About SWTP

Seeing What Takes Place is a workshop exploring the creation of immersive, explanatory videos of religious rituals from a variety of faith and cultural traditions. Generously sponsored by a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment of Humanities, the program will bring together a selection of religious studies scholars and experts in Extended Reality (XR) technologies to discuss the prospects, promises, and perils in creating a set of resources for use in higher education contexts as well as the wider public. The goals of the sessions will be threefold: 1) Establishing a set of rituals and practices to focus on for the first round of video creation. 2) Determining best practices in navigating cultural/religious dichotomies, attending to diverse religious representation, and relationships with faith communities. 3) Delineating the technological needs for the creation, hosting, and dissemination of the created resources.