Join us for our final Digital Humanities Working Group of the Spring Semester with Associate Professor of Religious Studies Richard Newton on April 20, 2023, at 10am. Dr. Newton will give a preview into “Decoding Diaspora: J. A. Rogers’ Mythic Africa” a research project that he’s working on in the…
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Have Final Papers and Projects? Come to the RELdl Work-a-Thon!
On Wednesday, April 19th, come by the REL Digital Lab and Annex (Presidents Hall 200-A and 307). We will have everything you need to keep you moving on your final projects: Stop by for a few minutes for a study break or bring your work and get ahead of those…
Digital Humanities Working Group: Nathan Loewen
Please join us Friday, September 16th, for the first DH Working Group of the Fall 2022 semester featuring Dr. Nathan Loewen, Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies. Dr. Loewen will kick off the DH Working Group with a conversation about works in progress. His research tackles questions of…
Get to Know the REL Digital Lab
The REL Digital Lab is open and we want to see you! Haven’t been to the Digital Lab yet? That’s ok! We have our first event tomorrow, August 31, from Noon to 1pm. Join us as we launch our “Basics of … ” brownbag series. Tomorrow we will focus on…
Launching Year Two of the REL Digital Lab
Welcome back to campus and to a new year for the REL Digital Lab. Last year was a productive one in the RELdl. We hosted class session and independent studies, supported faculty projects including digitizing scrapbooks, creating podcasts, editing videos, and analyzing texts, and began hosting a working group for…
Second DH Working Group on April 11th
Please join us on April 11th at Noon in ten Hoor 30 for the second meeting of the Digital Humanities Working Group. Dr. Jennifer Feltman, Assistant Professor in Art and Art History, will be discussing and demonstrating her research creating VR Cathedral, an Oculus Quest application that introduces Gothic architecture…
First Digital Humanities Working Group Meeting
The Digital Humanities Working Group promotes digital and computational research in the humanities and social sciences. On February 23rd, we hosted the first meeting of the DH Working Group, featuring Prof. Joseph Smith of Political Science. Prof. Smith talked about his research using automated content analysis to explore issues such…
Teaching Digital Methods
One of the hallmarks of the MA program in Religious Studies here at UA is the emphasis on digital humanities and on training students to work both inside and outside of academia. Students complete a mandatory “Public Humanities Foundations” course that has a strong digital media emphasis, and also complete…
Launching the REL Digital Lab
With the start of the Fall 2021 term, we are please to announce the official launch the new REL Digital Lab in Presidents Hall 200-A! The Lab, which was our department library, has been transformed over the summer to include a range of technologies, including computers, audio recording equipment, and…