Monday, April 13
T. Mills Kelly, “Digital Humanities and the End of Selective Ignorance”
LaRose Digital Theatre, Koury Business Center, 7:30 p.m.
Digital media are changing what it means to understand history. A national expert on digital humanities, Kelly explains how innovation lets even a novice work with massive data sets and take the understanding of history into exciting new directions. Kelly is a professor of history at George Mason University and a specialist in the scholarship of teaching and learning history. His most recent book, Teaching History in the Digital Age, was published in 2013 by the University of Michigan Press.