IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences
The IRIS Center at SIUE is a place for students, faculty, staff, and community members to collaborate on research, teaching, and community engagement in the digital humanities.
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- Join us for a series of workshops on teaching and researching with digital tools! The IRIS Center Morning Bytes series offers hands-on tutorials, activities and lesson plans, and spotlights on ongoing digital humanities projects. #DigitalHumanities
- Congratulations to Prof. Maurina Aranda on receiving the Paul Simon Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Award! Maurina is an integral member of the CODES team and developed the Community-Engaged Science course. We’re grateful for her creative pedagogy, wide knowledge, and thoughtful collaboration!
- ICYMI: Check out this @jitp.bsky.social article for assignments and activities that use small data sets to engage students with critical data literacies and place-based research. These are quick bloom-and-fade activities that are easy to build into a syllabus! #DigitalHumanities
- It’s publication day! Check out this new piece from @megsmith.bsky.social and Laura Milsk Fowler on #DigitalHumanities pedagogy. Meg and Laura offer bite-sized but powerful classroom activities that teach humanistic approaches to data and build tech skills and confidence to tackle larger projects.
- It’s publication day! Check out this new piece from @megsmith.bsky.social and Laura Milsk Fowler on #DigitalHumanities pedagogy. Meg and Laura offer bite-sized but powerful classroom activities that teach humanistic approaches to data and build tech skills and confidence to tackle larger projects.
- 🎉🎉 Huge congrats to IRIS co-founder Dr. Kristine Hildebrandt on being named Distinguished Research Professor of English! The award recognizes her significant achievements in the field of linguistics & her many contritions to research, mentorship, and DH infrastructure at SIUE and beyond.
- What is #DigitalHumanities? A little bit of this, a little bit of that
- It has been an incredible whirlwind of a semester! Over the last four months: ✏️ We conducted over 50 class visits to teach digital humanities skills. (More than a whole course's worth of classroom time!) 📒 And oh yeah, we also ran a new course this semester on digital curation and storytelling! 1/
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View full threadIRIS is a small team, and all these accomplishments are a testament to each team member's creativity, collaborative spirit, and willingness to pitch in wherever there's a need. So this is a big thank you to the whole IRIS extended family for taking "other duties as assigned" to a whole new level!
- 💫 Andrea Barajas 💫 Jessica DeSpain 💫 Kristine Hildebrandt 💫 Kezia Miller 💫 Dan Schreiber 💫 Jacqueline Shea 💫 Margaret Smith Pictured: IRIS web developer Dan Schreiber and CODES community coordinator Andrea Barajas prep plush guinea pigs as a graduation gift for our CODES seniors
- 🎉 With support from Mellon, we welcomed our first cohort of 100 CODE Scholars, quadrupling our impact on students and community partners alike. 🎓 Our oldest CODES cohort is flying the nest! One graduates early this weekend, and the others will walk the stage in the spring. We are so proud of them!
- 💻 We've developed new tools for digital storytelling, public digital humanities, and student work. (Watch this space in the coming months as we share those tools!) 📖 IRIS faculty have attended conferences, published articles, and created new DH research projects. 📈 And so much more!
- It's #GivingTuesday! Every dollar that comes into IRIS goes back out into community-engaged research, digital pedagogy, and #DigitalHumanities infrastructure. Throughout the day, we'll share some of the ways that your giving helps us support our communities. You can give to IRIS through fund 4332.
- This Friday! Join us for our next Morning Bytes, where Dr. Jill Anderson (English) will present on her work producing a biographical chronology for the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters project. #DigitalHumanities @mhs1791.bsky.social
- This Wednesday! @hrambsy.bsky.social will share his work on the Black Lit Network, a #DigitalHumanities project that brings scholarship on African American literary studies to public audiences and provides innovative discovery tools that link people to books based on their interests.
