April 6, from 1– 3pm: “Digital Aesthetics, Art, Life and Museums,” a conversation with Metropolitan Museum of Art digital asset specialist Neal Stimler and some of Penn State’s most progressive thinkers in this field, Foster Auditorium, first floor, Paterno Library. Registration is required. To register, go to http://wp.me/P3b4X9-1C2.

April 10, noon: Anna Fariello, Western Carolina University, will present “Curating Community,” Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. Her presentation, which will highlight successful cultural projects that interpret community culture and involve diverse partnerships, is open to the public and will also be available for viewing online.

April 16, 3 – 4:30 p.m.: Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice, presented by Tad Hershorn, Institute of Jazz Studies, Dana Library, Rutgers University, Newark. This presentation will be in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library, in conjunction with the current library exhibit “Jazz Riffs: Breaking Boundaries and Crossing Borders.”

April 20, 2-3 p.m.: “Inch by Inch… Building Institutional Capacity for DH Through Inter- and Trans-disciplinary Collaboration”, presented by digital humanities scholar Orla Murphy of University College Cork, Ireland, Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. Open to the public and will be followed by a reception in Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library.

April 22: “What is financial literacy?,” a workshop. 5:30–6:30 p.m., Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. In this workshop, Penn State Financial Literacy Manager Dr. Daad Rizk will discuss the skills that students need to acquire. She will present an overview of financial literacy and give specific steps and tips to examine and alter core attitudes and beliefs about money management as a prelude to reaching a successful financial life. Additional details are online at http://bit.ly/1rzz1Jw. Registration is requested at http://bit.ly/1sQ0Zkp

April 23, 10 a.m.: Lan Xue, doctoral student in the Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management, will present “Tourism development and changing identity in rural China,” in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. This indigenous knowledge seminar is free and open to the public and can be viewed online.

April 23, noon–4:00 p.m.: Workshop on Mapping in the Humanities Classroom, 23 Pattee Library. Workshop registration required: http://sites.psu.edu/litmaps/

April 23, 5:00–6:00 p.m.: Reception with speaker Janelle Jenstad, Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library. Jenstad is an associate professor of English at the University of Victoria. She directs The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML), a SSHRC-funded project that maps the streets, sites, and significant boundaries of late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century London (1560-1640). Registration required: http://sites.psu.edu

April 23, 6:00–7:30 p.m.: a public talk by Janelle Jenstad, “Wayfinding in Shakespeare’s London: MoEML’s Literary GIS and Interactive Map,” in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. No registration is required for this free and open presentation.

** Also see “Training and Enrichment Opportunities” for additional staff events.

The University Libraries will host prominent digital humanities scholar Orla Murphy of University College Cork, Ireland, for a presentation on Monday, April 20, from 2 to 3 p.m., in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. “Inch by Inch… Building Institutional Capacity for DH Through Inter- and Trans-disciplinary Collaboration” will be open to the public and will be followed by a reception in Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library.

Murphy teaches in the School of English and in the discipline of Digital Arts and Humanities at Cork, where her research interests lie in how culture is, was and will be communicated in all its forms, including 3D representation, and in how we read, represent and share knowledge in new networked, virtual environments. In this presentation, she will discuss the development of institutional capacity for Digital Humanities, addressing the paradigm of distributed disciplinary status and what it can offer as a model for capacity development in the field.

Murphy’s contributions to research and understanding in the field at an international level are significant. She chairs the information visualization working group in the NeDiMAH.eu initiative (the European network for digital methods in the Arts and Humanities) and is vice-chair of the algorithms group in the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage, where she convenes the successful international Think Tank series for Early Stage Researchers. She also represents Ireland on the management committee of genderSTE, a policy-driven targeted network funded by COST. Murphy was awarded an inaugural Fulbright Tech Impact Scholar award for 2014-2015.

“Dr. Murphy’s talk will be very relevant to digital scholarship at Penn State, particularly the ongoing collaborations between the University Libraries and College of the Liberal Arts. She has shared many of the same experiences and challenges that we currently face in attempting to further our capacity for interdisciplinary research, so it will be a great opportunity for the exchange of knowledge and ideas,” says James O’Sullivan, Digital Humanities research designer at Penn State.

This presentation is co-sponsored by the University Libraries Colloquium Committee and the University Libraries Publishing and Curation Services. If you anticipate needing accommodations or have questions about the physical access provided, contact Martha Ney, mdn1@psu.edu /814-863-5447, in advance of your participation. For more information about the program, email O’Sullivan at josullivan@psu.edu.

Lan Xue, doctoral student in the Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management, will present “,” on April 23, at 10 a.m., in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. This indigenous knowledge seminar is free and open to the public and can be viewed online.

Xue’s presentation will highlight her research on the socioeconomic aspects of tourism development and how the local culture of a tourism destination shapes, and is shaped by, tourism development. “Since 1949, dominant discourses in China have portrayed rural residents as primitive, ignorant and lagging far behind their urban counterparts. Consequently, indigenous knowledge of the rural, acquired over millennia, has been ridiculed and ignored,” she says.

Using Chongdu Valley as a study site, Xue explored the changing images and identity of rural residents as a result of tourism development over the past 15 years. She says her research found that rural tourism has generally improved the living standards of local residents and elicited a sense of pride in their cultures and traditional knowledge, both of which have contributed to increased life satisfaction and community well-being. Rural tourism has also transformed the traditions, lifestyles, and landscapes of rural China and led to an increasing urbanization of what has traditionally been considered “rural,” she adds. Xue will be introduced by Carter Hunt, (http://sites.psu.edu/carterahunt/), assistant professor in the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Management.

This seminar is co-sponsored by the University Libraries and the Interinstitutional Center for Indigenous Knowledge. For more information, see icik.psu.edu. If you anticipate needing accommodations or have question about the physical access provided, please contact Helen Sheehy at hms2@psu.edu or 814-863-1347.