INTERDISCIPLINARY INITIATIVES

>> LOOKING FORWARD Supported by the Samuel H. Kress and Getty Foundations, the Department of Art History and Archaeology and MITH are partnering for “Art History in Digital Dimensions,” a fall 2016 symposium on digital art history that will develop guidelines for graduate training in the digital Humanities, art history and museology.

ONGOING INITIATIVES

The Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy partnered with the city of College Park for the College Park ThinkAThon to discuss the role of the arts and culture in the redesign of Baltimore Avenue.

The college’s WORLDWISE Arts & Humanities Dean’s Lecture Series hosted “genius expert” Walter Isaacson and environmental humanist Terry Tempest Williams, continuing public conversations with leaders who influence national dialogue on the value of the arts and humanities.

GRADUATE TRAINING & DIGITAL HUMANITIES

The Maryland Language Science Center (LSC), led by linguistics Professor and LSC Director Colin Phillips, was awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Traineeship grant to develop a cross-training model to encourage graduate team-based language research.

ARHU’s $1.25 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (Mellon Foundation) led by Dean Bonnie Thornton Dill and co-directed by the Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), will fund graduate training, interdisciplinary research and teaching at the intersections of digital humanities and African American history, literature and culture.

Funded by the Mellon Foundation, MITH partnered with Washington University in St. Louis and the University of California, Riverside for “Documenting the Now: Supporting Scholarly Use and Preservation of Social Media Content.” The team will develop “DocNow,” a userfriendly way of collecting and preserving digital content created by the public to respond to historically significant events.

The Roshan Institute for Persian Studies’ “Persian Digital Library” project partnered with the Perseus Digital LIbrary at Tufts University to develop an online educational and research resource that will provide free access to the most important works of Persian poetry and prose.

RESEARCH NETWORKS

Jennifer Barclay, assistant professor of theatre, partnered with UMD’s Department of Physics to develop, “An Experiment,” an interview-based comedic play about gender parity that uses the physics world to share universal messages related to issues of gender equality in the workplace.