Join the IHGC's Digital Humanities Initiative for a workshop led by Tim Tangherlini!

Presented by the IHGC Personhoods Lab, this talk examines how and why Pakistan’s national biometric-based identification regime came to use an individual’s blood relations to construct and track uniquely identified persons.

Join the IHGC's Games Lab for a talk by Rachel Hutchinson!

Prior to Dr. Hashmi's public lecture on March 27th, graduate students with an interest in the digital humanities will have the opportunity to discuss her research and seek advice for emerging scholars.

This event is by invitation as space is limited. Lunch will be provided.

Join the IHGC's Games Lab for a talk by Rachel Hutchinson!

This talk considers the role of the university library in teaching with videogames, focusing on access and logistics through case studies of class assignments. The talk will examine a range of topics for research and how even short blocks of time in the library can be used effectively for student success in game studies. Examples of faculty and student research include identity studies, colonialism, narrative structures in Japanese media, and player-character identification. 

Join the Scholars' Lab & the Digital Humanities Center for an event celebrating the launch of Digital Futures of Graduate Studies, a new edited collection from the University of Minnesota Press that describes itself as a “resource for planning, reimagining, and participating in the digital transformation of graduate study in the humanities.” This roundtable will feature opening provocations and discussions by editor Gabriel Hankins (Clemson University) as well as contributors Alison Booth (UVA English) and Brandon Walsh (UVA Library). Refreshments will be provided.

Cross-Cultural Harlem reveals a dynamic of exchange that provokes a rethinking of spaces such as Black Harlem, El Barrio, and Italian Harlem. Cross-cultural encounters among African Americans, West Indians, Puerto Ricans, Jews, and Italians provide a story of multiplicity that challenges the framework of territorial enclaves. Shukla illuminates the historical processes that have shaped the diversity of Harlem, examining the many dimensions of its Blackness—Southern, African, Caribbean, Puerto Rican, and more—as well as how white ethnicities have been constructed.

In Code, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media by theorists including Norbert Wiener, Warren Weaver, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roman Jakobson, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Luce Irigaray.

For many commentators, user-friendly generative AI technologies, such as DALL-E and ChatGPT, herald an onslaught of unreal, informatic simulacra. Media theorist Matthew Kirschenbaum, for example, has predicted a “textpocalypse” in which human-authored texts will be lost in a sea of machine-generated facsimiles. But is the situation really so simple and well-defined, such that we can speak of an inhuman informatic that stands opposite the supposed agency, originality, and critical spirit of human readers and writers?

The Rap Lab at UVA presents a listening event to commemorate publication and release of Owning My Masters (Mastered): The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions by Dr. A.D. Carson, associate professor of Hip Hop & the Global South (University of Virginia), with University of Michigan Press. The event will feature remarks by Carson, a roundtable discussion with Chicago Urban Historian Sherman “Dilla” Thomas, album collaborators, Marcus “Truth” Fitzgerald (producer/emcee) and Blake “Preme” Wallace (producer/emcee), scholar Alonya Castillo, and scholar/D.J.