The McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s next DH Pop In event will be Friday, January 22, at 11AM. The MHC’s Humanities Specialist Karen Sieber will show participants how to use a free, easy-to-use program called Canva to design event flyers, social media posts, brochures, powerpoints, resumes and more. Email mhc@maine.edu for the link to join.  No digital skills or design aesthetic needed.

While not a digital humanities tool per se, as humanities events, outreach, and employment move to a virtual format, learning design skills using programs like Canva will allow participants to better promote their events and research and engage with the public.

This event is part of an ongoing “DH PopIn” series which introduces students and faculty to easy-to-use tools and methods in the digital realm that help explore and share the humanities in new and exciting ways. The series will also feature virtual chats with noted digital humanities practitioners from across the country to discuss the process building a variety of different projects, from GIS mapping to textual analysis.

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Building off of the success of the Black Digital History event this spring, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center will be continuing their DH Pop In series throughout the year to show the potential and accessibility of the digital humanities for research and classroom use. Spearheaded by the MHC’s Humanities Specialist Karen Sieber, each event will showcase a different tool or digital project, and teach users how to use similar methods in their own research or creative work, including mapping, textual analysis and digital exhibits.

The next DH Pop In will be Tuesday, August 18, at 1PM. Sieber will show virtual attendees how to build quick, easy, free interactive maps and guided tours using the tools StoryMapJS, GoogleMaps and Clio. No experience is necessary. Possibly uses include building interactive maps to help students make sense of jam-packed survey classes, harnessing the power of maps to organize research notes, and breaking down big ideas spatially for a general audience. These tools also allow for collaborative remote work for classrooms meeting virtually.

Email mhc@maine.edu to get the link to register for the DH Pop In.

Sieber’s own digital humanities work has received national attention in recent years. The site Digital Loray () received the National Humanities Alliance’s “Humanities For All” award. The map, timeline and digital archive on the race riots of 1919 that she built () is used in classrooms around the country and has reached hundreds of thousands of users.

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Building off of the success of the Black Digital History event this spring, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center will be continuing their DH Pop In series throughout the year to show the potential and accessibility of the digital humanities for research and classroom use. Spearheaded by the MHC’s Humanities Specialist Karen Sieber, each event will showcase a different tool or digital project, and teach users how to use similar methods in their own research or creative work, including mapping, textual analysis and digital exhibits.

The next DH Pop In will be Monday, August 3, at 1PM. Sieber will show virtual attendees how to build quick, easy, free interactive timelines using the tool TimelineJS. No experience is necessary. Possibly uses include building virtual timelines to help students make sense of jam-packed survey classes, harnessing the power of timelines to organize graduate school comps notes, and using timelines to break down big ideas for a general audience. This tool also allows for collaborative remote work for classrooms meeting virtually.

Email mhc@maine.edu to get the link to register for the DH Pop In.

Sieber’s own digital humanities work has received national attention in recent years. The site Digital Loray () received the National Humanities Alliance’s “Humanities For All” award. The map, timeline and digital archive on the race riots of 1919 that she built () is used in classrooms around the country and has reached hundreds of thousands of users.

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The McGillicuddy Humanities Center and the Multicultural Student Center are holding a Black Digital History lunch and learn on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 12 p.m. in the Multicultural Student Center on the 3rd floor of Memorial Union. Stop by for lunch. Leave with new tools in your knowledge arsenal.

Karen Sieber from the McGillicuddy Humanities Center will discuss digital humanities tools and resources for remembering, teaching, examining, understanding, and celebrating the Black experience in America.

From interactive maps and timelines to digital archives and databases, pop in to learn more about ways in which the digital humanities can help us better understand topics like slavery, Reconstruction, the long Civil Rights movement, Urban Renewal, and even hip-hop history.

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The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center invites community members, faculty and students to attend a showcase of current research and creative projects in the humanities. The event, “2020 Visions: The Humanities at 91����,” will be held on Friday, January 31, 2020 at the Buchanan Alumni House from 2-5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

The afternoon will begin at 2:00 p.m. with a poster session and digital project display in the Andrews Leadership Hall of Buchanan Alumni House. Attendees have the opportunity to converse one-on-one with students and faculty across diverse fields in the humanities about their research. Heavy hors d’oeuvres will be served.

At 3:00 p.m. students from the Opera Workshop will perform in the McIntire Room, followed by brief remarks by Dean Emily Haddad from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Professor Margo Lukens, Director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center.

The highlight of the event will be a research slideshow beginning at 3:30 p.m., where faculty from a variety of different humanities disciplines and university departments will present brief overviews of their recent research and creative projects.

The day’s events aim to highlight the diverse interdisciplinary expertise and interests of our academic faculty and staff involved in research and teaching on campus, and outward-facing humanities work. This afternoon will also familiarize the public with the roles of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, from student fellowships and faculty grants to campus lectures, performances and community outreach.

The following day, Saturday, February 1, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center is also organizing Bangor Humanities Day, a city-wide celebration of local humanities initiatives off campus in the local area. A full schedule of Saturday’s events will be available on the MHC website soon.

More information about the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center is available online or by emailing mhc@maine.edu.

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