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Editors’ Choice: How do we teach history after this? Thoughts from the “Pandemic Pedagogy” series

I went into self-isolation about a week before many others. Because I had come into contact with family traveling abroad, I worked from home while the university and college I work for continued to prepare for what felt like an inevitability after the WHO’s declaration. Being by myself that first week exacerbated the sense of […]

News, Resources

Resource: Processing Archival Metadata with Open Refine

From the resource: Finding an efficient, low-cost method to process large volumes of metadata generated by hundreds of unique teams is a challenge; one that in 2019, EAP sought to alleviate using freely available open source software Open Refine – a power tool for processing data. This blog highlights some of the ways that we […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Day of DH 2020

From the CFParticipation: Day of DH 2020 will take place on April 29. This year, Digital Humanists are encouraged to communicate what they do on Twitter, what they are working on and the rhythm of their life in DH. As many, if not most, institutions are working virtually because of COVID-19 social distancing and quarantines, […]

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Editors’ Choice: Teaching Digital Literacy through a Walking Tour about the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot

Working with three first-year students and two graduate students at Georgia State University, I oversaw the development of a self-guided walking tour that uses David Fort Godshalk’s Veiled Visions to describe the horrific events that occurred on Saturday, September 22nd, the first day of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot. The tour, available for free on […]

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Editors’ Choice: Hilary Green and Transformative Digital History – Reframing History Podcast

In this episode, I spoke with Dr. Hilary Green Associate Professor of History in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama. Her research and teaching interests explore the intersections of race, class, and gender in African American history. Her first book Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, […]

News, Resources

Resource: Resources on the 1918-1919 Influenza Epidemic in Canada

From the resource: COVID-19, as a global pandemic, is extraordinary but it is not unparalleled. Indeed, we can learn how to respond to the current crisis, in part, by studying how people responded to past pandemics, including the influenza epidemic that spread around the globe in 1918–1919. That pandemic killed an estimated 50 million people […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Orientalisms Twitter Conference 2020

From the CFP: Long term readers will likely be aware of The Digital Orientalist’s “Digital Orientalisms Twitter Conference” (DOsTC) which we held on June 1st, 2019. Given the cancellation of many non-virtual conferences this year, the Digital Orientalist has been receiving requests from some of our readers to hold another Twitter Conference. So without further ado, we […]

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CFP: Edited Collection on “Digital Humanities Laboratories”

From the CFP: Together with Christopher Thomson (University of Canterbury), we are inviting proposals towards a book project tentatively titled “Digital Humanities Laboratories: Global Perspectives”. The goal of this collection is to explore laboratories in digital humanities in the global context, to reflect on their epistemological and organizational implications for scholarly knowledge production, and to […]

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Editors’ Choice: Pandemic Religion – A Digital Archive

As the world undergoes wrenching changes—some temporary, some permanent—in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, religious communities in the United States have also been deeply affected. Many have hastily moved services online: a change which has been influenced by the hugely varying liturgical, theological, legal, and financial resources available to different groups. Of course a few […]

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Editors’ Choice: The Dial-a-Drill: Automating the Teacher with Ed-Tech at Home

Greetings. Thank you very much for inviting me to speak to you today. You have found yourself enrolled in perhaps the most perfectly and horribly timed class, as you’re asked to think about education technology critically, right as the coronavirus crisis plays out across schools and colleges worldwide and as students and teachers are compelled […]