What Can Good Web Design Do for Humanities Projects? Reflections and Case Studies

This fall’s Washington DC Area Forum on Technology and the Humanities focuses on “What Can Good Web Design Do for Humanities Projects: Reflections and Case Studies”.

Our panelists are Brad Johnson, Creative Director, and Julie Beeler, Studio Director, of Second Story (http://www.secondstory.com) and Mike O’Malley and Paula Petrik, Associate Directors, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University.

We will meet at George Mason University’s (GMU) Johnson Center, Assembly Room A, on Thursday, October 2, 2002 from 4:30-6:30 PM. There will be an informal dinner after the forum. The cost for the dinner (Thai food) will be $10. Please RSVP for dinner by 25 September to Joan Fragaszy (jfragasz@gmu.edu).

Co-sponsored by the Center for History & New Media (CHNM) at GMU and the Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship (CNDLS) at Georgetown, the DC Area Technology and Humanities Forum explores important issues in humanities computing and provide an opportunity for DC area scholars interested the uses of new technology in the humanities to meet and get acquainted.

You can find directions to GMU at http://www.gmu.edu/welcome/Directions-to-GMU.html (This includes directions to the CUE Bus, which goes from the Vienna Metro Stop to the Campus.) Parking information is at http://www.gmu.edu/univserv/parking/Visitors.html. And a campus map is at http://coyote.gmu.edu/map/.

New York City blackout renews attention to CHNM project

Following the massive power outages that hit the northeastern United States in August 2003, The Blackout Project - a CHNM website that covers the history of New York City’s great blackouts of 1965 and 1977 - received sudden, unprecedented attention. The news media as well and those who remember the earlier blackouts came to the site to learn more and to reminisce. Almost a hundred people added their stories to the growing oral history archive on the site.