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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Calling all storytellers! Emplace, a new digital publication, invites community members to contribute stories about how they build community, relationships, and a sense of place in the St. Louis region. We welcome established and emerging voices and a wide variety of formats. #stl #DigitalHumanities

Call for Community Storytellers

Emplace, a new digital publication, invites community members to contribute stories about how they build community, relationships, and a sense of place in the St. Louis region. We welcome established and emerging voices and a wide variety of formats.
Emplace centers placemaking through storytelling as a creative practice. The term emplace evokes intentionality, care, and action in relation to the work of strengthening communities through sharing local stories. Stories have the power to create change.

Stories shape who we are, how we understand the world around us, and how we imagine the future. Through storytelling, Emplace advocates for spatial justice, in which people have access to healthy living environments, equal access to resources and services, and the ability to contribute to the identity and future of their homes.

Emplace supports its contributors with developmental editing and community-based review, creating a genre of public scholarship that values the works of diverse contributors. The interactive story genres on Emplace include data visualization, video production, podcasting, mapping, graphic networks, and scrollytelling, a technique that dynamically reveals multimedia content as a reader scrolls through a narrative.

Contributors don’t need to have technical expertise, just a story to tell. SIUE’s IRIS Center for Digital Humanities will support contributors in bringing their digital stories to life, including technical and editorial support. Contributions will be reviewed prior to publication, and accepted authors will receive honoraria of $500 per piece.

Submit a Proposal
View the full call and submit a proposal at https://emplace.siue.edu/call-for-storytellers.

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Congratulations to @megsmith.bsky.social! Last week, she received the Outstanding Recent Alumni Award from the Saint Louis University Department of History. The award recognizes all the fantastic, collaborative work in IRIS, supporting history & the humanities at SIUE and beyond! #DigitalHumanities

Meg Smith (right) stands next to Mark Ruff, chair of the history department at Saint Louis University. Meg holds a glass award.

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

More art for IRIS, courtesy of @literaturegeek.bsky.social’s @wolfproofpress.com! Critical tech, care ethics, and creative scholarship are all essential to IRIS’s ethos, and it’s so cool to see that inscribed on the space like this. #DigitalHumanities

IRIS’s welcome wall, featuring a quilted rainbow banner, a quilted public library sign, an appliqur namer that reads i-r-i-s, and two letterpress prints. One print reads “HTML is the letterpress of the digital world,” and the other features an image of a Luddite throwing something (presumably a clog), with the text “Maybe it’s just vaporware. luddites pointing out the (tech) emperor has no clothes since (well before) 1811. Luddites didn’t “fear technology.” They broke the machines that allowed the rich to enshittify livelihoods. Who’s your tech for? No tech’s adoption is inevitable (lol blockchain). Glitch their cistems.”

An image of a letterpress print titled “This is a printing office.” Text:

THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE
Like all technology: human choice, if evil or good This place is not a place of honor but it could be a place of hope
Refuge of arts, craft, community, learning, a megaphone for justice, fearless truth slipping bit rot & digital censorship; or playing at a whitewashed past; to pretend away present fascism
The center of danger is here; the center of hope is here The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours (the possibility, too From this place you may send words of justice, liberation, reparation, collective care; or serving capital, stoking hate
A press is but its printers
Friend vou stand on ground
Myou make sacred-or not
THIS is a PRINTING-OFFICE
Remixed text (in italics) from Beatrice Warde & Sandia National Laks; & new text by Amanda Wyatt Visconti, VA Ctr for the Book
FINFUSE

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Congrats to our SIUE presenters at the STL #DigitalHumanities Showcase! 💿 Kezia Miller, “Beautiful Dreams of the Past: Preserving Family Histories through Textual Recovery” 💿 Mauri Johnson, Rayna Sims, & Colin Strasser, “Digital Storytelling on the Hiking Trail at Saint Stanislaus Conservation Area”

A group of seven people stand outside in front of a garden. From left to right: Dr. Jacquie Shea, Colin Strasser, Mauri Johnson, Rayna Sims, Dr. Meg Smith, Kezia Miller, and Dan Schreiber

Kezia Miller gestures at a slide while presenting her digital edition. The edition shows her markup schema, an example of marks up text, and two images of handwritten text demonstrating an emendation and a misspelling

Rayna Sims presents her digital timeline of the ecology of St. Stanislaus Conservation Area

Mauro Johnson looks up at a slide while presenting his video essay on Saint Stanislaus Conservation Area. The slide offers a few images of the park and connects them to broader issues of historical interpretation

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Another big congratulations to Dr. Kristine Hildebrandt! Yesterday, she received her Distinguished Research Professor award and was recognized for her tremendous accomplishments in endangered language documentation, digital and public humanities, and innovative pedagogy. We are lucky to have her!

