Our guest today is Dr. Lauren Cardon. Lauren is Associate Professor and Director of graduate studies in the Department of English here at the University of Alabama. She specializes in 20th-century and contemporary American literature, cultural studies, and critical pedagogy. Lauren has a long history of partnering with the ADHC to give her students the opportunity for multimodal research in the literature classroom.
Today she is joined with one of her undergraduate students, Maylee Hamlet, who was enrolled in EN 361 and worked on the project that we’re going to talk about today. Welcome, Lauren and Maylee.
Season: 3
Episode: 4
Date: 3/2024
Presenter: Lauren Cardon and Maylee Hamlet
Topic: Building a collaborative TimelineJS for Special Topics in American Literature
Tags: American Literature; Digital Projects; TimelineJS
Last week, on May 14th, the Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities (HCDH) took part in the University of Heidelberg’s Impact Day 2025 at the Neue Universität to present some of the ongoing projects of...
“Unfinished Conversations” (UC) is a new form of curatorial practice, public engagement, and programming to collect, give voice to, and provide a platform for untold histories, memories, and narratives related to the history of racialized slavery and its afterlives. By sharing experiences, histories and memories from people around the world who have experienced the legacies of racial slavery and colonialisms in different ways, scholars, educators and the public will have a new understanding of this global system and how it continues to shape communities today — in both shared and regionally specific ways. This website is a resource for educators and scholars about the history and legacies of global racial slavery and colonization told by those who have personally experienced it. The website is a part of the broader Unfinished Conversations collaborative project.
Contributors to this project include Tony Bogues (PI), Shana Weinberg (Simmons Center), Kiku Langford McDonald (Simmons Center), Tarika Sankar (CDS), Ashley Champagne (CDS), Elizabeth Yalkut (CDS), Patrick Rashleigh (CDS), Khanh Vo (CDS), Bianca Pallo (John Hay Library), Karyn De Paula Mota, Yannick Etoundi
Depicting Glory is a digital project that presents a group of rare Chinese objects drawn from across the Brown University Library. Most of these items date from the late Qing dynasty in the 19th century, though one item is a set of maps published in Taiwan around 1960. Although the items were created in different times and places, they collectively reflect societal sentiments surrounding an issue central to China’s modernization process: the intersection of power, status, and collective identity. Each of these objects involves a public reckoning with a dramatic shift in a power that came with the great expansion of military might and regional status in the late 18th century, the cataclysmic erosion of power and order across the 19th century, and the ongoing quest to restore power and glory from the 20th century right through to the present.
Mill Marginalia Online is a digital edition of all marks and annotations in the books of the John Stuart Mill Collection, held at Oxford University’s Somerville College.
Crimson Fried is a student-authored forum for delicious recipes and contemporary food-related discourse. Contributors are currently participating in an Advanced Studies in Writing seminar at the University of Alabama, entitled “Discourses of Food: Growing, Cooking, Consuming.”
The Italian Program in the Department of Modern Languages and Classics at The University of Alabama presents an online seminar series investigating the comic and its uses in moments or situations of trouble. The five talks in our series will variously look at how instances of tribulation, crisis, or upheaval can be examined and made sense of through a comic lens, often leading to a cathartic experience.
These resources leverage the rich repository of data provided by the Sloane Lab Knowledge Baseto explore the contributions of women within Sloane’s “Paper Museum” — a vast compendium comprising over 1,000 illustrated books, 100 picture albums, an estimated 60,000 drawings, prints, and paintings, as well as manuscript catalogues spanning thousands of handwritten pages.
Together, they showcase how the SLKB can serve as a dynamic resource for critical inquiry.
The dataset establishes a foundation for enhancing the representation of women within Hans Sloane’s collections through the Sloane Lab Knowledge Base. It offers a snapshot of the various ways women are documented and represented in the collections detailing their roles (e.g., artist, author), the type of entries associated with them (e.g., Pictures Catalogue Entry, Printed Books Catalogue Entry), as well as additional information about their work or the context of their contributions. Where possible, a link has been provided to each entry in the SLKB, allowing for deeper exploration. The dataset can be downloaded as Excel file (.xlsx) or in CSV format.
A Guide to Finding Women in the Sloane Lab Knowledge Base offers a practical starting point for researchers seeking to uncover the hidden narratives of women in Sloane’s collections. It outlines the methodological approach used to identify women’s contributions, highlighting how often these roles are obscured by gaps in the original cataloguing efforts, where names and direct references to women’s involvement are frequently absent. The guide is part of a broader effort to enhance how narratives of marginalised individuals are accessed, understood, and valued within the SLKB. The guide can be downloaded as a PDF file in both double-page and single-page view.
The exhibition spotlights the work of Elizabeth Blackwell, author and artist of A Curious Herbal; horticultural virtuoso Mary Somerset, the Duchess of Beaufort; and illustrators Anna and Susannah Lister, daughters of conchologist Martin Lister. It also highlights contributions from lesser-known women, such as botanical artists Ellen and Margery Power, and the mysterious ‘Mrs. London,’ whose watercolour illustrations appear in her personal copy of Maria Sibylla Merian’s Insects of Surinam.
