Come listen to a series of lightning presentations for the inaugural presentations of graduate Digital Humanities classes from History and English. Each student will provide a 15 minute talk on topics ranging from environmental history to art manifestos.

In person and on zoom.

Presentations include the following:

Love Cults, Masquerading Gals, and Subway Sammies: A Digital Visualization of Boston’s Queer Subcultures from 1940 to 1966 by Sam Hurwitz

A Digital History of Columbia Point by Emily Coello

Trying to Stay Put: Reproductive and Housing Justice During the 2008 Financial Crisis by Meghan McCoy

Modern War and the Combatant Experience: the Battle of the Somme, 1916 by Ariel Donnelly

Late Antique Egyptian Textiles at Boston College: A Digital Catalog of the Tellalian Collection at the McMullen Museum of Art by Alexander D’Alisera

Laundress, Seamstress, Laborer, Secretary: The Many Forms of Black Women’s Work in 1920 Boston by Bailey Lemoine

Travel and Description: Looking Towards the Americas by Elizabeth Bloor

A River in Time: Human and Environmental Histories on the Neponset by Laura Clerx (with Project Team Members: Dr. Conevery Valencius and Asa Ackerly)