Our work with indigenous language preservation and manuscript studies is featured in the alumni magazine of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences. Check it out!
Thank you Anne Conaway for your fine writing and for your concern to show connections between our work with indigenous colleagues in Mexico and the outstanding work of the Northwest Indian Language Institute!
We have chosen our 30 participants for this summer’s institute in Oaxaca. Congratulations to those of you who have been selected! We received 227 applications, which made the selection process an agonizing one — we had so many stellar applicants that we had to turn away. We can only hope that we will have the honor of doing this again next year (and beyond), and those who were not selected with apply again. (Photo by Yasmin Acosta-Myers, Graduate Research Associate with the project.)
The Oregon Humanities Center Director, Barbara Altmann, interviews WHP Director, Stephanie Wood, on the campus talk show, UO Today! The focus is the Nahuatl Dictionary, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Science Foundation, for Documenting Endangered Languages. This program aired on Channel 23 on Wednesday, February 10, at 8:00 p.m., but you might download the program for viewing on your computer: <http://media.uoregon.edu/channel/?p=882>.
Additional viewing times include: Channel 29 on Tuesday at 11:30 p.m; Wednesday at 11:30 a.m; and Friday at 12:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.
We are pleased to announce a co-sponsored symposium to take place in Warsaw in June with a focus on Mesoamerica, pre-Columbian and Colonial. Professor Justyna Olko of the University of Warsaw has invited Stephanie Wood, WHP Director, to co-organize this symposium. Besides presenting her recent research on indigenous views of Spaniards, Stephanie will lead a workshop on WHP’s Mapas Project. The program for the symposium has been established, with participation from the U.S., Mexico, and Europe, but additional colleagues and students are still welcomed to register and attend, and participate in discussions!
Ginny White and Stephanie Wood have been selected from a sizable, national applicant pool to participate in an NEH institute, Enabling Geospatial Scholarship, that will take place in late May at the University of Virginia. Ginny and Stephanie teamed up with Jon Jablonski and Karen Estlund of the UO Libraries to apply jointly for this honor. Jon and Karen were chosen to participate in the first tracks, which took place this past November, and Ginny and Stephanie have just heard that they have been chosen for the final track this spring.
WHP continues to explore GIS applications for its Mapas Project (Mesoamerican indigenous authored pictorial manuscripts and maps) and its forthcoming Age of Exploration European maps. Undergraduate assistant Aaron López, a GIS major, is also assisting with this project, looking especially at GIS applications for the maps in the Codex Cardona.
The Global Scholars Program of the University of Oregon’s Office of International Affairs has just notified us that they will provide seed money for the launching of WHP’s Digital Chinese Scrolls Collection. We will digitize and atomize two Chinese scrolls in the collections of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art for close study by History Professor Ina Asim and colleagues. We will also include the scroll that Garron Hale of the Social Science Instructional Lab digitally enhanced (shown below, in sample images). The long range goal is to create collaborative teams between the UO and universities, archives, and museums in China, involving faculty and students in the transcription, translation, and analysis of these and additional scrolls abroad. We have an agreement with the Library of Congress to include some of their many scrolls, too, if we can find the additional resources that will be necessary for expanding the collection.
The Wired Humanities Projects constitute a “consortium” of research projects that utilize and develop digital scholarship in the humanities. We think of ourselves as a part of a world wide “collaboratory” – what William Wulf (1989) defined as “a center without walls, in which [humanities] researchers can perform their research without regard to physical location, interacting with colleagues, accessing instrumentation, sharing data and computational resources, [and] accessing information in digital libraries.”
Our projects create digital collections for advancing research and for pedagogical uses, as well as tools that help scholars and educators collaborate and connect regardless of their geographical locations.
Our logo represents this connection of separate projects and possibilities for the growth of some projects and ideas beyond any current understanding of what constitutes the whole.
