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Book, Number, Graph: Getting Started with Text Analysis

By Katie Blizzard

How do you get from a stack of books to a graph reflecting what’s inside them? What gets in the way? What research questions does the process enable? This workshop introduces participants to some foundational principles, practices and challenges when working with textual data. No programming experience required. Attendees will use Voyant as a vehicle to explore text analysis, but the workshop will create an experience beyond this one tool. The workshop, hosted by the US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH) on March 31 at 10:00 AM CDT, will discuss the affordances and limitations of Voyant as a vehicle for exploring the opportunities and challenges of working with textual data.

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Cultures of Correspondence Symposia: Part 1

By Katie Blizzard

The linked symposia, hosted consecutively by Baylor University and Texas A&M University, build upon both institutions’ substantial collections of 18th- and 19th-century archival materials and their commitment to creating accessible digital archives and scholarship.

Cultures of Correspondence Symposia: Part 2

By Katie Blizzard

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The Material and Visual Text in Latin American Digital Humanities

By Katie Blizzard

Presented by the Bibliographical Society of America and the Alliance for Digital Research on Early Latin America on March 7, 2025, this virtual symposium features presentations by researchers and cultural heritage professionals who are using digital approaches to analyze and transmit a diverse range of Latin American texts from the colonial period, nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

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SNAC for Indigenous Archival Research: Finding Records and Improving Representation

By Katie Blizzard

On Dec. 12 at 4:00 PM (Eastern Time), Ia Bull, Diana Marsh, Jerry Simmons and Melissa Stoner will introduce the SNAC web portal, demonstrate how to navigate SNAC records, and discuss approaches to doing Indigenous archival search.

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ATNU Virtual Speaker Series: Probing LLMs’ interpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales—Reflections on the Use of Generative AI for Digital Scholarly Editing and the University Classroom

By Katie Blizzard

In a virtual talk on Dec. 11 at 5:00 PM GMT, Whittle will present her reflections when challenging LLMs’ translation, annotation and ‘interpretation’ of the Canterbury Tales.

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Using Podcasts for Digital Storytelling, Archival Recovery, and Community Engagement

By Katie Blizzard

On Nov. 7 at 3:30 PM EST, in a 90-minute webinar with eLaboratories, Dr. Saniya Ghanoui of Sexing History, and Drs. Gaby Barrios, Sonia Del Hierro, and Sophia Martínez Abbud of the Señora Power Project will discuss how and why they designed their projects with the affordances of the podcast medium in mind. This webinar aims to discuss how to ethically design digital storytelling projects, and the role of such projects in engaging students and local communities in the work of producing these projects.

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Epistemes indígenas en proyectos digitales de edición y archivo

By Katie Blizzard

El 30 de octubre a las 3 PM EDT (UTC-4), Paloma Vargas Montes del Tecnológico de Monterrey reflexionará sobre cómo las humanidades digitales y el patrimonio cultural convergen en dos proyectos de investigación: La Crónica X: desmembrando su existencia a través de sus fuentes hermanas (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México-Tec de Monterrey) y Epistemes Indígenas de la Frontera, financiado por la Mellon Foundation a través del US Latino Digital Humanities Center de la Universidad de Houston.

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Allmaps Virtual Forum: For Potential Users of the Open-Source Map Overlay Tool

By Katie Blizzard

On November 18 from 11am-2pm ET, the Leventhal Map & Education Center and UW-Milwaukee Libraries’ American Geographical Society Library are jointly hosting a virtual forum on the Allmaps software ecosystem. Allmaps is a set of open-source digital humanities tools that makes overlaying historic maps on modern geographies—a process commonly known as “georeferencing”—easier and more fun. The virtual forum is geared towards a wide range of potential users, from DH researchers to educators and librarians. It is completely free.

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Visualizing History’s Fragments with the Ottoman Algerian Registers

By Katie Blizzard

Watch this webinar, originally presented on Dec. 10, 2024, to learn more about Dr. Sanders’ strategies for recovering details about the lives of the countless men and women mentioned in these documentary fragments. In this presentation, Dr. Sanders shows how historical data set (re)construction is one way we can begin to address voids in the archive and use the records of the colonizers to do reparative work.

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