Research & Projects (Page 77)

THATCamp Caribe is coming up next week! I’ll be attending to present on the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and to meet all of the other attendees. I’ll also be travelling with Brooke Wooldridge (dLOC Director) and Margarita Vargas-Betancourt (UF Caribbean Basin Librarian). I’m already very excited about meeting old and many new friends as well: http://caribbean2012.thatcamp.org/thatcampers/ Looking forward to seeing and meeting people soon!Read More →

News release and registration link here: http://blogs.uflib.ufl.edu/news/2012/10/19/collaborating-with-strangers-in-the-humanities/ Collaborating with Strangers in and OUTSIDE the Humanities When: Thursday, December 6 Where: Ustler Hall Atrium Time: 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Who: Any University of Florida faculty, staff, post-doc, student, or administrator Refreshments will be served. Visit for more information and registration link:  http://blogs.uflib.ufl.edu/news/2012/10/19/collaborating-with-strangers-in-the-humanities/ How can ideas connect people across disciplines? To connect students and faculty to on-campus resources, networks and creative opportunities for developing or carrying out research and teaching projects, the Humanities Center is hosting a Collaborating with Strangers workshop, presented by the UF Libraries. The CoLAB Planning Series® is a large group facilitative process thatRead More →

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries have debuted the online exhibition About Face: Revisiting Jamaica’s First Exhibition in Europe (http://exhibits.uflib.ufl.edu/aboutface). The exhibition, which is only available online, celebrates Jamaica’s 50th Anniversary of Independence by revisiting the country’s first post-independence exhibition to tour Europe. Face of Jamaica toured Europe for nine months between 1963 and 1964 yet it was never viewed in Jamaica. Almost fifty years later, the online exhibition About Face: Revisiting Jamaica’s First Exhibition in Europe reconsiders that exhibition by re-presenting its art and related materials online. Over forty of the original works of art by such noted artistsRead More →

Details are below, and an agenda is available here: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00009751/00009/pdf Digital Humanities Working Group: Locating the Real in the Virtual 7 November 2012, 12:00-1:30 pm, Pugh Hall, 210 As Walter Benjamin famously argued, mechanical reproduction deals a powerful blow to the ‘aura’ of cultural objects and texts. But, others have argued that tracing the reproductions of texts (their ‘trajectories’) makes available new perspectives on a text, its uses, communities, and meanings. Furthermore, some elements of digital reproduction actually permit closer study of archival objects (e.g., of the true colors of inks, of elements ‘erased’ or hidden behind other elements, or of the temporal unfolding ofRead More →

Updated version of post to update to Twitter feed as well: https://laurientaylor.org/2012/11/06/news-collaborating-with-strangers-in-and-outside-the-humanities/Read More →

This post moved here: https://laurientaylor.org/2012/11/06/news-uf-libraries-debut-online-exhibition-celebrating-the-50th-anniversary-of-jamaicas-independence-2/ (Moved in testing feed to Twitter; apologies for any confusion).Read More →

From the Centernet list: The UC Humanities Research Institute is seeking a talented and motivated individual with diverse experience in academic research and administration in the digital humanities. The Project Manager for Digital Humanities Research and Engagement will be responsible for helping to coordinate the HASTAC Digital Media and Learning (DML) Competition as well as assisting in the development of programs and funding for a UC-wide digital humanities initiative. The Digital Humanities Project Manager will work closely with the UCHRI Director and Associate Director and staff to conceptualize and implement a UC-wide initiative on digital humanities, pedagogy and engagement. Candidates will draw on previous trainingRead More →

The short public service piece that UF showed at the first UF Faculty Senate of this year just aired during the game. It’s a really great piece that speaks to UF’s prominence and importance as a public, land-grant institution. The video is also below, for ease of re-watching, and there’s a whole lot more on the UF Land Grant site: http://landgrant.ufl.edu/. Go UF and Go Gators!Read More →

The UF Faculay Senate meeting today begins at 3pm. The livestream of the meeting is linked from the Senate website: http://www.senate.ufl.edu/ and the full agenda is also available online.Read More →

The news below is from the UF Libraries’ news blog. The opening reception for this exhibit is tomorrow. The curator talk for the opening reception will be lovely for everyone who can make it. “Grimm Changes: from Folk Tale to Fairy Tale” Exhibit Opening reception: Thursday October 18, 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Smathers Library, Special and Area Studies Research Room Curator Suzan A. Alteri will discuss the exhibition along with the influence of the Brothers Grimm on children’s literature. More Information The George A. Smathers Libraries present an exhibition in honor of the 200th anniversary of the publication of the Brothers Grimm, Kinder- undRead More →