Kristine Hildebrandt poses wearing a VERY large medal awarded for her Distinguished Research Professor rank. She is smiling in front of a lovely background of green trees.

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

IRIS now supports Manifold! Create of rich, interactive texts and facilitate reader engagement through social annotation and reading communities. It’s a great choice for OER, student projects, and public scholarship. Learn more Friday at our March Morning Bytes!

IRIS Center Morning Bytes
Introducing Manifold

Manifold is a web platform for publishing rich, interactive texts, ideal for OERs, open access research, and student projects. It facilitates engaged reading through social annotation and reading communities.
Come learn about this new IRIS-supported resource!
Friday, March 20, 10:00 AM
CFDI (Lovejoy, 2nd floor)

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Join us for a series of workshops on teaching and researching with digital tools! The IRIS Center Morning Bytes series offers hands-on tutorials, activities and lesson plans, and spotlights on ongoing digital humanities projects. #DigitalHumanities

A flyer for a workshop series in the IRIS Center at SIUE:

Interactive Storytelling with the Scrolly Story Generator
Meg Smith and Dan Schreiber (IRIS Center)
Jan. 23, 10:00-11:00, Center for Faculty Development and Innovation (Lovejoy Library, 3rd floor)

Teaching with Leaflet Storymaps
Laura Fowler (History)
Feb. 13, 10:00-11:00, Center for Faculty Development and Innovation

Digital Publishing with Manifold
Meg Smith and Dan Schreiber (IRIS Center)
Mar. 20, 10:00-11:00, Center for Faculty Development and Innovation

“Beautiful Dreams of the Past”: Building a Digital Edition
Kezia Miller (English)
Apr. 17, 10:00-11:00, Center for Faculty Development and Innovation

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

💫 Andrea Barajas 💫 Jessica DeSpain 💫 Kristine Hildebrandt 💫 Kezia Miller 💫 Dan Schreiber 💫 Jacqueline Shea 💫 Margaret Smith Pictured: IRIS web developer Dan Schreiber and CODES community coordinator Andrea Barajas prep plush guinea pigs as a graduation gift for our CODES seniors

IRIS web developer Dan Schreiber and CODES community coordinator Andrea Barajas prep plush guinea pigs as a graduation gift for our CODES seniors. Dan is combing the guinea pigs to refluff them from their vacuum-sealed packaging, and Andrea is gluing CODES ribbons around their necks like graduation stoles.

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

This Friday! Join us for our next Morning Bytes, where Dr. Jill Anderson (English) will present on her work producing a biographical chronology for the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters project. #DigitalHumanities @mhs1791.bsky.social

IRIS Center
Morning Bytes
Jill Anderson, Ph.D.
Department of English
Friday, Nov. 14 10:00-11:00 AM
IRIS Center (Peck 2226)
Grappling with Contexts for an Archive of 19th-Century
Letters
In this Morning Bytes, Dr. Jill Anderson (English) will present her Spring 2025 sabbatical project, a series of contributions to the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters project contained within the Primary Source Cooperative at the Massachusetts Historical Society. The presentation will include a brief introduction to this influential early American writer and a discussion of Anderson's process in producing a biographical chronology connecting Sedgwick's early letters with 19th-century historical and personal contexts.

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

This Wednesday! @hrambsy.bsky.social will share his work on the Black Lit Network, a #DigitalHumanities project that brings scholarship on African American literary studies to public audiences and provides innovative discovery tools that link people to books based on their interests.

Poster for a lecture co-sponsored by African American Literary Studies, the IRIS Center, and the Black Lit Network

Dr. Howard Rambsy
"The Literary Navigator: Curation and Discovery on the Black Literature Network"
Wednesday, October 29, 11:00 AM
Redmond Center classroom, Lovejoy Library 2nd floor

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

📣Calling all SIUE faculty and staff📣 Join the SIUE Faculty and Staff Fundraising Campaign and make a direct impact on the programs and projects that inspire you most. If that inspiration includes digital humanities, experiential learning, and community-engaged pedagogy, keep reading!

