Scholars' Lab

I heard there were over 70 people at this Saturday event—& the roadways here have been bad, like people still can't get cars unparked & local schools closed today. Thank you to @josefbeery.bsky.social for all his work building welcoming creative community—especially impressive vs. the rough weather!

Thurs 2/12 12:30pm (corrected time!), join us in SLab's Common Room for DH Center colleagues sharing their collab digital research: building a digital infrastructure for sharing back Zapotecan language documentation for community uses & scholarly collaborations: cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/16216660

💜 seeing our space @uvalibrary.bsky.social full of folks learning to use tech (digital or not!) for good+community. Join us next Mon (2/9 2-4) too: @josefbeery.bsky.social shows you how to letterpress print your own Valentines Day cards ❤️ Free + open to the public cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/16214282

One thing I can do right now—here’s the Illustrator file where I traced "THE TYRANTS FOE THE PEOPLES FRIEND" woodcut—if you have access to a laser you can carve this baby in linoleum & print with it all you like—make sure to reverse it (prints are mirrored)

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Folks of all ages make it in to warmly print together @ SLab despite iced-in cars. Thanks @josefbeery.bsky.social for teaching empowering printing to UVA & local community!

+Ty @ryancordell.org for historical newspaper masthead scan: a press can be "the tyrants foe the peoples friend" if used well

One substantial bonus to of getting involved in this #dhmakes / #booklab world is incredible mail days

A batch of prints from the indomitable @literaturegeek.bsky.social arrived & are headed to spots of prominence around @skeuomorphpress.org (though I may claim the Moby Dick print for my office…

Commemorated the table of contents for my book manuscript under consideration on the blog. Also a few words on tables of contents as spaces of imagination.

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Currentlyour 1/31 Common Sense printing workshop is proceeding this Saturday as planned—come in from the cold & print something warming:

The Friday 1/30 Humanities AI Research Showcase has been postponed due to weather; we'll share a new date once it's been rescheduled.

Always more make/craft workshops to come, as our students & staff get inspired. We also do free consults & instruction (including to the public & for classes), so let us know if there's something you'd like to learn, or a project you could use help designing+building:

Many spring makerspace workshops now up on scholarslab.org/events! Join us for *free* workshops e.g. letterpress, laser, lightup, & yarn valentines 💌; beading; sewing; & friendly intros to our 3D printers, lasercutter, CNC milling, soldering. Open to public; registration req'd bc of space limits

Starts today at 2pm! 🗺️ Open to all, free, drop in for any or all workshops in the series. Learn to do things with digital maps, like visualize data or collect location data (eg bird sightings?) via app—useful for historical work + the present!

This Saturday! If you're around Cville, this is open to all & free: join letterpress expert @josefbeery.bsky.social to learn some typesetting & printing, & leave w/copies of a selection from Thomas Paine's Common Sense you print yourself. In Scholars' Lab (UVA Shannon Library 3rd Floor, Room 308):

. @sararribas.bsky.social gives us such a gift w/ongoing video+photo progress docs of her DH + data physicalization work. If you're looking for something inspiring for your spring syllabus, her feed + peer-reviewed article on social network analysis+Gephi part of her work (doi.org/10.5944/rhd.... 👍

Wrote this week about "Swan Dives into Cat Food," those parenting problems that drive you to the edge of your patience until (hopefully) the process wins out and they quietly resolve.

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Excited to share my letterpress poster design for the Vitale II Media Lab for Book History + Digital Humanities! The subtractive print colors (CMY) are highlighted by the additive light colors (RGB) to reveal, "BOOK HISTORY", "DESIGN" and "DIGITAL HUMANITIES" #DHMakes

Zines Now: Zines All Day Zines All Day will celebrate zines and zine-making at UVA through a day of back-to-back zine-making tutorials from the Scholars' Lab Makerspace student staff! Every hour, on the...

And on 4/17 10-5, join @literaturegeek.bsky.social & the SLab Makerspace Crew for a day full of zinemaking workshops! Drop in at the start of any hour to learn to make your own zines, or start your day w/our 10-10:30 informal kickoff chat by Amanda on the design+writing process of their past zines:

On 2/9 2-4pm, join us for a free, hands-on workshop where you'll learn & print your own colorful letterpress valentines with @josefbeery.bsky.social (bring ideas for short quotes/text!):

Workshop: Broadside Letterpress Printing In January 1776, 1000 copies of Thomas Paine’s booklet Common Sense are printed by Robert Bell in Philadelphia. The 84-page exposition on the evils of tyranny ignites a wildfire o...

On 1/31, expert printer @josefbeery.bsky.social teaches letterpress typesetting & printing basics; you'll contribute to typesetting a print of text from Common Sense—Paine's explosive 1776 booklet on the evils of tyrrany—and take copies you print yourself home +

As usual, most of our plethora of free+public makerspace workshops won't be posted until students have been back long enough to design them! But we do have several options for letterpress printing & zinemaking learning scheduled already on 1/31, 2/9, and 4/17: +

We're cohosting the 4th UVA Humanities AI Research Showcase, led by UVA Religious Studies' @ctmathewes.bsky.social. Heidi Nobles (UVA Writing+Rhetoric) will share her AI Virtual Editor, building on her fall talk exploring values & reasons we write with editors (virtual or human)

