Live and in concert (once again!):
Analog Music -> Digital History: Teaching the US Folk Revival on a Networked WordPress Platform
Michael J. Kramer, Lecturer, History and American Studies
4pm, Friday, 15 March 2013
Multimedia Learning Center (MMLC), Kresge 1-375, Northwestern University
More information at mmlc.northwestern.edu/worldwineweb
by Jamie Henthorn — Old Dominion University
February 15, 2013 – 09:54
The MediaCommons Front Page Collective is looking for responses to the survey question: How do you see the digital divide in your work and scholarship?
Digital Humanities scholarship tends to be overwhelmingly weighted toward young, predominantly – though not exclusively – white scholars working within Western contexts and institutions, producing on the one hand a bit of an echo effect, on the other hand an academic variation on the digital divide, wherein important perspectives have tremendous difficulty being heard, or else are noted only for their “otherness.” With this survey, we want to extend opportunities to non-western digital humanities scholars, as well as digital humanities scholars focused on non-dominant communities and practices to address the stakes in maintaining this “divide.”
Responses may include but are not limited to:
– Non-Western perspectives on the digital humanities
– Digital humanities as cultural imperialism?
– Can the subaltern digital human speak?
– ageism in the digital humanities
– the problem of color blindness/role of white privilege in digital humanities work
– Digital humanities and digital feminism
– Queering the digital humanities
– What role for the non-digital humanities?
Responses are 300-400 words and typically focus on introducing an idea. Proposals may be brief (a few sentences) and should state your topic and approach. Submit proposals tomediacommons.odu@gmail.comby March 1 to be considered for inclusion into this project. The project will run from March 18 through April 12.
In case you are unfamiliar with MediaCommons, we are an experimental project created in 2006 by Drs. Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Avi Santo, seeking to envision how a born-digital scholarly press might re-conceptualize both the processes and end-products of scholarship. MediaCommons was initially developed in collaboration with the Institute for the Future of the Book through a grant from the MacArthur Foundation and is currently supported by New York University’s Digital Library Technology Services through funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Dr Mike Kestemont, University of Antwerp; Dr Marten Düring, Radboud
University Nijmegen
03.04.2013-05.04.2013, Nijmegen, Radboud University
Deadline: 15.03.2013
Jump-start your Python, R and Gephi skills
This intensive three-day workshop will equip both junior and senior
scholars with the ability and skills to “go digital”. The goal of this
workshop is to offer its participants the skills to understand the
potential of selected tools in Digital Humanities (DH), to consider
their application within the realms of their own field and, eventually,
to be able to start their own eHumanities projects. The workshop will
consist of three modules: Programming in Python, Statistics in R and
Network Analysis with Gephi. These modules will be designed to build
upon each other, thereby putting newly acquired skills to practical use
immediately. We also want to ensure a productive exchange between
participants as well as the instructors and, as such, the development of
long-lasting networks. In keeping with ALLC’s principal interests, the
workshop has a firm emphasis on the computational analysis of textual
data, be they literary or linguistic.
To ensure the broad coverage of relevant techniques for the workshop, we
have selected three generic research tools which are currently widely
applied within the eHumanities.
The programming language Python is widely used within many scientific
domains nowadays and the language is readily accessible to scholars from
the Humanities. Python is an excellent choice for dealing with
(linguistic as well as literary) textual data, which is so typical of
the Humanities. Workshop participants will be thoroughly introduced to
the language and be taught to program basic algorithmic procedures.
Because of the workshop’s emphasis on textual data, special attention
will be paid to linguistic applications of Python, e.g. Pattern.
Finally, participants will be familiarized with key skills in
independent troubleshooting.
Deplored by many DH scholars, most humanities curricula today fail to
offer a decent training in statistics. At the same time, a majority of
DH applications make use of quantitative tools in one way or the other.
We seek to provide our participants with hands-on experience with a
common statistical tool, R, with a specific emphasis on the practical
implementation of statistics and potential pitfalls. The statistical
software package R is widely used in the scientific processing and
visualisation of textual data.
Network visualizations can be counted among the most prominent and
influential forms of data visualization today. However, the processes of
data modelling, its visualization and the interpretation of the results
often remain a “black box”. The module on Gephi will introduce the key
steps in the systematization of relational data, its collection from
non-standardized records such as historical sources or works of fiction,
the potential and perils of network visualizations and computation and
finally the identification of relevant patterns and their significance
for the overall research question.
