{"id":9563,"date":"2017-10-25T01:30:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T05:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=9563"},"modified":"2017-10-25T01:30:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T05:30:18","slug":"mellon-workshops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/mellon-workshops\/","title":{"rendered":"Events | Mellon-Funded Digital Publishing Initiative Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This fall, Brown University Library and the Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (REMS) will host a series of interactive, interdisciplinary workshops on digital humanities scholarship for undergraduates, featuring two pilot projects selected for Brown\u2019s Digital Publishing Initiative, generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The REMS Program offers students many opportunities to work with centuries-old books and pictures in some very modern ways, uncovering exciting research questions in the humanities, history, and the social sciences along the way.<\/p>\n

Books without Pages: Project Atalanta<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The first workshop, \u201cBooks without Pages: Project Atalanta<\/em>,\u201d will take place on Thursday,<\/strong>\u00a0October 26, 2017 at 12 p.m.<\/strong> Project Atalanta<\/em> brings to life in digital form a multimedia seventeenth-century text, Michael Maier\u2019s alchemical emblem book, Atalanta fugiens<\/em>. The publication will consist of a dynamic, enhanced digital edition of the early modern book, including recordings of its fifty fugues, as well as a critical anthology of media-rich interpretative essays. Associate Professor of History Tara Nummedal, Digital Scholarship Editor Allison Levy, and Designer for Online Publications Crystal Brusch, along with the graduate and undergraduate students who have been working on the project, will present material from the digital project in conjunction with an evaluation of the printed early modern book from the John Hay Library.<\/p>\n

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Journey into the New World and Other Tales of Forgotten (Early) Modern Media<\/strong><\/p>\n

The second workshop, \u201cJourney into the New World and Other Tales of Forgotten (Early) Modern Media,\u201d will take place on Wednesday,<\/strong>\u00a0November 1, 2017 at 12 p.m.<\/strong> Professor of Italian Studies Massimo Riva, Digital Scholarship Editor Allison Levy, and Designer for Online Publications Crystal Brusch will introduce undergraduates to the wonders of time travel by exploring several examples of analog media from the pre-digital age. How can popular forms of entertainment from centuries ago, such as the cosmorama, the magic lantern, or the \u201cmoving panorama,\u201d help us better understand our own \u201cbrave new world\u201d \u2013 our digital visual culture? This workshop will revolve around a set of digital simulations of eighteenth-century optical devices being designed for this project.<\/p>\n

Both events will take place in the Digital Scholarship Lab\u00a0on the first floor of Rockefeller Library. A short reception will follow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dates<\/strong>: October 26 and November 1, 2017
\nTime<\/strong>: 12 p.m.
\nLocation<\/strong>: Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library, 10 Prospect Street<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This fall, Brown University Library and the Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (REMS) will host a series of interactive, interdisciplinary workshops on digital humanities scholarship for undergraduates, featuring two pilot projects selected for Brown\u2019s Digital Publishing Initiative, generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The REMS Program offers students many opportunities to … Events | Mellon-Funded Digital Publishing Initiative Workshops<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,5,34,20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-projects","category-exhibits-events","category-exhibits-events-special-collections","category-special-collections","category-workshops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}