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The Programming Historian

August 3, 2017 by efs429

By Edward Shore The Programming Historian publishes beginner-friendly tutorials that help humanists to learn a range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching. Contributors have uploaded web tutorials that will be useful to teachers and researchers in any field. For instance, “Intro to Google Maps and Google Earth” teaches how to […]

Reading World Literature

June 27, 2017 by efs429

By Edward Shore                  Reading World Literature is an educational initiative established in 2014 by the Graduate Comparative Literature Students’ Organization (GRACL) at the University of Texas at Austin that offers literature courses to incarcerated students at the Travis County Correctional Complex. Kaitlin Shirley (Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literature) […]

Finding Your Roots Workshop, 05/13

May 11, 2017 by efs429

Historians and archivists will lead a Finding Your Roots  on Saturday, May 13, from 12:00-1:00 pm at the Bullock Museum. The workshop aims to help researchers to extrapolate from historical documents and archival sources the often fragmentary personal stories of enslaved men, women, and children. Maria Esther Hammack, a PhD student in the Department of […]

#DataRescue Austin

April 28, 2017 by efs429

DataRescue Austin is a nonpartisan alliance of local programmers, scientists, and writers dedicated to maintaining pubic access to federal data. The group is part of a national campaign to suppress information related to climate change and environmental degradation that is at risk of suppression and deletion for political reasons. On April 26, the group hosted […]

Hot Science-Cool Talks

April 11, 2017 by efs429

By Edward Shore Hot Science-Cool Talks is a nationally recognized outreach series that provides a platform for leading researchers at the University of Texas-Austin and other prominent universities to share their research with the public in general and the K-12 educational community in particular since 1999. Presented by the Environmental Science Institute (ESI), the events […]

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