Programming and Events
Past Programming
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Deadline: Registration for THATCamp Virginia
Deadline: Registration for THATCamp Virginia
A reminder that the registration deadline for THATCamp Virginia (being held April 20-21) is March 5, 2012. Graduate students, scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, developers and programmers, anybody with an interest in the intersection of technology and the humanities are encouraged to apply. (Parents: we have participation by kids, too.)
Please see http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/ for complete information.
Monday, March 5
Madelyn Wessel: Faculty/Staff Brown Bag Lunch
Madelyn Wessel: Faculty/Staff Brown Bag Lunch
Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Scholarly Communication
Madelyn Wessel, Associate General Counsel
UVa Associate General Counsel Madelyn Wessel hosts a lunch time workshop and discussion especially for U.Va. faculty and staff. You bring your lunch and your questions, and we’ll provide the drinks and cookies.
Tuesday, March 20 at Noon
in the Scholars’ Lab Classroom.
Image courtesy Flickr user Jeffrey Beall.
Praxis Fellows Informal Info Session
Praxis Fellows Program Informal Info Session & Lunch
Advanced graduate students interested in applying for our popular Praxis fellows program ( www.scholarslab.org/announcements/seeking-praxis-program-fellows ) are invited to join us over lunch (our treat!) to learn about the program and the Scholars’ Lab from our faculty & staff and from past & current Praxis Fellows. Please RSVP to rag9b (at) virginia.edu by noon on Monday, March 19.
Wednesday, March 21 at Noon
in the Graduate Fellows Lounge, Alderman Library, Room 413
Deadline: 2012-2013 Praxis Fellowship
Deadline: 2012-2013 Praxis Fellowship
A reminder that the application deadline for the 2012-2013 Praxis Fellowships is Sunday, March 25, 2012. Advanced graduate students in the humanities are encouraged to apply.
Please see www.scholarslab.org/announcements/seeking-praxis-program-fellows for complete information.
Sunday, March 25
Applications of the Music Encoding Initiative
Applications of the Music Encoding Initiative
Perry Roland
UVa Music Library
Perry Roland provides an update on the MEI Project.
This event is co-sponsored with the Music Library.
Monday, March 26 at 3:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Image courtesy of the Music Encoding Initiative.
Data Rights and Responsibilities
Madelyn Wessel and David Hudson: Data Rights and Responsibilities
Madelyn Wessel
Associate General Counsel
David Hudson
Associate Vice Provost for Research
Madelyn Wessel, Associate General Counsel, and David Hudson, Associate Vice Provost for Research, will discuss what you need to know about ownership of your research data. This talk will explore information from the Data Rights and Responsibilities document from the Brown Library website. Refreshments will be served.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Scientific Data Consulting Group and Scholars’ Lab.
Wednesday, March 28 at 3:00 p.m.
in the Electronic Classroom (Room 133), Brown Library, Clark Hall.
Image courtesy Flickr user Lizzy Grafik.
Madelyn Wessel: Grad Student Brown Bag Lunch
Madelyn Wessel: Graduate Student Brown Bag Lunch
Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Scholarly Communication
Madelyn Wessel, Associate General Counsel
UVa Associate General Counsel Madelyn Wessel hosts a lunch time workshop and discussion especially for U.Va. graduate students. You bring your lunch and your questions, and we’ll provide the drinks and cookies.
Monday, April 2 at Noon
in the Scholars’ Lab Classroom.
Image courtesy Flickr user Jeffrey Beall.
Graduate Fellows Forum: Gabriel Hankins
The Map of an Argument: the Spatial Humanities, Modernism, and the League Moment, 1914-1921
New spatial humanities tools offer distinctive ways to pose and perhaps answer questions of literature and history in a global framework. This talk uses Neatline + Omeka to analyze the ambivalent relations between literary modernism and new institutions of world government during the first World War, and argues that the map of that argument allows us to newly survey our own global literary and political moment.
Please join us for lunch and lively conversation!
Wednesday, April 11 at Noon
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Image courtesy Kansas State Historical Society
Scholars’ Lab closures: Friday, April 20, and Saturday, April 21
Scholars’ Lab closure on Friday, April 20, and Saturday, April 21
Please note that the Scholars’ Lab will be closed from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Friday, April 20 , and again on Saturday, April 21, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. for events related to THATCamp Virginia. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Graduate Fellows Forum: Randi Lewis
Mapping the Merchant World: Early American Commerce in Salem, Massachusetts, 1763-1819
Randi Lewis
ABD, Corcoran Department of History
Scholars’ Lab Fellow 2011-2012
From the colonial cod fishery to the trade in Chinese teas after the American Revolution, the routes of commerce out of Salem, Massachusetts stretched around the Atlantic Ocean and, by the 1780s, across the globe. Using Salem as a lens through which to view the central strategies of commerce and commercial expansion in early America, this project maps out the markets in which Salem merchants traded, the transportation of trade goods, and the process of forming new trading relationships with merchants on the other side of the globe.
