{"id":4792,"date":"2013-03-14T07:45:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T11:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=4792"},"modified":"2013-03-14T07:45:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T11:45:29","slug":"showcasing-the-digital-scholarship-lab-spring-series-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/showcasing-the-digital-scholarship-lab-spring-series-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Showcasing the Digital Scholarship Lab: Spring Series, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 This spring, Brown University Library is launching a series of talks by Brown faculty and visiting scholars across the disciplines to celebrate the opening of the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab<\/a> at the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library. \u00a0All talks for\u00a0Showcasing the Digital Scholarship Lab: Spring Series, 2013 <\/em>are free, open to the public, and followed by catered receptions. Space is limited. Seating is first-come, first-serve.<\/p>\n

Series speakers will discuss and demonstrate ways in which digital technologies, especially those enabling data visualization and analysis, have impact on their teaching and research and enable new forms of student learning and interaction.\u00a0Talks are scheduled for Thursday evenings (and one Tuesday evening) starting at 5:30pm.<\/p>\n

The series will kick off on March 14. Sheila Bonde, Professor of the History of Art and Architecture and Professor of Archaeology at Brown, will give a lecture titled \u201cRe-presenting the Past,\u201d examining the challenges of representing the past through the lens of archaeological work at the French medieval monasteries of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons and Notre Dame d\u2019Ourscamp. Bonde will look at the challenges of incomplete data, of representing time and movement, and of going beyond visual representation.<\/p>\n

Massimo Riva, Professor of Italian studies at Brown, Director of the Brown Center in Bologna and Director of the Virtual Humanities Lab at Brown will give the second talk on Thursday, March 21. Riva\u2019s talk, \u201cThe Virtual Life of Books and Other Curious Artifacts,\u201d will examine how great books, such as Boccaccio\u2019s Decameron, and curious historical artifacts, like the Garibaldi panorama, help us rethink research and teaching in the digital age.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaker schedule:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, March 14 – Sheila Bonde<\/a>,\u00a0Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Professor of Archaeology at Brown University<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 21 – Massimo Riva<\/a>,\u00a0Professor of Italian Studies, Director Brown Center in Bologna and Director, Virtual Humanities Lab at Brown University<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 4 – Rachel Franklin<\/a>, Assistant Professor of Population Studies at Brown University<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 11 – John Cayley<\/a>, Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 18 – Eben Gay, REVEAL architect.<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 25 – Jill Pipher<\/a>, Professor of\u00a0Mathematics at Brown University and Director, of ICERM, The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 30 – Andries Van Dam<\/a>, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education and Professor of Computer Science at Brown University<\/p>\n

Thursday, May 2 – Shawn Greenlee<\/a>,\u00a0Assistant Professor of\u00a0Foundation Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design<\/p>\n

The Lab, located on the first floor of the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, features a\u00a07’x16′ video wall composed of over 24 million pixels for data visualization and\u00a0analysis. The wall can be configured to display up to\u00a0twelve independent video sources simultaneously, making the Lab an effective collaboration space.\u00a0\u00a0The Lab is also outfitted with a wide\u00a0range of software for scholars across the disciplines, a state-of-the-art audio system, video conferencing capabilities, programmable\u00a0lighting, and two 50″ touch-screen displays that can be used\u00a0independently or linked to the video wall for collaborative display\u00a0and interaction.<\/p>\n

For updates on the series visit library.brown.edu\/dsl.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Brown University Library<\/strong>\u00a0is home to more than 6.8 million print items, plus a multitude of electronic resources and expanding digital archives serving the teaching, research, and learning needs of Brown students and faculty, as well as scholars from around the country and the world.<\/p>\n

Contact:<\/b> Jennifer Braga<\/a> |\u00a0 401-863-6913<\/p>\n

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