The Five College program in Blended Learning and Digital Humanities is pleased to announce that our Undergraduate Fellowship in the Digital Humanities is accepting applications for the 2018-2019 academic year. Junior and senior undergraduate students (and exceptional sophomores) at any of the five colleges are invited to submit proposals for creative and/or scholarly projects that draw together the humanities and substantial work with digital resources and/or technologies.
A message from Dr. Eric Poehler, former Director of 5CollBLDH, upon the ending of the programs: It is my duty to report that, after a decade of existence, the Five Colleges programs in Blended Learning and Digital Humanities are coming to an end. It is a bittersweet moment, naturally, full of both pride in all that 5CollBLDH has accomplished and…
The Five College Blended Learning and Digital Humanities program is pleased to invite you to the 7th annual Undergraduate Digital Humanities Fellows Symposium, hosted via Zoom on April 23, 4:00pm EST. This symposium is a showcase of the hard work of our undergraduate fellows, whose research ranges from networks of South Asian artists to biographies of incarcerated black women, from mapping the…
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…
By Kendall Futrell, Smith College After a semester I have finally finished the project I started in January — Bad Books: An Exploration of Censorship! It is a digital exhibit, which you can check out here: https://badbooks.5colldh.org (it’s a .org, I feel so cool). The project is meant to showcase censorship and the many different ways it can look. I knew when…
Following our April symposium featuring spectacular presentations by the 2018-2019 cohort of Five College Digital Humanities Undergraduate Fellows, things calmed down here at 5CollBL/DH. Summer in the Five College Consortium has not been without its own pace, however. Our new Post-Baccalaureate Fellow, Evan Young (that’s me), began work at the start of July, and he along with 5CollBL/DH Director Eric…
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…
This year’s Five College Postdoctoral scholar of Digital Humanities and Blended Learning, Jeffrey Vadala challenged his Hampshire College class to produce virtual reality representations of ancient beliefs systems for the class Anthropologically Critiquing Reality. Influenced by the “Ontological Turn,” this class explores how ontological and metaphysical systems shape societies around the world. For a semester-long project, Hampshire college students learned to…