IATH NEWS
Steve Railton interview on WTJU's Soundboard
May 20, 2013
IATH Fellow Steve Railton was a guest on local radio station WTJU's Soundboard on May 16, discussing William Faulkner and the Digital Yoknapatawpha project... [Read More]
New IATH Fellows for 2013-2014
May 6, 2013
IATH is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2013-2014 IATH Fellowships: Eve Danziger, Associate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, will receive a Resident Fellowship and Stephen Railton, Professor of English, and Brad Pasenek, Assistant Professor of English, will receive Associate Fellowships... [Read More]
IATH Collaborating with Project Andvari
April 25, 2013
Project Andvari: A Digital Portal to the Visual World of Early Medieval Northern Europe is just starting up at Catholic University of America (Lilla Kopar, Director) in collaboration with the University of Mississippi (Nancy Wicker, Co-Director) and IATH... [Read More]
Stephen Railton receives NEH Start-Up Grant for Digital Yoknapatawpha
April 22, 2013
IATH Fellow and UVA English Professor Stephen Railton is a recipient of a $59,084 NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant for expansion of his Digital Yoknapatawpha project... [Read More]
Alan Liu and Rama Hoetzlein on Social Networks and the History of Thought
April 9, 2013
Alan Liu and Rama Hoetzlein will present “The History of Thought as Networked Community: The RoSE Prototype” on Tuesday, April 16, in Harrison Small Auditorium, as part of the UVa Digital Humanities Speaker Series... [Read More]
Katherine Rinne to speak on The Art and Science of Water in Renaissance and Baroque Rome
April 2, 2013
IATH Fellow and Independent Scholar Katherine Rinne will speak on “The Art and Science of Water in Renaissance and Baroque Rome” on Thursday, April 4, at 6:30 PM in Campbell Hall 160... [Read More]
Francesca Fiorani receives $80,000 grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
March 27, 2013
IATH Fellow Francesca Fiorani will receive an $80,000 grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in support of the "Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting" digital archive... [Read More]
Alison Booth Receives ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship
March 26, 2013
IATH Fellow Alison Booth is the recipient of a 2013 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship for her work on digital prosopography. Her proposal, titled “The Practice and Theory of Digital Prosopography: Collective Biographies of Women and the Biographical Elements and Structure Schema,” is an extension of her Collective Biographies of Women project (CBW). The grant for $76,068 will be used to add more material to the project and disseminate her findings... [Read More]
CORRECTION: Walter Scheidel talk rescheduled to March 26, 9:30am, Scholars' Lab, Alderman Library
March 25, 2013
Walter Scheidel's talk for the Digital Humanities Speaker Series has been rescheduled, due to weather, to Tuesday, March 26, at 9:30am in the Scholar's Lab... [Read More]
IATH joins Monticello in a Consortium to Advance the Archaeological Study of Slave Societies
March 19, 2013
Monticello Leads a Consortium to Advance the Archaeological Study of Slave Societies.. [Read More]
Walter Scheidel to Speak on Maps and the Roman World
March 18, 2013
Walter Scheidel will speak on "Redrawing the Map of the Roman World" as part of the UVA Digital Humanities Speaker Series.. [Read More]
Lise Dobrin receives NEH Chairman's Grant
March 1, 2013
IATH Fellow Lise Dobrin has been awarded a special "Chairman’s grant" from the NEH to support her ongoing research documenting and preserving endangered languages... [Read More]
A Magnificent Resource
January 2, 2013
Stephen Barney reviews The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive.. [Read More]
Worthy Martin Co-Curates Photography Exhibit at UVA's Fralin Museum of Art
September 7, 2012
IATH's Director, Worthy Martin, co-curates a new photography exhibit at the UVA Fralin Museum of Art... [Read More]
Katherine Rinne receives the 2012 Spiro Kostof Book Award
May 10, 2012
The Society of Architectural Historians awarded the 2012 Spiro Kostof Book Award to Katherine Rinne at the Society’s Annual Conference in Detroit, Michigan. .. [Read More]
2012 IATH Fellows announced
April 24, 2012
We're delighted to announce the new Fellows. Karen Van Lengen, Kenan Professor of Architecture, will be the 2012-2013 IATH Resident Fellow. .. [Read More]
Leonardo da Vinci project goes on-line and has a conference
April 10, 2012
Francesca Fiorani releases project and organizes conference on Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting. .. [Read More]
Walt Whitman Archive Receives NEH Grant
March 29, 2012
The Walt Whitman Archive has been awarded a $275,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.. [Read More]
2011-2012 Digital Humanities Speaker Series: Kenneth Dean
March 22, 2012
Kenneth Dean, the Lee Chair in Chinese Cultural Studies in the East Asian Studies Department at McGill University, will appear in the Spring 2012 Digital Humanities Speaker Series... [Read More]
Katherine Rinne on Water and Cultural Heritage in Rome
February 28, 2012
Katherine Rinne will be speaking on her IATH project on March 2 at an international conference on "Water Cultural Heritage: Enhancement Strategies," sponsored by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche (National Research Council)... [Read More]
Alison Booth and Suzanne Keen Feb. 24 Workshop on Narrative Theory and Digital Humanities
February 8, 2012
Washington and Lee English Professor Suzanne Keen will collaborate with Alison Booth on a hands-on workshop on Friday, February 24, from 2-4pm at the Scholars’ Lab in Alderman Library... [Read More]
2011-2012 Digital Humanities Speaker Series: Daniel Rosenberg
February 6, 2012
Intellectual historian Daniel Rosenberg will be visiting the University of Virginia on February 13 as part of the Spring 2012 Digital Humanities Speaker Series... [Read More]
Chaco Research Archive Releases New Survey Data Set
February 2, 2012
In partnership with the Chaco Culture National Historical Park and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, the Chaco Research Archive (CRA) now provides open access to an extensive collection of archaeological survey data. .. [Read More]
Apply to be a 2012-2013 IATH Fellow!
