The Virtual Humanities Lab in the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University, in collaboration with the Center for Digital Scholarship in the Brown University Library, will host an international colloquium entitled, "Scholarly Networks and the Emerging Platforms for Humanities Research & Publication" in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab at the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library from Thursday, April 16 through Saturday, April 18, 2015.

The three-day colloquium will explore the new types of scholarly output produced when scholars use digital methods to collaborate on, annotate and visualize traditional materials. The colloquium is free and open to interested members of the public. Registration for all events is required and can be made by emailing [log in to unmask]. Please respond by April 13.

Stephen Downie, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Library, and Information Science at the University of Illinois and Co-Director of the HathiTrust Research Center, will deliver the keynote address. His talk, “"The HathiTrust Research Center: Bringing you 4.7 billion pages of analytic opportunities!" will take place on April 16 at 5:30 p.m.

For a complete program, go to: http://www.brown.edu/academics/italian-studies/sites/brown.edu.academics.italian-studies/files/uploads/DH_Program_1.pdf