Harnessing Virtual Worlds for Arts and Humanities Scholars and researchers from many disciplines within the humanities are on the verge of a profound change in the way they search for, construct, and present knowledge to colleagues. Virtual Worlds, in addition to an array of other digital tools, will bring about significant changes within the humanities by facilitating multi-institutional, cross-disciplinary research and collaboration as well as providing new ways to recreate and contextualize evidence that heretofore was impossible to study or publish. There is an open call for Letters of Intent to participate in this project. Click here for a full description.
As part of this initiative, the Principal Investigators from the Federation of American Scientists and SRI International held an introductory Summit, organized symposia and conducted interviews with leading scholars in the arts and humanities and are now embarking on a process to develop a Collaborative Proposal Submission.
Harnessing Virtual Worlds for Arts and Humanities Scholarship
Federation of American Scientists and SRI International
Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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