January 19, 2012
IATH is looking for applications for 2012-2013 Residential and Associate Fellows. University of Virginia faculty members involved in humanities research through any department are eligible to apply. Non-UVA faculty can apply for Visiting Fellowships. .. [Read More]
IATH and Simmons College Receive IMLS Award for Building National Archival Authorities Infrastructure
October 20, 2011
Daniel Pitti, Co-Director of IATH, has been awarded a two-year $148,000 grant by IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) in support of Building a National Archival Authorities Infrastructure, beginning in October 2011... [Read More]
2011-2012 Digital Humanities Speaker Series: Request for Suggestions
May 25, 2011
IATH, the Scholars' Lab, and SHANTI are planning the 2011-12 Digital Humanities Speaker series, and the series organizers are soliciting suggestions... [Read More]
Myron Gutmann to Speak on Data Access
April 27, 2011
IATH, SHANTI, the Scholars' Lab, and the College of Arts & Sciences' Qualitative Collaborative are co-sponsoring a visit by Myron Gutmann, Assistant Director at the National Science Foundation and head of the NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economics Directorate... [Read More]
2011 IATH Fellows announced
April 18, 2011
IATH is pleased to announce the new IATH Fellows for 2011-2012. Each year IATH offers a two-year Resident Fellowship to a UVA Faculty member, providing office space at the Institute, design and development assistance, use of equipment and software, training, computer programming, budget resources, and development assistance to raise additional grants and gifts to support the research project. One or more Associate Fellowships are awarded each year and include consulting services on project design and technical issues, equipment loans, and grant assistance... [Read More]
Educator Workshop on The World of Dante
April 1, 2011
IATH Fellow Deborah Parker recently held a one-day symposium for U.S. educators to evaluate use of her The World of Dante project in teaching literature and history, as part of her 2008-2011 NEH Daniels Family Distinguished Teaching Professorship... [Read More]
New Book on Homer's Trojan Theater
March 1, 2011
IATH Fellow Jenny Strauss Clay, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Classics at UVA, has just published a new book on her research on Homer's reliance on visual description in The Iliad... [Read More]
Katherine Rinne's new book on the Waters of Rome
March 1, 2011
Katherine Rinne's new book The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City was published in January by Yale University Press. Her book is a pioneering study of Renaissance Rome's water infrastructure, based on Rinne's in-depth topographical research... [Read More]
Digital Avalokiteśvara Spring Workshop
February 8, 2011
IATH Fellow Dorothy Wong, Associate Professor of Art History, is leading a second workshop on textual aspects of her Digital Avalokiteśvaravara project on Friday, February 18 in Alderman 317... [Read More]
Yole!Africa: Digital Film and Community in the Congo
February 7, 2011
IATH, SHANTI, and the Scholars' Lab are please to present a talk by Petna Ndaliko and Chérie Rivers of Albeku Film Productions on the role of digital film and community in the Congo. The talk will be held in Minor Hall, room 125 on Friday, February 11, at 3pm... [Read More]
IATH 2011 Spring Speaker Series
February 2, 2011
IATH is pleased to kick off its 2011 Spring Speaker Series on Thursday, February 17, with Andrew Grimshaw, Director of the UVa Alliance for Computational Science & Engineering (UVACSE), Professor of Computer Science. Dr. Grimshaw will discuss UVACSE's role in transforming computational research at UVA and in the University's computing and digital humanities landscape... [Read More]
IATH Fellow Cristina Della Coletta Receives UVA Grant
January 31, 2011
IATH Fellow Cristina Della Coletta, Professor of Italian, is the recipient of a $13,000 grant from the Office of Research, Center for International Studies at UVA. This grant is awarded to establish university-wide research seminars on aspects of international studies... [Read More]
Apply to be an IATH Fellow
December 1, 2010
IATH is looking for applications for 2011-2012 Residential and Associate Fellows. University of Virginia faculty members involved in humanities research through any department are eligible to apply. Non-UVA faculty can apply for Visiting Fellowships... [Read More]
Digital Avalokiteśvara Workshop
December 1, 2010
IATH Fellow Dorothy Wong, Associate Professor of Art History, is leading a workshop on her digital Avalokiteśvara project on Friday, December 10. The project's full title, "Power of Compassion: Paths of Transmission of Avalokiteśvara across Asia," centers on the Buddhist Bodhisattva of Compassion, who became one of the most popular deities in all of Asia... [Read More]
IATH's 2010 Fall Speaker Series: Earl Mark
November 30, 2010
