2017 Silberman Seminar
Note: All sessions during week one will take place in classroom B except the one session on June 7 from 1:00-2:20, which will take place in the Portals building. Sessions on June 12 will take place in classroom C. All other sessions will be held in Classroom A.
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Syllabus Overview
WEEK ONE
DAY 1
June 5, Monday: Introductory Remarks, WHat Are the DIgital Humanities?
10:00-11:00 Welcoming Remarks & Introductions
11:00-11:15 Intro to USHMM resources: University Programs
11:15-11:45 Seminar Agenda and Rationale
11:45-12:00 Group Photo
12:00-1:30 Lunch with CAHS staff and research fellows (Classroom A)
1:30-3:00 [Lecture + Discussion] What are the Digital Humanities (DH) and Why Should We Care?
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-5:00 [Group Activity] What does DH Look Like? Analyzing Projects
Day 2
June 6, Tuesday: Teaching the Holocaust: Analog and Digital Questions
10:00-11:30 [Lecture + Discussion] Introduction to the Holocaust (Part I): An Event at Scale
11:30 – 12:00 Intro to USHMM resources: Library and Archives
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:45 [Lecture + Discussion] Introduction to the Holocaust (Part II): An Event in Space and Time
1:45 – 3:00 [Group Activity] Timeline Analysis & Data Experiment
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:00 Intro to USHMM Digital Resources: ITS
4:00-5:00 [Group Activity] Create an assignment with ITS materials
Day 3
June 7, Wednesday: Teaching the Holocaust (II): Digital Questions and Holocaust Representation
10:00-12:00: Panel (1 hr) + Q/A (1 hr) on the Postwar Period and Questions of Representation: Kierra Crago-Schneider, Rachel Deblinger, Paul Jaskot
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:20 Intro to Virtual Reality Demo (at Portals)
2:20-2:40 (Walk back to Museum)
2:40-3:00 Intro to Museum Resources: Film and Video Archive
3:00-3:15 Intro to Museum Resources: Oral History
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-5:00 [Lecture + Discussion] Testimony: Debates and Materiality
DAY 4
June 8, Thursday: THE HOLOCAUST IN THE DIGITAL AGE: ARCHIVES + SOCIAL MEDIA
10:00-10:30 Intro to Museum Resources: Digital Collections
10:30-11:00 Intro to Photo Archives
11:00-12:00 [Discussion] What is an Archive in a Digital Age?
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 [Lecture] Issues in DH and the Holocaust
2:00-2:45 [Group Activity] Analysis of DH Holocaust Projects
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-3:20 Social Media and the Holocaust: USHMM on Instagram
3:20-4:30 [Discussion] Holocaust Selfies and the Ethics of Self-Representation
4:30-5:00 [Group Activity] Create an Instagram assignment to be used in the classroom
Day 5
June 9, Friday: Building Your Dataset: Let’s Get to Work
9:00-11:00 Some were Neighbors Exhibit Visit
11:00-11:30 [Discussion] DH in the Holocaust classroom
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:45 [Group Activity] Building Data Sets from Historical Sources
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:00 Report back on data set creation
4:00-5:00 DH Anxieties
WEEK TWO
Day 6
Monday, June 12: Voyant and Text as Big Data
10:00-10:45 [Tool Intro] Introduction to Voyant
10:45-11:30 [Lecture + Discussion] Text as Data
11:30-12:30 [Workshop] Data set with Testimony Transcripts
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:45 [Discussion] Text Analysis and Holocaust Testimony
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-5:00 Open Lab Time
Day 7
Tuesday, June 13:Omeka and Digital Story Telling
10:00-11:00 Intro to Metadata
11:00-12:00 [Discussion] Databases +
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:45 Intro to Museum Resources: Experiencing History
1:45-2:45 [Tool Intro] Introduction to Omeka.net
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:00 [Workshop] Omeka Exercise
4:00-4:30 [Discussion] Omeka and how to use it in class
Day 8
Wednesday, June 14: StoryMaps and Spatializing the Holocaust
10:00-11:30 [Lecture + Discussion] Holocaust Geographies
11:30-12:00 [Tool Intro] Introduction to BatchGeo
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:00 [Workshop] Spatial Data, Mapping Testimony (Story Maps)
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-3:45 Introduction to Museum Resources: History Unfolded
3:45-5:00 [Discussion] Holocaust Sources and Visualization
Day 9
Thursday, June 15: Getting Serious about Teaching: Practical questions about DH in the Classroom
10:00-12:00 Open Lab: Explore methods and sources
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:30 [Discussion] Rubrics, Grading and Assessment
1:30-2:00 [Discussion] How to build digital assignments into your syllabus
2:00-3:00 [Workshop] Drafting your Syllabus
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-5:00 What are the Digital Humanities and why does it matter? Revisited
7:00-9:00 Weinmann annual lecture and reception: Loss, Liberation, and Love: Jewish Brides and Soldier Husbands, 1943-1946 | Meyerhoff Theater
Day 10
Friday, June 16: The Syllabus
10:00-11:00 [Workshop] Finalizing your Syllabus Draft
11:00-1:00 Syllabus Presentations