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Brook Danielle Lillehaugen on Digital Scholarship & Collaboration with Stake-Holding Communities
We’re very pleased to announce that Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, assistant professor of linguistics at Haverford College, will give a presentation at Trinity College (Hartford) on Monday, October 1, 2018 at 4.30 in LITC 181. Her talk is entitled “Digital scholarship and collaboration with stake-holding communities: Ticha, a digital text explorer for Colonial Zapotec,” and will be followed by a small reception. Her lecture is free and open to the public. Lillehaugen specializes in Zapotec languages in both modern and historical forms, and is particularly interested (for this talk) in how the digital humanities and social media might be used (or not) in documenting, language revitalizing, and collaborating with stake-holding speech communities. The…
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Digital Humanities in/of the Public
The Digital Scholarship Studio at Trinity College is excited to launch a summer reading group with the theme of “Digital Humanities in/of the Public.” Because it’s the summer, and people will be in different places, it’ll be a virtual reading group, using the annotation tool hypothes.is to talk with one another about the selected texts. Christina Boyles, the digital scholarship coordinator, and Jason B. Jones, the director of educational technology, are coordinating the group. Anyone can participate*, regardless of a Trinity affiliation. To read along with us, follow these instructions: If you already have hypothes.is set up, skip to step 4. Otherwise go to https://hypothes.is Click one of the…
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We’re Hiring a Digital Humanities Postdoc!
An exciting development at Trinity College this year was the receipt of a Mellon Foundation Grant for Arts, Humanities, and Digital Scholarship. This will bring lots of opportunities to faculty and students across campus. Information Services is delighted to be able to say that as part of this grant, we are hiring a digital humanities postdoc to work closely with Christina Boyles (our recently-hired digital scholarship coordinator) and Jason Jones (um, me) to develop undergraduate offerings in the digital humanities. Projects that the successful candidate might find themselves working on might include: supporting faculty research projects in the digital humanities; developing training programs on DH tools or methods in…