Event Archive
This listing is provided as a record of previously held events.
PhilPapers: A Platform for Digital Philosophy
David Bourget (Institute of Philosophy, University of London)
Monday, Feb 25 at 4:00 pm. (104 Roy Cullen)
Fall 2012 Digital Humanities Lecture
The Promise and Perils of Doing History in the Digital Age
Andrew Torget (University of North Texas)
Friday, November 9, 2:30 pm | Room 104 Roy Cullen Building
Andrew J. Torget is a historian of nineteenth-century North America at the University of North Texas, where he directs the Digital History Lab. The founder and director of numerous digital humanities projects -- including Mapping Texts, Texas Slavery Project, Voting America, and the History Engine -- Andrew served as co-editor of the Valley of the Shadow project, and as the founding director of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond. The co-editor of several books on the American Civil War, Andrew has been a featured speaker on the digital humanities at Harvard, Stanford, Rice, and the National Archives in Washington, D. C. In 2011, he was named the inaugural David J. Weber Research Fellow at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. He is currently completing a book titled Cotton Empire: Slavery, the Texas Borderlands, and the Origins of the U.S.-Mexico War.
The lecture is sponsored by the El Paso Lecture Series and the UH Center for Public History.
DH Tools: Introduction to Text Analysis
Friday, October 19: 1:00-3:00pm in Library classroom 10G.
This workshop introduces participants to word2word software which provides a variety of tools for computational text analysis.
During the workshop, we will perform hands-on semantic analysis on three data sets:
1) a comparison between two academic reference works
2) a comparison of transcripts from speeches given at the Republican and Democratic national conventions
3) an analysis of a recent popular novel.
The
demonstrations will be followed by a free play session, and
participants are encouraged bring texts of their own (plain text files,
PDFs, or web pages) to explore.
Previously Discussed by the Reading Group:
Friday 9/7
- Matthew Kirschenbaum, “What is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?” (in Debates and also at http://mkirschenbaum.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/kirschenbaum_ade150.pdf)
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick, “The Humanities, Done Digitally” (in Debates and also at http://chronicle.com/article/The-Humanities-Done-Digitally/127382/)
- Rafael Alvarado, “The Digital Humanities Situation” (in Debates and also at http://transducer.ontoligent.com/?p=717)
Friday 10/5
- Johanna Drucker, "Humanistic Theory and Digital Scholarship" in Debates; [please note this essay is not available online]
- Tom Scheinfeldt, "Sunset for Ideology, Sunrise for Methodology" in Debates; also available at: http://www.foundhistory.org/2008/03/13/sunset-for-ideology-sunrise-for-methodology/
- Gary Hall, "There are no digital humanities" in Debates and at: http://www.garyhall.info/journal/2011/1/12/on-the-limits-of-openness-v-there-are-no-digital-humanities.html
Friday 11/2
- Stephen Ramsay and Geoffrey Rockwell, "Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Digital Humanities" in Debates [not available online]
- Willard McCarty, "A Telescope for the Mind?" in Debates and at: http://www.mccarty.org.uk/essays/McCarty,%20Telescope.pdf
Friday 2/1
- Jamie "Skye" Bianco, "This Digital Humanities Which Is Not One", Debates in the Digital Humanities
- Gary Hall, "Has Critical Theory Run Out of Time for Data-Driven Scholarship?" Debates in the Digital Humanities
Friday 3/1
- Neil Fraistat, "The Function of Digital Humanities Centers at the Present Time," Debates in the Digital Humanities
- Paul Fyfe, "Electronic Errata: Digital Publishing, Open Review, and the Futures of Correction," Debates in the Digital Humanities