IATH NEWS
Special Iteration of IATH Fellowship Program: Developmental Fellowships
February 29, 2024
IATH has joined the UVA Library's new Digital Humanities Center, and to mark that event we are offering two one-year Developmental Fellowships to identify and support ambitious long-term digital scholarship. .. [Read More]
Special Iteration of IATH Fellowship Program: Developmental Fellowships
February 29, 2024
IATH has joined the UVA Library's new Digital Humanities Center, and to mark that event we are offering two one-year Developmental Fellowships to identify and support ambitious long-term digital scholarship. .. [Read More]
UVA’s IATH Launches its Latest Humanities Project Website ‘Virginia Emigrants to Liberia’ Facilitates Local and Trans-Atlantic Research
October 24, 2023
IATH is pleased to announce the launch of a greatly enhanced and expanded Virginia Emigrants to Liberia website... [Read More]
2023-2024 IATH Resident Fellow Announced
October 19, 2023
IATH is pleased to announce its newest Resident Fellow, Professor of History Christian McMillen. .. [Read More]
2022-2023 IATH Resident Fellow Announced
April 14, 2022
IATH is pleased to announce its newest Resident Fellow, Associate Professor of Sociology Angel Adams Parham. .. [Read More]
Digital Yoknapatawpha Team Receives NEH Education Grant
February 3, 2022
Dr. Christopher Rieger, a professor of English and director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University, has been awarded a $147,000 grant from the NEH to develop new educational methods incorporating resources developed by the Digital Yoknapatawpha Project... [Read More]
IATH Looking for New Fellows
December 7, 2021
IATH is looking for applications for its Residential and Associate Fellowship program... [Read More]
2021-2022 IATH Resident Fellow Announced
July 21, 2021
IATH is delighted to announce its 2021-2022 Resident Fellow, Jessica Sewell, to develop her Digital Urban Cultural Landscapes Guide to Suzhou... [Read More]
NEH Award Will Support Research on Commemoration of the Dead in Renaissance Florence
June 30, 2021
The NEH has awarded IATH and IATH Visiting Fellow Dr. Anne Leader a $299,000 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant for research on the connections between burial choices, family networks, and religious and social affiliations in Florence, Italy... [Read More]
Lost Modernist Interviews Digital Yoknapatawpha
June 21, 2021
Francesca Mancino, a graduate student at Case Western Reserve and author of the Lost Modernists site, recently posted an interview with University of Virginia Professor Emeritus Stephen Railton and Brevard College Associate Professor of English John Padgett about their work on the Digital Yoknapatawpha project. .. [Read More]
Launch of Black Virginians in Blue
April 5, 2021
The official launch of the "Black Virginians in Blue" (BVIB) project will be marked by a two-day 2021 Signature Conference by the Nau Civil War Center. IATH has been providing technical development and support for the project,.. [Read More]
Witnessing the Dawn of Black Voting: A Tale of Two Political Revolutions
October 21, 2020
As a special election-season Fellows talk, Virginia Humanities is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, October 27, at 6pm with Professor DeBats, project manager and election scholar Sarah John, and historians from Virginia and Kentucky on “Witnessing the Dawn of Black Voting: A Tale of Two Political Revolutions.”.. [Read More]
Alan Batson in Memoriam
September 3, 2020
IATH is sorry to be sharing news of the passing of Alan Batson, Professor Emeritus of the UVA Computer Science department, this past Saturday, August 29... [Read More]
Emily Fenichel received NEH grant
April 9, 2020
Emily Fenichel, a former graduate researcher on the Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting project has been awarded $231,000 by the NEH’s Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program.. [Read More]
NEH Grant for Virginia Emigrants to Liberia Project
April 9, 2020
IATH and a team of independent scholars have been awarded a $127,000 NEH’s Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant for the Virginia Emigrants to Liberia Project.. [Read More]
UVA Press Celebrates New Faulkner Biography
March 4, 2020
Carl Rollyson and the UVA Press are celebrating the release of the first volume of an important new biography, The Life of William Faulkner: The Past is Never Past 1897-1934, on March 23 in the UVA Rotunda... [Read More]
Two IATH Scholars Receive Awards for Innovative Use of Digital Humanities
November 7, 2019
