The DSG saw many highlights during the fall 2022 semester. To start off, the DSG held a table at the SOURCE event on October 6, 2022. Here, Coordinator Matthew Choi Taitano and representatives from the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, the Early Caribbean Digital Archive, and the Digital Transgender Archive were present to answer students’ questions about DH work on campus. Click here for the event details.
Then on November 9, 2022, as part of DH Open Office Hours the DSG and NULab hosted the Fall Scholarship Celebration event over Zoom. Here, scholars Nicole Aljoe, Cassie McMillan, Alauna Safarpour, and Giula Taurino presented on their respective DH projects. Click here for the event details.
On November 2, 2022, again as part of DH Open Office Hours, the DSG and NULab also hosted Speed Data-ing. Here, potential collaborators discussed a range of digital humanities and computational social science research questions, methodologies, and data sets. The presenters were Silvio Amir, Sina Fazelpour, Gina Nortonsmith, and David Smith. Click here for the event details.
On December 1, 2022, the DSG, in collaboration with NULab, the College of Art, Media and Design, and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, hosted a presentation by Catherine D’Ignazio titled “Counting Feminicide: What Data Scientists Can Learn From Grassroots Feminist Activists.” The presentation speaks on work that is explored in an upcoming book project by D’Ignazio. A recording of the presentation is also included in the Digital Repository Services (click here). Click here for the event details.
Finally, on December 6, 2022, the DSG hosted its last event for the fall 2022 semester. The event, as part of DH Open Office Hours, was a presentation by Mindy Seu titled “Translation of Cyberfeminism.” The presentation was on work explored in an upcoming book by Seu titled Cyberfeminism Index, to be released in February 2023. A recording of the presentation is also included in the Digital Repository Services (click here). Click here for the event details.