Upcoming Event: Ethan Watrall Speaking at Temple University, February 4.

The first lecture of 2015 in the Center for Humanities at Temple University lecture series Digital Humanities in Practice will take place at 4:00 pm on Wednesday, February 4 at the CHAT Lounge, 10th Floor, Gladfelter Hall, Temple University.

It will feature Ethan Watrall, Anthropology, Michigan State University, speaking on:
Digging, Digitally: Advances in Digital Archaeological Method and Practice

Like many other disciplines, archaeology has entered an age in which “the digital” is having a transformative impact on all aspects of method and practice within the field. More than that, however, digital technology is changing the very nature of scholarly and professional activities within archaeology, opening up new horizons of collaboration, community engagement, citizen scholarship, cyberinfrastructure, preservation & access, capacity building, and sharing. Drawing upon a series of exemplar projects, this talk will explore the ways in which modern archaeologists are leveraging digital technology for fieldwork, research, preservation, and public engagement.

Ethan Watrall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Associate Director of MATRIX: The Center for Digital Humanities & Social Sciences (http://matrix.msu.edu) at Michigan State University. In addition, Ethan is Director of the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative (http://chi.anthropology.msu.edu) and the Cultural Heritage Informatics Fieldschool at Michigan State University (http://chi.anthropology.msu.edu/fieldschool/).

Attendance is free and open to the public.