http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/events/programming/digital-scholarship-week-2016/

“Building a Better Past: Digital History and the Virtual St. George’s (Bermuda) Project”

This talk presents ongoing efforts to digitally reconstruct St. George’s, Bermuda’s first capital and the oldest town in English America. The project combines historical, visual, GIS, architectural, and archaeological data to create an interactive 3D model of the town in 1775 to explore gender, race, politics, trade, and other aspects of daily life in an early modern Atlantic seaport. Jarvis offers audience members a “how to” guide for reconstructing and visualizing past landscapes in their own scholarship.

Michael Jarvis is author of In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783, which won the James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History from the American Historical Association.

Digital Scholarship Week

“Digital humanities” and “digital scholarship” are increasingly frequent watchwords among the academic avant-garde, but do these tools radically change what scholars can do? Digital Scholarship Week will offer seven days of events to explore this question with programing for two distinct groups on the UB campus. The week will provide an introduction for faculty and students curious about how digital methods could enrich their scholarship, and it will bring together scholars already engaged in digital scholarship to introduce their work to the UB academic community and to exchange methods and ideas. Together, this week will offer UB faculty and graduate students the chance to delve into key trends in digital scholarship.

Digital Scholarship Week is presented by the Committee on Digital Scholarship and Cultures (DiSC) and the Humanities Institute with support from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development and the College of Arts and Sciences.

http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/events/programming/digital-scholarship-week-2016/