Programming and Events
Past Programming
See our current speaker series and other offerings here.
Ongoing Seminar: Geospatial Technologies and the Humanities
A bi-weekly seminar for humanities faculty and advanced graduate students.
beginning Friday, September 19 10 – 11 a.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Sorry! This course is filled!
Coins: the U.Va. Art Museum Digital Numismatic Collection
Ethan Gruber discusses an engaging new online interface for viewing, searching, and comparing the hundreds of Greek and Roman coins housed by the U.Va. Art Museum.
Friday, September 19 , 2 – 3pm
in the Scholars’ Lab.
U21 Digital Humanities Workshops
From September 23-26, U.Va. hosts a meeting of Universitas 21 consortium faculty and staff interested in Digital Humanities. Thursday sees two events in the Scholars’ Lab: a morning session on Text-Based Studies, chaired by Jerome McGann; and an afternoon session on “Enabling Digital Scholarship,” chaired by Bethany Nowviskie.
Thursday, September 25th from 9am-noon & 1-3pm
in the Scholars’ Lab.
“From Argument to Design: Editions in Books and Beyond the Book”
Hans Walter Gabler
noted textual editor and Joyce scholar, presents an historical overview of scholarly editions in print, with a look forward to how new media are shaping editorial practice
Thursday, October 2 at 4:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
“Our Cultural Inheritance & the Digital Humanities”
Job candidate presentations continue on Monday as Carlos Monroy of Texas A & M interviews for the position of Digital Humanities Specialist in the Library’s Digital Research & Scholarship department. He’ll speak on the topic, “Our Cultural Inheritance & the Digital Humanities.”
Monday, October 6th at 10:30am
in the Scholars’ Lab.
“Thomas Moore’s Irish Melodies in the Digital Age”
Scholars’ Lab scholar-in-residence Sean Ryder (National University of Ireland, Galway) presents his work on the Thomas Moore Hypermedia Archive. Sean is visiting the Scholars’ Lab as part of the TEXTE project, an initiative centered on knowledge transfer around scholarly editing.
Thursday, October 9 at 1:30pm
in the Scholars’ Lab.
October “Digital Therapy” Luncheon
Chris Forster (UVA English), a former Graduate Fellow in Digital Humanities, presents his work in authorship attribution. A free lunch and open discussion about innovative research methods make our “Digital Therapy” sessions not to be missed!
Tuesday, October 21 at noon
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Art in the Lab: Photography by Jean Bauer
Notice something new? A photographic collection by Jean Bauer is now open in the Scholars’ Lab. Jean is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History Department and one of the U.Va. Library’s Graduate Fellows in Digital Humanities.
November “Digital Therapy” Luncheon
Dana Stefanelli (UVA History), a former Graduate Fellow in Digital Humanities, presents his work in GIS approaches to historical study. A free lunch and open discussion about innovative research methods make our “Digital Therapy” sessions not to be missed!
Thursday, November 6 at noon
in the Scholars’ Lab.
International GIS Day
Join us Wednesday, November 19th, as we celebrate International GIS Day. Anyone whose work is grounded in issues of space and place will find something of interest in these cross-disciplinary offerings, centering in cartography and geospatial technologies.
Schedule of Events:
- Charlottesville Area GIS Users Lunch
12:00 in the Scholars’ Lab - GIS Day Cake Cutting
1:30 in the Scholars’ Lab - GIS Day Open House
1:30 in the Scholars’ Lab - Tour “On the Map: The Seymour I. Schwartz Collection of North American Maps 1500-1800″
3:00 in the Small Special Collections Library - David Rumsey, “Giving Maps a Second Life with Digital Technologies”
4:00 in the Harrison-Small Auditorium - Reception
5:30 in the Small Special Collections Library
David Rumsey: Giving Maps a Second Life with Digital Technologies
Map collector and innovator in the online dissemination of GIS resources. David Rumsey’s talk will coincide with other exciting events to mark International GIS Day in the Scholars’ Lab.
Wednesday, November 19 at 4:00 p.m.
Harrison-Small Auditorium
Reception to follow.
This event is presented in conjunction with the new digital humanities center at UVA.
“Theories and Methods of Editing in the Digital Domain: Case Studies in Modernist Literature”
Mark Byron
ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, University of Sydney
Thursday, January 15 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Inauguration Social Media in the SLab
Join us Monday through Wednesday, January 19th – 21st , as the Scholars’ Lab projects the social media landscape surrounding the historic presidential inauguration. We’ll be showing real-time Twitter and Flickr feeds that record responses to the event and efforts at citizen-journalism. We’ve also created a home-grown geospatial visualization so that you can follow the informal, worldwide conversation on a map!
