Center for Digital Humanities at the University of South Carolina

Our friends up north will be hosting a week-long Digital Humanities event for those who are interested in opportunities to learn new techniques and skills, hear about DH projects in and around New York City, and become part of the vibrant and diverse community of scholars and practitioners.

http://dhweek.nycdh.org/

NYCDH 2019 NYCDH Week Kickoff Event Registration Now Open!! NYCDH is happy to announce the 4th Annual NYCDH Week, February 4-8, 2019. Taking place at institutions throughout New York City, NYCDH Week gives individuals across the region who are interested in digital humanities an opportunity to learn new techni...

Our Friends at the University of Alabama University Libraries through the Alabama Digital Humanities Center invites submission proposals to present at the Digitorium 2018 DH conference, October 4 - 6, 2018. They look forward to reviewing your proposals on digital methods, tools, and pedagogies. For more information, please visit the Digitorium site (https://apps.lib.ua.edu/blogs/digitorium/).

Digitorium – University of Alabama Digital Humanities Conference Hold the dates: Digitorium 2018 October 4 – 6, 2018 Proposal submissions now open Digitorium is the Digital Humanities Conference hosted by the University of Alabama. Inspired by working with scholars and students in many different departments, the Alabama Digital Humanities Center created Digitor...

Our friends at the University of Sheffield's Digital Humanities Institute is delighted to announce its program for a three-day conference to be held in Sheffield, 6th – 8th September 2018.

The Digital Humanities Congress is a conference held in Sheffield every two years. Its purpose is to promote the sharing of knowledge, ideas and techniques within the digital humanities.

Early bird registration will end on June 30th - https://www.dhi.ac.uk/dhc2018/

Digital Humanities Congress 2018 Registration is now open! Digital Humanities Congress | University of Sheffield, 6th – 8th September 2018 Register here using our online store. The University of Sheffield’s Digital Hum…

Come meet the CDH dev ops team at Discover USC today! They’ll be discussing our development platforms and project infrastructure. These guys work so well together they didn’t even plan their matching outfits!

And then there's the evil use of technology.

Watch Jordan Peele use AI to make Barack Obama deliver a PSA about fake news AI fake news is funny now, but it’ll be scary later

Our friends at UC Berkeley are excited to announce a new undergraduate Summer Certificate in the Digital Humanities. The Certificate is designed to be completed in a single summer, and enrollment is open to visiting students from universities throughout the country and the world.

Home | Digital Humanities Summer Minor The digital and data revolutions have transformed our world. For students of the humanities, these revolutions have made new kinds of study possible.

Our friends at The Digital Humanities Institute are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Digital Humanities Congress which will be held at the University of Sheffield, 6th – 8th September 2018.

They welcome proposals for individual papers and sessions on all aspects of Digital Humanities research, teaching, and infrastructure. The closing date for their Call for Papers is February 28th.

More information can be found here:

https://www.dhi.ac.uk/dhc2018

Digital Humanities Congress 2018 Call for Papers Digital Humanities Congress | University of Sheffield, 6th – 8th September 2018 The University of Sheffield’s Digital Humanities Institute is delighted to announce its C…

Dear friends,

The Center of Digital Humanities would like to extend an invitation for you to join us Friday, Feb 9th at 3pm as Professor of Linguistics Stanley Dubinsky discusses the opportunity to build a searchable, geo-locative, curated archive of information about ethnolinguistic conflicts and human rights violations around the world.

Linguistic minorities can arise through conquest, colonization, immigration, enslavement, or the creation of political states that ignore ethnolinguistic territories, and where there exist linguistic minorities, one almost invariably finds ethnolinguistically motivated human conflict. Such conflicts often play out, in part, through assaults on the rights of these minorities to use their languages freely and without prejudice. And while such conflicts and rights violations are ever-present, they tend to attract less attention and be less acknowledged as a “class”, than are ideological, religious, environmental, or economically-based human conflicts.

If you have questions, please feel free to email Mike Gavin ([email protected]) or Jason Porter ([email protected]). RSVPs are appreciated but not necessary. Bring a friend and join us in our new space in the Horizon II building!

JOIN US!

