IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences
@siueiris.bsky.social
The IRIS Center at SIUE is a place for students, faculty, staff, and community members to collaborate on research, teaching, and community engagement in the digital humanities.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
This Friday! Join us for our next Morning Bytes, where Dr. Jill Anderson (English) will present on her work producing a biographical chronology for the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters project.
#DigitalHumanities @mhs1791.bsky.social
#DigitalHumanities @mhs1791.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This Friday! Join us for our next Morning Bytes, where Dr. Jill Anderson (English) will present on her work producing a biographical chronology for the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters project.
#DigitalHumanities @mhs1791.bsky.social
#DigitalHumanities @mhs1791.bsky.social
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CFP alert! If you're working on digitization, replicas and reproductions, living history practices, or other forms of surrogate sources, we'd love to see a proposal for organized sessions at the 2026 Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. #DigitalHumanities #LivingHistory #CFP #MedievalSky
November 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
CFP alert! If you're working on digitization, replicas and reproductions, living history practices, or other forms of surrogate sources, we'd love to see a proposal for organized sessions at the 2026 Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. #DigitalHumanities #LivingHistory #CFP #MedievalSky
This Wednesday! @hrambsy.bsky.social will share his work on the Black Lit Network, a #DigitalHumanities project that brings scholarship on African American literary studies to public audiences and provides innovative discovery tools that link people to books based on their interests.
October 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This Wednesday! @hrambsy.bsky.social will share his work on the Black Lit Network, a #DigitalHumanities project that brings scholarship on African American literary studies to public audiences and provides innovative discovery tools that link people to books based on their interests.
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We’ll happily take donations from non-SIUE folks too, and although I can’t promise a university pennant, I do have some snazzy stickers I’d be happy to mail!
📣Calling all SIUE faculty and staff📣
Join the SIUE Faculty and Staff Fundraising Campaign and make a direct impact on the programs and projects that inspire you most. If that inspiration includes digital humanities, experiential learning, and community-engaged pedagogy, keep reading!
Join the SIUE Faculty and Staff Fundraising Campaign and make a direct impact on the programs and projects that inspire you most. If that inspiration includes digital humanities, experiential learning, and community-engaged pedagogy, keep reading!
October 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We’ll happily take donations from non-SIUE folks too, and although I can’t promise a university pennant, I do have some snazzy stickers I’d be happy to mail!
📣Calling all SIUE faculty and staff📣
Join the SIUE Faculty and Staff Fundraising Campaign and make a direct impact on the programs and projects that inspire you most. If that inspiration includes digital humanities, experiential learning, and community-engaged pedagogy, keep reading!
Join the SIUE Faculty and Staff Fundraising Campaign and make a direct impact on the programs and projects that inspire you most. If that inspiration includes digital humanities, experiential learning, and community-engaged pedagogy, keep reading!
October 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
📣Calling all SIUE faculty and staff📣
Join the SIUE Faculty and Staff Fundraising Campaign and make a direct impact on the programs and projects that inspire you most. If that inspiration includes digital humanities, experiential learning, and community-engaged pedagogy, keep reading!
Join the SIUE Faculty and Staff Fundraising Campaign and make a direct impact on the programs and projects that inspire you most. If that inspiration includes digital humanities, experiential learning, and community-engaged pedagogy, keep reading!
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What’s medieval armor doing in a #DigitalHumanities class? Opening up questions about the role of surrogate sources! We often talk about the affordances of digital surrogates: gains like access and linked data, as well as limits like the inability to convey material, multisensory knowledge.
September 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
What’s medieval armor doing in a #DigitalHumanities class? Opening up questions about the role of surrogate sources! We often talk about the affordances of digital surrogates: gains like access and linked data, as well as limits like the inability to convey material, multisensory knowledge.
Take a listen to @hrambsy.bsky.social’s interview about the Black Lit Network on @stlpublicradio.bsky.social! From the barbershop to the classroom, it’s a project deeply rooted in a genuinely public humanities. When you’re done, visit www.blacklitnetwork.org and try it out! #DigitalHumanities
How book recommendations at a barbershop led to an online network to find Black literature : St. Louis on the Air
Inspired by barbershop chats and a brotherly contest over hip-hop facts, the Black Lit Network is a digital resource designed to make African American literature more widely accessible. Southern Illin...
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September 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Take a listen to @hrambsy.bsky.social’s interview about the Black Lit Network on @stlpublicradio.bsky.social! From the barbershop to the classroom, it’s a project deeply rooted in a genuinely public humanities. When you’re done, visit www.blacklitnetwork.org and try it out! #DigitalHumanities
Check out these ideas for critical approaches to AI in humanities classrooms! #DigitalHumanities
Hey historians and digital humanists, in light of the AHA’s AIgate, here are a few ways I approach AI in the classroom. Feel free to add your own! These are in the context of digital humanities courses deeply rooted in history, literature, and tech/data ethics.
