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Digital Scholars in Practice Lecture Series

Digital Scholars in Practice Lecture Series

Sep 01, 2016

 

Mission: The University of Texas Libraries Digital Scholars in Practice lecture series will highlight scholars conducting research through digital technologies, conducting research on digital technologies, and critically examining digital technologies in practice. We seek to celebrate innovative scholarship and build a community of practice of Digital Scholars both on a local and national scale.

Past Speakers

Danelle Briscoe

  • Archiving the Information Model

  • March 7, 2016

  • School of Architecture Faculty

  • Hosted by Battle Hall

  • Attendance Numbers: 68

Ed Triplett

  • Lecture: Mapping and Modeling the Christian Reconquest of Muslim Iberia

  • Workshop: Capturing Large, Sculptural Art and Architecture with Photogrammetry

  • April 6, 2016

  • Hosted by Battle Hall and Data Lab

  • Attendance Numbers: 64

 

Potential speakers:

UT CAMPUS

Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla, School of Architecture: work highlights the significance of the indigenous interpretation of occidental building construction principles, which resulted in the practical construction of ribbed vaults. The work scrutinizes building techniques under the light of stereotomy (the science of cutting solids). The drawings and models illustrating this work provide an analysis of the solutions used for the vaults’ construction. The objective is to position these buildings in the global context of construction history while reflecting on the transmission of building technology from Europe to Mexico. The methodology presented in this work combines sixteenth-century manuscripts of Spanish master builders such as Alonso de Vandelvira (1580) and Hernan Ruiz (1560) along with cutting edge digital documentation technologies based on laser scanning. This methodology demonstrates an innovative approach as it tests new forms to understand ancient masonry building techniques that reflect on the existing connections between current technology and historic sources of information. The drawings to be displayed in this document rely on the extensive 3D laser scanning documentation. This precise documentation method has provided precise digital models capable of capturing a large amount of the vaults’ details including the constructive solutions and the geometry of important stone elements. The information provided by digital models has undergone a process of purification and consolidation through the manipulation resulting in graphic information that has been translated into this attractive collection of images and drawings.

Kristine Stiphany: visiting National Science Foundation post-doctoral fellow, contacted Katie in March 2016 about wanting to present. Good option for October or November 2016. Current project explores the role of ethnographic methods for informing the participatory development of planning support technologies in cities of the global south. I am mentored by Drs. Steven Moore and Peter M. Ward (Public Policy). Over the next five months, I will lead a team of 8 community collaborators and conduct a large-scale (n=1200) post occupancy evaluation of historical social housing projects in two of São Paulo, Brazil's largest informal settlements, and input data into a new 3D scenario planning tool (created by the project) to evaluate future development alternatives.

Janine Barchas, Department of English: Eighteenth-century literature and culture; digital humanities; the British novel; book history; textual studies; Jane Austen; early fiction by women.

Jerome F. Bump, Department of English: Gerard Manley Hopkins; Alice books; Victorian literature; literature of nature; animal humanities; digital humanities.

Lester L. Faigley, Department of English: Impacts of digital technologies on writing; visual rhetoric; written argument; travel literature.

Brian A. Bremen, Department of English:  American literature; modernism; the digital humanities; writers of the Harlem Renaissance; literary theory.

Lars Henrichs, Department of English: Sociolinguistics; anthropological linguistics; corpus linguistics, Pidgins and Creoles; computer-mediated communication.

Tanya Clement, School of Information: Humanities Data Curation, Literary Study, Modernism, Scholarly Information Infrastructure, Scholarly Publishing and Communication, Digital Libraries, Digital Humanities

Matt Cohen, Department of English: American literature, digital archives, and the history of the book. A contributing editor at the Walt Whitman Archive, Cohen has led several projects, including digital editions of Horace Traubel's nine-volume biography of the poet and of the first book-length translation of Whitman's poetry into Spanish, Álvaro Armando Vasseur's Walt Whitman: Poemas. Under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities program for Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, the UT branch of the Whitman Archive has begun to create a digital edition of Whitman's marginalia and annotations on other writers' works. Click here for the latest on work in Cohen's humanities lab.