A banner for an SIUE Foundation campaign targeting faculty and staff with the slogan “It’s a Cougar Thing, We Give Back”

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

You know what regalia needs? Pockets. IRIS can help, and in return, you can help IRIS! Learn to add them yourself or have us do it for you for a suggested donation of $25. Sign up at iris.siue.edu/pockets. Space is limited! #DHMakes

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Ope, it’s syllabus season. Join us for an in-person workshop on how to incorporate meaningful digital assignments and activities into your course, in ways that both enhance students’ engagement with the course content and encourage them to think critically about technology. #DigitalHumanities

A flyer for a workshop, “Crafting a Digital Humanities Assignment,” which will take place in the IRIS Center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville on July 30 from 11:00-12:00. The flyer features cartoonish images of a laptop, megaphone, magnifying glass, and other objects.

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

This Wednesday, join us at the Wedge in Alton to chat about data representation, learn some spreadsheet and mapping technologies, and share your experiences of the Metro East as a cultural center. Free and no experience needed! July 16, 3:00-4:30 #DigitalHumanities #STL #StLouis #MetroEast

The SIU System Office of Community Engagement

Putting Ourselves on the Map: Data, Bias, and the Stories We Tell

Learn how everyday tools like maps and spreadsheets shape public memory-and take part in telling your own story

The Wedge
620 E Broadway, Alton, IL
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Free and Open to the Public

The July Community Collaboration Lab, co-hosted with the SIUE IRIS Center, will explore how data shapes what we see, who gets represented, and how communities like the Metro East are too often left out of digital spaces. Dr. Meg Smith, Interim Director of the IRIS Center, will lead participants through real-world examples of data bias and introduce digital storytelling as a powerful tool for reclaiming narrative control. As part of the session, attendees will contribute their own stories and insights to a collaborative community map that highlights the Metro East as a vibrant cultural space. The map will remain open for future Lab participants to build on, creating an evolving record of local knowledge, identity, and place.

For more Information, contact Dr. Connie Frey-Spurlock at connie.freyspurlock@slu.edu
https://siusystem.edu/community-engagement/

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

New course alert! This fall we’re offering the brand new HUM430: Digital Storytelling and Curation! It’s linked with ENG482: Technology and Literature, and we’ll engage with both science fiction and history of tech as we learn a variety of tools for digital storytelling. #DigitalHumanities

DIGITAL CURATION & STORYTELLING
TECHNOLOGY AND LITERATURE
HUM430/ENG482
Tues/Thurs 11:00-12:15

Will Al save the world? Will it doom it?
What is technology without the humanities?
Is the internet really forever?

In this class, we'll use literature about science and technology to engage critically with our own technologies. As we experiment with digital theory, electronic environments, and texts (both analog and born-digital, we'll explore our relationships to technology, to one another, and to our pasts, presents, and futures. Along the way, we'll work with a variety of tools for digital humanities scholarship and storytelling.

TOPICS INCLUDE...
• Al fictions
• Games as texts
• Electronic literature
• Digital storytelling
• Data storytelling
• Digital archives and exhibits

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Summer feels both around the corner and eons away, but we're already planning. Check out our new AI Fictions Reading Group! We'll use AI fiction -- tv, novels, short stories -- as a tool for exploring and developing AI ethics. More details: iris.siue.edu/ai-fictions/ #DigitalHumanities #CriticalAI

Flyer for an AI Fictions Reading Group, summer 2025, hosted by the IRIS Center
How do we define our relationship to technology and each other? What do we owe to one another in the evolving technological landscape?

In this “reading” group, we’ll explore AI ethics through AI fictions: books, short stories, and television that explore the possibilities and limits of AI.

More details: https://iris.siue.edu/ai-fictions

Schedule:
June 4, 2:00-3:30: Mrs. Davis (tv show)
June 19, 2:00-3:30: Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun (novel)
July 9, 2:00-3:30: Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow (novel)
July 23, 2:00-3:30: Annalee Newitz, "When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis" and Cat Rambo, "Red in Tooth and Cog" (short stories + podcast)

Questions? Contact Dr. Meg Smith at margars@siue.edu

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Today! Join us this morning in the IRIS Center for a presentation from @mark3000.bsky.social on a mid-century radio show and how it connects to its rural southern Illinois context. #DigitalHumanities

A flyer for a talk with a photo of a recording microphone and a graphic of sound waves. The text reads:

Left Unsaid:
Historical Context for a Southern Illinois News and Info Radio Show
Mark Poepsel, PhD
Mass Communications
IRIS Center Morning Bytes
Friday, April 18, 10:00 AM
Peck Hall 2226

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Thanks and congrats to our students who presented at the STL #DigitalHumanities Showcase! From legacies of redlining in Rockford, to analysis of Kendrick’s fusion of East and West Coast rap, to PSAs about data privacy and accessibility, they produced thoughtful and creative engagements with tech.

