Katherine D. Harris (San Jose State University)
Friday 20 March, 1-3 pm
Jack Erskine 240
This workshop will reflect on metadata frameworks for historical periodicals and working with digitised image/text corpora.
Thursday 19 March, 11 am – 12 noon
Puaka James Hight 210
Katherine D. Harris (San Jose State University)
In the short story, “Uncle Anthony’s Blunder,” a gentleman approaches a young lady whose back is turned to him. From behind, she is dressed in fine clothing with hands covered by gloves. Before waiting for her to turn around, the older man, Antony Nesfield, blurts out a proposal of marriage, however, when she turns around, he discovers that she’s Jamaican and Black – a case of mistaken identity. The engraving and following short story appear on page 231 of a 343-page duodecimo volume, published in the 1833 Forget Me Not, a literary annual title that first appeared in 1823 and lead the revolution in combining the almanac, women’s conduct manuals, and emblem books.
Join the Arts Digital Lab, the Macmillan Brown Library, the National Archives of Fiji, and Archives NZ for a discussion of archives, research, and public discourse on Monday 14 October, 2.45-4.00 pm. Places are limited, so please register at https://events.humanitix.com/talanoa-archives-research-and-public-discourse
Our aim is to develop a tool that will allow individuals with personal, familial, cultural, or historical connections to the Residential Red Zone area to tell their story and to reflect on what this space means to them. Seven years on from the 2011 Canterbury earthquakes the future of Christchurch’s Flat Land Residential Red Zone… Read More »Understanding Place: Mapping Memories and Meaning in the Residential Red Zone
The UC Arts Digital Lab is excited to announce the launch of a new and improved UC QuakeStudies earthquake research repository. QuakeStudies, the University of Canterbury’s major contribution to the CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive, contains photographs, documents, videos, audio recordings, media articles, and other material relating to the 2010/2011… Read More »A New Look for UC QuakeStudies
