Join us for a lively panel conversation exploring the evolving world of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and its vital role in academic research and digital scholarship. OCR—the process of converting scanned images of text into machine-readable data—underpins much of the...
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Agroecology can be defined simply as a way to work with nature rather than against it. Indigenous peoples have long built systems of knowledge that embody this agroecological ethos. Join Amazonian Indigenous leader Indira Vargas (Kichwa) and two Ecuadorian scholars...
Once you've learned the basic mechanics of Twine, you'll want to dress up your game – for more enjoyable gameplay and to deliver meaning. In this follow-up session, you'll learn how to apply CSS basics within Twine, add counters, and insert...
By focusing on software and countermaps primarily designed for political action with social, environmental, and land justice movements, this conference brings together organizers, researchers, educators, and technologists questioning the interdependencies between digital infrastructures, software code, and emancipatory spatial futures. Panel...
Computing With Classics is a three-workshop series exploring how computing has affected classical scholarship. In this first workshop, we will examine commonly-used digital libraries and databases, their histories, their structures, and their uses.
We hope you will join us for our 13th annual “Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ” Indigenous Foods Symposium on May 2nd & 3rd 2025, hosted by the UW’s American Indian Studies Department and the Na’ah Illahee Fund. We are happy to share that...
Data visualization best practices and tools do not always discuss accessibility, which can exclude many groups of people. This workshop will review ways to make your visualizations more accessible. We will work through a visualization together and add features to...
In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and property claims, she argues that regimes of expropriation—rather than merit or good...
A conversation with Hang Tu, Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies, National University of SingaporeHow does emotion shape the landscape of public intellectual debate? In Sentimental Republic, Hang Tu proposes emotion as a new critical framework to approach a post-Mao cultural...