Two IATH scholars recently received awards for their innovative use of digital humanities in their research and teaching, from the Archaeological Institute of America and the Association of American Studies... [Read More]
Lauren Massari Creates Digital Exhibit on Inspiration and Reality in Jefferson's Academic Village
October 11, 2019
The Chrysler Museum of Art, in Norfolk, VA, has teamed up with the University of Virginia as part of a new exhibit “Thomas Jefferson, Architect: Palladian Models, Democratic Principles, and the Conflict of Ideals.” Lauren Massari, IATH's Multimedia Designer, created a digital component for the exhibit.. [Read More]
A New TED-Ed animation Focuses on UVA Professor's Work on the History of Haiti
October 7, 2019
Professor Marlene Daut has published an animated TED-Ed animation on The First and Last King of Haiti. The animation discusses how Henry Christophe, born a slave in Grenada, rose to become a king... [Read More]
Towards a Charlottesville Cultural Landscape Atlas
September 9, 2019
Could a community atlas be a prompt for new conversations amongst neighbors and fellow city residents? How might an atlas become a source of discovery, revealing new socio-cultural insights about the people, events and places that constitute our town, Charlottesville? Is there value in connecting events and stories to the spatial patterns and experiences of the physical urban landscape?.. [Read More]
4/23 Research Roundtable on U-Hall Digital Scanning
April 19, 2019
The Center for Cultural Landscape is having the final installation of the CCL Research Roundtable series for the year on Tuesday, April 23, at noon in Campbell Hall 205.. [Read More]
WriteClimate Student Group Has Earth Day Art Opening
April 17, 2019
A University of Virginia student group is holding an art show as part of Environmental Sciences Professor Deborah Lawrence's course on “Write Climate, Right Climate." .. [Read More]
Using Augmented Reality and Digital Infrastructure in Performance
April 16, 2019
Larry Shea will speak about the use of newly emerging VR/AR/XR technologies for storytelling, theater, and performance on April 17 at 6 pm in the Helms Theater. .. [Read More]
Ben Ray's Salem Witch Trials Maps Featured in Film on Salem's Secrets
March 18, 2019
Benjamin Ray, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and IATH Fellow at UVA, is featured on an upcoming Smithsonian feature looking at evidence for the location of the executions of those accused and convicted of witch craft at the 1692 trials in Salem, Massachusetts... [Read More]
Holsinger's African American Portraits Subject of Family Photo Day
March 6, 2019
This Saturday, March 9, the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center in Charlottesville is hosting a Family Photo Day event centered around Rufus Holsinger’s photographic portraits of local African American residents during the Jim Crow era... [Read More]
IATH Fellow Suzanne Moomaw Loves Cities and the Communities Behind Them
January 15, 2019
IATH Fellow Suzanne Moomaw, Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, is now in the second year of her Cities Without Work project. Her life-long interest in cities and what makes them work (or not).. [Read More]
Anne Leader presents Digital Sepoltuario in Florence
December 4, 2018
Anne Leader, a Visiting Scholar at IATH, discussed her research for and the technical development of Digital Sepoltuario: The Tombs of Renaissance Florence, at a collaborative workshop of projects centered on Renaissance Florence... [Read More]
NVIDIA Research Seminar: Realities of Virtual Reality
October 26, 2018
David Luebke will speak on the future of virtual and augmented reality, and some of the implications and opportunities that are arising with it.. [Read More]
Puzzles, Bots, and Poetics Symposium, Oct. 26-27
October 23, 2018
UVA is hosting a Puzzle Poetics Symposium on October 26-27, in Alderman Library 421. The symposium, Puzzles, Bots, and Poetics, is being presented by the Puzzle Poetry Group and the Scholars' Lab, and is co-sponsored by the Page-Barbour Committee and the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures... [Read More]
Claire Weiss's Research on Ancient Roman Sidewalks Receive Honorable Mention
October 15, 2018
Claire Weiss received a special Honorable Mention from the Richard Guy Wilson Prize judges for her dissertation research on sidewalks in classic Roman cities. .. [Read More]
Holsinger Project Receives Virginia Humanities Grant
September 25, 2018
Virginia Humanities has awarded $5,000 to an interdisciplinary team of UVA and Charlottesville researchers to organize a community outreach event centered on Rufus W. Holsinger’s portraits of Charlottesville-area African Americans, “Family Pictures: Holsinger’s Portraits of African American Charlottesville.”.. [Read More]
