Digital Humanities Meet-Up: World Languages & DH Futures Project Pitch Today

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The World Languages & Digital Humanities Studio will host the next DH Meet-Up on Thursday, Sept. 28, from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., and will center project pitches for future digital humanities (DH) projects, or projects that are still in the planning phase or early stages.  

Presenters will be limited to a three- to three-and-a-half-minute project pitch that will then be reviewed by a committee focusing on three criteria (innovation and collaboration, feasibility and applicability to world languages & cultures) to determine the top three pitches, and presentations will be followed by a discussion. Winners will be announced later that day. Presenting is open to WLLC/CLCS faculty and graduate students only. 

Some of the presentation pitches will be: 

• Spanish Transmedia Strategy 
  Presented by: Brenda Magnetti (teaching assistant professor, Spanish), Angela Cruz (Ph.D. student, CLCS), Guillermo Pupo (Ph.D. student, CLCS), Liz Villamizar (Ph.D. student, CLCS) 

• Narco Fantasy Land: A doctoral dissertation on transmedia adaptation of spaces around narco-narratives in Colombia and their impact on international audiences 
  Presented by: Angela Cruz (Ph.D. student, CLCS) 

• izi.travel: Travel Guides in an Italian Conversation Class 
  Presented by: Daniela D'Eugenio (assistant professor, Italian), Alyona Shestopalova (FLTA, WLDH Studio), Yosr Mehri (FLTA, WLDH Studio) 

The DH Meet-Up is free and open to the U of A community (faculty, graduate students, staff and undergraduate students), and all are welcome to attend. Lunch will be provided following the event at the WLDH Studio.