The Ethnolinguistic Fight Club with Stanley Dubinsky
Friday, Feb. 9th, 3:00 pm
Center for Digital Humanities
550 Assembly Street, room 1213

Italo Calvino, *If on a winter's night a traveler*, trans. William Weaver (New York: Harcourt, 1981). From page 186:

"I asked Lotaria if she had already read some books of mine that I lent her. She said no, because she doesn't have a computer at her disposal.

She explained to me that a suitably programmed computer can read a novel in a few minutes and record the list of all the words contained in the text, in order of frequency. 'That way I can have an already completed reading at hand,' Lotaria says, 'with an incalculable saving of time. What is the reading of a text, in fact, except the recording of certain thematic recurrences, certain insistences of forms and meanings? An electronic reading supplies me with a list of frequencies, which I have only to glance at to form an idea of the problems the book suggests to my critical study. Naturally, at the highest frequencies the list records countless articles, pronouns, particles, but I don't pay them any attention. I head straight for the words that are richest in meaning: they can give me a fairly precise notion of the book.'"

Dear colleagues,

The CDH is hosting a workshop in text analytics for any and all students, faculty, and staff. We will meet at 11am at the SCPC seminar room in Hollings Library on Wed. March 1. The text analytics workshop is co-convened by Michael Gavin, English, and Amir Kamari, Library and Information Science. For our first meeting, we'll discuss a work-in-progress by Rachel Mann and Michael Gavin, "Distant Reading the Seventeenth-Century Body," which uses computational methods to understand the history of medicine in England.

The workshop is open to anybody with interest in text analysis, whether you come at it from the information and computer science side or from the humanities side (or from some altogether different side, for that matter). We're open to all perspectives. If you have a set of skills and would like to meet up with people to learn about cool new areas of application, or if you have a topic you'd like to study and think text analysis might help, or if you just find the whole field vaguely interesting and would like to meet people who do it, this meeting is for you!

Please feel free to email me with questions at [email protected].

- Mike Gavin

Thanks to everyone who attended our brainstorming session this afternoon. It was a blast!

The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) would like to extend an open invitation to all graduate students to join us on Friday, February 24 at 4:00 p.m. for an informal, shared brainstorming session in our conference room on level five of Thomas Cooper Library, room 513. We want to know what digital humanities means to you and what you wish were offered here at UofSC.

If you have questions, please feel free to email Mike Gavin ([email protected]) or John Knox ([email protected]). RSVPs are appreciated but not necessary. Pizza and drinks will be provided. Bring a friend!!

JOIN US!!
Center for Digital Humanities
Graduate student information sharing session
Friday, Feb. 24, 4:00 p.m.
Thomas Cooper, level 5, room 513

Hi all,

This is just a friendly reminder that the next spatial humanities meet-up is scheduled for this Wed., Feb. 22, at 11am in the SCPC seminar room in Hollings Library. We hope you'll join us for a short presentation of work-in-progress and some more lively discussion!

See you there!

- Mike Gavin

Dear UofSC graduate students,

The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) would like to extend an open invitation to all graduate students to join us on Friday, February 24 at 4:00 p.m. for an informal, shared brainstorming session in our conference room on level five of Thomas Cooper Library, room 513. We want to know what digital humanities means to you, what you would like it to be, and what you wish were offered here at UofSC.

If you have questions, please feel free to email Mike Gavin ([email protected]) or John Knox ([email protected]). RSVPs are appreciated but not necessary. Refreshments will be provided. Bring a friend!!

JOIN US!!
Center for Digital Humanities
Graduate student information sharing session
Friday, Feb. 24, 4:00 p.m.
Thomas Cooper, level 5, room 513

Dear friends of the USC DH community,

I hope this finds you well. Film and Media Studies and the Center for Digital Humanities will host this week a visit by Professor Jeremy Butler, http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/fams/visiting-scholar-jeremy-butler.

Butler’s Shot Logger (http://shotlogger.org/) is one of the pioneering digital tools for moving image analysis. The project gives a sense of the kinds of questions people in film and media studies are learning to answer with the help of such tools. If you can spare the time, we would welcome you to join us for Professor Butler’s talk on Thursday at 4:30 pm in McMaster 214, or, even better, the workshop on Friday at 10 am, which we will host at the SCPC Conference Room in the Hollings Library. A major goal of the workshop is to brainstorm potential grant / research applications for statistical studies of sounds and film.

