This talk outlines theoretical and methodological approaches of digital gazetteers, and highlights the increasing use and importance of Linked Open Data (LOD) in the practice of digital spatial humanities. It explores how a wide variety of research projects and pedagogi...

This presentation includes a brief overview of UCLA's Digital Humanities Program, introduces projects and methods as well as local people (Wendy, Anthony, and Ashley) and their expertise(s). The methods covered: text analysis/text-mining, mapping, 3D modeling -- and, pe...

The paper reports on transcription as a means to increase usability and access to specialized audio collections in the library. We discuss the complexity of transcriptions as a both a political and linguistic process rather than a neutral one. Two audiovisual collection...

A simple 2D adventure game

Actors are often praised and lauded for their ability to seamlessly transform into characters that are very different from themselves. It is why method acting is so appealing to many of us actors and why the Oscar awards are usually given to those who disappear behind t...

Robustness and counterfactual bias are usually evaluated on a test dataset. However, are these evaluations robust? In other words, if a model is robust or unbiased on a test set, will the properties still hold under a slightly perturbed test set? In this paper, we propo...

Over the course of the American painter Robert Henri’s lifetime (1865-1929), pictorial strategies of representation were hotly contested, reconfigured, and reinvented through artistic reactions broadly categorized as “modernism.” Within the last twenty years, scholars h...

The Early Postclassic (900-1150 A.D.) metropolis of Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, arose from the ashes of the Classic Maya collapse and ushered in a new era that synthesized the old and new with the local and foreign. One of the many unique things about Chichen Itza wa...

This dissertation views art education and exhibitions as important actors in state- and nation-building in the Republic of China (1912-1949). State-building constructed institutional infrastructure to bind and govern, and nation-building institutionalized cultural histo...

This dissertation examines the myriad of ways automobility and the cinema are interconnected: how they interface with and influence each other; how the cinema represents automobility on screen; how the Traveler-Spectator experiences automobility at the cinema; and how, ...