- Summer fellow Margaret Yapp’s final presentation scriptby Connor Hood on 12 Sep 2024
Intro This summer I began work on a publishing project called Rampage Party Press, which I’ll spend the next year developing as my thesis project to complete an MFA in Book Arts. Before this program, I received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where I studied poetry. In so many ways, Rampage Party PressContinue reading "Summer fellow Margaret Yapp’s final presentation script"
- Summer fellow Connie Chen’s final presentationby Connor Hood on 12 Sep 2024
Connie Chen’s final presentation and findings from the summer, Tampons of Tauromachy can be found on video here.
- Audio recordings from summer fellow María G. Marroquín Perezby Connor Hood on 12 Sep 2024
The following are audio recordings in both Spanish and English produced by María G. Marroquín Perez: Recording in Spanish: Recording in English:
- Summer fellow Aileen Tierney’s final presentation scriptby Connor Hood on 12 Sep 2024
Hi, good afternoon! My name is Aileen Tierney and I’m an English PhD student going into my third year at the University of Iowa. As a Digital Studio Summer Fellow, I spent my summer learning how to code in Python in addition to reading relevant subjects in my field of study (contemporary literature) such asContinue reading "Summer fellow Aileen Tierney’s final presentation script"
- Summer fellow Alejandro Mauricio Ruiz Zepeda’s final presentation scriptby Connor Hood on 12 Sep 2024
In the morning I go out to the garden and water the plants. I pick up some of the guavas that have fallen from the tree. This is my routine when I visit my parents in the winter. The guavas are yellow and pink, the size of a lime. I bring one of them toContinue reading "Summer fellow Alejandro Mauricio Ruiz Zepeda’s final presentation script"
- Summer fellow Hasan Degerli’s final presentation scriptby Connor Hood on 12 Sep 2024
“As a PhD candidate in Religious Studies, I am interested in Late Antique Christian warrior saints or military martyrs, how they emerged and how their cults spread throughout Mediterranean. In this summer project, I aimed to create a geo-spatial map based on ancient Christian sources. To prepare the map, I started by scanning primary sourcesContinue reading "Summer fellow Hasan Degerli’s final presentation script"
- Herencia means Heritage: Empowering Artisans and Fostering Community by Javier Espinosa Momoxby Connor Hood on 12 Sep 2024
To whom does history belong: to those who live it or to those who record it? For too long, we have accepted that history is told from hegemonic academic institutions, dominated by wealthy Caucasian individuals, who say who has access to historical knowledge. As the popular saying goes, “History is written by the victors,” orContinue reading "Herencia means Heritage: Empowering Artisans and Fostering Community by Javier Espinosa Momox"
- Summer fellow Mahdi Feyz Karimlou’s final presentation scriptby Connor Hood on 12 Sep 2024
(In Farsi:) برای یک زندگی معمولی. For an ordinary life. In September 2022, when Iranians started a series of street demonstrations, everyone knew that a new social movement was taking shape. Many asked what this movement was all about; and many truly answered: abolishing a system of male-dominant gender relations. However, social movements not onlyContinue reading "Summer fellow Mahdi Feyz Karimlou’s final presentation script"
- Summer fellow Falak Jalali’s final presentation scriptby Connor Hood on 12 Sep 2024
My name is Falak Jalali. I am a PhD student in Geography. I work with farmers in Himachal Pradesh, a hilly state in northern India. Himachal Pradesh is part of the great Himalayan ranges, which span eight countries. Over the last decade, agriculture has shifted from subsistence to high-value horticulture crops, coupled with impacts ofContinue reading "Summer fellow Falak Jalali’s final presentation script"
- The Studio’s 2024 cohort completes summer fellowship programby Connor Hood on 28 Aug 2024
This August, ten graduate students completed the 2024 Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio Summer Fellowship—marking the eighth cohort to be awarded the mentored digital scholarship internship experience since the program’s inception in 2017. At the end of the course, the fellows presented on findings, challenges, and conclusions drawn from their digital project work over theContinue reading "The Studio’s 2024 cohort completes summer fellowship program"
- UI Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio launches Health Story Hub, NEH-awarded digital project collaborationby Connor Hood on 12 Aug 2024
