GET READY TO HACK INTO HISTORY

Join your peers for a one-day, hands-on digital humanities workshop

Hacking History: The Gale DH Skills Workshop

Thursday, December 5, 2024

8:30am – 5pm

Klarcheck Information Commons, Loyola University Chicago Lake Shore Campus

Designed for all digital humanities experience levels – and for all humanities and social science researchers and librarians
Keynote: Dr. Catherine Nichols, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology; member of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
Connect, collaborate, skill up—and win big prizes!

Join experienced and aspiring digital scholars for hands-on skill development and collaboration at Loyola University Chicago’s beautiful Information Commons.

Whether you have prior experience with DH, or are eager to learn, we’re putting you front and center in a free, fun, team-based research environment. A fortunate few will win prizes, and everyone will gain valuable skills.

How It Works:

Tailored to you: Identify your preferred comfort level with DH at pre-registration below, and you’ll be randomly assigned to a team of co-researchers at the event.

Team formation: Each team will select a research topic from a pre-determined list.

Ready, set, research: Teams will spend the day working together to min primary sources text, build content sets, and generate analyses of their findings, guided by expert facilitators.

And the winner is: With research projects complete, each team will briefly defend their project to expert judges to win prizes.

What You Could Win:

Each member of the winning team will win:

A prepaid gift card equivalent to $250 USD
One year of access to Gale Digital Scholar Lab for their institutional library
One year of access to one of the Gale Primary Sources archives up to a predetermined dollar value for their institutional library

What You’ll Gain:

Relatively new to DH?

Gain experience with DH methods in a hands-on, expertly guided, collaborative, low-pressure atmosphere
Develop your skills with digital methodologies at the forefront of research and instruction
Break down barriers to teaching with DH – and solidify your pedagogical knowledge

Already comfortable using DH methods?

Learn from each other—and accelerate teaching and learning as well as your own research skills – in a hands-on environment
Gain insights and ideas to share across your institution's humanities and social science research community
Make new connections, spark new ideas—and get a download of the datasets your team created

What To Know:

This is a free, all-day event hosted in collaboration with Gale and Loyola University Chicago.

Lunch, complimentary parking, and high-speed Wi-Fi will be provided.