A Conversation with Sarah Bryant & David Allen (2.4)

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In this episode, Sara Whitver talks to book artist Sarah Bryant and ecologist and biology professor David Allen about their collaborative work over the years. Specifically, we will talk about their latest project, Acts of Translation, a five part collaborative project coordinated and designed by Bryant that addresses the communication and conversion of information across disciplines. Sarah Bryant is an internationally recognized letterpress book artist whose creation process uses multiple modes of digital creation and documentation in order to produce her final analog piece of art, a letterpress printed book. David Allen is associate professor of biology at Middlebury College, where his research focuses on forest ecology. They have collaborated multiple times to produce data-driven art. 

A Conversation with Rachel Stephens (2.3)

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In this episode, Sara talks to Art Historian Rachel Stephens about a number of her Digital Humanities projects, and specifically about her most recent collaborative project, Joe Minter’s African Village.

A Conversation with George Daniels (2.1)

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In this episode, Sara Whitver talks to George Daniels about his Fall 2023 course entitled Race, Gender, and Media. The course uses HistoryMakers Digital Archive as a research foundation and incorporates a number of digital projects which allow students to present their research findings using digital methods.

An Archive of One’s Own: Exploring How Fanfiction Writers Organize their Work in a Fan-Made Archive (1.5)

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Assistant Professor and Digital Scholarship Librarian Carrie Hill shares her work exploring the information behaviors of fanfiction writers who post their work on Archive of Our Own (AO3), self-described as “A fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic.” She will share the inspiration for her project, challenges she faced while trying to answer her initial question, and where those challenges eventually led her with this study.

A Conversation with Jeri Wieringa (1.4)

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During this ADHC Talk, Sara and Jeri will talk about the future of DH: What technologies will have big impact? What infrastructure will be necessary to support sustained DH scholarship? How do we train future DH scholars?

A Conversation with the Alabama Memory Project (1.3)

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During this conversation, Sara Whitver will talk to John Giggie and Isabella Garrison about their Alabama Memory Project. Alabama Memory is an Omeka S documentary archive of the lives of lynched individuals in the state of Alabama. Giggie and Garrison will talk about data collection and methodologies for organizing and presenting data with the goal of telling the lived stories of victims of lynching in Alabama.

A Conversation with Amanda Koh (1.2)

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In the second episode of ADHC Talks, Sara Whitver talks with Chemical Engineer Amanda Koh. Amanda runs the Koh Laboratory which “focuses on engineering soft materials and material interfaces to enable new stretchable electronics, soft robotics, smart devices, and porous materials.” One of Amanda’s current projects is to design a wearable device that helps singers measure their breath while singing, with the ultimate hope of making this device more widely available for breathing therapies. Amanda and Sara will talk about what it means to design and create wearable devices and what kinds of ways these wearable devices can change our perception of what it means to be human and understand our bodies relative to the world around us.