Get Involved

The Borderlands Digital Humanities Center is meant to be widely used, which is why you can easily reserve the space for free. While the Center hosts its own events, others can initiate all sorts of conversations, collaborations, workshops, and more. Fill out our brief intake form to do any of the following or to propose your own ideas.

1. Start a research/reading group or learning community – exploring new skills and topics is more fun with others. Start with a short description, maybe a few opening readings or questions, and let us know if you want it to be a private or public group and if you need funding for materials.

2. Host an activity or event – lead your own event as a part of one of the Center’s event series or create your own kind of event.

   • Digital Pedagogy Sandbox – short play session where hosts introduce a tool they’ve used in the classroom (or their research or creative practice) and facilitate playful exploration great for the lunch hour.

   • Digital Humanities Methods Workshop – a more in-depth training session on a tool or method.

   • Panel Conversations – gather a group of scholars interested in a shared topic or question that can expand to a public conversation. If you have a topic of question in mind but not specific panelists, let us know and we’ll help build a panel.

   • Project-in-Process Critiques – an open (or closed if you like) session to share digital project work in progress and get feedback from a wider audience.

   • Digital Humanities Lecture Series – we regularly host lectures from scholars outside of UTEP. If you are interested in bringing a DH or DH adjacent scholar to campus or suggest one to us, let us know.

3. Register as a mentor or request mentorship – Digital Humanities work is often deeply collaborative and interdisciplinary. If you’re willing to share your expertise, let us know! These can be in specific tools/languages like Audacity or SQL, methods/media like community archiving or embroidery, field/disciplinary knowledge like UX design, Bayesian statistics, or poetics. Looking for help with a new area or skill? We’ll do our best to find you a mentor.

4. Apply for funding – funding is available on a rolling basis for all faculty that can cover most types of project expenses.

5. Reserve our exhibit wall – if you have work you would like to display that engages with topics, concepts, or practices related to the digital humanities, you can display it here!

6. Recommend software adoptions for our lab – if you have a tool you want to use at the BDHC, let us know and we’ll investigate including it in our suite of supported tools.

If you have ideas not already on the menu, there’s a place to add your suggestions and ideas for totally different uses and supports the BDHC can offer to the community on our intake form.