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Data Science and Digital Humanities
February 5, 2016 @ 10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Digital Humanities encompass a variety of topics, from curating online collections to data mining large cultural data sets.
Description:
Digital Humanities encompass a variety of topics, from curating online collections to data mining large cultural data sets.
Please join us for a 1-day symposium where leading scholars will present and discuss hands-on digital humanities projects both in terms of their conceptual research design and of their infrastructure.
Date: February 5, 2016
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Event Location: Calit2 Auditorium (directions and parking information)
This event is free and open to the public.
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Organized by Peter Krapp and Geoffrey Bowker.
Co-sponsored by the Data Science Initiative and the Digital Humanities Working Group at the Humanities Commons
Digital Humanities practices incorporate both digitized and born-digital materials and combine methodologies from humanities disciplines (e.g. history, philosophy, linguistics, literary criticism, art history) with tools provided by computing (data visualization, data mining, statistics, computational analysis) and digital publishing. These areas of research, teaching, and creation at the intersection of computing and the humanities receive attention and grant funding, but are rarely discussed in terms of institutional support. Developing from what used to be called humanities computing, Digital Humanities encompass a variety of topics, from curating online collections to data mining large cultural data sets, but there are still observers who feel that its practices are not “humanities” as such. Introducing the question of technology into the humanities shifts the focus to networks of technologies and institutions that allow a given culture to select, store, and process relevant data, but also invites an intervention in the interstice between academic practices, for instance in supplementing spatial models (writing, graphs, illustrations) with time-based modeling (videos, interactive models) of those data.
For more information, please visit the UCI Humanities Commons website.
| Time | Presenter | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 a.m. | Peter Krapp Professor, Film & Media Studies School of Humanities, UCI |
Welcome and Introductions |
| 10:30 a.m. | Katherine D. Harris Associate Professor Department of English & Comparative Literature, San Jose State University |
Using Bootstrap Digital Humanities to Explore Topic Modeling: Ghosts, Haunted Houses, and Heroines in 19th-Century Literature |
| 11:00 a.m. | Scott Kleinman Professor of English & Director, Center for the Digital Humanities, California State University Northridge |
Digital Humanities Projects with Small and Unusual Data: Some Experiences from the Trenches |
| 11:30 a.m. | Discussion | |
| 12:00 p.m. | Break | |
| 1:00 p.m. | Kathi Berens Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and Publishing, Portland State University |
Literary/Ludic Reading: Is there a Feminist Poetics of Interface? |
| 1:30 p.m. | Maria Pantelia Professor of Classics & Director of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, UC Irvine |
The Future of the Past: The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Project |
| 2:00 p.m. | Discussion | |
| 2:30 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:00 p.m. | Jeremy Douglass Assistant Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara |
Graphs in the clouds: DH infrastructure for structured narrative |
| 3:30 p.m. | David Bamman Assistant Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley |
Natural Language Processing for the Long Tail |
| 4:00 p.m. | Miriam Posner Coordinator and Core Faculty, Digital Humanities Program, UCLA |
Money and Time: Some Hard Truths about Institutional Support for Digital Humanities |
| 4:30 p.m. | Discussion | |
| 5:00 p.m. | Conclusion |