Past Events
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Discovery Series: Opportunities Beyond Bars
Speaker: Jenn Halen Can Virtual Reality be used in a time of extreme isolation to connect undergraduate students from Harvard with mentees in a juvenile detention center in meaningful ways? Will this service-learning environment be as fulfilling as in person work? How can VR provide unique education... Continue reading →
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Ethical Reasoning for Computer Scientists
In a follow-on to HILT's 2021 Conference, we will learn how Embedded EthiCS meets the challenge of making ethical reasoning integral to computer science education. We'll explore how embedding philosophers directly into computer science courses helps students learn how to think through the ethical an... Continue reading →
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Text Analysis with HathiTrust Digital Library and Research Center Analytics
The HathiTrust Digital Library and HathiTrust Research Center's suite of analytical tools offer rich opportunities for researchers to explore the HathiTrust corpus of texts, including those still under copyright protection. Come learn how to build collections of texts and analyze them, even without ... Continue reading →
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What to Do with Millions of Books: The HathiTrust Digital Library & Research Center
Glen Worthey, from the HathiTrust Research Center, will speak on the center's latest initiatives in text and data mining. Registration and presentation via Zoom. Glen Worthey is Associate Director for Research Support Services in the HathiTrust Research Center, based in the University of Illinois ... Continue reading →
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Working with Data (Fall 2021)
In this two-day workshop, you will get a sense of what is possible working with humanities data and understand how humanities scholars approach “data”. We will introduce multiple scenarios with different datasets to help you develop strategies for organizing and cleaning data. Tools may include Open... Continue reading →
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Discovery Series: Living in Data
Speaker: Jer Thorp To live in data is to be incessantly extracted from; to be classified and categorized, statisti-fied, sold and surveilled. Data (our data) is mined and processed for profit, power and political gain. Our clicks and likes and footsteps feed new digital methods of control. In this t... Continue reading →
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Speaking to Millions: User Experience Writing in Big Tech
Join us for Speaking to Millions: User Experience Writing in Big Tech presented by Amelia Warren, Senior UX Writer at Amazon. In this presentation, Amelia will be covering: Amelia has worked to communicate with millions of users at Google, Amazon, and others, specializing in user privacy and inclusi... Continue reading →
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Visual Eloquence: A Participatory Workshop on Creating Effective Data Visualizations (Fall 2021)
Are you interested in using data visualizations to explore your data or as part of your research output, but unsure of where to start? Are you already using data viz, but want to learn to create more effective presentations with different applications or programming languages? Consider attending Vis... Continue reading →
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Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship
Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship is designed to introduce participants to the core stages of digital scholarship’s research workflow: the acquisition, manipulation, analysis, and presentation of data. This seminar is intended to serve as a springboard for faculty, students, and staff who wish to ... Continue reading →
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Discovery Series: Figures in the Sky Initiative
The Figures in the Sky Initiative (FITSI) is a digital public history project under development at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics’ Wolbach Library. FITSI’s main goal is to connect people with resources to help them understand and appreciate different astronomical cultures, as well a... Continue reading →
About the Harvard Discovery Series
The Harvard Discovery Series brought scholars on the frontiers of digital knowledge-making to a Harvard audience in an intimate and interactive setting. From an archaeologist reconstructing tombs in virtual reality, to scholars challenging power differentials through data feminism, to a quantum astrochemist using high-performance computing to search for life among the stars, these presentations of disparate topics demonstrated the unifying potential of digital methods and tools in scholarly and pedagogical pursuits. The series went online in 2020 and was sunset in 2022.