Scott Nesbit, associate director of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond, will speak about his poineering digital humanities project, Visualizing Emancipation (http://dsl.richmond.edu/emancipation). He will also discuss more generally the ways current humanistic questions can motivate new forms of visualizations, and how the capabilities--or, the affordances--of those visualizations then inform humanities
scholarship. A Digital Discussions event, sponsored by the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, the Center for Applied Technologis in the Humanities (http://wiz2.cath.vt.edu), and the History Department's Public History Program.

Location:	Multipurpose Room, First Floor, Newman Library
Price:	Free
Sponsor:	Virginia Center for Civil War Studies
Contact:	Paul Quigley pquigley@vt.edu 540-231-9090
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