab
The University Libraries is initiating a trial of the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, a platform that enables students and researchers to do text mining and analysis on materials from Gale Primary Sources, which includes digitized texts from the 16th century through the 20th century. This workshop will include an interactive introduction to using the lab and a discussion of best practices. Attendees will learn how to perform searches, manage data sets, apply analysis tools, and review results. This workshop will be appropriate for researchers from a range of disciplines, and requires no prior experience with digital research methods.
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Workshops
Workshop: Teaching the Unessay in the Humanities Classroom
The Unessay, created by Daniel Paul O’Donnell, has been used effectively across many history, literature, and writing classrooms, by a variety of instructors and students. In this workshop, Elizabeth Hopwood and June Coyne will discuss how they implement and assess these projects, and will guide a discussion on how the assignment may be adopted and adapted in other classrooms.
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Through the Lens of Data: The Enslaved Community Owned and Sold by the Maryland Province Jesuits with Sharon Leon
While much historical work has been written on Jesuit slaveholding, that writing has primarily focused on the implications for the religious community and the moral universe in which these men made their decisions about slavery. Thus far, however, no scholar has studied the enslaved people themselves. In the Jesuit Plantation Project
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Lunchtime Lectures
How Maps Reveal (and Conceal) History
Join us as Susan Schulten demonstrates the way that maps illuminate and complicate modern understandings of the past, and in turn how the digital humanities has transformed the study of maps. To glimpse a bit of the past through maps, visit the site for Schulten’s newest work: www.america100maps.com.
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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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Award
Caughie Wins Kolvenbach Award for Engage Teaching
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Caughie, Director of the Man Into Woman Project, for being awarded the 2019 Peter Hans Kolvenbach Award for Engaged Teaching from the Faculty Center for Ignatian Pedagogy!
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Wrap-Up
A New Logo, Project Launches, DHCS and more!
It's been a busy fall semester at the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities as we have celebrated our tenth anniversary year. From a new logo designed by Laura Berfield (above) to hosting the thirteenth gathering of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, there have been many highlights. Click through to learn more!
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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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TALK
How Visual Social Media is Changing How We Communicate
Read a recap of Steering Committee member Prof. Jenna Drenten’s talk at Quinlan on how emoji, animations, and other visual social media are creating a new language.
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Courses
Undergraduate DH Courses for Spring 2019
Learn more about how digital sources and tools are changing how we study the American Revolution (HIST 361) and Transwomen in Literature (ENGL/WSGS 283E) in two great undergraduate DH courses this spring semester!
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Conference
13th Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science #DHCS18
Thanks to all who joined us at #DHCS2018 on November 9-11, 2018 at Loyola University Chicago
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MEDIA
Voices from Mundelein: Media Portal
Explore the experiences of members of the Mundelein College community during the institution’s operation between 1930 and 1991.
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Project Launch
The Charles Harpur Critical Archive has launched!
On October 17, 2018 we celebrated the launch of the Charles Harpur Critical Archive!
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Project Launch
The Gerard Manley Hopkins Official Website has launched!
Project Director Prof. Frank Fennell shared his experience developing the site followed by a panel discussion on the fate of poets and their reputation in the age of the internet and social media. Click here for images from the event!
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Research Project
New Article from the Man Into Woman Project Team
Congratulations to Prof. Pamela Caughie, Emily Datskou, and Rebecca Parker for the publication of “Storm Clouds on the Horizon: Feminist Ontologies and the Problem of Gender.”
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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.
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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.
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