Lab Activity Updates

This page collects a new kind of post we started piloting in Summer 2024: a tweet-length "update" on recent lab activities of external interest.

All lab activity updates

2025

  • January 24, 2025 update: Staff grants awarded

    Will Rourk successfully proposed a UVA CESL grant sending funds to community partners working on preservation and use of historic Black Virginian school buildings. Arin Bennett is a collaborator on a successful UVA Thrive grant with Devin Donovan on a ENWR class MUD/MOO project.

  • January 22, 2025 update: Staff zine publications

    Amanda Visconti wrote and published 3 zines in the past month: “Yes, Virginia, there is ICE here too “, “The Good Pets of UVA Library “ (with contributions from UVA Library colleagues), and “DIY Web Archiving” (collaboration w/Quinn Dombrowski, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, and Ilya Kreymer).

  • January 14, 2025 update: Staff teaching activity

    3 SLab staff are teaching for-credit classes as instructors of record this term: Will Rourk is teaching 3D Cultural Heritage Informatics via UVA’s Architecture School & Architectural History program, Jeremy Boggs is teaching Digital Public Humanities at Georgetown University, and Brandon Walsh is teaching a “Data for the Rest of Us” intro data science/DH course for the UVA Catalyst Program. Brandon’s and Jeremy’s course materials are shared online, as are Will’s materials from past similar courses.

  • January 9, 2025 update: Staff conference activity

    Brandon Walsh is participating in the MLA 2025 conference as the ACH-MLA Affiliate (formal liaison between the DH and Modern Languages & Literatures scholarly orgs), member of the MLA 2024-2025 Delegate Assembly (for Theory & Method: Libraries and Research), and convenor of ACH’s special panel at the conference, on “Book History and the Digital Humanities”.

  • January 7, 2025 update: Staff conference activity

    Jeremy Boggs & Praxis Fellow Oriane Guiziou-Lamour had a talk proposal on DH link rot accepted to the “Irresistable Decay” conference at the University of Warwick, March 2025.

2024

  • December 3, 2024 update: Staff zine publication

    Amanda Visconti published a zine, “Look!! Here’s your unusual letterpress blocks invitation to joy: a collage mini-zine”.

  • November 21, 2024 update: Staff chapter publication

    Brandon Walsh published a chapter, “The Futures of Digital Humanities Pedagogy in a Time of Crisis”, in the new open-access book Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities. Watch our events page or Bluesky for TBA details of a Spring 2025 public book event!

  • November 13, 2024 update: Staff grant award

    Will Rourk successfully proposed a UVA Engage grant that will support community cultural heritage informatics preservation and research efforts for the Dunbar Rosenwald School and Fluvanna Evergreen African-American School buildings.

  • November 6, 2024 update: Staff conference speaking

    Brandon Walsh and Amanda Visconti are presenting at the U.S.-based digital humanities scholarly org (the Association for Computers and the Humanities) annual conference, ACH 2024, with in two sessions including Praxis Fellow alums Seanna Viechweg and Fellow Crystal Luo.

  • October 30, 2024 update: Staff zine publication

    Amanda Visconti and Zooniverse’s Sam Blickhan co-created & published a zine, “Speedweve for Mending”, as part of the public #DHMakes Methodz Talks Amanda organizes.

  • October 25, 2024 update: Staff grant award

    Will Rourk successfully proposed a UVA Engage grant sending funds to Charlottesville’s The Haven day shelter (located in a historic church) & local nonprofit Doing Good. He recently 3D scanned the building in support of restoration and improvement efforts to better serve unhoused neighbors.

  • October 23, 2024 update: Staff conference speaking

    Brandon Walsh and Mackenzie Brooks taught an online workshop, “Digital Pedagogy on Paper: An Assignment Redesign Workshop” for the DLF Forum Conference.

  • October 17, 2024 update: AI staff speaking

    “Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity” symposium: Amanda Visconti was an invited expert for a roundtable and OA volume on AI intersections w/cultural policy, heritage, creativity (10/23; sponsors UVA Karsh Digital Tech for Democracy Lab, Environmental Institute, Data Science).

  • October 11, 2024 update: Staff external events

    Amanda Wyatt Visconti organized a series of external events, #DHmakes Methodz Talks, with DH scholars from around the country teaching making and crafting methods.

  • September 9, 2024 update: Staff zine publication

    Amanda Wyatt Visconti published a mini-zine, “Lasercutting! Cheatsheet mini-zine for a Very Specific use case” on using our makerspace’s lasercutter, with thanks to Ammon Shepherd for providing a training refresh.

  • September 5, 2024 update: Staff conference attendance

    Ammon Shepherd and 4 of our Makerspace Technician students are presenting talks at the International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces.

  • August 19, 2024 update: Staff project release

    Brandon Walsh published “DH on the Go”, a website collecting digital humanities podcasts, audiobooks, & other video/audio of interest to DHers, open to public contributions via Zotero group.

  • August 5, 2024 update: Lab conference involvement

    Multiple Lab staff or alum are presenting or facilitating a mini-conference at the August international digital humanities conference, DH 2024.

  • August 1, 2024 update: Staff project release

    Amanda Wyatt Visconti published ZineBakery.com, a website sharing their project collecting, researching, & amplifying zines on culture, tech, and justice (of which Zine Bakery @ Scholars’ Lab is a public zine distro subset). Includes data visualization, metadata, coding, relational database work.

  • July 2, 2024 update: Staff article publication

    SLab Director Amanda Visconti published an article on the recent history of #DHmakes/maker-craft work in DH in the inaugural issue of the Korean Journal of Digital Humanities, co-authored with Quinn Dombrowski and Claudia Berger.

  • May 31, 2024 update: Lab article publication

    SLab Head of Student Programs Brandon Walsh published an article in the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, co-authored with 4 former Praxis Fellows: “A Way In: Digital Pedagogy Training with Speculative, Low-Tech Workshops”.