The workshop seeks to provide as much practical skills and knowledge in
as little time as possible. Each module will have the same basic
structure: After an introduction to the respective method and the
targets for the day, the participants will solve pre-defined tasks. The
workshop embraces the concept of trial and error and learning based on
one’s own accomplishments rather than passive information reception.
Registration
Participants are expected to pay a fee of EUR 60 and to make
arrangements for their travel and accommodation. Thanks to the EADH (ex
ALLC) funding we have received we are able to offer free lunch on all
three days as well as a farewell dinner.
In addition, we can offer 2 bursaries for students/participants who have
no other source of funding.
In order to register, please email Mike Kestemont at
mike.kestemont@gmail.com or Marten Düring at md@martenduering.com by
March 15th. Applicants are asked to include a short CV, a statement of
their previous experience with the above mentioned tools and their
research goals.
Previous experience in either programming, statistics or data
visualization is not required.
For further information of eHumanities research at Radboud University
Nijmegen and on the workshop, please visit http://www.ru.nl/ehumanities
Generously funded by the ALLC – The European Association for Digital
Humanities and with support from Radboud University Nijmegen
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Programme
We are very happy to have brought together a team of instructors who are
both experts in their field and great teachers:
Day 1: Programming in Python and basic Natural Language Processing tools
(Instructors: Folgert Karsdorp, Meertens Institut Amsterdam and Maarten
van Gompel, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
Day 2: Basic statistics in R (Instructor: Peter Hendrix, University of
Tübingen)
Day 3: Data modelling and network visualizations in Gephi (Instructor:
Clément Levallois, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
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Subject: Ghani Talk at McCormick, Noon on Thurs Feb 7
There’s a talk that faculty and graduate students in the political science department might be interested in attending, but I’m not sure it’s been advertised heavily in Weinberg.
Rayid Ghani, Chief Scientist for Obama’s campaign, will be giving a talk entitled “The Role of Data, Technology, and Analytics in Presidential Elections” as part of the Master of Science in Analytics seminar series run out of McCormick. The talk is this Thurs, Feb 7 at noon in the ITW classroom of the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center.
Here’s a link to the news writeup where I learned about the talk:
Please join us for the fourth NUDHL research seminar of the year on Friday, 1/25/13, 12-2pm in the seminar room of the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.
Here are the details on readings and location.
Hope to see you there!
“Building New Tools for Digital Bibliography: Constructing a Defoe Attributions Database for the Defoe Society”
Dr. Ben Pauley, Associate Professor, Eastern Connecticut State University
Friday, January 11, from 12 to 2 pm in the Alice Kaplan Humanities Institute seminar room, Kresge 2-360.
Lunch served!!
And don’t miss…
Unlocking the English Short Title Catalogue: New Tools for Early Modern and Eighteenth-Century Bibliography and Book History
A Digital Humanities Presentation to Students and Faculty by Ben Pauley, Associate Professor, Eastern Connecticut State University, NU Library Forum Room,
Thursday, January 10, 2013, 3:30 – 5:00 – Refreshments will be served.
The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) is the most comprehensive guide in existence to the output to published books in the English-speaking world during the era of handpress printing. With nearly 500,000 bibliographic records and information on more than three million library holdings, it is both the best census that we have of early British and American print and the best available guide to locating extant copies of those items.
Begun in the late 1970s, the ESTC was conceived from the first as an electronic resource, one that would leverage new developments in library technology to facilitate collaboration among scholars and librarians worldwide and one—crucially—that could be continuously revised and refined. In recent years, however, it has become clear that the ESTC is in need of fundamental transformation if it is to keep pace with a scholarly landscape that is being transformed by digitization.
Professor Pauley’s talk will highlight the challenges and opportunities facing the ESTC in its fourth decade, and will present the recommendations of a Mellon-funded planning committee for redesigning the ESTC as a 21st-century research tool. As envisioned, the new ESTC will stand at the intersection of librarianship, bibliography, and the digital Humanities, facilitating new kinds of enquiry in fields such as literary and cultural history, bibliography, and the history of the book.