“Copyright 101: An Introduction to Copyright in a Digital Age”
Madelyn Wessel
Special Advisor to the University Librarian and Liaison to the Office of the General Counsel, University of Virginia
Wednesday, January 28 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
EELS: Electronically Enabled Literary Studies
The digitally inclined scholars of EELS will meet to discuss recent conversations in PMLA about the nature of databases and digital archives and their place in literary studies.
Friday, January 30 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
“A Prototype for Managing Archeological Excavation Data in a Digital Library for the American School for Classical Studies at Athens”
Thornton Staples
Director of Community Strategy and Outreach
Fedora Commons
Thursday, February 5 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
“The Power of Geographical Perspectives”
Diana Sinton
Director of Spatial Curriculum and Research & Assistant Professor of Geography
University of Redlands
Thursday, February 12 at 4:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
This event is presented in conjunction with SHANTI, a new center at UVA.
(Digital) Love is in the Air…
For our February “Digital Therapy” Faculty and Grad Luncheon, we will be trying something new in the Scholars’ Lab. Influenced by our friends at the Science and Art Project and in conjunction with the Research Computing Lab, we will be holding an activity in the tradition of “speed dating” to foster new scholarly collaborations between students in the humanities and those in computer science, engineering, and other disciplines.
Join us on Friday, February 13 , at noon to meet a lot of interesting new people and learn about exciting opportunities to collaborate on research and scholarship!
“Copyright 201: Author’s Rights, Open Access and Publishing”
Madelyn Wessel
Special Advisor to the University Librarian and Liaison to the Office of the General Counsel, University of Virginia
Wednesday, February 18 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
“Automated Databases from the 18th to the 21st Centuries”
Bob DuCharme
Expert in XML, XSLT, and semantic web technologies
Tuesday, February 24 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
March “Digital Therapy” Luncheon
Please join us as Scholars’ Lab Graduate Fellow in Digital Humanities Pierre Dairon of the French Department discusses his efforts mapping the cultural icon of “Evangeline.” A free lunch and open discussion about innovative research methods make our “Digital Therapy” sessions not to be missed!
Tuesday, March 10 at noon
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Scholarly Publishing Today and Tomorrow
Linda Bree
Cambridge University Press
Tuesday, March 24 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
“Mapping Then and Now: Are We Ready (yet) for Academic Social Systems?”
Ian Johnson
Director of the Archaeological Computing Laboratory & TimeMap project leader
University of Sydney
Friday, March 27 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
This event is presented in conjunction with SHANTI, a new center at UVA.
April “Digital Therapy” Luncheon
Abby Holeman (UVA Anthropology), a Graduate Fellow in Digital Humanities, presents her work using GIS to investigate the cosmological beliefs of an ancient culture. A free lunch and open discussion about innovative research methods make our “Digital Therapy” sessions not to be missed!
Wednesday, April 1 at noon
in the Scholars’ Lab.
“Copyright 301: Advanced Copyright Issues in Images, Multi-Media, Art and Architecture”
Madelyn Wessel
Special Advisor to the University Librarian and Liaison to the Office of the General Counsel, University of Virginia
Tuesday, April 7 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
End of Semester “Digital Therapy” Luncheon
In the second “Digital Therapy” faculty and grad luncheon of April, Jean Bauer (UVA History), a Graduate Fellow in Digital Humanities, will discuss her work on the early American Foreign Service using database design and data visualization techniques. A free lunch and open discussion about innovative research methods make our “Digital Therapy” sessions not to be missed!
Tuesday, April 14 at noon
in the Scholars’ Lab.
HEML: Historical Event Markup Language
Bruce Robertson
Department of Classics, Mount Allison University and Historical Event Markup and Linking Project
Monday, April 20 at 3:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
This event is presented in conjunction with SHANTI, a new center at UVA.
“New Horizons in Teaching and Research 2009″
New Horizons in Teaching and Research 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Join us on April 29th for the third annual U.Va. New Horizons conference, showcasing technology in teaching, research, and scholarship at the University of Virginia. This year’s conference will feature presentations by U.Va. faculty, luncheon round-table discussions, and a keynote talk by noted information designer Ben Fry.
The 2009 iteration of New Horizons is being organized by UVACSE and SHANTI, with the support of ITC and the University of Virginia Library. Please register for lunch and the evening reception. All other events are open for drop-in attendance.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/newhorizons
This event is provided by the U.Va. Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering and SHANTI.
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