Final preparations are being made for this year’s Digital Humanities Boot Camp, which will be April 6-7. Space is still available to those who want to attend.

In its third year, the boot camp’s goal is to introduce scholars at all levels to digital humanities and to provide basic knowledge to participants to bring digital humanities back to their departments and institutions.

This year’s event will be held in Love Library and Burnett Hall and is organized by the Digital Humanities Student Association. The boot camp will include sessions on classroom pedagogy ideas, project development, open access tools and resources, and specific tools such as text analysis and geographic information systems. Each session will close with a lab in which participants will try out what they have learned.

Registration for the event is open. Sessions are limited to 20 participants each.

The Digital Humanities Student Association is also having its inaugural organizational meeting on April 6 at 4 p.m. in Love Library South 221 for any undergraduate or graduate student interested in joining the organization. The new student group is open to any student who has an interest in digital humanities. If unable to attend the meeting, interested students can also email either Stephanie Camerone at camerone.stephanie@gmail.com or Joseba Moreno at josebakmoreno@gmail.com.

The boot camp is co-sponsored by the Graduate Certificate Program in Digital Humanities, the Department of English and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. A full schedule and more information can be found here.

The boot camp will lead into the 2016 Nebraska Forum on Digital Humanities, which will be April 7-8 at the Center for Great Plains Studies, 1155 Q St. The forum’s theme is “Video Games and the Humanities,” and more information can be found here.