This event is sponsored by Northwestern University Library’s Center for Scholarly Communication and Digital Curation, NUL Special Libraries, and WCAS Department of English
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Professor Ben Pauley (Ph.D. Northwestern, 2004) specializes in eighteenth-century literature, with an emphasis on the works of Daniel Defoe. In addition to publishing essays and presenting papers in eighteenth-century literary studies, he has been involved in several digital projects, particularly concerning bibliography. He is the editor and administrator of Eighteenth-Century Book Tracker (www.easternct.edu/~pauleyb/c18booktracker), an index of freely-available facsimiles of eighteenth-century editions. He was co-principal investigator, with Brian Geiger (Director, Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research, University of California-Riverside), of “Early Modern Books Metadata in Google Books,” a recipient of a Google Digital Humanities Research Award for 2010–11 and 2011-12. He is a member of the board of the Defoe Society, serves on the technical review board for 18thConnect, and is an advisor to the recently-launched 18th-Century Common, a public Humanities portal for research in eighteenth-century studies.
THATCamp Jewish Studies, Chicago IL, 12/16/12
http://jewishstudies2012.thatcamp.org
We are pleased to announce the first THATCamp Jewish Studies, to be held during the Association for Jewish Studies 44th Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois. THATCamp Jewish Studies will run from 9:00am-12:30pm on Sunday, December 16th at the Sheraton Chicago. Registration is free if you are already registered for the AJS Annual Conference. Registration is $15 if you are not attending the AJS Conference.
What is a THATCamp?
THATCamp stands for “The Humanities and Technology Camp.” It’s a small, informal meeting where humanists, social scientists, and technologists of all skill levels can explore issues related to Jewish Studies, technology, and digital media. There are no formal presentations or prepared lectures; rather, THATCamp attendees create sessions, ideas, and collaborations on the spot and learn directly from one another. Amanda French, THATCamp Coordinator and Research Assistant Professor at George Mason University, will assist participants with the session planning process both before and during THATCamp Jewish Studies. Sessions topics may include any question, theme, or project related to Jewish Studies, technology, and digital media. THATCamp is a project of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Learn more about THATCamps across the humanities at http://thatcamp.org.
Registration for and further information about THATCamp Jewish Studies can be found at http://jewishstudies2012.thatcamp.org.
Subject: A Gentle Introduction to Digital Text Analysis – SRTS event Nov 14th
Please join us for the last Scholarly Resources & Technology Series event of the fall quarter:
A Gentle Introduction to Digital Text Analysis
Date: Wednesday, Nov 14th
Time: 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location : Hagstrum Room, University Hall 201
Using computers to analyze and visualize literary texts is a practice with a long history in the digital humanities. This presentation outlines that history and also explores a few of the latest digital tools enabling scholars to use computational methods to analyze individual texts and corpora. The presentation will use Jade Werner’s work on the revision history of Lady Morgan’s Luxima,The Prophetess (1859). No programming experience required.
Presenters:
Jade Werner, Doctoral Student, English Department
Josh Honn, Digital Scholarship Fellow, Center for Scholarly Communication & Digital Curation
Registration not required.
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Also a reminder for this Friday’s event at noon in the Library Forum Room
Professor Owen encourages you to bring your iPad to follow along.
Sincerely,
Scholarly Resources & Technology Series team
The preliminary program is up for this year’s Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, to be held at the University of Chicago from Saturday, 11/17 to Monday, 11/19:
http://chicagocolloquium.org/2012/10/dchs-2012-preliminary-program/.
Reminder: Deadline Upcoming!
Digital Humanities 2013 (“Freedom to Explore”) – Call for Papers Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Hosted by the University of Nebraska
16-19 July 2013
Paper/Poster/Panel deadline: 1 November 2012 Workshop proposal deadline: 15 February 2013
Call for Papers
I. General Information
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions of abstracts for its annual conference, on any aspect of the digital humanities. This includes but is not limited to:
* humanities research enabled through digital media, data mining, software studies, or information design and modeling;
* computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural, and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship;
* the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, digital games, and related areas;
* the creation and curation of humanities digital resources;
* social, institutional, global, multilingual, and multicultural aspects of digital humanities;
* and the role of digital humanities in pedagogy and academic curricula.
We particularly welcome submissions on interdisciplinary work and new developments in the field, and encourage proposals relating to the theme of the conference.
Presentations may include:
* posters (abstract max of 750 words);
* short papers (abstract max of 1500 words);
* long papers (abstract max of 1500 words);
* multiple paper sessions, including panels (regular abstracts + approximately 500-word overview);
* and pre-conference workshops and tutorials (proposal max of 1500 words)
The deadline for submitting poster, short paper, long paper, and sessions proposals to the international Program Committee is midnight GMT, 1 November 2012. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by 1 February 2013. Workshop and pre-conference tutorial proposals are due at midnight GMT on 15 February 2013, with notice of acceptance by 15 March 2013. An electronic submission form will be available on the conference site at the beginning of October 2012: http://dh2013.unl.edu/ Previous DH conference participants and reviewers should use their existing accounts rather than setting up new ones. If you have forgotten your user name or password, please contact Program Committee chair Bethany Nowviskie at bethany@virginia.edu.