For details, follow the link above.

- Mike Gavin

Visiting Scholar Jeremy Butler | Film and Media Studies Program | Arts & Sciences | University of South Carolina We are delighted to welcome Professor Jeremy Butler (University of Alabama) author of Television Style (2010), the textbook Television: Critical Methods and Applications (now in its fourth edition), and articles on Mad Men, ER, Roseanne, Miami Vice, Imitation of Life, soap opera, the sitcom, and oth...

Dear colleagues,

I'm writing to invite all students and faculty to join me, Michael Gavin (English) and Caroline Nagel (Geography) to meet up and talk about our interests in the spatial humanities. We'll meet in the Center for Digital Humanities conference room and talk a bit about our work in the area, and we invite others to join us and do the same. Light refreshments will be served.

Are you faculty who uses spatial applications? Thinking your thesis or dissertation might include a mapping component? Maybe you work in critical geography or literary history and want to meet people around campus tackling similar problems in a different way. Maybe you're a GIS specialist looking for new, exciting areas of research. Maybe you have a project that you'd like to share, or an idea you'd like to get off the ground, or maybe just a vague curiosity and want to meet people in the field. Anybody working at the intersection of space and culture are welcome -- students (undergrad and grad), staff, and faculty.

What:
Spatial Humanities Meet-up
CDH Conference Room, TCL 5th fl
Wednesday, Jan 25, 11am to noon. (and lunch after!)

Drop me a line if you're interested ([email protected]) and especially if you're interested but can't make it on the 25th. We'll do it again for sure.

Best,
Mike

*The Programming Historian* (programminghistorian.org) is seeking authors to contribute tutorials about digital analyses that can be the basis of publishable humanities research. While many of the skills taught in the Programming Historian's current suite of 57 peer reviewed tutorials focus on data gathering, cleaning, and presenting, we believe there is scope to grow further into algorithms, analyses, and approaches that can form the basis of clear answers to humanities questions. To get the ball rolling, we have suggested 5 lessons that we would like to receive:

1) What can you conclude from topic models?
2) How do you conduct a stylometric analys (well)?
3) How do you conduct spatial clustering of geographic data?
4) When do you know when your network analysis is meaningful?
5) TF-IDF to Historical Research

This is by no means an exhaustive list, and we are happy to hear from any prospective authors. Full details of our Call for Proposals can be found on the project blog: http://programminghistorian.org/posts/call-to-action

Please share this notice with any colleagues or students you think may be interested. Collaborative writing is positively encouraged where it suits authors. I'm happy to answer any questions, and we hope to hear from you.

Sincerely,

Adam Crymble
Editor, Programming Historian (programminghistorian.org)
Lecturer, Digital History
University of Hertfordshire
[email protected]

The Five Lessons No One's Yet Written (but need writing) | Programming Historian January 21, 2017 The Five Lessons No One's Yet Written (but need writing) By Adam Crymble The Programming Historian Needs YOU...to help historians digitally analyse! We’ve published 57 peer-reviewed tutorials since we launched in 2012, and we’re proud of our pioneering role within digital humanities...

Join us this afternoon for an exciting panel with three visiting scholars from U of Florida on

Publicly Engaging and Employing Humanities Scholars by Transforming Humanities Graduate Education

Thursday, January 12, 3:30pm
Hollings Library Program Room

University of Florida (UF) faculty panelists Elizabeth Dale, Leah Rosenberg, and Laurie Taylor will discuss the transformation of graduate education through the integration of public and digital humanities training and practical experiences to prepare students for intellectually rewarding careers outside the academy as well as within it. Their efforts aim to institutionalize alternative forms of knowledge production and public-facing inquiry in UF's humanities PhD training.

Dear Colleagues,

Next week, USC will be hosting three visiting scholars from the University of Florida, who will be here on an SEC Travel Grant to talk about graduate education in the humanities. Please consider attending, and please forward this announcement to anyone you think may be interested.

Publicly Engaging and Employing Humanities Scholars by Transforming Humanities Graduate Education

Thursday, January 12, 3:30pm
Hollings Library Program Room

University of Florida (UF) faculty panelists Elizabeth Dale, Leah Rosenberg, and Laurie Taylor will discuss the transformation of graduate education through the integration of public and digital humanities training and practical experiences to prepare students for intellectually rewarding careers outside the academy as well as within it. Their efforts aim to institutionalize alternative forms of knowledge production and public-facing inquiry in UF's humanities PhD training.

