This past weekend, I presented at Trinity College on my use of augmented reality technology in my hybrid digital humanities project during the inaugural Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference. Thanks to a small grant from Five Colleges, Inc., I had the chance over the course of the two-day conference on February 28-29 to network with faculty, librarians, technologists, and graduate and…
By Evan Young, Amherst College It’s June 12, 2019. I’m writing this blog post from Boulder, Colorado, where I’m visiting family for just over a week. Soon I’ll be moving into my apartment in Amherst to start my Post-Baccalaureate position at Five College BL/DH. I’m excited to be staying on until June 2020; it will be wonderful to support the…
By Ray Van Huizen and Ella Martin-Gachot, Smith College Check out Ray and Ella’s project site at https://lesclefsdechezmoi.5colldh.org/. Ray: I learned a lot while working on the Five College Digital Humanities Undergraduate Fellowship. I learned about new software, about website design, about geographic information systems (GIS). I learned about knowing when to ask for help and advice. But most of all, I learned…
Working on your ideas for the Digital Humanities Undergraduate Fellowship? Join us at our Ideas Workshop to discuss your vision and questions with other students and the 5collDH team. The Workshop will be in 546 Herter Hall at UMass at 5pm on October 30th. To get you inspired, here are a few of our past projects: Uncovering a New England…
Five College Undergraduate Digital Humanities Fellowship CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Submissions due 22 December 2017. Successful recipients will be notified by 2nd of January 2018. (Click here for downloadable flyer) or Click here to Apply (http://5colldh.org/student-fellows/apply/) The Five College Consortium is pleased to announce the return of our fellowship for undergraduate projects in the digital humanities. Junior and senior undergraduate students (though others…
Christin Washington is a force. Her eloquence on the complexities of silence left me with a lot on my mind’s plate. As a 5collDH fellow for the year 2016/17, her project was on the theorization and the digitization of Black Silence. Using Black Brooklyn as a lens, she was able to analyze and read the absences. It takes courage and…
Kira deCoudres is a fascinating young artist who is one of our 5CollDH fellows and a Hampshire College alum. Her fellowship project titled, Methods of Ontological Remix, is a thesis project exploring current potentials of posthumanism. Through writings, multimedia work, and an experimental lecture series, the project will demonstrate non-traditional methods of creative bodily disruption. In less than 140 characters,…
Any conversation about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is bound to be complex. Through Adichie’s novels, speeches, and interviews, we have seen and heard of her complex opinions informed by her complex history of weaving through many cultural and physical landscapes. One of our 5CollDH fellows Lauren Tuiskula finds Adichie’s complexity through one of her most popular novels; Americanah . Tuiskula’s project titled, “Digital Adichie: Identity,…
Emily Lankiewicz would like us to see old things in new ways. She recently graduated from Mount Holyoke college as an Art History major and a 5CollDH fellow. Her project, aptly titled “New Ways of Seeing,” focuses on ancient art objects and pieces. A lot of these “ancient works” were once everyday objects, used to facilitate the everyday interactions between ordinary people: Coins…
Synesthesia, from the Greek words syn (union) and aesthesis (sensation), affects roughly 1 in 2,000 people. Michelle (Misha) Oraali happens to be one of those people graciously bestowed with the ability to make connections from sound to colour. She has been working on her software app, MuSyC (Music, Synesthesia, Color), which is a music to colour synesthesia simulator that takes…