II. Types of Proposals
Proposals may be of five types: (1) poster presentations; (2) short paper presentations; (3) long papers; (4) three-paper or full panel sessions; and (5) proposals for pre-conference workshops and tutorials. Based on peer review and its mandate to create a balanced and varied program, the Program Committee may offer acceptance in a different category from the one initially proposed, and will normally not accept multiple submissions from the same author or group of authors. Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish.
1) Poster Presentations
Poster proposals (500 to 750 words) may describe work on any topic of the call for papers or offer project and software demonstrations. Posters and demonstrations are intended to be interactive, with the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees. In addition to a dedicated session, when presenters will explain their work and answer questions, posters will be on display at various times during the conference.
2) Short Papers
Short paper proposals (750 to 1500 words) are appropriate for reporting on experiments or work in progress, or for describing newly conceived tools or software in early stages of development. This category of presentation allows for up to five short papers in a single session, with the length held to a strict 10 minutes each in order to allow time for questions.
3) Long Papers
Proposals for long papers (750 to 1500 words) are appropriate for: substantial, completed, and previously unpublished research; reports on the development of significant new methodologies or digital resources; and/or rigorous theoretical, speculative, or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions.
Proposals about the development of new computing methodologies or digital resources should indicate how the methods are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, what their impact has been in formulating and addressing research questions, and should include critical assessment of their application in the humanities. Papers that concentrate on a particular tool or digital resource in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include critical assessments of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include relevant citations to sources in the literature.
4) Multiple Paper Sessions
These consist of one 90-minute panel of four to six speakers, or three long papers on a single theme. Panel organizers should submit an abstract of 750 to 1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. Paper session organizers should submit a statement of approximately 500 words describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750 to 1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session. Papers that are submitted as part of a special session may not be submitted individually for consideration in another category.
5) Pre-Conference Workshops and Tutorials
Participants in pre-conference workshops or tutorials will be expected to register for the full conference as well as pay a small additional fee.
Proposals should provide the following information:
* a title and brief description of the content or topic and its relevance to the DH community (not more than 1500 words);
* full contact information for all tutorial instructors or workshop leaders, including a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise;
* a description of target audience and expected number of participants (based, if possible, on past experience);
* and any special requirements for technical support.
Additionally, tutorial proposals should include:
* a brief outline showing that the core content can be covered in a half day (approximately 3 hours, plus breaks). In exceptional cases, full-day tutorials may be supported as well.
And workshop proposals must include:
* the intended length and format of the workshop (minimum half-day; maximum one and a half days);
* a proposed budget (as DH workshops are expected to be self-financing);
* and, if the workshop is to have its own CFP, a deadline and date for notification of acceptances, and a list of individuals who have agreed to be part of the workshop’s program committee.
III. Information about the Conference Venue and Theme
DH 2013 (“Freedom to Explore”) will take place in Lincoln, Nebraska, a capitol city of 258,000 people on the Great Plains of the United States. Lincoln is known for its artistic treasures, live music scene, fabulous trails, and friendly Midwestern attitude. It is also the home of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, chartered in 1869 as both a land-grant and a research university. UNL’s approximately 25,000 students come from about 120 different countries. Among its many degree offerings is an interdisciplinary graduate certificate in digital humanities. The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities is this year’s local organizer: http://cdrh.unl.edu
IV. Bursaries for young scholars
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations will offer a limited number of bursaries for early-career scholars presenting at the conference. Application guidelines will appear on the ADHO website later this year: http://www.digitalhumanities.org
V. International Program Committee
Craig Bellamy (ACH)
John Bradley (ALLC)
Paul Caton (ACH)
Carolyn Guertain (CSDH/SCHN)
Ian Johnson (aaDH)
Bethany Nowviskie (ACH, chair)
Sarah Potvin (cN)
Jon Saklofske (CSDH/SCHN)
Sydney Shep (aaDH)
Melissa Terras (ALLC, vice-chair)
Tomoji Tabata (ALLC)
Deb Verhoeven (aaDH)
Ethan Watrall (cN)
[Please circulate widely!]
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