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Research Talks – Spring 2020 Graduate Fellows and Faculty Grantees Projects
September 1, 2020 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Please join Digital Matters on September 1st via Zoom to hear our Spring 2020 Graduate Fellows and Faculty Grantees share about their DM projects.
Jeff Turner, DM / American West Center Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate in Dept. of History, “Native Places Atlas Project: Mapping Native Utah”
Native Places Atlas Project: Mapping Native Utah is in its preliminary stage of having a working visual map, database, and surrounding content management system. This semester focused on learning to use Leaflet, PostgreSQL, and Mukurtu for those purposes in the hopes of launching the site externally next semester.
Megan Weiss, DM Graduate Fellow, MA Candidate in US History with a Public History Certificate, “3D Printing Utah’s Material History – Heritage Hyperownership in Museums and Classrooms”
Utah’s material history is locked away in museums and storage, but with the advent of 3D scanning and printing technologies, these items are becoming more available. Megan Weiss’s research talk will address the challenges and benefits of replicating this material culture and explore what it says about our relationships to our shared heritage in the advent of object replication and digitization.
Aislinn McDougall, DM Faculty Grantee, Visiting Asst. Prof. of Digital Humanities in the Dept. of English, “Reflections of Banks Island: Negotiating Sovereignty and Community via Decolonial Digital Mapping Strategies”
In 1953, an RCMP detachment was built in Sachs Harbour, Banks Island, to facilitate Canada’s sovereignty in the Canadian arctic. While not much is known about the history of the Sachs Harbour community, the community’s island life was recorded in a collection of vibrant photographs taken by the community’s first Constable, Daniel C. McDougall. This project is a digital exhibit that exposes, through photographic archive, community outreach, and interactive digital mapping, the narratives of colonial contact that haunt the Canadian Arctic.
Carlos Santana, DM Faculty Grantee, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Philosophy, “Whose Anthropocene”
Can geologists and humanists talk to each other about the Anthropocene? No, because they don’t speak the same language. My proof: a statistical analysis of the language.