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Spatial Historian software (Builders & Defenders database)

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The Builders and Defenders database is a collaborative archive documenting Black Civil War-era lives in Nashville, Tennessee, tied to the UNESCO site Fort Negley. It features nearly 5,000 enslaved and free Black builders from 1862, over 13,000 United States Colored Troops who defended the fort in 1864, and others mentioned in historical records who helped shape Black Nashville during the war.

Scalar

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Scalar is a digital publishing platform built for scholars, educators, and curators to create long-form, media-rich narratives online. Developed with the digital humanities in mind, it enables users to seamlessly integrate text with multimedia content—such as video, audio, and interactive visuals—while supporting non-linear storytelling and robust metadata. With flexible structure and academic rigor, Scalar empowers users to build nuanced, beautifully designed projects that foster engagement and intellectual exploration.

Omeka

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Omeka is a user-friendly, open-source web publishing platform designed for scholars, educators, librarians, and museum professionals to showcase digital collections and create rich online exhibits. It supports diverse metadata standards and offers powerful tools for organizing, describing, and displaying cultural heritage materials. With its flexible architecture and intuitive design, Omeka makes it easy to build accessible, visually engaging narratives around archival content—no coding required.

Booksnake

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Booksnake is an augmented reality tool that brings digitized cultural materials—like books, maps, and manuscripts—into your physical space. Using an iPhone or iPad, place items on a flat surface and explore from every angle. Zoom in, step back, or walk around; Booksnake keeps the item anchored as if it were really there.

IHGC – Pop-Up Book Launch with Sandhya Shukla: "Cross-Cultural Harlem"

Cross-Cultural Harlem reveals a dynamic of exchange that provokes a rethinking of spaces such as Black Harlem, El Barrio, and Italian Harlem. Cross-cultural encounters among African Americans, West Indians, Puerto Ricans, Jews, and Italians provide a story of multiplicity that challenges the framework of territorial enclaves. Shukla illuminates the historical processes that have shaped the diversity of Harlem, examining the many dimensions of its Blackness—Southern, African, Caribbean, Puerto Rican, and more—as well as how white ethnicities have been constructed.

IHGC'S READING LAB & DIGITAL HUMANITIES INITIATIVE – BOOK SEMINAR on "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory"

In Code, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media by theorists including Norbert Wiener, Warren Weaver, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roman Jakobson, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Luce Irigaray.

IHGC'S READING LAB & DIGITAL HUMANITIES INITIATIVE – "Degenerative AI: The Covert Humanism of ChatGPT"

For many commentators, user-friendly generative AI technologies, such as DALL-E and ChatGPT, herald an onslaught of unreal, informatic simulacra. Media theorist Matthew Kirschenbaum, for example, has predicted a “textpocalypse” in which human-authored texts will be lost in a sea of machine-generated facsimiles. But is the situation really so simple and well-defined, such that we can speak of an inhuman informatic that stands opposite the supposed agency, originality, and critical spirit of human readers and writers?

RAP LAB AND PARTNERS PRESENT Album Release and Listening Event: "Owning My Masters"

The Rap Lab at UVA presents a listening event to commemorate publication and release of Owning My Masters (Mastered): The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions by Dr. A.D. Carson, associate professor of Hip Hop & the Global South (University of Virginia), with University of Michigan Press. The event will feature remarks by Carson, a roundtable discussion with Chicago Urban Historian Sherman “Dilla” Thomas, album collaborators, Marcus “Truth” Fitzgerald (producer/emcee) and Blake “Preme” Wallace (producer/emcee), scholar Alonya Castillo, and scholar/D.J.

IHGC'S PERSONHOODS LAB – "Ongoing Nakba, Narrative Form, and the Protection of International Law"

The ongoing Nakba is a historiographic framework that names the structural condition and protracted temporality of Palestinian expulsion, dispossession, and fragmentation since 1948. This talk examines ongoing Nakba as conceived in critical law scholarship, history, and artistic production to challenge the colonial contours of the international protection of persons.