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Indigenous Protocol and AI

Kamapuaʻa/kalo. Image by Kūpono Duncan, 2019 for the position paper. Anyone interested in the Digital Humanities will sooner or later come across AI. Perhaps you’ve already played around and asked an AI program to compose a Valentine’s poem for you, or a painting of John Oliver marrying a cabbage. But have you ever thought about how Indigenous methodologies can inform our practices with AI? UO’s Professor Ashley Cordes (Coquille; affiliated with Indigenous Studies; English; DH; ...
Black and yellow book cover. The book’s title The Race Card. From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities and the name Tara Fickle in white letters.

The Race Card

Professor Tara Fickle’s book The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities (NYU Press, 2019) Tara Fickle’s award-winning book, The Race Card, shows how video games contribute to discourses of race in the U.S. She complicates the usual arguments about games as spheres of empowerment and self-realization, revealing how gaming culture imposes a very specific and limiting role on Asian Americans within U.S. national culture. To make this argument, Fickle analyzes a variety ...
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TimeOnLine

Image from the collection on the Polish-American System of Chronology in TimeOnLine UO History Professor Daniel Rosenberg Rosenberg is interested in time: how we perceive it, and the various means we use and have used to depict it. He also loves games, charts, graphs and ephemera from long-gone days. To share these passions with a wider audience, he teamed up with UO Libraries and created the digital archive TimeOnLine. With the support of a prestigious Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant ...
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Learn-Static

UO Digital Scholarship Librarian Kate Thornhill is part of a team of researchers and technologists who were awarded a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the (NEH) for their project Learn-Static. Learn-Static is a hub for Digital Humanities-focused static web teaching modules and project templates. The two primary aims are to Offer learning modules that cover fundamental introductory concepts in static web development, such Markdown, HTML, CSS, and working with GitHub ...
Red script reading "London Stage Database" on a sepia-toned background collage of archival images depicting18th-century playwrights, actors, performances, and audiences.

The London Stage Database

The front page of the London Stage Database This project is directed by UO’s Professor Mattie Burkert. The aim is to recover the damaged data and code from the 1970s London Stage Information Bank. The Information Bank gathered information about performances of plays, prologues and epilogues, afterpieces, pantomimes, instrumental music, singing, and dancing in London’s public theaters in the long eighteenth century. Unfortunately, the project became technologically obsolete within the ...
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The Modernist Archives Publishing Project

Click here to visit the Modernist Archives Publishing Project website MAPP is a collection of digitized archival texts, photographs, ephemera, and more that shed light on the business of publishing modernist literary works between 1900 and 1950. One of the project’s founding members, Professor Helen Southworth, teaches in the Department of English at UO and in the DH minor.