9/25 Panel Discussion on Translating Difficult Histories in Contemporary Education
September 17, 2018
The Curry School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia and the Bank of America will host a panel discussion exploring how education can promote inclusion and respect among citizens and communities... [Read More]
9/11 Opening Reception for UVA Health System Bicentennial Exhibit
August 29, 2018
The opening reception for the bicentennial exhibit exhibit, "UVA Health System: 200 Years of Learning, Research, & Care," will be held from 5-7pm on Tuesday, September 11, in the main gallery of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library... [Read More]
Using GIS to Study Political History
August 17, 2018
The new Routledge Companion to Spatial History draws on work done at IATH by Don DeBats to use spatial analysis in political history.. [Read More]
Two Hundred Years of UVA Health Care
July 26, 2018
A new exhibit at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, "UVA Health System: 200 Years of Learning, Research, & Care," will highlights stories and artifacts from the first two centuries of UVA's medical and nursing training and training, patient care, and community relations... [Read More]
Lynn Rainville appointed Dean of Sweet Briar College
July 26, 2018
Lynn Rainville, a collaborator with IATH, has been appointed Dean of Sweet Briar College.. [Read More]
New 2018 IATH Fellows
June 12, 2018
IATH is pleased to announce its Fellowship awards for 2018. For the first time, the Resident Fellowship has been awarded to a pair of faculty.. [Read More]
Augmenting Social Reality for Inclusive and Situated Learning on May 7
May 3, 2018
Zhen Bai will speak on "Augmenting Social Reality for Inclusive and Situated Learning" on May 7 at 11am in Dell 1, room 105... [Read More]
Irrationality & the Contemporary Symposium on May 4
April 27, 2018
The Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures is hosting a one-day symposium on "Irrationality & the Contemporary" on Friday, May 4, starting at 9am in Wilson Hall 142. .. [Read More]
ReSounding the Archives Symposium on April 24
April 20, 2018
ReSounding the Archives, a collaborative project that brings together digital humanities, history, and music, will hold a free public symposium at UVA on April 24 from 5:30-8pm in the Garden Room of Hotel E... [Read More]
UVA's Humanities Week 2018: Civil Resistance, April 2-7
March 30, 2018
UVA's Humanities Week 2018: Civil Resistance will run April 2-7. The student-planned annual event is hosted by the Institute of the Humanities & Global Culture.. [Read More]
Kenneth Dean Presentation on Transformations of Religious Spaces in Singapore
March 30, 2018
Kenneth Dean will speak on Tuesday, April 3, at 5pm in Rouss 410 on the rapid transformation of religious space over the past fifty years in Singapore, and the Singapore Historical GIS research project... [Read More]
Data-Driven Approaches to Identifying a Gerrymander
March 16, 2018
The University of Virginia's Quantitative Collaborative (QC) will host Moon Duchin of Tufts University to speak on Wednesday, March 21st, 12-1:30pm in the Cocke Hall Library, on "Data-Driven Approaches to Identifying a Gerrymander.".. [Read More]
Cultural Heritage Data Acquisition and Modeling Demonstration
March 14, 2018
Several IATH-associated DH projects will demonstrate laser scanning and photogrammetry techniques for collecting and modeling data from cultural heritage and archeological sites as part of the Interpreting and Representing Slavery and its Legacies in Museums and Sites conference.. [Read More]
3-Day Conference on Interpreting and Representing Slavery
March 12, 2018
IATH will participate in the Conference on Interpreting and Representing Slavery, sponsored by Monticello, UVA, and, in collaboration with the United National Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Slave Route Project.. [Read More]
Seminar on Natural Language Processing and Neural Network Architecture
February 26, 2018
Yangfeng Ji will present a seminar on network architecture and natural language processing, on Thursday, March 1, at 11am, in Rice Hall 242... [Read More]
James Delbourgo to speak on Slavery, Empire, and the Cabinet of Curiosities: Origins of the British Museum
February 26, 2018
James Delbourgo will be giving the Phi Beta Kappa Lecture/History of the Health Sciences Lecture on "Slavery, Empire, and the Cabinet of Curiosities: Origins of the British Museum.".. [Read More]
Endangered Data Week!
