December 8, 2014, 12:00 P.M.
Axinn 229

The Digital Liberal Arts Executive Committee is delighted to announce our fall speaker, William G. Thomas III, one of the country’s leading spatial historians and digital humanists. Will’s public lecture on Monday, Dec. 8, will assess the current state of “the digital” in academe, including the digital humanities, and make the case for integrating digital research practices and pedagogies into the liberal arts more fully and broadly than has yet been realized. This talk will critically appraise the digital humanities as well as examine models of collaboration and integration of research and teaching that can be applied across the liberal arts.

Will Thomas has been a voice of reason while leading the development of spatial history, first at University of Virginia, where he co-authored the award-winning “Valley of the Shadow” project, and now at University of Nebraska’s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. Throughout his digital engagement, he has remained an archival scholar. His latest book, The Iron Way,  was a finalist for the prestigious Lincoln Prize.

William G. Thomas III is currently the Chair of the Department of History at the University of Nebraska, where he is a Faculty Fellow of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and the John and Catherine Angle Chair in the Humanities.

Lunch will be provided beginning at 12:00 P.M. The lecture will begin at 12:15 P.M.

Full text of this lecture can be found on Will Thomas’s blog, here. A recording of the lecture can also be viewed below.