| HT-50088-14 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Michigan State University | Institute on Digital Archaeology Method & Practice | 9/1/2014 - 9/30/2017 | $249,708.00 | Ethan | C. | Watrall | Lynne | | Goldstein | Michigan State University | East Lansing | MI | 48824-3407 | USA | 2014 | Archaeology | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 249708 | 0 | 249708 | 0 | A twelve-day institute to be held over two summers, hosted by Michigan State University, for 20 participants to explore advanced theory and application of computational approaches and new media for archaeology.
The Institute on Digital Archaeology Method & Practice will be hosted jointly by MATRIX: The Center for the Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences and the Department of Anthropology. The institute will bring together 20 participants to the campus of Michigan State University for two 6-day sessions in 2015 and 2016. In order to fulfill the institute's goals, attendance will be open to public sector archaeologists, private sector archaeologists, students, scholarly archaeologists from both the anthropological and humanist communities, and scholars from fields closely aligned with archaeology. Talks and workshops will be delivered by a wide variety of internationally regarded experts from the world of classics and ancient history, archaeology, the digital humanities, museums, and neogeography. The institute is organized along several themes: Field Methods, Data & Linked Data, Geospatial, Scholarly Publication & Communication, and Public Outreach & Engagement. |