February 19, 2018
UVA Library is participating in Endangered Data Week 2018, a national collaborative effort, to shed light on public datasets that are in danger of being deleted, repressed, mishandled, or lost... [Read More]
IATH Part of New NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant to DAACS
February 14, 2018
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation's Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) and IATH have received an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for $325,000.. [Read More]
Architect and Planning Committees Seek Public Comment on Future of Renovated Alderman Library
February 2, 2018
The UVA Library has announced open sessions for UVA faculty, staff, and students and the Charlottesville community to discuss the future of Alderman Library.. [Read More]
Digital Yoknapatawpha inspiring winning scholarship
January 25, 2018
Ben Robbins, an editor for the Digital Yoknapatawpha project, has been awarded the Jerome Stern Award for the most outstanding article in 2016 in Studies in American Culture... [Read More]
New Song Cycle Based on Book Traces Project
January 3, 2018
A new song cycle for voice, clarinet, cello, and percussion, based on the Book Traces project, will receive its world premiere at Alderman Library on February 18... [Read More]
Feminist Digital Humanities @ UVA
January 3, 2018
The Scholars' Lab and UVa Library are hosting the Feminist Digital Humanities @ UVA: A Collaboration, to be held on Friday, January 12, in Alderman 421.. [Read More]
Information on #GradStudentTax
December 5, 2017
The National Humanities Alliance has posted information on how to take action on the proposed graduate student tuition waiver income tax measure in the U.S. House tax proposal. .. [Read More]
Ana Navarro to Speak As Part of Diversity Series
November 28, 2017
UVA Engineering presents Ana Navarro, political strategist, national Hispanic campaign manager for multiple Republican presidential campaigns, and CNN contributor... [Read More]
Men Also Like Shopping
November 27, 2017
UVa CS Ph.D. student Tianlu Wang will present some of her work on vision and language in her talk, "Men Also Like Shopping: Reducing Gender Bias Amplification using Corpus-Level Constraints," on Friday, December 8, from 2-3pm in Alderman 421... [Read More]
Pelagios Commons Two-Day Workshop on Historical Geospatial Data
November 27, 2017
In conjunction with the Pelagios Commons, the UVA Library will be offering a two-day workshop on tools and strategies for working with Geospatial data in the historical past... [Read More]
Rafael Alvarado on How to Read a Topic Model
October 31, 2017
Rafael Alvarado will discuss a system for viewing and accessing the results of topic modeling this Friday, November 3, at 1:30pm in Alderman 317... [Read More]
Maurie McInnis to give McGregor Distinguished Lecture
October 27, 2017
Maurie McInnis, co-founder of the Jefferson's University: the Early Life project (JUEL) and executive vice president and provost at The University of Texas at Austin, has been invited to give the Tracy W. and Katherine W. McGregor Distinguished Lecture in American History.. [Read More]
JUEL Project part of UVa Dialogues on Race and Inequity
September 21, 2017
UVa's Dialogue on Race and Inequity on Saturday, September 23, will include JUEL project staff.. [Read More]
2017 IATH Fellowships
June 30, 2017
IATH is pleased to announce its Fellowship awards for 2017. .. [Read More]
Opportunity for Digital Scholars: New Scholars Seminar Preceding the DH2017 Conference
May 31, 2017
CHCI, centerNet, WSU and KIAS are collaborating to organize a pre-conference seminar for new scholars interested in the digital humanities, immediately preceding the DH2017 conference in Montreal, Canada... [Read More]
University of Virginia Landscape Studies Initiative
