Native American & Indigenous Studies at PennWednesday, February 11, 2015 - 12:00pm
Meyerson Conference Room, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
Workshop with Tim Powell
Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Director of Native American Projects at the American Philosophical Society, and Consulting Scholar in the Penn Museum.
What do more than one hundred Penn undergraduate students have to do with a database of more than 6,000 traditional Iroquois names? Find out in this workshop as Tim Powell describes "Digital Knowledge Sharing," a project that involves repatriating digitized archival materials to Native American communities across North America. More broadly, the workshop will ask how digital humanities can strengthen public history programs and, in doing so, create new job opportunities for graduate students beyond the academy's walls.
Lunch will be provided. Pre-registration required.
Please email saravarney@sas.upenn.edu with your name and academic affiliation.
Call for Project Proposals
All Penn faculty and faculty-graduate student teams are invited to submit a brief proposal for early-stage project support. The Digital Humanities Forum can provide advice, funding, and other resources to help you get started with digital research. Recommended Deadline: March 13, 2015. How to apply.