Author: Roger L. Martinez-Davila
Facilitating Remote Discussions: a guide for transitioning from in-person to remote class discussions
Facilitating Remote Discussions: a guide for transitioning from in-person to remote class discussions. 1. RETURN TO YOUR PLACE OF LEARNING. Whether it is a classroom, the seminar table, a laboratory, the stage, or a workplace -- each physical space conveys how we relate and communicate with each other. Your challenge: Reconstruct the contours of...
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Dark Archives Workshop: Crowdsourcing Manuscript Transcriptions: Opportunities and Challenges using MOOCs, Social Media, and Emerging Platforms
Faculty of English, Oxford University, 13 September 2019, https://aevum.space/darkarchives This goal-setting, process-based, and tool-oriented workshop is intended to assist scholars with conducting initial planning and scope activities to develop a citizen-science (crowdsourcing) project using medieval manuscripts and artifacts. This workshop is based on the research presented in the peer-reviewed article:...
CU on the Air: Exploring and learning from coexistence in Medieval Spain
Listen to this University of Colorado Podcast at http://cuontheair.blubrry.net/2018/06/29/exploring-and-learning-from-coexistence-in-medieval-spain/ The co-existence of Christians, Muslims and Jews in Medieval Spain creates a fascinating snapshot of that period in history – the good and not-so-good – and offers important insights on co-existence today. In this episode of CU on the Air, host Ken...
Graduate Program Professional Development Workshop – Locating and Preparing Successful Grants
[:en]UCCS Department of History Graduate Program Professional Development Workshop October 25, 2018 7:30 to 9:30 pm Locating and Preparing Successful Grants Six Places to Locate Grants To locate grants for graduate student research and travel, you should search these important sources: H-Net Grants - https://networks.h-net.org/tags/grants. Not only is H-Net an important...
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The “Not So” Dark Middle Ages: How Science and Technology Advanced European Civilization (600-1500 CE)
[:en] The "Not So" Dark Middle Ages: How Science and Technology Advanced European Civilization (600-1500 CE) A History Exhibition Oct 24, 2018 - Nov 24, 2018 Columbine Hall Foyer University of Colorado-Colorado Springs Curated By the students of HIST 4150: Medieval Science and Technology (fall 2018) and the Department of History....
Augmented Reflections of History, Culture, and Environment: Experiencing the Interchange of the Plains Indians and Spaniards in Southern Colorado, 1500-1800 CE
[:en]A call for collaborators and co-principal investigators A New Experience of the Past: Virtual and Augmented Reality Augmented Reflections of History, Culture, and Environment reshapes our experience with environmental knowledge, cultural understanding, and historical interpretation by generating augmented and virtual reality worlds. We create an interpretive digital experience that places...
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New Book: Creating Conversos
[:en] Appearing in print in early 2018. Creating Conversos: The Carvajal–Santa María Family in Early Modern Spain Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila In Creating Conversos, Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila skillfully unravels the complex story of Jews who converted to Catholicism in Spain between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, migrated to colonial Mexico and Bolivia...
The Times of Israel: “Old tensions come to life as medieval Spanish synagogue goes online”
[:en]An article by Rich Tenorio about Deciphering Secrets Massive Open Online Courses in the Times of Israel. Prof. Roger Louis Martinez Davila addresses his class under the soaring ceiling of the Museo del Transito, or Museo Sefardi — a 14th-century synagogue, now museum, in the historic Spanish city of Toledo....
[:en]Provoking Pluralism[:]
[:en] For More Information, contact Dr. Roger L. Martinez-Davila Abstract Provoking Pluralism: Understanding and Experiencing Religious Differences to Counter Religious Extremism in Europe (3rd Century BCE – 21st Century CE) Provoking Pluralism is fundamentally about understanding how religious identities and perceptions lead to intolerance, extremism, and violence in Europe. Presently,...
[:en]But, guess what? There’s more important work ahead! On 14 February 2017 the course opens again with a new collection of medieval manuscripts that we will work on together.[:]
[:en]Dear Former Students of Deciphering Secrets: Burgos, Thank you for participating in the summer 2016 Deciphering Secrets: Unlocking the Manuscripts of Medieval Burgos (Spain) course on edX.org! Due to your efforts, we transcribed an important collection of medieval manuscripts on Jewish, Christian, and Muslim relations. (I’ll tell you more about...