The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities

Join us Tuesday, March 24th from 12-1:30pm for our second Digital Research Luncheon this semester! Unverzagt Goddard, Galvane, and Barnett showcase their experience creating digital projects. Register today!

Register today to attend our Digital Research Luncheon! Join Jon Lamb and John McEwan on Wednesday, Feb. 18th at 12pm in the Hall Center to learn how you can include digital methods in your own research. Visit idrh.ku.edu/events for details and the registration link.

"Perusall Possibilities: Open Social Annotation" poster with event details.

Join us in Watson 455 on 1/28 at 12:00pm for our first workshop of the semester! Dr. MacGonagle will teach attendee's how to incorporate Perusall into their online and in-person courses. Register today to ensure your ability to practice the tool.

Come see our Haunting Humanities exhibit "Haunted Lawrence: A Digital Tour" on October 29th from 5:30-9:00pm at Abe & Jakes Landing. Learn about the stories of the ghosts roaming Lawrence and share your own ghost story to be featured on our digital map!

It's not too late to register for our Digital Jumpstart Workshops on October 17th! Join us for one of our sessions, or tag along for our entire day of events.

"Listeners Like Who? Exclusion & Resistance in the Public Radio Industry"
Dr. Laura Garbes
October 1st, 1pm. Burge Union, Forum A.

Final reminder: Applications to join our Digital Humanities Fellows cohort are due September 7th!

Join us tomorrow (8/27) at 12:00pm in Watson 455 for John McEwan's Workshop Wednesday: "AI-Powered Text Mining for Humanities Research"! This workshop introduces AI-powered extraction tools that organize information from large text collections.

Join us in the Hall Center Friday, August 22nd, for an all-day unconference! Together, we will brainstorm generative sessions to foster new ideas and collaborative possibilities. 💛
Register by 8/19 to attend.

Join us tomorrow for our Fellows Symposium in Watson Library! We are thrilled to show off our Fellows hard work this year. See you at 4:00pm!
Registration not required, but encouraged: miniurl.com/FellowsS...

We are excited to host our annual Fellows Symposium! Join us May 13th at 4:00pm in Watson 3 West for a reception, hors d'oeuvres, digital poster session presentations. 💙

Come join Emily Counsil's workshop on "Researching with Social Media" in Watson Library on April 22nd, 12:00pm in the Clark Instruction Center.

Join us in the Hall Center on 4/16 at 12:00pm for our (rescheduled) Digital Research Luncheon featuring Rebecca Johnston and Emily Monty!

The KU Center for East Asian Studies invites you to join them for their hybrid annual spring symposium this Friday and Saturday, April 4 and 5. This year's theme is "Global Asia in the Digital Age."

"RESOLVED, that we hold as enemies of humanity, all persons and parties, whether religious or political, that are not in favor of the personal and political freedom and equality of all men without regard to race or color; for we believe that aristocracy and despotism is the same all over the world, and that the man or the party that would enslave or disenfranchise a negro, would, if in his power, as willingly enslave or disenfranchise an Italian, a German, an Irishman, or any other race"

A slide from @profgabrielle.bsky.social's talk last night at the KC Black archives, a resolution from a Colored Convention held in Lawrence, KS (in Fraser Hall!) in 1866. It's always been the same struggle, same fight

Join us at the Black Archives in Kansas City on 3/24 for Dr. Gabrielle Foreman’s formal talk “Why Didn’t We Know?!: The Forgotten History of the Colored Conventions and 19th Century Black Political Organizing”. The brief reception begins at 6pm, with the talk to follow.

Join us Thursday, March 6th at 4:00pm in Watson Library for a presentation by Dr. Ashley Sanders! Sanders will be presenting her talk entitled "Redressing Colonial Knowledge Systems through Restorative Data Justice."

Tomorrow's Digital Research Luncheon has been cancelled due to weather. It will be rescheduled at a later date.

Stay warm!

Join us Thursday (2/19) at the Hall Center for our Digital Research Luncheon! We are excited to feature Emily Monty & Rebecca Johnstons digital humanities research.

#digitalhumanities

Happy Douglass Day!!!

Happening now in Watson Library until 2:00 pm. Bring your laptop and let's make some history together.
@douglassday.bsky.social #Douglassday2025

White sheet cake with red piping that reads “Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass” with an image of Douglass.

Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass! Join us in Watson Library to celebrate! @douglassday.bsky.social

Celebrate Frederick Douglass’ birthday by helping transcribe an online collection of Black History & Culture! Drop by the Clark Instructional Classroom in KU’s Watson Library from 11am to 2pm on February 14th for cake and community.

Fri. Feb. 14, 2025, 11:00-2:00 pm, CIC

Have an idea for a digital project, but unsure of how to get from concept to product? Let's plan how you are getting from one iteration of your project to the next. Join us tomorrow in the CIC for "Planning your Digital Project" at 12pm.

Join the IDRH in our re-branded workshop series: Tool Tuesdays & Workshop Wednesdays! 💙
Our first event is tomorrow (1/29) at Watson Library in the Clark Instruction Center at 12:00PM.