Angel Parham (UVA Sociology) & @laurenmassari.bsky.social (IATH) on "Layered Memories: History in One Square Block", excavating forgotton or submerged everyday histories ("lieux de souvenir" analysis) on 3 New Orleans sites over 3 centuries, including through mapping & 3D reconstructions +

Speakers this term include: Mark Sicoli (UVA Anthropology) & team on "Data Back!: Building a digital infrastructure for sharing back the data of Zapotecan language documentation for community uses and scholarly collaborations" cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/16216660 +

Our popular GIS Workshop Series 🌐 begins on Jan 28, runs weeklyish Wednesdays 2-3pm, meeting in-person in SLab's Common Room (Shannon Library 308). Zero experience needed, & non-UVA folks are very welcome! Overview of this terms GIS workshops here 🎩

Our spring events series is up! New events being added all the time (especially makerspace workshops), so check scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/events for the latest. All events are free & open to the public (no UVA affilitation needed); some workshops have signup caps due to equipment limits.

Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change Brandon Walsh Word Count: 59,612

Table of Contents Table of Contents 1 Acknowledgements 2 1. Knowable 4 ⁃ Embedded Pedagogies 4 ⁃ The Pedagogy of Digital Humanities Budgets 15 ⁃ Pedagogies of Transparency 28 2. Neutral 44 ⁃ The Neutral Classroom and the Paradox of Tolerance 44 ⁃ Co-creating Committed Communities 53 ⁃ Values-based Pedagogy in Times of Crisis 69 3. Intellectual 81 ⁃ Bodies, Not Brains 81 ⁃ Collective Action and Intellectual Solidarity 89 ⁃ A Digital Humanities Pedagogy for the Rest of Us 99 4. Future-oriented 111 ⁃ Pedagogy of Contested Futures 111 ⁃ Professional Development and Imagination 119 ⁃ Toward a Better Tomorrow, Together 129 Coda 143 References 151

Sent the book manuscript off to the publisher for consideration. Working title is "Embedded Pedagogies: DH Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change." 59,612 piping hot thoughts on DH pedagogy. Phew - glad to have gotten this out before the baby comes. Table of contents and title page attached!

Photo of a web gallery consisting of a grid of square photos of cases displaying wood letterpress type, under the text "Type collection > Gallery (from messy version)"

Photo of stats page for the "Penland Letterpress Type Stats", showing the collection as 221 typefaces, and a pie chart of "materials" showing the collection is 72.3% lead type, 23.6% wood type, and an unlabeled small % ornament/cut/border.

I still do digital humanities, I just forget to post about it :D E.g. I volunteered to make a type database/UI for Penland's movable type collection so have been taking photos of type cases, writing & editing metadata when I'm taking a printing break during my residency.

Zine Now: Zines All Day Zines All Day will celebrate zines and zine-making at UVA through a day of back-to-back zine-making tutorials from the Scholars' Lab Makerspace student staff! Every hour, on the...

* 4/17 is Zines! All! Day! Drop into SLab's Common Room 10-5 for intro zinemaking workshops at the start of each hour, plus a 10-10:30 kickoff w/ @literaturegeek.bsky.social chatting about how they got the ideas for & designed their 13 zines (including how to collaborate on zinemaking!)

UVA's spring term starts Mon (too early! 😭). We'll be posting our array of free, open-to-all talks, workshops, & more soon! 2 are up early on our events page:
* 1/31 learn letterpress printing & take away your own prints from Thomas Paine's Common Sense, w/expert printer @josefbeery.bsky.social +

Photo of an area in the Scholars' Lab public space with two framed letterpress prints on the wall: Skeuomorph Press's white on dark gray-blue "There is nothing more ephemeral than a website", paired with Chris Fritton/Itinerant Printer's "Just because something ends doesn't mean it wasn't good" black on rainbow swirl background. They're next to a white zine rack full of free zines, above a rainbow arch rug.

Photo of the two letterpress prints in their previous spot before being hung on the wall, as there's less glare in the photo so they're easier to fully appreciate. They're Skeuomorph Press's white on dark gray-blue "There is nothing more ephemeral than a website", paired with Chris Fritton/Itinerant Printer's "Just because something ends doesn't mean it wasn't good" black on rainbow swirl background

Photo of a gallery label for the prints, which says ""There is nothing more ephemeral than a website" Print: Ryan Cordell, Skeuomorph Press Quotation: Élika Ortega; Project idea: Quinn Dombrowski 2024 "Just because something ends doesn't mean it wasn't good" Chris Fritton, Itinerant Printer Materials: paper & ink Methods: letterpress printing Cordell, Ortega, and Dombrowski are digital humanists; Cordell is also a letterpress printer (Skeuomorph Press). We paired their work with Fritton's to frame website's ephemerality as neutral, not necessarily negative. You can't just create & leave a website going, like you can a book on a shelf; it will break, be hacked, take money & labor to keep online, otherwise encounter problems over time. But that isn't a reason not to make (& learn about making!) websites. We make websites for what we learn during the process of their creation (if there are innovative research aspects involved); and as a path for our scholarship reaching & helping others (even if it won't look the same, or necessarily be online, years from now). Understanding website sustainability & longevity is just a tool in making informed scholarly choices."

Recently got the gallery label up in @scholarslab.bsky.social for @skeuomorphpress.org's print of @elikaortega.bsky.social's "There is nothing more ephemeral than a website", paired w/ @itinerantprinter.bsky.social's "Just because something ends doesn't mean it wasn't good"