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Digital Humanities Series: The Maparabia project: integrating archaeological, geographic and epigraphic data in a digital atlas, a gazetteer and a dictionary of ancient Arabia

March 19, 2024 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

18th Avenue Library

The Maparabia project encompasses a variety of fields of research: history, archaeology, epigraphy, palaeography, geomatics, and geography. Based on archaeological data and large digital epigraphic corpuses (DASI, OCIANA), the project aimed to develop online research instruments, adhering to Open Science and FAIR principles: an atlas, a gazetteer and a dictionary of ancient Arabia.

Rare Books & Manuscripts Library's Preview Night

March 20, 2024 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Thompson Library

Join the Rare Books & Manuscripts Library for Preview Night, an annual event showcasing recent acquisitions from medieval manuscripts to contemporary zines. Visitors will have an opportunity to explore materials, meet the curators Eric J. Johnson and Jolie Braun and learn about the Rare Books & Manuscripts Library’s collection strengths and priorities.

TILTing Research Assignments (Virtual Event)

March 21, 2024 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Research assignments are common across higher education, and they often require students to demonstrate their information literacy. Instructors may assume that students are prepared to meet the assignment expectations or feel unable to teach information literacy at the expense of disciplinary content.

Tableau for Research Bootcamp

March 22, 2024 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

18th Avenue Library

The Research Commons Tableau for Research Bootcamp introduces Ohio State faculty and graduate students to Tableau, a no-code, drag and drop solution for creating visually engaging and impactful data visualizations.

ArcGIS Online Challenge

February 19, 2024 - March 22, 2024

Have you ever come across an interactive web map and wondered "how did they make that?" Have you heard about GIS (geographic information systems) and wished you could learn more about how it might be useful for your own research and teaching? If you answered "yes" to either of these questions, then the ArcGIS Online Challenge is for you!

Preserving the History of Kuwait through the Oral History and Documentation Project at the American University of Kuwait (Virtual Event)

March 25, 2024 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Join us for a virtual presentation of the Oral History and Documentation Project (OHDP) exploring the memories of individuals who experienced the drastic shift in Kuwaiti society with the advent of oil, as well as their experiences of major events such as the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the Gulf War in 1991.

Eclipses in Science and Culture

March 27, 2024 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Thompson Library

Get ready for the upcoming total eclipse! Join us as we show two short videos that cover eclipses from a scientific and cultural perspective. Attendees are invited to join us in a discussion after the video presentation. By attending the event, attendees will receive an information sheet about eclipse resources and a pair of eclipse glasses!

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Digital Humanities Series: "A Journeying Around" (Virtual Event)

March 27, 2024 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Professor Elton Barker, Professor of Greek Literature and Culture at the Open University, will discuss the use of maps as tools for research (rather than as illustrations); the importance of collaboration and public scholarship; and the transformative potential of the technology of Linked Open Data.

Book Talk with Clare Griffin - Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia

March 29, 2024 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Thompson Library

Join us for a conversation with author Clare Griffin as she discusses her book, “Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russian,” where she traces the trade routes of ingredients and medicines from around the world to Tsarist Russia.

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Digital Humanities Showcase

March 29, 2024 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

18th Avenue Library

The Digital Humanities Showcase will feature "lightning talks" by Ohio State humanities faculty and graduate students using a variety of approaches in their research and teaching that intersect humanistic inquiry and digital research practices.

Graduate Workshop: Archives and Research Methods

April 3, 2024 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Thompson Library

Led by Thompson Special Collections Instructional Services Specialist Eileen A. Horansky, this workshop will offer graduate students from all disciplines an introduction to archives and archival research methods.

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Digital Humanities Series: "Digital-Humanities in Realtime: Physical/Computational Constraints and their Philosophical Underpinnings"

April 3, 2024 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

18th Avenue Library

Though the layman hardly ever notices it, the issue of state-management is a fundamental and perennial problem in computer data systems engineering. While the question of state has also been a mainstay of philosophical inquiry as well as a focus of the field of physics (particularly heightened in the discipline of quantum mechanics), these three fields of application seem to largely talk past each other.

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Digital Humanities Series: Creating Collaborative Editions of Dead Sea Scrolls: A Hands-on Demonstration and Discussion

April 4, 2024 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

18th Avenue Library

As the project coordinator of Scripta Qumranica Electronica, Bronson Brown-deVost will present its new online research platform and provide an introduction to the domain of Dead Sea Scrolls research and to the technological tools that made this online application possible.

RBML Saturday Spotlight: When This You See, Remember Me: Early American Photographic Portraits

April 6, 2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Thompson Library

When This You See, Remember Me is a collection of photographic portraits from the Rare Book & Manuscripts Library’s (RBML) Floyd and Marion Rinhart Collection.

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Digital Humanities Series: "AI and Visual Culture" (Virtual Event)

April 9, 2024 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Artificial intelligence technologies for image creation and analysis are making a huge impact on art, design, and the study of art history and visual culture today. Contemporary AI applications can be used to automatically categorize images, identify objects or motifs in images, or even detect forgeries. They can also be used, in the case of tools like DALL-E or Stable Diffusion, to create new images based on simple input text.

Tableau and Surveys Bootcamp

April 10, 2024 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

18th Avenue Library

The Research Commons Tableau and Surveys bootcamp follows the Tableau for Research bootcamps hosted previously. This workshop will help Ohio State faculty and graduate students organize and prepare survey data to efficiently and effectively analyze responses, create engaging visuals summarizing demographic survey data, explore strategies to present matrix question responses on one visual, and visualize open response or qualitative data.

Motivating through Meaningful Research Assignments (Virtual Event)

April 10, 2024 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

We are often more motivated to tackle our work when we find it to be meaningful. This is also true for students and their academic work! In this workshop, we will discuss key elements of motivation as they relate to student learning and consider how we can help students find meaning in their academic work.

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Digital Humanities Pedagogy Workshop Series

March 4, 2024 - April 15, 2024

The Digital Humanities Pedagogy workshop series guides arts and humanities faculty, instructors, and graduate students through determining the most appropriate digital humanities (DH) approach for their course, reviewing resource modules for DH methods and tools, and integrating instruction into a new or existing course.

TILTing Research Assignments (Virtual Event)

April 18, 2024 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Research assignments are common across higher education, and they often require students to demonstrate their information literacy. Instructors may assume that students are prepared to meet the assignment expectations or feel unable to teach information literacy at the expense of disciplinary content

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Digital Humanities Series: "Bridging Past and Future: The Evolution of the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of Arizona” (Virtual Event)

April 22, 2024 - April 25, 2024

This talk and workshop will provide a comprehensive overview of the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of Arizona, tracing its inception, highlighting its community-focused mission, showcasing advanced technologies, and illustrating its impact through real-world projects. It will also engage participants in hands-on experiences, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange among attendees.

Celebrating 50 Years of Information Literacy: A Panel Discussion (Virtual Event)

April 29, 2024 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

In this virtual interactive panel discussion, sponsored by The Ohio State University Libraries, five librarians with significant experience teaching and writing about information literacy will share an engaging discussion on the past, present and future of information literacy.

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