Nine people stand in a row on a second floor balcony overlooking a cathedral-style room with lots of wrought iron and stained glass. The people include seven students and two faculty members.

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Hey #SIUE / IRIS folks! If you'll be on campus, join us in the IRIS Center to take part together. This is a great opportunity to explore avenues for advocacy and organizing at the local as well as the national levels. #DigitalHumanities

A flyer advertising a workshop:

Advocate for the Humanities

Join us in the IRIS Center for a webinar (hosted by the Association for Computers and the Humanities) on advocating for the National Endowment for the Humanities and Institute of Museum and Library Services to your elected officials.

Wednesday, April 9, 10:00-11:00 AM
IRIS Center, Peck Hall 2226

Can’t join us in person? You can still register for the webinar!
Visit https://members.ach.org/civicrm/event/info/?id=34

Contact Dr. Meg Smith with questions at margars@siue.edu.

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

There's more snow coming, but we are ready to be out of the house and back on campus! ✔️ Office hours updated ✔️ Project check-in meetings scheduled ✔️ Intro to DH syllabus revised ✔️ Grant application ready to submit ✔️ Fresh coffee purchased Come find us next week! #DigitalHumanities

A flyer for the IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Digital Humanities & Social Sciences
The field of digital humanities and social sciences comprises a wide variety of methods that use technology to further our understanding of fields like history, literature, linguistics, geography, and more. It also turns a critical, humanistic eye on technology itself, considering the social and ethical implications of our tools, platforms, and data practices. DH practitioners put digital tools to work in the classroom, in their research, and in the community through methods like data analysis, data visualization and mapping, digital archives, and digital storytelling.

Services and Resources
Teaching
- Classroom visits
- Teaching consultations
- Digital humanities office hours

Research
- Grant-writing support
- Technical consultations
- Faculty fellowships
- Skill workshops

Equipment
- Computers and scanners
- Digital platforms
- Software for GIS, AV editing, and more

IRIS Faculty Fellowships
The IRIS Center offers annual fellowships to support tenure-track and tenured faculty (particularly junior faculty) who wish to pursue digital humanities research or creative work. Supported by a course release, access to IRIS resources, and guidance from IRIS faculty, each fellow will develop a digital humanities project over the course of a year. Watch for a call for applications in February 2025.

Contact Us
Email: iriscenter@siue.edu
Website: https://iris.siue.edu
IRIS Office Hours (SP25): Wednesdays, 12:00-1:00, Peck 2226

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This Giving Tuesday, CODE Scholars kick off 3 days of presentations. From climate justice to histories of enslavement, these scholars have explored wicked problems alongside their community partners. If you’d like to support CODES, you can give at connect.siue.edu/g/donate. Search for fund 4251!

A graphic that reads:

This Giving Tuesday, please support CODES.

CODES equips students to tackle wicked problems in their communities.
CODE Scholars are supported by a full scholarship, peer mentorship, and a dedicated team of faculty and staff.
To give, visit https://connect.siue.edu/g/donate and search for Fund 4251

A photo of several CODE Scholars speaking with legislators and staffers in the Illinois Capitol. Behind them are posters displaying their research on wicked problems.

A banner at the bottom of the photo reads “CODE Scholars are advocates.”

Three CODE Scholars pore over archival documents relating to Henry Shaw’s ownership of enslaved people in the archives of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

A banner at the bottom of the photo reads “CODE Scholars are researchers.”

Five muddy CODE Scholars pose in the woods wearing waders and hats in the midst of research on river ecologies.

A banner at the bottom of the photo reads “CODE Scholars are active learners.”