In the second installment of IATH's 2010 Fall Speaker Series, Associate Professor Earl Mark, Chief Technology Officer of the School of Architecture at UVA, will speak on the reconstruction of eight historically important structures where the background information was incomplete and the original adherence to architectural standards was less than perfect... [Read More]
IATH's 2010 Fall Speaker Series: Natasha Dakouri-Hild
November 30, 2010
In the third and final installment of IATH's 2010 Fall Speaker Series, Natasha Dakouri-Hild, a Visiting Assistant Professor in Aegean and Near Eastern Art and Archaeology in the UVA Art Department, will speak on her collaboration with the Greek Archaeological Service on work to completely republish finds and associated tombs of Late Bronze Age Thebes... [Read More]
Salem Witch Trials in the News
November 1, 2010
Ben Ray's IATH project is often referred to as the Salem Witch Trials Archive, but the full title is the Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project. The transcription project was a new and complete transcription of legal records connected with the 1692 trials. The final product of this work was published this year by Cambridge University Press as Records of the Salem Witch Hunt. It is the first comprehensive record of all of the extant legal documents, and includes newly discovered documents, scholarly notes, and chronological arrangement for the first time. Bernard Rosenthal, Professor of English at Binghamton University, was the editor-in-chief of the Transcription Project and the general editor of the book. The transcription work was funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities... [Read More]
Launch of On-line Edition of Miller's Bibliography of Slavery
April 15, 2010
A reception and discussion marked UVA History Professor Joseph C. Miller release of an on-line edition of The Bibliography of Slavery and World Slaving on April 5. The Bibliography of Slavery is a searchable database containing verified references (except as noted) to nearly 22,000 scholarly works on slavery and slaving worldwide and throughout human history, including modern times. The bibliography includes works from all academic disciplines, in 28 languages... [Read More]
IATH Announces New Fellows for 2010-2011
April 14, 2010
Alison Booth, Professor of English, is the new IATH Resident Fellow for 2010-2012. She will be developing a project promoting on-line collaborative research on nineteenth and twentieth century English-language collections of biographies of women. Max Edelson, Associate Professor of History, is the new Associate Fellow for 2010-2011. His project, the Cartography of American Colonization Database (CACD), focuses on digitized maps of the Americas created between 1500-1800... [Read More]
IATH Receives NEH Award to Explore Historical Social Networks
April 13, 2010
Daniel Pitti, Co-Director of IATH, has been awarded a two-year $348,000 grant by the NEH Preservation & Access, Research & Development Program. The grant funds the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Project, which begins in May 2010... [Read More]
Cultural Crossings Workshop
January 1, 2010
IATH Fellow Dorothy Wong, Associate Professor of Art History, has announced an upcoming international conference, "Cultural Crossings," to be held March 11-13, 2010, in Campbell Hall at the University of Virginia. Participants will investigate exchanges between China and neighboring cultures during the medieval period (third–tenth centuries) from cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives... [Read More]
NEH Director Jim Leach at UVA
September 1, 2009
NEH Director Jim Leach visited the University of Virginia in September and, among other events, met with several members of the UVA digital humanities community who have received NEH support in their projects. He also presented a set of formal remarks to the UVA Board of Visitors and guests at a celebration marking the reopening of the UVA Art Museum... [Read More]
IATH hosts Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) workshop - July 2009
July 1, 2009
IATH recently hosted a three-day joint workshop of the University of Virginia Music Library and Universität Paderborn, to further develop specifications for the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) schema. MEI is an XML application for the representation of music notation, designed to support scholarly research and preservation of cultural heritage material. Development of MEI began in 1999 when Perry Roland of the University of Virginia Library saw the need for an comprehensive mark-up language for musical notation, which has been used in Western music for over a thousand years. Scores are stored in manuscript or print form in libraries all over the world, but only a fraction are stored in digital form (often as image files) and only a small portion of that is in a machine-readable form containing the structural and semantic information that would allow scholars to carry out computer-assisted research... [Read More]