- 📣Calling all SIUE faculty and staff📣 Join the SIUE Faculty and Staff Fundraising Campaign and make a direct impact on the programs and projects that inspire you most. If that inspiration includes digital humanities, experiential learning, and community-engaged pedagogy, keep reading!
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View full threadIRIS (fund 4332) fosters collaborations among students, faculty, and community members that use digital tools to explore the intersections of technology and culture. Donations support tech upgrades, equipment for check-out, and student workers and GAs who support the Center’s teaching and research.
- Find more info on how to donate (and receive a bonus university pennant!) at the Cougars Give Back campaign page. connect.siue.edu/g/faculty-st...
- CODES (fund 4251) provides students the opportunity to work in small research teams with a faculty member and a community org to consider how the world's vital issues impact communities near SIUE. Donations fund student research supplies, graduation stoles, student mentors, internships, and more.
- Take a listen to @hrambsy.bsky.social’s interview about the Black Lit Network on @stlpublicradio.bsky.social! From the barbershop to the classroom, it’s a project deeply rooted in a genuinely public humanities. When you’re done, visit www.blacklitnetwork.org and try it out! #DigitalHumanities
- Check out these ideas for critical approaches to AI in humanities classrooms! #DigitalHumanities
- Hey historians and digital humanists, in light of the AHA’s AIgate, here are a few ways I approach AI in the classroom. Feel free to add your own! These are in the context of digital humanities courses deeply rooted in history, literature, and tech/data ethics. #DigitalHumanities #AHA #Skystorians 🗃️
- You know what regalia needs? Pockets. IRIS can help, and in return, you can help IRIS! Learn to add them yourself or have us do it for you for a suggested donation of $25. Sign up at iris.siue.edu/pockets. Space is limited! #DHMakes
- Congratulations to @hrambsy.bsky.social and his collaborators on the award of a new grant to support the Black Lit Network! The Black Lit Network uses data viz and digital storytelling to provide new entry points into the study of African American literature. bit.ly/bln-mellon #DigitalHumanities
- Ope, it’s syllabus season. Join us for an in-person workshop on how to incorporate meaningful digital assignments and activities into your course, in ways that both enhance students’ engagement with the course content and encourage them to think critically about technology. #DigitalHumanities
- This Wednesday, join us at the Wedge in Alton to chat about data representation, learn some spreadsheet and mapping technologies, and share your experiences of the Metro East as a cultural center. Free and no experience needed! July 16, 3:00-4:30 #DigitalHumanities #STL #StLouis #MetroEast
- Register for the workshop here:
- A summer day in IRIS looks like... 💻web development 💡 teaching consultations 🧮building tools for assessment 🗺️map-making ☀️surviving the St. Louis heat (barely) #DigitalHumanities
- What a great first meeting! Our conversations about Mrs. Davis took us from the Duolingo owl (and its heavy-handed manipulation tactics) to pedagogies of process, with lots of stops in between. Thanks to everyone who shared their expertise, experiences, and reactions to the show! #DigitalHumanities
- Summer feels both around the corner and eons away, but we're already planning. Check out our new AI Fictions Reading Group! We'll use AI fiction -- tv, novels, short stories -- as a tool for exploring and developing AI ethics. More details: iris.siue.edu/ai-fictions/ #DigitalHumanities #CriticalAI
- Next time, we’ll be discussing Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Klara and the Sun. Want to join us? Head over to iris.siue.edu/ai-fictions for all the details and to sign up.
- Next week is the first meeting of our AI Fictions Reading Group! We’re kicking things off not with a book but with a show: Mrs. Davis. If you’d like to join us, please sign up at the link below. #DigitalHumanities #TechEthics
- Summer feels both around the corner and eons away, but we're already planning. Check out our new AI Fictions Reading Group! We'll use AI fiction -- tv, novels, short stories -- as a tool for exploring and developing AI ethics. More details: iris.siue.edu/ai-fictions/ #DigitalHumanities #CriticalAI
- Check out this post from Dr. Meg Smith about how traditional media and digital storytelling can combine to advocate for better public transit! #DigitalHumanities isn’t just for the classroom — it’s for being active and engaged members of our communities.
