“eHistory Projects ” at the the NEH Institute 2018—Tues 19 June 2018
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2018-06-19

“eHistory Projects.”
6 a.m. - 8 a.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. CDT (Chicago) / 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. EDT (New York)
Lecture by Steve Berry.

The second day of the institute will expose participants to three other research projects, each representing a distinct approach to digital humanities. Stephen Barry, co-director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georgia, will discuss projects in digital historiography including IndianNation, a collection of the stories of the 237,000 Indians who appear in the 1900 census; the M.A.P. Project, a geospatial database of the African and African American population in North American prior to 1790; and CSI Dixie, a collection of South Carolina coroners' inquests between 1840 and 1880. Institute co-director David Saltz will describe an array of projects that employ computer modeling and interactive interface design to visualize and simulate theatre spaces, performances, and effects, such as his own NSF-funded Virtual Vaudeville Project (2004) that uses 3D computer animation and motion capture technology to create an immersive simulation of a vaudeville performance at the Union Square Theatre in 1895, recreating the theatre, a full performance, and the reactions of 900 spectators of diverse social classes and ethnicities. Amy Hughes (Brooklyn College) will lecture on the design and production of digital editions of historical texts and best practices in digital encoding and markup, drawing on her current project, an online edition US actor Harry Watkins’s diary.


The University of Georgia’s Department of Theatre and Film Studies presents the NEH Institute 2018: Digital Technologies in Theatre and Performance Studies livestreaming from commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 18 June - Friday 29 June.

This institute is aimed at college and university faculty eager to integrate digital technologies into their curricula, and who would like to gain a deeper understanding of the technologies and techniques to make this possible. The program assumes no prior expertise in digital media. Through presentations and hands-on workshops with some of the country’s leading experts on digital performance and scholarship, the institute’s participants will gain valuable techniques and experience in how best to integrate digital methods and tools in teaching theatre studies and performance practice.
 
The first week focuses on the impact of digital technologies on performance scholarship, and the second, on digital performance practices. Both weeks balance lectures, seminars, and hands-on workshops. Participants will leave the institute with specific exercises, lesson plans, and references to support continued development in their classrooms and their home institutions.

The institute was jointly initiated by the leadership of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR).

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