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This week’s Rendez-Vous will showcase our Humanities Writ Large undergraduate fellows’ contributions to art historical digital research projects in the Wired! Lab. Students will discuss their work on three projects that began in Fall 2013: Death, Burial, and Commemoration in Athens (led by Prof. Sheila Dillon); the Operating Archives (Prof. Mark Olson); and the Visualizing Venice Game (Post Doctoral Associates Kristin Lanzoni & Nicola Lercari). The purpose is to show the coordination of undergraduate student research with longer term faculty research initiatives in Art, Art History & Visual Studies. The MA&S Rendez-Vous is an informal “works-in-progress” weekly meeting which all…

The Wired! group will be well-represented at the 2014 annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in New York this March. Professor Caroline Bruzelius will present a paper entitled “Visualizing Venice: Mapping the Renaissance City” as part of the panel “Digital Florence and Venice III: Structures and Senses.” Prof. Bruzelius’s talk is scheduled on Thursday, March 27th from 1:15 to 2:45. Post Doctoral Associate Kristin Lanzoni and AAHVS PhD student Iara Dundas will co-present a paper on their collaborative research on the church of San Geminiano. Sara Galletti will also present her work on Philibert Delorme. More information on…

Associate Research Professor Victoria Szabo chaired a panel at the 2014 Modern Languages Association Conference in Chicago entitled “Evaluating Digital Scholarship: Candidate Success Stories.” Professor Szabo’s panel addressed the following: In an electronic roundtable, candidates from various institutions and backgrounds share work and describe successful navigation of appointment, tenure, and promotion. MLA guidelines on evaluating digital scholarship serve as context. Discussion of how shifting definitions of academic success may include interdisciplinary collaboration, public engagement, hybrid teaching/research, alt-ac. For more information, see the MLA Conference Program and the panel’s blog at MLA Commons.

Wired! group members will discuss learning and teaching using digital technologies at SECAC 2013. Elizabeth Baltes’s paper, “Three Art Historians, a Computer Scientist, and a Computer Artist Walk into a Classroom” is scheduled at 1:15pm. AAHVS’s John Taormina is co-chairing a panel on new technologies in art history at 3:30pm. It will feature papers by Mark Olson, “Digital Technologies and the Social Life of Things: The Wired Lab at Duke University” and Iara Dundas and Elisabeth Narkin on “How Can Visualization Technologies Help Us to Teach and Learn Architectural History?”

In fall 2013, Victoria Szabo, Tim Senior, and Florian Wiencek presented their project, a collaboration between Duke University and Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany, at the Digital Heritage International Congress. Their paper was subsequently published in the conference’s collection of papers: Digital Cities: A collaborative engagement with urban heritage.