#DigitalHumanities #AHA #Skystorians 🗃️
#DigitalHumanities #AHA #Skystorians 🗃️
August 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Check out these ideas for critical approaches to AI in humanities classrooms! #DigitalHumanities
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July 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
You know what regalia needs? Pockets. IRIS can help, and in return, you can help IRIS!
Learn to add them yourself or have us do it for you for a suggested donation of $25.
Sign up at iris.siue.edu/pockets. Space is limited!
#DHMakes
Learn to add them yourself or have us do it for you for a suggested donation of $25.
Sign up at iris.siue.edu/pockets. Space is limited!
#DHMakes
July 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
You know what regalia needs? Pockets. IRIS can help, and in return, you can help IRIS!
Learn to add them yourself or have us do it for you for a suggested donation of $25.
Sign up at iris.siue.edu/pockets. Space is limited!
#DHMakes
Learn to add them yourself or have us do it for you for a suggested donation of $25.
Sign up at iris.siue.edu/pockets. Space is limited!
#DHMakes
Congratulations to @hrambsy.bsky.social and his collaborators on the award of a new grant to support the Black Lit Network! The Black Lit Network uses data viz and digital storytelling to provide new entry points into the study of African American literature. bit.ly/bln-mellon #DigitalHumanities
SIUE Awarded $1.6M Grant from Mellon Foundation to Support Public Knowledge Digital Project on African American Literary Studies, Jointly Headed by SIUE’s Dr. Howard Rambsy
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July 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Congratulations to @hrambsy.bsky.social and his collaborators on the award of a new grant to support the Black Lit Network! The Black Lit Network uses data viz and digital storytelling to provide new entry points into the study of African American literature. bit.ly/bln-mellon #DigitalHumanities
Ope, it’s syllabus season. Join us for an in-person workshop on how to incorporate meaningful digital assignments and activities into your course, in ways that both enhance students’ engagement with the course content and encourage them to think critically about technology. #DigitalHumanities
July 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Ope, it’s syllabus season. Join us for an in-person workshop on how to incorporate meaningful digital assignments and activities into your course, in ways that both enhance students’ engagement with the course content and encourage them to think critically about technology. #DigitalHumanities
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I’m super excited for this one! It combines some of my favorite things: minimal computing, critical data studies, spatial justice, and free and approachable DH pedagogy. If you can’t make this one, keep an eye out for future events! #DigitalHumanities
This Wednesday, join us at the Wedge in Alton to chat about data representation, learn some spreadsheet and mapping technologies, and share your experiences of the Metro East as a cultural center. Free and no experience needed!
July 16, 3:00-4:30
#DigitalHumanities #STL #StLouis #MetroEast
July 16, 3:00-4:30
#DigitalHumanities #STL #StLouis #MetroEast
July 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I’m super excited for this one! It combines some of my favorite things: minimal computing, critical data studies, spatial justice, and free and approachable DH pedagogy. If you can’t make this one, keep an eye out for future events! #DigitalHumanities
This Wednesday, join us at the Wedge in Alton to chat about data representation, learn some spreadsheet and mapping technologies, and share your experiences of the Metro East as a cultural center. Free and no experience needed!
July 16, 3:00-4:30
#DigitalHumanities #STL #StLouis #MetroEast
July 16, 3:00-4:30
#DigitalHumanities #STL #StLouis #MetroEast
July 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This Wednesday, join us at the Wedge in Alton to chat about data representation, learn some spreadsheet and mapping technologies, and share your experiences of the Metro East as a cultural center. Free and no experience needed!
July 16, 3:00-4:30
#DigitalHumanities #STL #StLouis #MetroEast
July 16, 3:00-4:30
#DigitalHumanities #STL #StLouis #MetroEast
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Today's AI Fictions Reading Group discussed @mdoriarussell.bsky.social's The Sparrow. It might seem like an unusual choice since AI quickly recedes to the background, but its extractive, venture capitalist vision of AI ca 2019 is an apt indictment of our present moment. #DigitalHumanities
July 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Today's AI Fictions Reading Group discussed @mdoriarussell.bsky.social's The Sparrow. It might seem like an unusual choice since AI quickly recedes to the background, but its extractive, venture capitalist vision of AI ca 2019 is an apt indictment of our present moment. #DigitalHumanities
A summer day in IRIS looks like...
💻web development
💡 teaching consultations
🧮building tools for assessment
🗺️map-making
☀️surviving the St. Louis heat (barely)
#DigitalHumanities
💻web development
💡 teaching consultations
🧮building tools for assessment
🗺️map-making
☀️surviving the St. Louis heat (barely)
#DigitalHumanities
June 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A summer day in IRIS looks like...