Storytelling Against the Crisis, Vann Newkirk, Senior Editor at The Atlantic As the country and the world face multiple unprecedented issues, what do journalism, oral history, documentary, and photography have to offer? Vann R. Newkirk II, senior editor at The Atlantic and host of the podcasts Floodlines and Holy Week, discusses the role of storytelling in marginalized communities, and how it might prepare us for future—and present—struggle. Doors will open at 7:00 PM for a reception, and the talk will begin at 7:30 PM.

This Thursday at @lawrencelibrary Vann R. Newkirk II, senior editor at The Atlantic, will discuss the role of storytelling in marginalized communities and how it might prepare us for future—and present—struggle. Learn more: calendar.ku.edu/even...

African Digital Indaba The first in a series of African digital humanities conversations this academic season is a book discussion on Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi's Imagine Lagos. This groundbreaking book provides a historical exploration of Lagos, Nigeria's economic capital and West Africa's most populous city, from a digital humanities perspective. Adelusi-Adeluyi utilizes historical sources, maps, and walking cartography to create new perspectives on the nineteenth-century history of Lagos. Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi will be in conversation with the history and STS scholar Dr. Damilola Adabayo of York University. Please register for the Zoom event here

Tomorrow is the first African Digital Indaba of the year! Join us for a discussion on Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi's book Imagine Lagos, which provides a historical exploration of Lagos from a digital humanities perspective. Register for this Zoom event here: calendar.ku.edu/even...

Pseudo-3D Imaging on a budget: Introduction to Reflectance Transformation Imaging Pseudo-3D Imaging on a budget: Introduction to Reflectance Transformation Imaging John McEwan, KU Libraries November 4th, 12 PM Registration Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) is a photographic technique that creates a digital visualization of an object. RTI simulates how the appearance of an object changes as it is viewed with light from different angles. RTI visualizations are most commonly used in forensic science, art conservation, and archaeology, but they can be helpful in understanding any sort of object with fine features. Indeed, an RTI can reveal features of an object that are invisible to the naked eye. Nonetheless, an RTI visualization can be created using relatively affordable equipment and the software is free. In this workshop, you will learn the basics of creating an RTI using a variety of easily sourced equipment, including string, ball-bearings and Lego. Registration is required.

Today at noon, John McEwan will be running a workshop on Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a photographic technique that creates a digital visualization of an object. It's not too late to register to join us in Watson 400B! Learn more here: calendar.ku.edu/even...

Pseudo-3D Imaging on a budget: Introduction to Reflectance Transformation Imaging Pseudo-3D Imaging on a budget: Introduction to Reflectance Transformation Imaging John McEwan, KU Libraries November 4th, 12 PM Registration Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) is a photographic technique that creates a digital visualization of an object. RTI simulates how the appearance of an object changes as it is viewed with light from different angles. RTI visualizations are most commonly used in forensic science, art conservation, and archaeology, but they can be helpful in understanding any sort of object with fine features. Indeed, an RTI can reveal features of an object that are invisible to the naked eye. Nonetheless, an RTI visualization can be created using relatively affordable equipment and the software is free. In this workshop, you will learn the basics of creating an RTI using a variety of easily sourced equipment, including string, ball-bearings and Lego. Registration is required.

Join us Nov. 4th at noon in Watson 400B for John McEwan's workshop, "Pseudo-3D Imaging on a budget: Introduction to Reflectance Transformation Imaging," to learn the basics of creating an RTI using a variety of easily sourced equipment. Register now: calendar.ku.edu/even...

Digital Jumpstart Workshops Registration is now open for our Fall 2024 Digital Jumpstart Workshops. This event, spread over two afternoons, features workshops, panels, and a keynote talk designed to help instructors integrate the tools and methods of the digital humanities into their classrooms. KU participants will be eligible to apply for $500 stipends from the Center for Teaching Excellence to support the development and implementation of digital humanities assignments into their classes. For full descriptions and information about the course stipends, please visit the Digital Jumpstart Workshops 2024 webpage. 90-minute workshops: Critical AI Literacy in the Classroom (Katie Conrad) Creating interactive stories with TWINE (John McEwan) Bringing Data Science into the Humanities Classroom (Jonathan Lamb) Using Scalar to Create a Community Archive (Samantha Bishop Simmons) Panel: Using DH in the Classroom (Brigid Enchill, Aimee Wilson, and Jonathan Hagel) Perusall Possibilities: Open Social Annotation (Liz MacGonagle) Digital Project Assignments: Tool Parade and Jam Session (Danica Savonick) Digital Mapping Fundamentals: Geospatial Data Modeling and Visualization (Randa El Khatib) Creating a culture of possibilities and innovation through podcasting assignments (Tami Albin)

Our 2024 Digital Jumpstart Workshops begin tomorrow! Register now for the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with variety of digital tools, learn from a panel of KU instructors on using DH in the classroom, and attend Danica Savonick's keynote talk: calendar.ku.edu/even...

@KUEnglish's Katie Conrad and Jon Lamb are running sessions on incorporating AI and Machine Learning as part of our Digital Jumpstart Workshops! Register today to learn more about incorporating DH tools and methods into your classroom: calendar.ku.edu/even...