Collectively, these resources empower users to explore the Sloane Lab Knowledge Base in innovative ways, demonstrating the impact that digital tools and critical methodologies can have in uncovering the contributions of individuals relegated to the margins of early modern science.
If you would like to follow along with Rosalind’s future research projects, you can find her on X (formerly Twitter) @DrRosalindWhite.
The project seeks to engage residents of “The Dunes” encampment in arts-based methods designed to develop representations of the lived experience of homeless individuals and groups in illegalized encampments in greater Providence. Specifically, the project uses the participatory Photovoice method and discussion circles to engage residents in collecting photos and short audio recordings as well as creating captions for the images they capture. The images will be shared in a physical exhibit for residents of The Dunes, in an accessible website, and in the Brown Digital Repository. The project aims to engage public discourse around the nuanced and layered problem of homelessness in Rhode Island, a state rarely included in national conversations on homelessness, share stories and perspectives from unhoused people in Rhode Island, and generate dialogue and creative approaches to developing new solutions.
Since the May 2020 death of George Floyd, anti-racist social movements and counter-movements have captured the attention of the public in the US and around the world. The In the Wake of George Floyd Project explores and documents the various forms these protests took in Rhode Island and the responses to them, especially by the state and the police. We are particularly interested in understanding how RI communities’ experiences of police violence and structural racism resonated with the broader national (and global) racial justice movement. The project also explores and records the responses of Brown University– departments, student organisations, senior administration, DIAP committees, inter alia, to these events. The project, a collaboration between The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS), documents these movements for social justice through a timeline of events, analysis of data, and interviews with community members. These protests and the disproportionate effects of COVID-19 on Black and Latinx people, reflecting deep racial, social, education and health disparities, underscore the importance of engaging more mindfully with the challenges that confront our communities.
Contributors to this project include Patsy Lewis (PI), Tarika Sankar (CDS Lead), Ashley Champagne (CDS Lead), Maria Victoria Taborelli, Shereece Rankine, Marcus Waller, Gabriela Venegas-Ramirez, Patrick Rashleigh, Cody Carvel, María Inclán, Kate Goldman, Karthik Saravana, Niyoshi Parekh, Isabella Garo, Liliana Mack, Alexis Gordon, and Sophia Ellis
Experiments in Artificial Intelligence & Digital Scholarship
The Center for Digital Scholarship is committed to exploring the use of AI for digital scholarship and digital humanities. Our project on “Experiments in Artificial Intelligence & Digital Scholarship” documents a few of the smaller projects and work our team is developing with researchers at Brown University to utilize advancements in AI for digital scholarship.
Spring 2024 Experiment: Could AI help recreate and help preserve the work of David Jhave Johnson’s AI poetry that relied on broken code with dependency problems?
Project team: Patrick Rashleigh, Daniel Kang (undergraduate majoring in Math, CS, and Linguistics), Justin Uhr, Tarika Sankar, Michael Satlow (Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies)
This project aims to digitize a series of recently declassified aerial photographs that document the Nile Delta and Nile Valley. Shot by U2 spy planes, this imagery provides much higher resolution images than any currently available imagery (for instance the CORONA satellite imagery that has revolutionized archaeology in this area in the past two decades), and shows the landscape prior to the construction of the Aswan High Dam. Given the relatively early date of the imagery, there is excellent potential for site discovery and heritage mapping—these images provide an invaluable view of a landscape prior to the extensive expansion of agriculture and urban development in Egypt that, over the past six decades, has significantly altered the ability to see earlier material remains. For those archaeologists interested in landscape studies or tracing settlement patterns, these aerial photos have significant potential to offer valuable insights. For researchers seeking to identify damaged or threatened cultural heritage sites the U2 imerary will be a valuable tool to support a variety of research efforts across and beyond the Egyptological community. Our aim is to make these images publicly available via a website that shows their location and how to download them from a digital repository. This project seeks to make these high resolution images free for any interested researchers and the general public.
A digital archive and collection created in Omeka Classic in 2018-19. The purpose of the project is to document, geolocate, describe, and interpret monuments, memorials, and sites of slavery. “Slave past” encompasses a broad range of commemorative works related to the Middle Passage and enslavement, the plantation as site of Black labor, the resistance to enslavement, the Underground Railroad, the participation of black soldiers in the Civil War, and emancipation and freedom. The project is most interested in telling stories about where, how, and why communities are engaging the slave past and memorializing it in public space including voices of stakeholders who engaged in the tasks of remembrance and commemoration of slavery.
The project database currently contains approximately 115 commemorative works to the slave past that are located in Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, Mexico, South America, and the United States. All commemorative works in the project have an Omeka record with identifying data, description, and geolocation information. Each commemorative work also includes photographs of the objects and landscapes in which they are located, collected through the PI’s travels to visit the varied sites of slavery. Also included on Omeka are exhibits that highlight specific memorials or groups of commemorative works with similar themes. The project is housed currently on Reclaim Hosting through a personal subscription.
