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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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Join us for DH events and workshops at Rutgers University Newark. Workshops Using HistoryPin for Spatial Humanities and Social Sciences Connecting area, space and place with theoretical concepts is the lynchpin of the emerging paradigm of spatial literacy. HistoryPin is a simple, interactive social media tool instructors can use to help create compelling course assignments with a spatial literacy component. This one hour workshop will give instructors a brief introduction to spatial literacy concepts and get them started using creating and using HistoryPin accounts. Options for administrating HistoryPin for course work and group projects will be discussed. Instructor: Krista White (Digital Humanities Librarian). Thursday, FebruaryRead More →

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[Crossposted from http://extendingplay.rutgers.edu/cfp/] Call for Papers Extending Play 3: Temporalities of Play School of Communication & Information, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Conference Dates: Sept. 30 & Oct. 1, 2016 Proposals Due: April 3rd History is indeed absent from the game, absent as something finished, as a storyline in the past tense. What replaces it is a history workshop, a model of history as the intuition of algorithms and their consequences. The gamer is a designer. Mckenzie Wark, “Gamer Theory” Extending Play 3 asks important questions about the temporalities of play from emergent scholarly perspectives: Can media archaeology and game preservation revise the history ofRead More →

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Dr. Claire Potter will deliver a talk entitled “On Beyond MOOCs: Why Humanists Should Be Shaping the Online World” on Thursday, February 25th, 4:30-6:00 p.m., in the Pane Room, Alexander Library. Potter is Professor of History and Director of the Digital Humanities Initiative at The New School. She is also a co-director of OutHistory.org, an LGBT digital history project, a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, and a member of the Schlesinger Library Council at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Her talk is sponsored by the Rutgers Department of History, the Department of English, and the Digital Humanities Initiative. We hope you willRead More →