The University of Iowa Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio (DSPS) has launched a unique digital resource for educators, students, and community members. Health Story Hub is an open access website that offers a searchable database of stories about health, illness, and healing for teachers to use in classrooms, community groups and clinics. Kristine Muñoz,Continue reading "UI Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio launches Health Story Hub, NEH-awarded digital project collaboration"
- Javier Espinosa Momox’s summer fellowship blogby Connor Hood on 6 Aug 2024
I have been working on my digital archive, you can view it here. HERENCIA MEANS HERITAGE HERENCIA MEANS HERITAGE IS A DIGITAL ARCHIVE THAT SEEKS TO HELP GIVE REPRESENTATION TO MARGINALIZED AND INVISIVILIZED ARTISAN COMMUNITIES AS WELL AS INCIPIENT CRAFT PROPOSALS.MISSIONHERENCIA MEANS HERITAGE AIMS TO CELEBRATE AND PRESERVE THE RICH TRADITION OF TRADITIONAL HANDCRAFTED POTTERY THROUGH COMMUNITY-BASEDContinue reading "Javier Espinosa Momox’s summer fellowship blog"
- Summer Fellowship post by Hasan Degerliby Connor Hood on 6 Aug 2024
Hello, My name is Hasan Degerli, a PhD candidate in the Religious Studies Department. I’ve been exploring ideas for a project that merges my field with Digital Humanities, and the Digital Humanities summer fellowship program at the University of Iowa Library has provided the perfect opportunity to bring this vision to life. My project focusesContinue reading "Summer Fellowship post by Hasan Degerli"
- Understanding agrarian change through farmer’s emotions.by fjalali on 18 Jul 2024
Ever since I was an undergraduate student of Political Science the differences between access to basic amenities like clean drinking water, clean living spaces, health etc concerned me. I decided to work in the development sector to understand the reason better and to spend my life working in service of achieving dignity and equality forContinue reading "Understanding agrarian change through farmer’s emotions."
- Mahdi Feyz Karimlou’s post on summer project workby mfeyzkarimlou on 18 Jul 2024
Iran’s political climate has experienced a series of social protests in the past few years. These episodes were caused by different issues and aimed at different ideals and demands which has given rise to the debate if they should be considered as divergent, scattered protest activities or if they all can be seen as differentContinue reading "Mahdi Feyz Karimlou’s post on summer project work"
- How do artists’ books translate to a digital medium?by pprasanna on 9 Jul 2024
My project initially seemed straightforward, but I soon realized that the undertaking was much more profound than I had imagined. The question I began with was simple. What is the best way to portray an artist book online? Artists’ books are physical objects that convey meaning through structure, form and content. These books are worksContinue reading "How do artists’ books translate to a digital medium?"
- “Memorias del corazón” a bilingual podcastby marroquinperez on 9 Jul 2024
Historia in Spanish has different meanings and can be translated to English as a story or history. What makes a personal story history? What stories are part of history? What voices and stories are not included in history? “History is written by the victors” is a common phrase used to describe how structures of powerContinue reading "“Memorias del corazón” a bilingual podcast"
- Rampage Party Press / in the works!by myapp on 9 Jul 2024
Hi! My name is Margaret Yapp – I’m currently an MFA candidate at the Center for the book, entering my thesis year. Before starting at UICB, I did an MFA in poetry at the Writers’ Workshop. I have spent the last few years at UICB really focused on learning letterpress printing and figuring out howContinue reading "Rampage Party Press / in the works!"
- Python for English majorsby ajtierney on 9 Jul 2024
My original goal for the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio’s Fellowship was to learn how to code in Python, with the end goal of using machine learning in my scholarship. However, one question that’s emerged during the summer is: how do you teach humanities majors to code? At first, I was asking this in moreContinue reading "Python for English majors"
- Decades on and still standing: a history of trees on campusby ruizzeped on 9 Jul 2024
uI like to press my ear against their rugged surface, run my fingers down the ridges of the bark. I close my eyes and breath in the scent of resins, of wet earth. Trees are special for me: they give me peace. That’s why I decided to make a documentary about the most significant treesContinue reading "Decades on and still standing: a history of trees on campus"