Department of Art History

The Visual Resources Center (VRC) is pleased to invite you to Making and Managing Images, a workshop on creating a personal image archive to support your research, teaching, publishing, and scholarship. 

The workshop will take place on Tuesday, February 4 from 3–4:30pm at the Franke Institute for the Humanities (JRL S-102) and online via Zoom for all members of the UChicago Humanities and Social Science communities. 

Register here to attend Making and Managing Images or to receive the recording! 

More information and details below. 

Making and Managing Images
Tuesday, February 4 from 3–4:30pm CST
Franke Institute (JRL S-102) and Zoom 

This workshop offers a look at strategies your colleagues use to collect, manage, and analyze their personal image archives to support their fieldwork, teaching, and scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, including:

• Advice on making and editing photos
• Introduction to ethical image considerations
• How to assess your current/future research projects and select a platform for managing your images and other files
• Archiving workflows to use your images efficiently and effectively during future writing, teaching, and research

Featuring brief case study presentations by:

• Maria Adank, Postdoctoral Fellow in History
• Roko Rumora, PhD candidate in the Department of Art History, University of Chicago, and and Assistant Curator of Ancient Art, Toledo Museum of Art
• Michael Stablein, Jr., joint-PhD candidate in Theater and Performance Studies and English Language Literature, University of Chicago (TAPS)

Facilitated by Bridget Madden and Allie Scholten, Visual Resources Center, with Carmen Caswell, Forum for Digital Culture.

Accessibility

This is a live, hybrid event that will be recorded for internal sharing only. You are welcome to join synchronously in person & via Zoom, or the VRC can share a recording of the event if you are unable to attend at the time. The workshop is open to all members of the UChicago Humanities and Social Science communities. We plan to make this a similar experience across both in-person and remote modalities. If you have questions you would like the VRC to address, please include them in your registration form or send us an email at visualresources@uchicago.edu.

Refreshments will be nut-free. Following the guidelines for Captions, Transcripts, and Audio Description in the CDA’s Accessibility for Content Creators, the VRC will use the following accessibility features for this hybrid event:

• Including closed captioning generated by automatic speech recognition
• Providing access to the slide deck before and after the event
• Audibly describing images and processes when appropriate

To request any additional accessibility accommodations you need to participate fully in this workshop, such as live captioning or sign language interpretation, please email visualresources@uchicago.edu by Friday, January 17.