The
History Lab at Georgia Southern is an experimental space for developing
projects and installations related to historical research, which
recognize the challenges of understanding and valuing history and
historical methods in the digital age. The goal of the lab is to open
the traditional classroom to the kinds of effects achieved in creative
and cross-media knowledge spaces and to develop a model that can be
replicated on a small scale with limited funding.
Projects like True/False: The Indigo Garden, The Waddie Welcome
Archive, and Open Sea: Reflections from a Port City are currently being
incubated in the lab. Student and faculty projects using
Wordpress blogging, Wikisites, Google Maps and other widely available
and public domain software applications are also facilitated and hosted
through the lab.
The lab is also collecting of video recordings of interviews with local
public artists and historians. These interviews are archived
through streaming video to build up a database of localized practices
of public history.
The Department of History is proud to acknowledge support for the History Lab from:
History Lab Hours Spring 2009
- Mondays: 10:00-Noon, 2:00-4:00
- Tuesdays: 11:00-12:30, 1:45-3:00
- Wednesdays: 10:00-Noon
- Thursdays: 11:00-12:30, 1:45-3:00
- Fridays: Closed or By Appt.
Please contact Carlyn Pinkins for more information at 478-5065.
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