2018 Webb Lectures Series

Tuesday, Apr 03, 2018

The Department of History is pleased to host the 53rd annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures this Wednesday and Thursday, April 4-5.

This year’s topic is “The Digital Medieval: New Directions in Medieval History and the Digital Humanities.”

In keeping with the event’s digital theme, the Department will live stream the opening and closing keynote addresses:

Opening Keynote:

Wednesday, 4 April @ 5:00 p.m.: Dorothy Kim (Vassar College) “Embodying the Database: Race, Gender, Social Justice, and the History of the Digital Humanities”

Closing Keynote:

Thursday, 5 April @ 7:30 p.m.: Erik Kwakkel (Leiden University) “From Parchment to PIxel: Medieval Manuscripts and Libraries’ Response to the Call for Digitization”

To view the live stream feed, visit the Department’s YouTube channel  approximately fifteen minute before the start each lecture. A link to access the video feed will also be posted here and on the Department’s Facebook page.

OFFICIAL SCHEDULE:

WEDNESDAY, 4 APRIL

5:00 PM – Opening Keynote Address (Chemistry & Physics Building Room 303)

Dr. Dorothy Kim (Vassar College), “Embodying the Database: Race, Gender, Social Justice, and the History of the Digital Humanities”

 

WEDNESDAY, 4 APRIL (all daytime events will take place in the Red River/Concho Room of University Center)

9:30 AM – Dr. Kathryne Beebe (University of Texas, Arlington), “Teaching the Digital Medieval”

11:00 AM – Dr. Austin Mason (Carleton College), “Integrating Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Middle Ages through the Digital Humanities

1:30 PM – Dr. Laura K. Morreale (Fordham University), “Medieval Digital humanities andThe Rite of Spring: Thoughts on Performance and Preservation”

3:00 PM – Dr. Charles Travis (University of Texas, Arlington), “‘…A mountain hid under water:’ Deep Charting, GIS, and Cartesian Perceptions of North-West Atlantic Fisheries c. 1504-1786”

 

7:30 PM – Closing Keynote Address (Rosebud Theater, University Center)

Dr. Erik Kwakkel (Leiden University), “From Parchment to Pixel: Medieval Manuscripts and Libraries’ Response to the Call for Digitization”