We hope you'll join us next Monday for Maxim Romanov's lecture entitled "Of Graphs, Maps, and 30,000 Muslims: Premodern Arabic Texts and the Digital Humanities."

Monday, Nov. 14
4:00 p.m.
Gambrell 431

For more information about the talk, check out our website: http://www.sc.edu/about/centers/digital_humanities/events/2016/romanov.php

Of Graphs, Maps, and 30,000 Muslims: Premodern Arabic Texts and the Digital Humanities - Center for Digital Humanities | University of South Carolina Maxim Romanov, University of Leipzig, discusses his work using computational methods to read premodern Arabic texts.

Andrew Stauffer (U of Virginia) will be here this week, and we'd like to let you know about two exciting events.

Stauffer will give a lecture entitled "Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Books and the Marks of Reading" on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 3:00 in Hollings Library. Stauffer will also lead a scavenger hunt on Friday, Nov. 11 that will take participants on a search for notes, comments, and doodles made in books in our stacks. The scavenger hunt begins at 9:00 in Hollings Library.

For more information, contact Jeanne Britton at [email protected].

The Digital SC Encyclopedia is live!! Check it out: scencyclopedia.org.

Congrats to Matt Simmons and our colleagues at the Digitial US South Initiative on this exciting achievement!!

Dear USC colleagues,

Please join us for the second installment of our Future Knowledge lecture series this Friday at 3:00 in Petigru 217. Chet Van Duzer (University of Rochester) will give a talk entitled “New Light on Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging and Early Renaissance Cartography."

Are you an undergraduate interested in attending an undergraduate conference on digital humanities? Then you'll want to check out what the Undergraduate Network for Research in the Humanities is up to, and consider submitting a proposal to present at their upcoming conference. For more info, visit unrh.org.

http://unrh.org/submit/cfp/

Call For Proposals Call For Proposals UNRH 2017 Conference Theme: “Possibilities of Undergraduate Digital Humanities” (Due November 1st, 2016) I. General Information The Undergraduate Network for Research in the Humanities (UNRH) invites project proposals for its inaugural conference to be hosted by Washington and...

Great stuff from Jonathan Fitzgerald and Ryan Cordell. Check it out!

http://jonathandfitzgerald.com/blog/2016/10/10/the-viral-vignette.html

Computationally Classifying the Vignette Between Fiction and News The following is a companion to a paper that Ryan Cordell and I will be presenting at the upcoming ALA 2016 Symposium, The American Short Story: An Expansion...

Check out this exciting talk from our friends at MITH. Enjoy! http://ter.ps/ddliveoct4

Purdom Lindblad Digital Dialogue | October 4, 2016

Colleagues,

We'd like to draw your attention to this exciting new grant program (see below). Please don't hesitate to contact us if you'd like to schedule a time to meet with us. Thanks!

The National Archives and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) has a new grant program that may interest you. The program offers up to $350,000 for major archives initiatives with an emphasis on innovation and collaboration. The new Access to Historical Records – Major Initiatives program is designed to broaden public access to historical and cultural records. There’s a five-page preliminary proposal due by 19 January 2017. The Commission will then invite a select number of applicants to submit a full proposal.

Does your institution need to conjoin the records of a major historical subject held by several repositories and make them freely available online? Does research demand for a high-value audio or moving image recordings collection necessitate digitally converting and posting them online? Are there new tools and methods that would greatly enhance the public’s ability to access and use records? Have you begun developing a method to make work with born digital records more efficient and want to prove that it’s replicable?

These are just a few suggestions. We want to hear your creative ideas and discuss how they might fit with this program. If you would like to schedule a time to talk about a proposal idea, please email or call the Director for Access, Alex Lorch ([email protected]; 202-357-5101) or the Director for Technology Initiatives, Nancy Melley ([email protected]; 202-357-5101).

Dear Colleagues,

Just a quick reminder that our annual Open House project showcase will be held today from 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Hollings Library Program Room. We will have lightning round presentations from 3:00-3:30, and we'll have plenty of refreshments for all, so feel free to bring a guest. Come when you can and stay as long as you want. We hope to see you there!