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Humanities in 3D: Learning Beyond the Classroom through Innovative Technology
RECORDED ON WEDNESDAY JUNE 16, 2021
Presented by Dr. Deirdre Dempsey, Director of Graduate Studies, Theology Department, Marquette University; Dr. Jim Marten, Professor, History Department, Marquette University; Dr. Scott Dale, Associate Professor of Spanish, Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Marquette University; Dr. Eugenia Afinoguénova, Professor and Chair Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Marquette University; Chris Larkee, Technology Specialist, Visualization Laboratory, Marquette University; Danelle Orange, Coordinator of Digital Scholarship and Programs, Raynor Memorial Library, Marquette University
Hear how Marquette faculty are taking students beyond the classrooms with cutting edge digital resources that bring history, theology, languages and literatures, art and current events to life in new ways. Visual experiences often promote active learning, critical thinking, decision making and improved performance and allow students to feel more connected to the content. Digital tools are helping the college’s scholars reveal their subjects in new ways and during this program you will learn about the following projects:
- Digital scholarship projects in Theology 1001 and Theology and the Visual Arts with Dr. Deirdre Dempsey.
- Digital Scholarship Lab projects around the COVID-19 pandemic and events during campus protests about civil rights, racial justice and the Vietnam War with Dr. Jim Marten.
- Immersive Experiences in Spain using VR Technology with Dr. Scott Dale.
- A 3D reconstruction of the Prado Museum in Madrid according to a 1875 photograph, as well as digital exhibits and apps developed by students for an exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum "Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel" with Dr. Eugenia Afinoguénova.
- Virtual museum spaces, archaeology, and how the MARVL Viz Lab technology can be used in learning, research, and industry with Chris Larkee.
More about this session
Deirdre A. Dempsey (Ph.D., The Catholic University of America, 1989), [Biblical], did her M.A. and doctoral work in Northwest Semitic languages and literatures, with a specialty in Biblical Hebrew. Recent projects include an article on the appropriation of biblical studies by Zora Neale Hurston in _Moses, Man of the Mountain_; an article with a suggestion for a new translation of Ecclesiastes 12:4; and a series of articles on Syriac and Christian Arabic texts that deal with questions of translation and language. Her most recent translation is Otto Hermann Pesch’s The Second Vatican Council.
Dr. Jim Marten has written, edited, or co-edited over twenty books in two different fields: The Civil War era and the histories of children and youth. His books include The Children’s Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), a Choice “Outstanding Academic Title” and winner of the Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Award; as well as more recent books on Civil War veterans, including Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011), America’s Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace, a short biography of the disabled Civil War veteran and activist James “Corporal” Tanner (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014), and Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2021), co-edited with Caroline E. Janney.
His work on children and youth includes A Very Short Introduction to the History of Childhood (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) and a co-edited volume, War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), co-edited with Mischa Honeck, as well as a number of other edited collections, including the six-volume A Cultural History of Childhood and Family (co-edited with Elizabeth Foyster and published by Berg in 2010). He edited the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth from 2013-2018.
His current research is a book tentatively called A Social History of the Long Civil War: The Soldiers, Families, and Communities of the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers, which will focus on the long-term effects of the Civil War a regiment that fought in one of the most famous units in the Union army—the Iron Brigade.
Dr. Scott Dale, upon reading El rapto de la mente, a landmark book about the Spanish Enlightenment, knew exactly what he wanted to do in graduate school: learn more about the origins of “modernity” in 18th-century Spanish literature. At that moment, he envisioned himself being immersed in the “Siglo de las Luces” and writing his Ph.D. dissertation with the authoritative figure in 18th-century Spanish literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Years later, after receiving his Ph.D. at Penn, he continued searching for more misinterpreted and poorly studied texts written in 18th-century Spain. Once referred to as the “Forgotten Century,” a new generation of dieciochistas has recently shed more light on the literary innovations in 18th-century Spanish culture. He is a Founding Editorial Board Member of Decimonónica and his books include: Novela innovadora en las ‘Cartas marruecas’ de Cadalso (1998), La Pensadora gaditana por Doña Beatriz Cienfuegos (2005) and What is Hispanic? (2015). PBS Milwaukee has featured him in interviews on Hispanic art, he has reviewed research projects for the National Endowment of the Humanities and has received a Mellon grant for integrating new augmented VR technology in the classroom.
Dr. Eugenia Afinoguénova is a professor of Spanish and the current chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Her research and teaching focus on tourism, mobility, cultural history, film studies, art history, food studies, literature, and philosophy. Afinoguénova has collaborated with museums such as Milwaukee Public Museum and Milwaukee Art Museum, as well as The Prado Museum in Madrid, and Musée National Pablo Picasso in Paris.
She has appeared on Milwaukee PBS and the Culture Channel of Spanish National Television. Afinoguénova’s latest monograph, The Prado: Spanish Culture and Leisure (1819-1931), is the winner of the 2019 Eleanor Tufts Award from the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies for the best book on the history of Spanish and Portuguese art and architecture. This book has been translated into Spanish (Madrid: Cátedra, 2018) and Russian (Moscow: A. D. Varfolomeev, 2019), and is now available in paperback. Afinoguénova’s work has been funded by prestigious national and international grants from American Council for Learned Societies, Spain’s Ministry of International Affairs, The Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and US Universities, and Spain’s Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities. She was Marquette’s Klingler College of Arts and Sciences Scholar of the Year (2019) and the recipient of Helen Way Klingler Faculty Fellowship (2016-2019).
At present, Afinoguénova is working on a 3D digital mapping project dedicated to travel literature and is coediting two collected volumes: The Edinburgh Companion to the Spanish Civil War and Visual Culture (with Silvina Schammah Gesser and Robert Lubar Messeri) and Iberian Gastrocracies: Food and Governance in Spain (with Lara Anderson and Rebecca Ingram). She is also a participant in three collaborative research projects funded by the Government of Spain.
Chris Larkee is the technology specialist for the Visualization Laboratory at Marquette University. He has 15 years experience in computer animation, media production, and broadcast engineering. In 2006, he received a BFA from UW-Milwaukee in filmmaking and computer graphics. Over the next 5 years, he coordinated Discovery World's video production studio, creating dozens of videos and multimedia projects about science and art education and developing innovative open-source video workflows. Since 2014, he has served a lead role in Marquette University's Visualization Laboratory, working with faculty and graduate students in the development of customized immersive environment software to implement their concepts for research and learning. Chris's skills include programming, 3-D modelling, and interactive user experience design.
Danelle Orange (MLIS, University of Pittsburgh) started as an archivist before transitioning to managing digital projects, instruction, and campus outreach. She is currently the Coordinator of Digital Scholarship and Programs at Raynor Library and manages the Digital Scholarship Lab. Her research interests are in project management and the life cycle of digital repositories.