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Fall 2023
October 13, 10:15-5:30
Digital Engagement with Endangered Languages and their Communities. Silverman Library 310
Erin Debenport, “Language Circulation and Control: Strategic Uses for Digital Technologies in Pueblo Reclamation Projects”
Eladio Mateo Toledo, “TZ'IB'MA: Phonemic digital keyboard in cell phones for Mayan languages”
Jesse Stewart, “Media Lengua in the Digital Age: A Journey of Preservation and Reclamation”
X̱'unei Lance Twitchell, “Replanting the Forests in Language Ecosystems”
There was no recording of this symposium.For more information about particular papers, please contact the symposium speakers.
October 18, 3:00-4:00.
Nikolaus Wasmoen, "Project Development and Funding Resources for Digital Scholarship Projects." Hybrid. Lockwood 320.
This workshop will explore how faculty can prepare to seek internal and external support for digital scholarship research projects, as well as some of the resources and forms of assistance available to them to get started. The first part of the workshop will examine some example digital scholarship grant programs, ranging from simple pilot grants that might be applied to as an individual to large national and international grants that require coordinating multiple collaborators, staff, administrators, and possibly other outside institutions or organizations. In the second part of the workshop, we will outline the main questions that a project director should consider in planning and designing their project, especially with regard to: building and organizing a project team; identifying the most appropriate sources or types of funding; leveraging existing infrastructure, expertise, and tools; and working with the multiple campus offices dedicated to supporting research and grant projects to complete and submit a competitive proposal. The talk will conclude with an open Q & A session to discuss project-specific issues participants may face, as well as to identify what types of support the DSSN and other groups at UB might best focus on building and helping to connect with faculty researchers.
November 01, 3:30-4:30.
How can Scholars at UB Inform and Build Data Infrastructures for Justice?:A Roundtable led by Lourdes Vera and Kenny Joseph. Online.
This roundtable will showcase issues and topics that an emerging network of scholars at UB studying data justice and equity are tackling. As our lives and activities are increasingly turned into data and government policies driven by data in a manner that reproduces social injustices, data justice has emerged as a pertinent field in activism and scholarship. While some scholars are documenting harm from data, others are building tools and research approaches to better use and understand data to improve livelihoods. This especially happens in the classroom, with community partners, and in public policy. This session will provide an overview of this work at UB and involve a discussion of where we are going next.
Co-sponsored by Departments of Environment & Sustainability, Political Science, Sociology, and the Center for Information Integrity.
November 09, 12:00-1:00
“Digital Engagement with Social Impact Fellows Program” David Emmanuel Gray, Ayesha Datta, and Krista Paszkowsky. Hybrid. Silverman 310.
UB’s Social Impact Fellows (SIF) Program is a partnership between the College of Arts and Science, the School of Management, and the School of Social Work. For 10 weeks during the summer, graduate students from all three colleges work together on teams to create social innovation in Western New York. In this presentation, we will present an overview of the program along with examples of SIF projects from last summer. In doing so, we will highlight how students with experience working with digital data or other aspects of digital research and scholarship would be strong applicants to this program. SIF embodies an approach to “engaged humanities” by preparing PhD students to work on scholarship that engages non-academics with the goal of affecting positive social change. Our hope is that those attending will be able to identify and encourage their digitally-engaged graduate students to apply for this fellowship.
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December 7, 3:30-4:30
“A Conversation on Generative AI at the University.” Led by Bruce Pitman, David Castillo, Kevin Hittle, Evviva LaJoie. Online.
In the past year, Generative AI has upended many of the common assumptions about what tasks computer algorithms could and could not accomplish. In the post-CHatGPT, post-Dall*e world, what constitutes an original essay, or an inspired painting? This open-ended conversation is a first step in thinking about how GAI affects faculty and students at UB.
We will do a live demonstration, prompting a chatbot to see how it responds, followed by a discussion of what GAI means to scholarship, and how it changes ways the next generation of faculty (and students) should be educated.