A Conversation with Stephen Robertson

Have digital humanities fulfilled their promise? What’s worked and what hasn’t when it comes to the application of new technologies to humanities research and presentation? What’s coming next for digital humanities? Students, staff and faculty can pose these questions and more to Stephen Robertson, director of the Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. He will speak Wednesday, April 25, from 11:35 a.m. to 12:55 p.m. in Kelvin Smith Library, Freedman Center.

About the speaker

For more than 20 years, the Rosenzweig Center has created and collaborated on scores of digital humanities projects, from virtual museums, to assembling online collections for teachers, to engineering open-source software. In addition to directing the center, Robertson is the prize-winning creator of “Digital Harlem,” which organizes and visualizes historical data about early 20th century Harlem in a spatial manner. Light refreshments will be provided. Audio- and video-recording are prohibited without the express consent of the speaker and sponsor. See more information.