Digital Humanities Working Group

Linked Open Data Summit meeting planning board, Day 1“Sharing is caring, but linking is loving.” — Laura Smart, June 3, 2011Spoken with the acoustic equivalent of a wink, Caltech metadata librarian Laura Smart’s wrap-up in the closing circle of the LOD-LAM Summit captured that unspoken je ne sais quoi that infused the two-day conference on Linked…[Read more]

Fall 2012 at Fordham includes a weekend of THATCamp, a workshop on developing an online academic presence, and a discussion of recent issues in the digital humanities and medieval studies.  Please join us for some of these upcoming events!•   •   •Friday – Saturday, October 5-6THATCamp NY 2012 at Fordham-Lincoln CenterLowenstein Hall, 12th Floor…[Read more]

The Fordham Digital Humanities Working Group and the Graduate School of Arts and Science are pleased to announce the 2014-2015 HASTAC Scholars:  Louie Dean Valencia García (History) and David Levine (Medieval Studies). The HASTAC Scholars represent Fordham’s lively digital humanities community in HASTAC’s distinguished online forum and c…[Read more]

Fall 2014 Digital Humanities workshops kick-off next next Monday with a workshop on the powerful open source data analysis program “R” and continue in October with a workshop on geospatial mapping for the digital humanities:

Monday, September 22: “R” for the Digital Humanities, a workshop led by Brian Reilly (Fordham University) (NEXT…[Read more]

Fordham’s Digital Humanities Group, along with the American Studies Program and the Department of Theology, are delighted to welcome Professor Steven E. Jones to discuss his fascinating new research on the legacy of Italian Jesuit and linguist Roberto Busa, SJ, who has come to be known as a founding father of digital humanities.

Busa’s…[Read more]

The Fordham Digital Humanities Working Group and the Graduate School of Arts and Science are pleased to announce the 2015-2016 HASTAC Scholars:  Christy Pottroff (PhD candidate, English) and Tobias Hrynick (PhD candidate, History). Our HASTAC Scholars represent Fordham’s lively digital humanities community in HASTAC’s distinguished, international…[Read more]

Deadline for applications: August 26, 2016
Announcement of Award: September 5, 2016

Are you a graduate student engaged with innovative projects and research at the intersection of digital media and learning, 21st-century education, and technology in the arts, humanities and sciences? Would you like join an international conversation about…[Read more]

The Fordham Digital Humanities Working Group and the Graduate School of Arts and Science are pleased to announce the 2016-18 HASTAC Scholars: Sharon Harris Jeter (PhD candidate, English) and Damien Strecker (PhD candidate, History). 

Our HASTAC Scholars represent Fordham’s lively digital humanities community in HASTAC’s distinguished,…[Read more]

A Practical DH Workshop
Digital Humanities:
What It Is and How to Get Started
Thursday, 22 Sept. 2016, 1-2 p.m.
Walsh Library 047

Led by
Kristen Mapes
Digital Humanities Specialist
Michigan State University
(and Fordham GSAS alum)

Practical DH is a series of short, one-hour workshops meant to offer concrete, specific information…[Read more]

The Digital Humanities Working Group invites you to a lunch meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 11:45 to 1:15 pm to hear about recent DH activities at Fordham and meet others working on DH research and pedagogy projects.

All Fordham faculty and staff invited. RSVP required.

On Wednesday, March 29 from 3-5 pm. in Duane 140, Christopher Cantwell will offer a presentation and workshop on digital humanities in religious studies and public history. He will discuss recent projects from both fields that demonstrate how DH methods are opening up new avenues of research and teaching in these disciplines. Participants are e…[Read more]

Histories of modern Jewish cultures face the challenge of how to fathom complex issues of place and space. Join Shachar Pinsker (University of Michigan) on April 19th, 2:30pm (Lowenstein 906) to learn about his collaborative digital project, Mapping Modern Jewish Diasporic Cultures, that explores modern Jewish cultures and migrations using…[Read more]