IATH AND COLLABORATIONS IN LOCAL HISTORY

December 1, 2022 – IN PERSON @ the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center

Worthy Martin will discuss IATH and its collaborations in local history.

The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) was founded in 1992 with the primary mission of transforming faculty scholarship through collaborations to make effective use of computationally mediated methods. Most often, this mission is accomplished through the IATH Fellows Program in which faculty propose scholarly investigations important to their own interests. In addition, IATH undertakes to obtain external funding for similar projects.

Following President Ryan’s mission for the University, IATH also engages with the broader community beyond the University and this talk will give a sample of such projects, including:

Virginia Emigrants to Liberia

http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/liberia/index.php?page=Home

The Architecture of the Negro Travelers’ Green Book

http://community.village.virginia.edu/greenbooks

Social Networks and Archival Context

https://snaccooperative.org

The Countryside Transformed: The railroad and the eastern shore of Virginia 1870-1935

http://eshore.iath.virginia.edu

Next Meeting:

  • Virginia Emigrants to Liberia with Jane Aisles and Deborah Lee
    October 3, 2024 The new Virginia Emigrants to Liberia website, launched last fall with a relational database derived from manuscript ship lists, contains data on more than 3900 emigrants, white colonization supporters, full citations, and links to hundreds of illuminating letters and other documents. Content developers Deborah Lee and Jane Ailes will give a tour
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