Lunch will be provided.
Thursday, April 26 at Noon
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Image courtesy Kansas State Historical Society
Graduate Fellows Forum: Ed Triplett
Graduate Fellows Forum: Ed Triplett
Ed Triplett’s talk will describe his work on ADIMO, (the Architectural Database of Iberian Military Orders) with specific focus on the territorial and architectural consequences of the battles of Alarcos (1195) and Las Navas de Tolosa (1212). These battles represent the most significant “swings” in the fortunes of the military orders in Iberia, and thus offer an opportunity to view the tenuous ground on which the military orders stood on the frontier. While the military-religious orders will be described as the most prolific recipients of reconquered Muslim territory, this talk will use maps and photographs to offer a deeper illustration of how their architecture helped define the Christian border with Islam. Lunch will be provided.
Wednesday, May 16 at Noon
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Image courtesy Kansas State Historical Society
Reunions GIS Workshop
Mapping Yourself
Curious about GPS, Google mapping, and how you can be part of the fun? Join Chris Gist and Kelly Johnston of the U.Va. Scholars’ Lab for an introduction to the magic of GPS and Google mapping. You will leave with the tools to communicate with satellites 12,000 miles overhead, make your own maps, and selectively share your cartographic masterpieces with the world.
Friday, June 1 at 11:00am
in the Scholars’ Lab
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user spdorsey.
Graduate Fellows Forum
Graduate Fellows Forum: Introducing our 2012-13 Fellows
Please join us as we introduce our 2012-13 Graduate Fellows and Praxis Fellows. Lunch will be provided.
Wednesday, September 05 at Noon
in Alderman Library, Room 421.
Image courtesy Kansas State Historical Society
GIS Workshop: Making Your First Map
Making Your First Map
Getting started with new software can be intimidating. This workshop introduces the skills you need to work with spatial goodness. Along the way you’ll get a taste of Earth’s most popular geographic software and a gentle introduction to map making. You’ll leave with your own cartographic masterpiece and tips for learning more in your pursuit of mappiness at UVa.
Wednesday, September 12 1:00pm – 2:00pm
in Campbell Hall, Room 105
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, September 13, from 3:00pm – 4:00pm in Alderman Library, Room 421)
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user spdorsey.
GIS Workshop: Getting Your Data on a Map
Getting Your Data on a Map
Do you have GPS points or a list of Latitude and Longitude you would like to show as points on a map? This session will show you how to turn your data into map layers and how to connect them to make lines and polygons as well.
Wednesday, September 19 1:00pm – 2:00pm
in Campbell Hall, Room 105
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, September 20, from 3:00pm – 4:00pm in Alderman Library, Room 421)
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user spdorsey.
Speaker Series: Finn Arne Jørgensen
You Are Here: GPS, Geospatial Data, and The Experience of Place
Dr. Finn Arne Jørgensen
Associate Senior Lecturer, History of Technology and Environment
Umeå University, Sweden
This exploratory talk will discuss the cultural history of the GPS seen from the perspective of the digital environmental humanities. Through now near-ubiquitous GPS-enabled devices and digital mapping services, the spatial turn has reached a broad audience who are less interested in theorizing space and place and more interested in figuring out where they are and where they are going. I am currently starting up a research project that will examine the broad implications of this geospatial revolution.
Friday, September 21 at 2:00pm
in Alderman Library, Room 421.
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user Aram Bartholl.
Speaker Series: Guoping Huang
Geographic Information System (GIS) & the Humanities
Dr. Guoping Huang
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Environmental Planning
University of Virginia
GIS (Geographic Information Systems) is playing an important role in some recent digital humanities projects. The presenter, Guoping Huang, has worked at the Harvard University Center for Geographic Analysis and played an active role in Harvard’s Digital Humanities Initiative. He will present several digital humanities projects, including the Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations (DARMC) project, the WorldMap project and the Chinese Historical GIS project, to showcase how GIS can help humanists explore new Grounds for interdisciplinary researches.
Tuesday, September 25 at 2:00pm
in Alderman Library, Room 421.
Image courtesy Kansas State Historical Society
GIS Workshop: Points On Your Map
Points On Your Map: Street Addresses and More Spatial Things
Do you have a list of street addresses crying out to be mapped? Have a list of zip codes or census tracts you wish to associate with other data? We’ll start with addresses and other things spatial and end with points on a map, ready for visualization and analysis.
Wednesday, September 26 1:00pm – 2:00pm
in Campbell Hall, Room 105
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, September 27, from 3:00pm – 4:00pm in Alderman Library, Room 421)
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user spdorsey.
GIS Workshop: Georeferencing
Georeferencing – Putting Old maps and Aerial Photos on Your Map
Have an old map or an aerial photograph that you would like to use as a spatial layer? This session will teach you techniques to properly place your data and make it useable in GIS software. We will also demo similar techniques for Google Earth.
