Projects

Hamilton College's Burke Library presents Apple & Quill: Creative Arts at Burke, an innovative series focusing on creative writing, music, and the visual arts. With support from Hamilton's Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi)and Audiovisual Services, this series will be recorded and archived for future teaching and research opportunities.

Civil War materials from Oneida County, New York (in which Hamilton College is located). Most of these materials were written by soldiers of the 117th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, their family and friends.

Development of a virtual Confucius Temple that would allow the user to enter a temple to explore the sites and sounds of the Confucius Temple, its spirit niches, and ritual instruments.

This database is part of a collaborative project to map historic sites across South Africa’s townships, focusing on the history of Soweto’s built environment and the role of its historic resources in the liberation movement.

The Locution of Location is a mapping project: the central story of the course is the story of how a “scene” unfolds at a particular place during a particular time.

A collaborative/collective documentary project about the daily lives of refugee families in Upstate New York, document the daily practices, rituals, and cultural events of refugee communities.

SNAP has the goal of documenting and preserving the cultural heritage of the Sinixt First Nation who despite their continued presence in the Pacific Northwest were pronounced extinct in 1956 by the Canadian Government.

Institute Website: http://nehspaceandplaceblstinstitute.org/

Summer 2016 NEH ODH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
Space and Place in Africana/Black Studies:
An Institute on Spatial Humanities Theories, Methods and Practice for Africana Studies

5-26 June 2016 & 14-16 April 2017

A documentary film about the river Euphrates which is born in eastern Turkey. The documentary will focus on water issues and related political, economic and cultural problems in the region.

National reconciliation and peace building can be promoted through the effective use of innovative heritage projects for empowerment while providing redress for marginalized communities.