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

This Friday! Join us in for a workshop on "Teaching Data Literacies with Maps." This hands-on workshop will explore how creating digital maps can help to teach key data and info literacies. This is an intro workshop that speaks to multiple disciplines. If possible, bring a laptop! #DigitalHumanities

A flyer for a workshop, “Teaching Data Literacies with Maps,” led by Dr. Meg Smith. It will take place at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in Peck Hall 2226 on October 11 from 10:00-11:00 AM.
Session description: This hands-on workshop will explore how digital maps can help to teach key data literacies. We’ll walk through the practical steps of how to create a spatial data set and visualize it on a map. We’ll also talk about how those tasks can prompt students to consider how data sets are constructed and shaped by the choices and priorities of the researcher. If possible, bring a laptop!

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Congratulations again to @jessicadespain.bsky.social, who’s currently in CA receiving her DEI award from IARSLCE! The award honors her tremendous efforts to build equitable #DigitalHumanities infrastructures through programs like CODES and the Recovery Hub.

An image of a smiling Dr. Jessica DeSpain standing in front of a screen that shows her Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion award, and holding a glass award in her hands.

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

We know the semester’s only just begun, but it’s already time to think about spring schedules! This spring, we’re offering our Intro to Digital Humanities and Social Sciences with @megsmith.bsky.social.

A flyer for HUM230, Introduction to Digital Humanities and Social Sciences. The text reads: Will AI save the world? Will it doom it? Where does all our data go?
Who gets to write history? Who gets to read it? Is the internet really forever? What is digital humanities, anyway? Learn how technology transforms fields like history, literature, geography, and sociology. Look critically at technology and evaluate how it shapes our lives for better and for worse. Learn skills like data visualization, digital storytelling, digital archives and exhibits, and digital editing. The course fulfills humanities breadth, lab experience, interdisciplinary studies, and a digital humanities minor requirement. It meets Monday/Wednesday from 1:30 to 2:45 and is taught by Dr. Margaret Smith.

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Congratulations to IRIS co-director Dr. Jessica DeSpain! She's received the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award from the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement for her work with CODES, RISE-DH, the Recovery Hub, and more.

Images of the 2024 IARSLCE Award winners. Jessica DeSpain is in the bottom right corner.

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

It’s a busy week in IRIS! Today, you can find us at the History Department’s research-in-progress speaker series, where @megsmith.bsky.social will present on her digital project Litigating Irishness. #DigitalHumanities #IrishHistory #MedievalSky #EarlyModern

A flyer for the History Department at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s research-in-progress speaker series. The event today features Meg Smith, research assistant professor of digital humanities, with a talk called “Litigating Irishness: Digital Approaches to Early Modern Legal History.” The talk is today, March 29, from 12:00 to 1:00 in Peck Hall 3117.

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

52 hours and 15 minutes! That's the amount of time students have volunteered in IRIS this semester on crowdsourcing projects like Douglass Day and Mapping for Rapid Response. We appreciate you!

A pink, white, and gold graphic with the text 52:15

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

Our Mapping for Rapid Response participants are hard at work, putting a core digital humanities skill to work to support relief efforts in areas impacted by natural disasters. #DigitalHumanities

Several students sit around a conference table working on their laptops. On the projector screen behind them is a Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team project.

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

Happening this Friday! If you’re in the area, join us for a roundtable on Creative and Critical Approaches to AI, featuring perspectives from digital humanities, English, instructional technology, and computer science. #DigitalHumanities

Flyer for a roundtable titled “Critical and Creative Approaches to AI.” The talk description reads: “Teaching strategies and resources for leveraging AI’s potential, interrogating its biases, and weighing its costs.” Panelists include Jessica DeSpain (IRIS and English), Steve Klein (Computer Science), David Knowlton (Instructional Technology), Donavan Ramon (English), and Margaret Smith (IRIS). The event will be on March 22 from 12:00 to 1:00 in Lovejoy Library’s 3rd floor conference room.

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

We’ve got a flurry of activity happening in March! Join us for… - A roundtable on creative and critical approaches to AI (3/22) - A workshop on mapping for rapid response (3/26) - A research presentation on @megsmith.bsky.social’s Litigating Irishness (3/29) #DigitalHumanities

A flyer for a roundtable on Creative and Critical Approaches to AI, which will take place on March 22 from 12:00 to 1:00 in the 3rd floor conference room of Lovejoy Library at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

A flyer for a workshop called Mapping for Rapid Response, which will take place on March 26 from 1:00 to 3:00 in the IRIS Center (Peck Hall 2226) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. You can register at https://bit.ly/map-iris

A flyer for the SIUE History Department’s Research-in-Progress Speaker Series. On March 29 from 12:00-1:00, Meg Smith will present “Litigating Irishness: Digital Approaches to Early Modern Legal History” in Peck Hall 3117.

