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[cross-posted from http://history.rutgers.edu/] Black Atlantic Seminar Visualizing Abolition: Integrating West Africa Historical GIS Henry Lovejoy, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado-Boulder April 13th, 4:30-6:00 pm Brower Commons, Room A & B, 2nd floor 145 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ The coordinators of the Black Atlantic Seminar invite you to a talk on a new historical GIS project by Dr. Henry Lovejoy (U. of Colorado-Boulder) –  Visualizing Abolition: Integrating West Africa Historical GIS with The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database and The Database and The Liberated Africans Project. The talk will discuss the  approaches, strategies and challenges of  the “West Africa Historical GIS Project,”  an  open access andRead More →

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Early Modern Studies: State of the Art Please join the CCA, PEMS, and the Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium at their upcoming Symposium, Tools of the Trade: Digital Humanities and Early Modern Studies, Friday April 8th. This Digital Humanities event explores the theoretical stakes of digital practice in early modern studies. By joining Dr. Anupam Basu’s keynote address with a student-run practicum that demonstrates how to use a range of digital research tools, including WordHoard, Evernote, and the folder-file system that comes standard with most operating systems, this event seeks to draw explicit connections between the everyday experience of conducting research in the digital age and the theoreticalRead More →

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All are welcome to join the official launch of a digital exhibit on Seabrook Farms at 4:00 pm on Wednesday, April 20, 2016, in the Teleconference Lecture Hall, Alexander Library. A reception will follow. Invisible Restraints: Life and Labor at Seabrook Farms, which will be hosted by the New Jersey Digital Highway, is a product of the collaborative work of graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in Prof. Andrew Urban’s course, “Public Histories of Detention and Mass Incarceration.” By the 1950s, family-owned Seabrook Farms—located in Cumberland County, New Jersey and founded in 1913—was the largest agribusiness in the United States. At the height of its production, the companyRead More →

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Please join us for a talk by research partners Lauren Tilton and Taylor Arnold entitled Looking Statistically: Alternative Lenses for Visual Culture on March 31, 2016 at 4:30 pm in the Pane Room, Alexander Library. An abstract follows: Work at the intersection of digital humanities (DH) and computer science has generally focused on an algorithmic application of computational methods such as topic modeling, document similarity, and network centrality measures. As a result, explorative methods developed within applied statistics and data analysis have received limited visibility. In this talk, we will give an overview of the historical developments of exploratory data analysis and statistical computing. We will show,Read More →

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The interactive topic model for the fortieth anniversary edition of Signs, Signs@40: Feminist Scholarship through Four Decades, is now publicly available in RUcore, the Rutgers University Community Repository. Users may download the entire project (topic model data and browser software) or selectively download either the data or the software. Thanks to the project creators, Andrew Goldstone, Susana Galán, C. Laura Lovin, Andrew Mazzaschi, and Lindsey Whitmore, and to Ron Jantz and Kayo Denda of the Rutgers University Libraries, this project is now archived for posterity and downloadable by anyone interested in exploring, reusing or adapting this rich artifact of feminist scholarship. Goldstone, Andrew, Susana Galán, C. Laura Lovin, Andrew Mazzaschi,Read More →