💻web development
💡 teaching consultations
🧮building tools for assessment
🗺️map-making
☀️surviving the St. Louis heat (barely)
#DigitalHumanities
💻web development
💡 teaching consultations
🧮building tools for assessment
🗺️map-making
☀️surviving the St. Louis heat (barely)
#DigitalHumanities
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I made a map for tracking how much of the city I've visited by various modes. I'll keep adding datasets over time, but for now it contains city parks and bus routes. If you also like to track things, feel free to fork and reuse!
msmith0913.github.io/stl-sandbox/
#stl #StLouis #DigitalHumanities
msmith0913.github.io/stl-sandbox/
#stl #StLouis #DigitalHumanities
St. Louis Sandbox
msmith0913.github.io
June 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I made a map for tracking how much of the city I've visited by various modes. I'll keep adding datasets over time, but for now it contains city parks and bus routes. If you also like to track things, feel free to fork and reuse!
msmith0913.github.io/stl-sandbox/
#stl #StLouis #DigitalHumanities
msmith0913.github.io/stl-sandbox/
#stl #StLouis #DigitalHumanities
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Even if we were to achieve the pipe dream of universal digitization, you cannot account for archival silences without building human relationships grounded in mutual trust, care, and a commitment to repair.
June 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Even if we were to achieve the pipe dream of universal digitization, you cannot account for archival silences without building human relationships grounded in mutual trust, care, and a commitment to repair.
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I finally read that awful NYT AI history piece, and I will add one note to The Discourse. As many have noted, LLMs are limited to what’s been digitized, a tiny fraction of what’s in the archives. But especially egregious: the book being written in that piece is an indigenous history.
June 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I finally read that awful NYT AI history piece, and I will add one note to The Discourse. As many have noted, LLMs are limited to what’s been digitized, a tiny fraction of what’s in the archives. But especially egregious: the book being written in that piece is an indigenous history.
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Hey Metro East! Come chat about data representation, learn some spreadsheet and mapping technologies, and share your experiences of the Metro East as a cultural center. Join us at the Wedge in Alton on July 16. Free and no experience needed! #DigitalHumanities #STL #StLouis #MetroEast
June 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Hey Metro East! Come chat about data representation, learn some spreadsheet and mapping technologies, and share your experiences of the Metro East as a cultural center. Join us at the Wedge in Alton on July 16. Free and no experience needed! #DigitalHumanities #STL #StLouis #MetroEast
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@megsmith.bsky.social reminds us that infrastructure is a mutual obligation and a mutual aid #ACH2025
June 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
@megsmith.bsky.social reminds us that infrastructure is a mutual obligation and a mutual aid #ACH2025
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Love love love a good failure talk, props to @megsmith.bsky.social for going there. #ACH2025
June 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Love love love a good failure talk, props to @megsmith.bsky.social for going there. #ACH2025
What a great first meeting! Our conversations about Mrs. Davis took us from the Duolingo owl (and its heavy-handed manipulation tactics) to pedagogies of process, with lots of stops in between. Thanks to everyone who shared their expertise, experiences, and reactions to the show!
#DigitalHumanities
#DigitalHumanities
Summer feels both around the corner and eons away, but we're already planning. Check out our new AI Fictions Reading Group! We'll use AI fiction -- tv, novels, short stories -- as a tool for exploring and developing AI ethics. More details: iris.siue.edu/ai-fictions/
#DigitalHumanities #CriticalAI
#DigitalHumanities #CriticalAI
June 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
What a great first meeting! Our conversations about Mrs. Davis took us from the Duolingo owl (and its heavy-handed manipulation tactics) to pedagogies of process, with lots of stops in between. Thanks to everyone who shared their expertise, experiences, and reactions to the show!
#DigitalHumanities
#DigitalHumanities
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Hey #DigitalHumanities and #AmLit folks! @recoveryhubaww.bsky.social is offering free summer workshops to support DH projects that center the work of (global) American (trans-/queer-inclusive) women writers. If that sounds like you, register here! recoveryhub.siue.edu/2025/05/14/s...
This Wed., May 28 at 12 noon Central, join us for our first Tech Hour, "Getting Started with Digital Humanities." This free Zoom session will explore early steps for beginning a digital humanities project. Register and get the Zoom link: recoveryhub.siue.edu/2025/05/14/s... #academicsky
May 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Hey #DigitalHumanities and #AmLit folks! @recoveryhubaww.bsky.social is offering free summer workshops to support DH projects that center the work of (global) American (trans-/queer-inclusive) women writers. If that sounds like you, register here! recoveryhub.siue.edu/2025/05/14/s...