There are some Digital History lectures through the Digital Humanities Initiative coming up in November. I thought some of you might be interested, so I'm posting the info here!
Fall 2012 Digital Humanities Lecture
The Promise and Perils
of Doing History in the Digital Age
Andrew Torget (University of North Texas)
Friday, November 9, 2:30 pm | Room 104 Roy Cullen Building
Andrew J. Torget is a historian of nineteenth-century North
America at the University of North Texas, where he directs the Digital History
Lab. The founder and director of numerous digital humanities projects --
including Mapping Texts, Texas Slavery Project, Voting America, and the History
Engine -- Andrew served as co-editor of the Valley of the Shadow project, and
as the founding director of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of
Richmond. The co-editor of several books on the American Civil War, Andrew has
been a featured speaker on the digital humanities at Harvard, Stanford, Rice,
and the National Archives in Washington, D. C. In 2011, he was named the
inaugural David J. Weber Research Fellow at the Clements Center for Southwest
Studies at Southern Methodist University. He is currently completing a book
titled Cotton Empire: Slavery, the Texas Borderlands, and the Origins of the
U.S.-Mexico War.
Area Events of Interest
- Rice University Digital History lecture, November 1, 5-6 pm, Humanities 119: Chad Black (University of Tennessee)
- Rice University Digital History lecture, November 15, 5-6 pm, Humanities 117: Jo Guldi (Brown University)
Enjoy!
-Lori