Wednesday, October 03 1:00pm – 2:00pm
in Campbell Hall, Room 105
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, October 04, from 3:00pm – 4:00pm in Alderman Library, Room 421)
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user spdorsey.
GIS Workshop: Taking Control of Your Spatial Data
Taking Control of Your Spatial Data: Editing in ArcGIS
Until we perfect that magic “extract all those lines from this paper map” button we’re stuck using editor tools to get that job done. If you’re lucky, someone else has done the work to create your points, lines, and polygons but maybe they need your magic touch to make them better. This one-hour hands-on session shows you how to create and modify vector features in ArcMap, Earth’s most popular geographic information systems software. We’ll explore tools to create new points, lines, and polygons and to edit existing datasets. At version 10, ArcMap’s editor was revamped introducing new templates, but we’ll keep calm and carry on.
Wednesday, October 10 1:00pm – 2:00pm
in Campbell Hall, Room 105
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, October 11, from 3:00pm – 4:00pm in Alderman Library, Room 421)
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user spdorsey.
GIS Workshop: Getting Proper Fitting Labels on Your Map
Getting Proper Fitting Labels on Your Map
Putting labels on your maps can be frustrating. Luckily, there is a tool in ArcMap that allows you to customize label placement and fitting strategies. Come to this session to learn more about Maplex, the labeling engine for ArcGIS.
Wednesday, October 17 1:00pm – 2:00pm
in Campbell Hall, Room 105
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, October 18, from 3:00pm – 4:00pm in Alderman Library, Room 421)
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user spdorsey.
Digital Humanities Speaker: W. Gardner Campbell
HD.EDU: Learning in a Digital Age
W. Gardner Campbell
Director, Professional Development and Innovative Initiatives & Associate Professor of English
Virginia Tech
Tuesday, October 23 at 4:00pm
in Nau Hall, Room 101.
Reception follows
The Digital Humanities Speaker Series is co-sponsored by IATH, SHANTI, and the Scholars’ Lab.
Speaker Series: Mills Kelly
Pedagogy of Disruption: What Happens When You Teach Students to Lie?
Dr. Mills Kelly
Director, Global Affairs Program, History and Art History
George Mason University
How might student learning be transformed if traditional modes of instruction are turned on their head? This talk, by the professor of GMU’s “Lying About the Past” course, explores the up and downsides of disruptive approaches to teaching and learning.
Thursday, October 25 at 2:00pm
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user kyeniz.
GIS Workshop: Making Beautiful Maps in ArcGIS (really?)
Making Beautiful Maps in ArcGIS (really?)
Most designers can’t wait to export layers out of ArcGIS so beautification can begin. In this one-hour hands-on session we won’t do that. Instead, we’ll make a beautiful map using free datasets and ArcGIS tools. Doubters welcome.
Wednesday, October 24 1:00pm – 2:00pm
in Campbell Hall, Room 105
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, October 25, from 3:00pm – 4:00pm in Alderman Library, Room 421)
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user spdorsey.
GIS Workshop: Online GIS
Online GIS
There are many great online resources for accessing and analyzing spatial data and making maps. This session will discuss the use and pros and cons of several leading online map making tools including GeoCommons, Social Explorer and ArcGIS Online.
Wednesday, October 31 1:00pm – 2:00pm
in Campbell Hall, Room 105
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, November 01, from 3:00pm – 4:00pm in Alderman Library, Room 421)
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user spdorsey.
GIS Workshop: Aerial Photography
Do It Yourself Aerial Photography
Are you looking for a low-cost, easy and safe method for showing current conditions, documenting change over time, and making maps? Do-It-Yourself aerial photography might be the answer. This workshop shows how to capture high resolution aerial imagery for a local study area without making a large investment in equipment. We’ll describe our experience with balloon and kite aerial photography and remote controlled aerial vehicles. You’ll learn best practices for choosing cameras and equipment, rigging techniques, processing imagery, and staying legal.
Wednesday, November 07 1:00pm – 2:00pm
in Campbell Hall, Room 105
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, November 08, from 3:00pm – 4:00pm in Alderman Library, Room 421)
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user spdorsey.
GIS Day Celebration 2012
GIS Day Celebration
Please join us as we host our annual World GIS Day celebration in the Scholars’ Lab. We’ve invited more than a dozen speakers to talk about their GIS-based projects in lightning round talks, and at 3:30, we’ll have the annual Cutting of the GIS Day Cake. Don’t miss it!
Wednesday, November 14
2:00pm – 3:30pm
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Image courtesy gisday.com
Speaker Series: Jeremy Dibbell
The Libraries of Early America Project: Bringing Historical Libraries to Life with LibraryThing
Jeremy Dibbell
Rare Books and Social Media Librarian for LibraryThing
Mr. Dibbell will discuss the Libraries of Early America project, an effort to digitize and deeply analyze the library collections of more than 1400 American readers (famous and not) from the early colonial period through 1825.
Tuesday, December 04 at 2:00pm
in Alderman Library, Room 421.
Image courtesy Flickr user -Lori-.
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