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

Interested in digital storytelling in the classroom? Dr. Jessica DeSpain will be presenting at this week's Digital Humanities Lab Speaker Series at UMSL. All are welcome! #DigitalHumanities

A flyer advertising a roundtable on Digital Storytelling and Pedagogy, featuring Carrie Mott (University of Louisville), Jessica DeSpain (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville), and Andrew Hurley and Lauren Obermark (both of University of Missouri St. Louis). The roundtable is on Friday, Feb. 23, at 1:00 pm in UMSL’s Lucas Hall, room 302.

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

And here are a few of the reflections our participants had after transcribing! #DouglassDay #DouglassDay2024

A pink post-it that reads: “I was wild to think that I am transcribing words that were written by people living so long ago”

A blue post-it that reads: “This was a really good experience. It was challenging but in a good way!”

An orange post-it that reads: “it’s like Wheel of Fortune on expert mode! (Still had a great time)”

An orange post-it that reads: “I had a great time! Although the writings are hard to figure out it is a fun challenge. It is also cool to see the difference in language.”

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Thanks to everyone who joined us for #DouglassDay! As of this evening, over 1000 pages have been transcribed by over 800 volunteers. We’re so glad our students and faculty got to contribute to that number! Enjoy these photos of the celebration. #DouglassDay2024

A white frosted cake decorated with balloons, sprinkles, and text reading Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass

Two Black women students transcribe a document together while eating cake

Nine students sit in a classroom working on transcriptions

Several students work on transcriptions together, fortified by cake

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

Join us on February 14 from 10:30 to 1:30 in the IRIS Center to celebrate #DouglassDay! We’ll transcribe a portion of Douglass’s correspondence and learn more about his life and legacy. (There will be cake too!) Sign up at bit.ly/iris-douglass

A flyer for the IRIS Center’s Douglass Day celebration. The event is co-sponsored by the IRIS Center, the African American Literary Studies program at SIUE, and the Community-Oriented Digital Engagement Scholars program. It will take place on February 14 from 10:30 to 1:30 in the IRIS Center, which is Peck Hall 2226. The national event is presented by the Library of Congress and the Center for Black Digital Research.

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Thanks to our wonderful presenters at last night’s Digital Humanities Student Showcase! We heard from 30 CODE Scholars and IRIS student researchers about digital projects on topics near and far. We’re so proud of the work these students are doing to critically and ethically engage with technology!

Four CODE Scholars present on “Legacies of the Missouri Botanical Garden in relation to injustice.”

A student presented stands at the podium with a digital archive of linguistic materials related to endangered language documentation on the screen behind her.

Two Black women students present on their work to develop a curriculum about Black psychology to integrate into courses at the university.

Two students present on data cleaning practices with the database for a project on early modern Irish legal history behind them.

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

As we head toward final project season, don’t forget that IRIS offers office hours to support students and faculty working on digital humanities projects! Here’s our updated schedule for November.

A graphic with the IRIS Center’s scheduled office hours on Tuesdays from 1:00-3:00 or by appointment, along with a bitly link to zoom: https://bit.ly/meg-smith

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

We’ve finalized the rest of our fall workshop schedule - if you’re in the area, please feel free to drop in! #DigitalHumanities

A calendar post with three workshop titles. On October 27, Jessica DeSpain, Nicole Klein, and Meg Smith will lead “Setting Expectations for AI Usage with Your Students.” On December 1, Jessica Hutchins will lead “Texaco Wiki: Teaching with Wordpress.” On December 6, the IRIS Center will host its annual Digital Humanities Student Showcase.

An advertisement for a workshop called “Setting Expectations for AI Usage with Your Students,” led by Jessica DeSpain, Nicole Klein, and Meg Smith. The workshop will take place on October 27 at 11:30 in the Center for Faculty Development and Innovation. The description reads: “Are you struggling to have productive conversations about AI with your students? Register for our upcoming workshop at https://bit.ly/ai-usage”

An ad for a workshop by Jessica Hutchins called “Texaco Wiki:Teaching with Wordpress.” It will take place on December 1 at 11:00 in the IRIS Center. The ad features a cropped image of the book Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau.

An ad for the Digital Humanities Student Showcase, which will take place December 6 at 4:30 on the first floor of Lovejoy Library. The text reads: “Join us to celebrate the hard work, innovative ideas, and many achievements of our digital humanities students.”

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