May 24, 2017
The University of Virginia's Center for Cultural Landscapes announces the launch of the University of Virginia Landscape Studies Initiative with a planning grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation .. [Read More]
CSDK Colloquium on Computational Law
April 11, 2017
Presidential Fellows in Data Science Faraz Dadgostari (Systems and Information Engineering) and Mauricio Guim (School of Law) will speak on Computational Law... [Read More]
English Professor’s Book Takes Award for 18th-Century Studies
April 4, 2017
John O'Brien has been awarded the Louis Gottschalk Prize, presented annually “for an outstanding historical or critical study on the 18th century” by the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies... [Read More]
NEH Funding Independent Works of William Tyndale
November 16, 2016
IATH is part of a team recently awarded a $340,000 NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant for "The Independent Works of William Tyndale." .. [Read More]
DH@UVA Conference
October 11, 2016
The DH@UVA Conference offers two days of conversation and insights with the digital humanities community at UVa.. [Read More]
NEH Collaborative Research Grant for Digital Yoknapatawpha
August 24, 2016
Stephen Railton receives NEH grant to map Faulkner's world.. [Read More]
Forensic methods for detecting fake digital images
April 25, 2016
James O'Brien will speak on forensic methods for detecting fraud in computer images and graphics on Friday, April 29, at 10:45 in Rice 242.. [Read More]
The Multimodal Millennium: The Future of Digital Publishing
April 25, 2016
Amanda Licastro, Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric at Stephens University, will discuss an editor's perspective on the changing landscape of digital publishing on April 29 at 2pm in Alderman 421... [Read More]
How Ideas Spread Across Academic Journals
April 15, 2016
Claire Maiers and Nicholas Napoli will speak on “Exploring Methods for Modeling the Spread of Ideas Across Academic Journals”... [Read More]
How to Survive the Robot Apocalypse
April 4, 2016
David Gunkel will be speaking on the moral consequences of the growing use of robots and computers in our daily lives and culture... [Read More]
IHGC to Hold Spring Symposium for Mellon Fellows
February 25, 2016
The Institute of the Humanities and Global Culture (IHGC) is holding a symposium of the 2016 Mellon Humanities Fellows. Five faculty members from Arts & Sciences were selected.. [Read More]
IATH Helps a Course Find Evidence of Slaves at UVa
February 18, 2016
An IATH project is being used in a two-part course looking at the history of slavery in UVa's Academical Village.. [Read More]
Alison Booth to Direct the Scholars' Lab
February 12, 2016
Alison Booth has been appointed Academic Director of the Scholars' Lab.. [Read More]
Symposium on Social Media and the Law: Public, Private and Personal
February 9, 2016
The University of Virginia School of Law is hosting a one-day symposium that will explore the legal implications on one's public, private and personal use of social media... [Read More]
Johannes Kepper to Speak on Digital Editions of Music
January 21, 2016
Johannes Kepper will give a talk on "Critical Editing of Music Unchained: New Approaches to Digital Editions Using MEI," this coming Tuesday, January 26, at 1:30pm.. [Read More]
Site of Salem Witch Executions Finally Found
January 11, 2016
Professor Ben Ray, Director of the Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project, is part of a group of scholars who have definitively identified the location of infamous Salem witch trial executions... [Read More]
A Digital Humanities Approach to the Study of Urban Vernacular Architecture
November 3, 2015
