Grad Student Symposium

If you don't have any buddies to eat lunch with on Tuesday, that's sad. But, on the other hand, it means that you are free to come visit me at the VCU Graduate Student Symposium. I will be there, of course, set up with a couple of laptops to allow exploration of some of my digital work (don't tell these people that the internet allows you to look at them for free in the privacy of your own home), and handing out pamphlets about my research. But more than that, students from every division of VCU's graduate school will be there to present posters on their own research and scholarship, some of which looks pretty cool and exciting to me already. And, to top it all off, I believe that there will be light refreshments served.

I hope I get a table next to someone with some gross, maggot-related genetics project who decides to bring live examples.

Details:
12th annual Graduate Student Research Symposium and Exhibit
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
University Student Commons Commonwealth Ballroom

'I pass so poorly with paper and types' – The Making and Remaking of Walt Whitman in a Digital Age"

I found this lecture online (the news items for 4/9/2009 gives links to the movie of the talk) over at the University of Nebraska's Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. In the Quicktime movie, Professor Kenneth Price talks about the democratic ideals of Walt Whitman, and how new and electronic media allow greater democratization of his work - particularly via the Walt Whitman Archive, a digital scholarship program that Price and Ed. Folsom direct.
Interesting talk that raises some equally interesting points about the existence and future potential for the phrase "digital humanities" to be more than just a trendy neologism.