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Event Series

Upcoming Events

  • Digital Presentation for Academics

    In this workshop, participants will learn how to enhance their scholarly impact by learning: how to create better slides; which digital tools to use for different presentation tasks; how to create an interconnected digital scholarly presence. We'll go over graphic design principles and how to create... Continue reading →

  • Visual Eloquence: A Hands-On Workshop on Creating Effective Data Visualizations

    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 →

  • Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship

    Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship introduces participants to the core stages of digital scholarship’s research workflow: the acquisition, manipulation, analysis, and presentation of data. This serves as a springboard for faculty, students, and staff who wish to explore the potential of digital sch... Continue reading →

Past Events

  • GIS Institute Summer 2021

    GIS Institute Instructors:    Scott Bell  and  Jill Kelly Registration Schedule: Application deadline:  Friday, March 19, 2021, 11:59 pm (Late applications can join the waitlist.) Notification of acceptance: Friday, April 2, 2021 Registration fee due ($100 for Harvard affiliates and $3,150 for other... Continue reading →

  • Cartography Workshop (spring 2021)

    Location: Northwest Building B129 Lead Instructor:  Jeff Blossom See https://gis.harvard.edu/cartography-workshop for description and fees. How to Apply: For Harvard Affiliates, please submit your application by clicking the green 'HARVARD APPLY' button(HUID login required). For Non-Harvard applican... Continue reading →

  • Would We Know Life If We Saw It?

    Presentation Recording Over the last few decades, scientists have found thousands of planets beyond our own. Some of those planets might be habitable, and perhaps even inhabited already; but how can we tell? Clara Sousa-Silva (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard-Smithsonian) looks for signs of life on... Continue reading →

  • Colonial North America at Harvard Library Symposium: Culminating a Multi-Year Digital Project at Harvard Library

    Nearly a decade ago, Harvard Library embarked on a comprehensive digitization project of manuscript and archival materials relating to Colonial North America from across the Library's repositories. This project enabled thousands of items to be made widely available online. In celebration of the Libr... Continue reading →

  • NEH Digital Humanities Grants Informational Session

    Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Program Specialist for the Office of Digital Humanities - National Endowment for the Humanities, will be leading an information session about the process of applying for NEH-ODH grants, particularly the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants. Recent Harvard NEH-ODH grant recipie... Continue reading →

  • Images as Data with Distant Viewing

    Recording and automatic transcription: https://harvard.zoom.us/rec/share/O7vLMoi_68RKPFawqqerm3DwQdc_TWADmbQrsv6lLLKJHHF-Vg-Yaj80lZgLFHyq.V4KN6gR6qPq90ODC Google Colab Notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1JEPMi1uMlN3FSPB7lu-CSqfT7FT6WOVZ?usp=sharing Images as Data Working Group Wiki: h... Continue reading →

  • Newspaper Navigator: Re-Imagining Digitized Newspapers with Machine Learning

    Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PRd7iZ1vPm8yvl4uKrKej3epNV1QcMw0U4dYwXtyDx0 Recording: https://harvard.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ea8b38e8-16c0-4e9c-a2e4-acf50135e8ef The millions of digitized historic newspaper pages within Chronicling America, a joint initiativ... Continue reading →

  • Foundations Seminar: Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship (Spring 2021)

    Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship introduces participants to the core stages of digital scholarship’s research workflow: the acquisition, manipulation, analysis, and presentation of data. This seminar serves as a springboard for faculty, students, and staff who wish to explore the potential of dig... Continue reading →

  • Visual Eloquence: A Participatory Workshop on Creating Effective Data Visualizations (Spring 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 →

  • Plant Biology Education in Virtual Reality

    Watch the presentation VRPlants is a team of staff and students from the North Carolina State University Libraries and Department of Plant & Microbial Biology that is developing virtual reality educational experiences dealing with plant biology and natural sciences. VRPlants has published two VR app... 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.