Zachary Violette will speak on “Data, Design, and Diversity: A Digital Humanities Approach to the Study of Urban Vernacular Architecture” this Friday, November 6, at 12:30 in Exhibit C, Campbell Hall. This is part of the UVA School of Architecture's Faculty Research Dialogue Lecture series... [Read More]
IATH 2015-2016 New Fellows
June 18, 2015
IATH's new Fellow for 2015-2016 is Jennifer Petersen, who will be studying the idea of free speech in U.S. Supreme Court decisions... [Read More]
An Interview with Jennifer Petersen
June 18, 2015
IATH's new Fellow, Jennifer Petersen, talked to IATH about her plans for her research on tracking the changing understandings of what constitutes “speech” in the U.S. legal system... [Read More]
LaVahn Hoh Retiring
May 6, 2015
LaVahn Hoh, circus historian extraordinaire, is retiring from the UVA Drama Department after 46 years of teaching. Since he first began teaching his course on the history of the American circus in 1982.. [Read More]
JUEL student researcher receives a Kenan Fellowship to study Hotel C
April 28, 2015
Brittany Brown, a third-year undergraduate student and researcher for the Jefferson's University -- The Early Life (JUEL) project, has been awarded a fellowship from the William R. Kenan Endowment Fund of the Academical Village... [Read More]
Ben Ray launches new book on the Salem witch trials
April 27, 2015
Professor Benjamin Ray, director of the Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project, has a new book out. Satan and Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692, from the University of Virginia Press.. [Read More]
Alison Booth receives NEH Start-Up Grant
April 23, 2015
English Professor Alison Booth has been awarded an NEH Start-Up Grant of $59,479 for Cohorts of Women in Collective Biographies... [Read More]
New Publication from the Chaco Research Archive
April 13, 2015
The Chaco Research Archive is pleased to announce the long-awaited electronic publication of The Chaco Additions Survey: An Archaeological Survey of the Additions to Chaco Culture National Historical Park, edited by Robert P. Powers and Ruth M. Van Dyke.. [Read More]
David Mimno to speak on “Hunting for Topics: How We Search and What We Find”
April 8, 2015
David Mimno will offer a talk and workshop on topic modeling on April 16 and 17 in Alderman 421.. [Read More]
Benjamin Schmidt, Reading Digital Sources: Statistics and Statecraft in 19th Century America
March 30, 2015
Benjamin Schmidt, Assistant Professor of History at Northeastern University and core faculty at the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, will be speaking on “Reading Digital Sources: Statistics and Statecraft in 19th Century America” on Wednesday, April 1, at 3:30pm in 231 Bryan Hall (2nd floor, Faculty Lounge)... [Read More]
Moving People/Linking Lives Symposium
March 17, 2015
The Moving People/Linking Lives symposium, an interdisciplinary event bringing together distinguished scholars to discuss and ask questions about social networks, prosopography, and narrative fiction, is being held this Friday and Saturday, March 20 and 21... [Read More]
Visiting Scholar to Speak on Working with Early English Texts and Computers
March 16, 2015
Of Archives and Algorithms: A Computational Approach to Orthographic Variation in Early English Print.. [Read More]
“Soundscape” Exhibits Audiovisual Interpretations of Architecture at the Museum of the City of New York
March 9, 2015
The Museum of the City of New York is hosting an installation of “Soundscape New York” from Karen Van Lengen, William Kenan Professor of Architecture... [Read More]
A Special Visitor from Papua New Guinea
February 11, 2015
IATH and the UVA Department of Anthropology are hosting a special visitor from Papua New Guinea. Jacob Sonin is a native speaker of Cemaun Arapesh, an endangered language of the Sepik coast of northern Papua New Guinea... [Read More]
Apply to be a 2015-2016 IATH Fellow!