Adam Rabinowitz, Classics Department: Greek colonization, cultural interaction, ancient food and drink, archaeology of daily life, digital approaches to archaeology

Pat Galloway, School of Information: Digital Humanities, Historical Museums, History, Digital Archiving and Preservation, Archives

Steven Mintz, Department of History: A leading authority on the history of families and children, he is the author and editor of 13 books, including Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood, which received major prizes from the Association of American Publishers, the Organization of American Historians, and the Texas Institute of Letters.  He has also served as president of the Society for the History of Children and Youth, and chaired the Council on Contemporary Families, an organization of leading academics and clinicians committed to improving the public conversation on families and their needs.  

A past president of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, which serves over 200,000 academics world-wide, he is also the creator of the Digital History website, which is used by 150,000 teachers and students a week and has been named one of the Top 5 sites in U.S. history and been placed on the National Endowment for the Humanities list of exemplary online resources in the humanities.

Laura Gutterman, American Studies: Modern U.S. History; History of Women, Gender and Sexuality; LGBT/Queer Studies; Marriage and the Family; Popular Culture; Public History; Oral History; Digital Humanities

Randolph Lewis, American Studies: surveillance culture, cinema studies, documentary expression, indigenous media, the intersection of art and politics broadly conceived, creative nonfiction/experimental scholarship, digital humanities, unorthodox urban studies, public scholarship, film and video production

Eurenio Arima, Geography & Environment:  Human-environment interactions, land change science, GIS/Science, applied quantitative methods, Latin America.

Michael Findley, Government: Findley's research and teaching address civil wars, terrorism, and development. He uses field experiments, statistical and computational models, and some interviews. He conducts ongoing fieldwork in Uganda, South Africa, and Malawi.

James Henson (affiliated/adjunct), Government: Dr. Henson directs the Texas Politics Project, a collection of enterprises designed to encourage informed interest and engagement in Texas politics and government.   In that role, he co-directs, with Daron Shaw, the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll, the only open-access, public, statewide survey of public opinion in Texas.  The data sets from those surveys are available in the polling section of the Texas Politics website.  He also writes about politics for The Texas Tribune, and is a frequent resource for news media and reserarchers on Texas politics and government. He also coordinates the Government Department's internship program. 

Scott Moser, Government: In brief, my main research thrust may be described as ''applied social choice'' (less generally, one could say my main research work is in the areas of legislative institutions and voting theory).  Methodologically, this involves formal analytic methods such as game theory and social choice theory, as well as computational models (specifically agent-based models).  Substantively, I am interested in the origins and consequences of legislative rules and procedures, in particular their self-organized and endogenous nature.

Michael Rivera, Government: His research interests include immigration policy, issues of representation, race and ethnic politics, and American voter behavior. He's especially interested in how public opinion influences viable political options and is interested in issues of legislative responsiveness. Michael seeks to better understand the frames used in social media when discussing Hispanics and immigration and he's also interested in understanding how social media can be used to gauge political sentiment on a wide variety of issues.  Finally, he seeks to further explore how perceptions about Hispanics and other racial and ethnic minorities shape one’s political attitudes.

Jason M. Baldridge, Linguistics: Computational Linguistics, Syntax, Parsing, Machine Learning

Clay Spinuzzi, Rhetoric and Writing: Activity theory, genre theory, actor-network theory, human-computer interaction, workplace studies, qualitative research, knowledge work

Orlando R. Kelm, Department of Spanish & Portuguese: The teaching of foreign language for professional purposes, Use of technology in foreign language education, Portuguese and Spanish phonetics, Applied linguistics.

Kelly McDonough, Department of Spanish & Portuguese: Critical Indigenous Studies; Latin American Colonial Literatures; Ethnohistory (Nahuatl Studies); Religious Studies; Digital Humanities

John Clarke, Art History: Currently Clarke is co-director of the Oplontis Project , working, since 2005, to complete the study, excavation, and publication of two Roman villas (“A” and “B”) buried by Vesuvius in A.D. 79. With the endorsement of the Italian Ministry of Culture, Clarke and his co-editor have published the first of four volumes on Villa A. Entitle Oplontis Villa A (“of Poppaea”) at Torre Annunziata, Italy: The Ancient Landscape and Modern Rediscovery. It is a born-digital, Open Access E-Book in the Humanities E-Book series of the American Council of Learned Societies . (To access the volume, type “oplontis heb” in your browser.) All the research findings will be accessed through a navigable, 3D digital model that links to the Project database, housed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. Support for the project includes a Collaborative Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and grants from the Department’s new Center for the Study of Ancient Italy (CSAI) . Clarke has co-curated a major traveling loan exhibition of works of art and objects of daily life found at Oplontis and never seen before by the public. Entitled “Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis,” the exhibition will travels from its inaugural venue at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2016), to the Museum of the Rockies and the Smith College Museum of Art (2017).

