Join the Digital Scholarship Group (Northeastern University Libraries) and the NULab Center for Texts, Maps and Networks (College of Social Sciences and Humanities) for our annual kickoff event! It will be on November 4th from 1 PM to 2:30 PM.

The Fall Welcome will feature a keynote speech by Dr. Garrett Dash Nelson, the Curator of Maps and Director of Geographic Scholarship at the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library. The keynote will be followed by lighting talks presenting research from the Northeastern community's digital projects. 

Schedule

1:00-1:45 

We open with a welcome from Elizabeth Dillon, co-director of the NULab, and Julia Flanders, Director of the Digital Scholarship Group, followed by a keynote address and Q&A from Dr. Garrett Dash Nelson:

It Could Happen Here: Space, Place, and Geography in Digital Scholarship. Geographic visualizations – and specifically maps – are one of the key modalities for both scholarly and public-facing digital work in the humanities and social sciences. Yet the technical logics of the digital map as an instrument of analysis and display can be both frustrating and limiting. In this talk, I'll look at efforts to reorient mapmaking platforms towards perspectives based in human geography and urban history, and suggest how geography can act as a binding agent for many other forms of digital scholarship. 

1:50-2:30

We will follow the keynote with four lightning talks from members of the Northeastern community. 

• Rixt Woudstra, "Imperial Objects"
• Tieanna Graphenreed, "Why an Index? On Archival Absenses and Authorship within The Brownies' Book" 
• Ellen Cushman and Taylor Snead, "DAILP: the Digital Archive of American Indian Languages Preservation and Perseverance" 
• Rahul Bhargava, "Using Computation to Understand the Media"