February 2, 2015
IATH is looking for applications for 2015-2016 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]
Digging into History: Bringing to Light the Students of the Early University
January 28, 2015
Jean Cooper, Genealogical Information Specialist, will speak about her research into the lives of early University of Virginia students at 7pm on February 2 in Alderman 421.. [Read More]
Certainty and Uncertainty in Representing Family Histories
December 9, 2014
Luther Tychonievich will present his data model for collaborative genealogy (and its attendant unreliable data), this Friday (12/12) at 2pm in Alderman 421... [Read More]
Discussion of Dynamic Reconstruction of 3D World
September 19, 2014
Chris Sweeney, a Ph.D. student in the Four Eyes Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will speak on “Continuous, Dynamic Reconstruction of the 3D World” on Friday, September 26, at 3:30pm in Rice Hall 130... [Read More]
Soundscape Architecture Demonstration at Open Grounds
September 19, 2014
Karen Van Lengen, Professor of Architecture, will be presenting her Soundscape Architecture interactive web site on Thursday, September 25, from 5-7pm at Open Grounds. The project is designed to study the sounds produced at iconic architectural sites, such as Grand Central Terminal in New York City and the National Library of Ireland... [Read More]
“Social Networks and Archival Context Project: A Case Study of Emerging Cyberinfrastructure”
September 17, 2014
Tom Lynch, Senior Application Designer at CSC, Computer Sciences Corporation, discusses the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) project as an example of cyberinfrastructure in a recent Digital Humanities Quarterly article.. [Read More]
New Books from IATH Fellows at East Asia Center
September 10, 2014
The UVA East Asia Center is holding a reception to celebrate new books from the Center's faculty, including two from IATH Fellows Dorothy Wong and Anne Kinney. “What Did I Do Last Sumer” will be on Friday, September 12 at 3:15 pm in Monroe 130, followed by a reception at Pavilion I Garden from 4:30-6 pm (rain date location is Monroe 130)... [Read More]
Dorothy Wong's New Anthology on Medieval-Period China
August 19, 2014
University of Virginia's Associate Professor of East Asian Art Dorothy Wong and Associate Professor of Japanese Gustav Heldt are co-editors of a new anthology of writings on cross-cultural exchanges between China and its neighbors over a thousand year period... [Read More]
Social Networks and Archival Context Releases Prototype History Research Tool & Receives Mellon Grant
August 5, 2014
Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) is pleased to announce two major developments: the release of a redesigned web site and Prototype History Research Tool and a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation... [Read More]
Deborah Parker's World of Dante receives NEH Seminar Grant
July 23, 2014
IATH Fellow and Professor of Italian Deborah Parker will be receiving $98,362 to design a three-week seminar for sixteen school teachers on Dante's Inferno and its literary, visual, and cultural legacy. .. [Read More]
Jerome McGann Elected to American Philosophical Society
June 5, 2014
Prof, Jerome McGann, a founding IATH Fellow, is now a member of the American Philosophical Society, a 250-year-old honorary scholarly society... [Read More]
Sound Artist Bill Fontana: Acoustical Visions
February 28, 2014
Sound Artist Bill Fontana will give a lecture on Acoustical Visions on March 6, as part of Karen Van Lengen's “Listening to the Lawn” seminar.. [Read More]
Deborah Parker to speak on “Dante: Then and Now, High and Low”
January 29, 2014
IATH Fellow and Italian Professor Deborah Parker and James Madison English Professor Mark Parker will speak on “From Dante to Dan Brown” at 4pm on Thursday, January 30, in Harrison Small Auditorium as part of the Institute of the Humanities and Global Culture's “Dante: Then and Now, High and Low”.. [Read More]
Fascinating Noise: Soundscape Architecture and New York City
January 15, 2014
“My ambition with Soundscape Architecture is not to show how to design for sound but to show people how to listen.".. [Read More]
Ed Triplett to introduce Smithsonian's 3D web-view
December 6, 2013
Ph.D. candidate Ed Triplett will introduce the Smithsonian's X 3D web viewer, December 11 in Alderman 421.. [Read More]
The Inferno Revealed: Deborah Parker's new book on Dante and Dan Brown
November 18, 2013
Dante’s role in popular imagination remains strong, but this past summer Dan Brown’s Inferno inspired many readers to explore Dante’s work in the company of Brown’s Robert Langdon. To follow up and provide a more complete introduction to Dante, Inferno Revealed: From Dante to Dan Brown looks at the fact and fiction and the context for The Divine Comedy... [Read More]
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]
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]
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]
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: Anastasia Dakouri-Hild
November 30, 2010
In the third and final installment of IATH's 2010 Fall Speaker Series, Anastasia 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]
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]
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]