Melissa Terras, Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for the Digital Humanities and 4Humanities coordinator, has gathered some statistics about the digital humanities and turned them into an infographic, which can be found at the UCLDH Flickr account and blog. The infographic shows the present extent of the Digital Humanities, measured according to a variety […]
Humanities Showcase
“What can undergraduates do with digital media at a liberal arts college?”
Students at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges met in November 2010 for a two-day symposium titled “Re:Humanities”, billed as “of, by, and for undergraduates, featuring innovative digital research.” As Evan McGonagill (Bryn Mawr, 2010) said in introductory remarks, the conference was an attempt to show how the digital humanities could be deliberately applied to undergraduate […]
Teaching Police Observational Skills through Art History
Amy Herman, head of education at the Frick Collection in New York City, has since 2004 offered “The Art of Observation” program, which offers members of the NYC police, the FBI, and the National Guard professional training in observational technique by using art works in the Frick holdings. Adapted from a similar program that the […]
Haiti Lab
Duke University’s Franklin Humanities Institute has started an initiative to create “humanities laboratories” that convene groups of faculty and students to work on interdisciplinary humanities research and pedagogy in spaces specially designed for collaborative work and focused on using technology as a “tool for research, research dissemination, pedagogy, and collection/archive development. The first of these […]