• The New England Corpus of Heritage and Second Language Speakers

    An online corpus of oral and written production of heritage and L2 speakers of Spanish and Portuguese in New England. The development of this corpus will help to document the linguistic pluralism of New England, and allow future generations to study language change by heritage populations in this region.
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  • The Pompeii Bibliography and Mapping Project

    Despite being a subject of intense scholarly study for centuries, Pompeii lacks both a single, searchable bibliography and a standard, up-to-date map. When complete, the PBMP will be an exhaustive subject repository searchable through a GIS map that will solve both these problems and offer powerful search methods that will revolutionize research on the ancient city.
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  • GynoCine: A History of Spanish Women’s Cinema

    This open access database offers unique resources related to the production of the first two generations of women directors in Spain, providing digitized copies of ephemera and films that have previously only been viewable in the Film Archives in Madrid.
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Five College Event: A Public Talk with Virginia Eubanks

Where: 

Five Colleges, Incorporated, 97 Spring Street, Amherst

Eubanks is the cofounder of Our Knowledge, Our Power (OKOP), a grassroots anti-poverty and welfare rights organization, and teaches in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. She edited the cyberfeminist ‘zine Brillo and was active in the community technology center movements in the San Francisco Bay Area and Troy, NY.

Five College Event: Of Roman Walls and Lace Shawls, iPads and Interactive Maps: Technologies and Humanities in the Five Colleges

Where: 

Room 102 Webster Hall, Amherst College

Members of the public and the Five-College digital humanities community are invited to this showcase of new and ongoing digital humanities work by Five College faculty and staff. Click for a full schedule of the day's events.

Five College Event: Digital Humanities Colloquium

Where: 

Kahn Liberal Arts Institute, Smith College

Public symposium that brings together three key scholars in the field to describe their work and discuss intellectual questions that have shaped their approach to digital humanities. The visiting speakers for this opening event will be Jeffrey Schnapp, Professor of Romance Languages & Literature and Director of the metaLAB at Harvard University; Tara McPherson, Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California; and Joan Saab, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Rochester.

Five College Event: New Media in Feminist Scholarship, Teaching, and Activism

Where: 

The FCWSRC, 83 College Street, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley

Women, Water and Waterwheel
Suzon Fuks will introduce Waterwheel, a collaborative online venue she created for streaming, mixing and sharing media & ideas about water. The platform aims to raise awareness, celebration, care & accessibility of water everywhere.
 
Sexual/Digital Revolution: Women Directors, Alternative Relationships, and 21st Century Independent Filmmaking
Maria San Filippo looks at new technologies in digital filming and distribution have forged a DIY, politicized production culture generative of new and unconventional ways of screening and perceiving sexuality. San Filippo's talk focuses on the recent work by independent women filmmakers to contemplate alternative approaches to sex and relationships, including bisexuality, polyamory, nonmonogamy, and BDSM. 

Preserving our Cultural Heritage: Creating Digital Archives through Collection, Collaboration, and Curation

Where: 

The Digital Humanities Lab, Herter Hall 19G

Kristine Hanna's work focuses on developing collaborative and long lasting relationships with partners to further the mission of the Internet Archive. She works with institutions and foundations to fund and implement existing and/or new projects and programs; including Archive-It, a web archiving service first deployed in 2006 and currently used by over 150 institutions in 44 states.

Curating Digital Collections and Exhibits with Omeka: An Introductory Workshop

Where: 

The Digital Humanities Lab, Herter Hall 19G

This hands-on workshop will teach participants how to use Omeka, a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Omeka can be easily adapted for use by both individuals and groups to publish scholarship, share collections, mount digital exhibits, and build learning modules for use in the classroom.

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