Category: Visualizing History through Digital Literacy
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The Digital Opportunities: Train Students for Historical Research in the Digital Age
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Song Chen (Bucknell University) To train students for research is a challenge. It is more so in the field of non-Western history because of the additional language barriers. The conventional answer to this challenge is translation. Since the late nineteenth century, missionaries and scholars have been translating classical works from Chinese intellectual and literary traditions.…
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Digital Rome: Researching and Teaching Ancient Roman Urbanism with Student-Created 3D Visualizations
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Thomas Morton (Swarthmore College) Over 675 ancient Roman municipal entities are known from across North Africa; however, most of the scholarship is in French, German, and Italian and thus out of reach for most students. The question becomes, how does one engage students with the innovative architecture and urbanism that occurred in this part of…
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A Database of One’s Own: A Faculty/Student Project in Digital Literary Analysis
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Constance Walker and Erin Winter (Carleton College) How can big data and digital humanities tools expand our knowledge of literary history and literary texts? My current research explores this important question by using such tools to study a little-studied or known set of lyric poems about the arts by British women writers, written between 1660-1900.…