- More good reporting on Metro’s disastrous fare gate implementation! I appreciate my 2-2.5 hour commute making it in there, because it’s such a good example of how bad policy in one transit district has cascading impacts across all the others. #transit #stl www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
- New course alert! This fall we’re offering the brand new HUM430: Digital Storytelling and Curation! It’s linked with ENG482: Technology and Literature, and we’ll engage with both science fiction and history of tech as we learn a variety of tools for digital storytelling. #DigitalHumanities
- Both can be taken for undergrad or grad credit, and I’m anticipating a really rich set of disciplinary perspectives among students as well as on the syllabus.
- Summer feels both around the corner and eons away, but we're already planning. Check out our new AI Fictions Reading Group! We'll use AI fiction -- tv, novels, short stories -- as a tool for exploring and developing AI ethics. More details: iris.siue.edu/ai-fictions/ #DigitalHumanities #CriticalAI
- Today! Join us this morning in the IRIS Center for a presentation from @mark3000.bsky.social on a mid-century radio show and how it connects to its rural southern Illinois context. #DigitalHumanities
- Thanks and congrats to our students who presented at the STL #DigitalHumanities Showcase! From legacies of redlining in Rockford, to analysis of Kendrick’s fusion of East and West Coast rap, to PSAs about data privacy and accessibility, they produced thoughtful and creative engagements with tech.
- The showcase is hosted by the St. Louis Digital Humanities Network, which supports DH pedagogy across the region and across the high school-college divide. If you want to take part or learn more, please get in touch!
- Join us this Wed, April 9th at 8am PT / 11am ET to contact your elected officials to advocate for the NEH and IMLS. We will provide links, talking points, messages, and scripts, including resources from colleagues such as the @humanitiesall.bsky.social. Register now:
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- Thanks, and thanks for organizing! We’ll have people register during the session if they haven’t already.
- Hey #SIUE / IRIS folks! If you'll be on campus, join us in the IRIS Center to take part together. This is a great opportunity to explore avenues for advocacy and organizing at the local as well as the national levels. #DigitalHumanities
- Join us this Wed, April 9th at 8am PT / 11am ET to contact your elected officials to advocate for the NEH and IMLS. We will provide links, talking points, messages, and scripts, including resources from colleagues such as the @humanitiesall.bsky.social. Register now:
- Hey ACH, we'd love to gather some folks in our center to watch this and participate together. Would you like them to register individually so you have an accurate headcount?
- If you’re feeling anxious and restless, check out these two free, public events hosted by ACH this week. On Wednesday, advocate for the NEH and IMLS to your elected officials. On Friday, learn to reach broad audiences through op-eds.
- Join us Wed, April 9th at 8am PT / 11am ET to contact your elected officials to advocate for the NEH and IMLS. We will provide links, talking points, messages, and scripts, including resources from colleagues such as the @humanitiesall.bsky.social. Register now:
- Love to see student journalists taking an interest in university archives and special collections! www.alestlelive.com/lifestyles/a...
- There's more snow coming, but we are ready to be out of the house and back on campus! ✔️ Office hours updated ✔️ Project check-in meetings scheduled ✔️ Intro to DH syllabus revised ✔️ Grant application ready to submit ✔️ Fresh coffee purchased Come find us next week! #DigitalHumanities
- Applications are due January 15!
- This Giving Tuesday, CODE Scholars kick off 3 days of presentations. From climate justice to histories of enslavement, these scholars have explored wicked problems alongside their community partners. If you’d like to support CODES, you can give at connect.siue.edu/g/donate. Search for fund 4251!
- You can learn more about CODES (including applying for the program!) at www.siue.edu/diversity/co....
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