 

 

 

 

EXTERNAL

Karl-Rainer Blumenthal: Internet Archive, archivist and librarian with subject specialties in environmental design, geography, art history, new media, and critical theory. In my personal and professional work, I seek to advance equitable and sustainable means of access to the touchstones of shared cultural heritage and memory.

Tim Linwood Stinson, Department of English at NC State: Stinson is a leader in the application of digital technologies to medieval studies. He is co-founder and co-director of the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance, co-director of the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, and editor of the Siege of Jerusalem Electronic Archive. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Fellowship and has received planning and implementation grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for his digital humanities work. He has served on the advisory boards of numerous projects in the field, including the Roman de la Rose Digital Library, Europeana Regia, and the Medieval Academy of America’s Digital Initiatives Advisory Board. Stinson has also collaborated with colleagues in the biological sciences to analyze the DNA found in medieval parchment manuscripts. This work has garnered international press coverage in outlets such as the BBC’s The World Today, National Geographic, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.  timothy_stinson@ncsu.edu; http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/tlstinso

Abby Smith Rumsey: Abby Smith Rumsey is a writer and historian focusing on the creation, preservation, and use of the cultural record in all media. She has written and lectured widely on digital preservation, online scholarship, the nature of evidence, the changing roles of libraries and archives, intellectual property policies in the digital age, and the impact of new information technologies on perceptions of history and time. New book: When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Will Shape Our Future. http://www.rumseywrites.com/bio/; info@rumseywrites.com

Siva Vaidhyanath, Robertson Professor of Modern Media Studies/School of Law, UVA: Received his Ph.D. from UT- Austin. Vaidhyanathan is the author of The Googlization of Everything And Why We Should Worry (University of California Press, 2011), Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001) and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (Basic Books, 2004). He also co-edited (with Carolyn de la Pena) collection, Rewiring the Nation: The Place of Technology in American Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). http://mediastudies.virginia.edu/people/sv2r; sv2r@virginia.edu

Tara McPherson: Associate Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.  She is a core faculty member of the IMAP program, USC’s innovative practice based-Ph.D., and also an affiliated faculty member in the American Studies and Ethnicity Department. Her research engages the cultural dimensions of media, including the intersection of gender, race, affect and place.  She has a particular interest in digital media.  Her research focuses on the digital humanities, early software histories, gender, and race, as well as upon the development of new tools and paradigms for digital publishing, learning, and authorship. She is the Founding Editor of Vectors, www.vectorsjournal.org, a multimedia peer-reviewed journal affiliated with the Open Humanities Press, and is a founding editor of the MacArthur-supported International Journal of Learning and Media (launched by MIT Press in 2009.)  She is a widely sought-out speaker on the digital humanities, digital scholarship, and feminist technology studies.  Tara was among the founding organizers of Race in Digital Space, a multi-year project supported by the Annenberg Center for Communication and the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations.  She is on the advisory board of the Mellon-funded Scholarly Communications Institute, has frequently served as an AFI juror, is a core board member of HASTAC , and is on the boards of several journals and other organizations.  At USC, she co-directs (with Phil Ethington) the new Center for Transformative Scholarship and is a fellow at the Center for Excellence in Teaching. With major support from the Mellon Foundation, she is currently working with colleagues from leading universities and with several academic presses, museums, scholarly societies, and archives to explore new modes of scholarship for visual culture research.   She is the lead PI on the new authoring platform, Scalar, and for the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, scalar.usc.edu.

Paul B. Jaskot: professor of art history at DePaul University and most recently was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art, 2014-2016). His work focuses on the political history of modern German art and architecture with a particular focus on the cultural policies of the Nazi period and their postwar impact. He is the author of, among others, The Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right as well as additional works on German culture from World War I to the present. He has also been involved since 2007 with the Holocaust Geography Collaborative, a group of international scholars committed to exploring the study of the Holocaust through digital mapping and visualization. Their work has resulted in the anthology Geographies of the Holocaust for which Jaskot co-authored two case studies. In addition to his scholarly work, Jaskot was also President of the College Art Association (2008-2010) as well as the Director of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Summer Institute on Digital Mapping and Art History (2014).