Contributors to this project include Renée Ater (PI), Mairelys Lemus-Rojas,Justin Uhr, Khanh Vo (CDS lead), Elizabeth Yalkut, Grace Yasumura (former project lead), Yui Suzuki (editor/data cleaner), and Nélari Figueroa Torres (undergraduate researcher)
Funding for this iteration of the project comes from The Office of the Provost, Brown University. The project has received funding from National Endowment of the Humanities-Mellon Foundation, Getty Research Institute, and the Smithsonian Institution Office of Fellowships. It has also been supported by the Michelle Smith Collaboratory of Visual Culture, Department of Art History at the University of Maryland and the National Humanities Center with Duke Digital Art History and Visual Culture Research Lab.
In and Out of Place: Resource Extractions from Treaty Lands
In and Out of Place: Resource Extractions from Treaty Lands uses a decolonizing, collaborative and Lakotan-centered approach to map scientific and military expeditions that entered the 1868 Treaty Territory in the Black Hills region from the mid-19th century to the turn of the 20th century. The project is a prototype map tracking Custer’s and other expeditions’ day-by-day travels across Treaty lands, contextualized with newspaper reports, journal entries, and other primary sources. “In and Out of Place” aims to generate interest and conversation among Lakotan and other Indigenous communities impacted by this history.
The project hopes to receive feedback from communities to guide its future directions and offer a space to think critically about the role of maps and other “objective” modes of scientific representation in the long history of American imperialism and settler colonialism.
Networks of Gothic brings together art historians, computer scientists, film and digital media experts to advance the teaching and research of Gothic buildings.
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Topic: Art History, Digital Media, Film Studies, Computer Science
This course examines the histories of hundreds of indigenous peoples in North America from early human habitation to the present day, with a focus on those residing in what is now the United States and Canada. We will study their experiences; their encounters with one another, Europeans, and Africans; and the different histories that people have told about those experiences and encounters. Class materials, which include art, film, and fiction as well as history and anthropology, stress the diversity of Native lifeways as well as the ways in which the history of American Indians has often been ignored, changed, appropriated, and distorted, as well as reclaimed and re-evaluated over time. Some of the questions we will consider throughout the semester include: How much can we know about Native peoples before they had an alphabetic written history? What can European sources teach us about the Native peoples they encountered? How did the Native peoples of North America live before 1492? Does it make any sense to generalize about “Indians,” given that they include a large number of diverse peoples? How did contact with Europeans and Africans (and their diseases and technologies) change Native societies? How did Natives affect Europeans and Africans? Why did Natives lose ground (literally and figuratively) in the nineteenth century? How have Natives experienced and reacted to the changes of the twentieth century? What does it mean to be a Native in the United States today?
This website is a cumulative knowledge repository for students in successive sections of Music and Political Movements, and reflects a process of discovery. Students contribute to an ever-growing timeline that highlights particular musical pieces or events that, through initial intention or acquired meaning, have shaped or expressed political sentiment. Students also showcase their primary source projects undertaken at the Hoole Special Collections library. They begin by selecting an item from the collection – often a piece of printed music, a brochure or a manuscript item. Next, they consider how the physical object communicates political feeling or intention, and they pursue secondary source research to inform further the process of inquiry, and to flesh out their understanding of the object, its cultural history, and the political issues of the era in which it was produced. Finally, students create presentations of their research to be featured on this website. Students in subsequent sections of this course have the benefit of learning from and building on the work of earlier sections.
The literary movements and periods featured on this site represent the broad spectrum of American literature before the Civil War. For each category, students in two sections of Honors American Literature have provided an introduction to the period, biographical information about several authors important to the period, and some contextual historical information to help viewers better understand the literature of the period––the broader “literary landscape.”
Hydrologic research generates large volumes of peer-reviewed literature across a number of evolving sub-topics. It’s becoming increasingly difficult for scientists and practitioners to synthesize this full body of literature. We explore topic modeling as a form of unsupervised learning applied to 42,154 article-abstracts from six high-impact (Impact Factor > 0.9) journals – Water Resources Research (WRR), Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS), Journal of Hydrology (JH), Hydrological Processes (HP), Hydrological Sciences Journal (HSJ), Journal of Hydrometeorology (JHM), to provide a high-level contextual analyses of hydrologic science literature since 1991. We used a hybrid objective-subjective approach to label a number of broad topics in this body of literature, and used these labeled topics to analyze topic trends, inter-topic relationships, and journal diversity. The methods and outcomes of this endeavor are potentially beneficial to scientists and researchers who aim to gain a contextual understanding of the existing state of hydrologic science literature. In the long term, we see topic modeling as a tool to help increase the efficiency of literature reviews, science communication, and science-informed policy and decision making regarding global hydrological systems.
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