On October 22, the CUNY Graduate Center held The Futures Initiative workshop titled Teaching the Humanities as a Survival Skill (#fight4edu). This was the second in the workshop series The University Worth Fighting For. These workshops discuss and explore student-centered and engaging pedagogical practices and their relationship or links to various social injustice issues, such as race, equality and gender.…
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How to “evaluate, value, and promote digital scholarship”
CUNY Graduate Center brought together five DHers to discuss “Evaluating, valuing, and promoting digital scholarship.” Where is the place of digital scholarship in the Teaching-Research-Service Triangle? Although everyone added to the discussion from their unique disciplinary perspectives, not all were able to propose methods for evaluating digital scholarship? Steven Jones answered the question by pointing to projects he has been…
“(How) Are Medieval Places Different From Ancient Ones: Thoughts on Digital Mapping the Middle Ages” – David Joseph Wrisley @ Columbia’s Butler Library
On the evening of April 22, I attended a lecture at Columbia University’s Butler Library entitled “(How) Are Medieval Places Different From Ancient Ones: Thoughts on Digital Mapping the Middle Ages.” The presenter was David Joseph Wrisley, Associate Professor of English at the American University of Beirut. He is currently on sabbatical from that institution and is a visiting scholar…
“When Big Data Slows Down: Digital Humanities and the Study of Roman Amphitheaters” (Dr. Sebastian Heath, NYU unCOMMON Salon, April 21, 2015)
Dr. Sebastian Heath, Clinical Assistant Professor of Ancient Studies at the NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, spoke at the last NYU unCOMMON Salon of the Spring 2015 semester on April 21, 2015. The topic of his talk was the DH methods by which he is attempting to enrich our understanding of leisure in the Roman Empire. But…
Theorizing the Web: Data Capture (The New School, November 16, 2014)
Theorizing the Web: Data Capture was a panel discussion held at The New School on November 16, 2014 as a part of the Digital Labor 2014 conference. The panel consisted of PJ Rey, PhD candidate at the University of Maryland; Melissa Gira Grant, writer and freelance journalist; Rob Horning, editor at The New Inquiry; and Sarah Leonard, senior editor at…
The Digital Caribbean: a Small Axe Event, Session 2 – Archival & Pedagogical Praxis (Barnard College, December 5, 2014)
Columbia University’s Small Axe project, designed to increase “social, political and cultural criticism” in the study of the Caribbean, hosted the inaugural Digital Caribbean conference on December 4th & 5th. The second session of this panel brought together seven academics all grappling with the issue of how digital humanities can address the diverse and widespread nature of Caribbean culture, its…
“Research Without Borders: Big Open Data” Sponsored by the Scholarly Communication Program and the Data Science Institute at Columbia University (The Faculty House at Columbia, December 4, 2014)
Title: Research Without Borders: Big Open Data Where: The Faculty House at Columbia University Sponsored by: Scholarly Communication Program and Data Science Institute at Columbia University When: Thursday, December 4, 2014 2:00 to 4:00 PM Speakers: David Wrisley, Jonathon Stray, Alice Marwick, and David Park (moderator) Hashtag: #rwob Last week at the Faculty House at Columbia University, three professors…
“Data as a Technical Superpower” with Hilary Mason (Barnard College, December 3, 2014)
Grab hold of your cape, because we all have the potential to be superheroes now. This was the message from Hilary Mason during her talk ‘Data as a Technical Superpower’ at Barnard College, Wednesday 3rd December. During an engaging, insightful – and often playful – lecture, Ms. Mason covered a range of topics related to what has become known as…
“Research Without Borders: Big Open Data” (Columbia University, December 4, 2014
At Columbia’s “Research Without Borders” program last week, panel-goers were exposed to the “Big Open Data” phenomenon from three distinct vantage points. The first panelist was David Wrisley, an English professor at the American University of Beirut and a Medieval Fellow at Fordham’s Center for Medieval Studies. His research focuses are medieval comparative literature and the digital humanities. Wrisley’s approach…
“Tibetan in Digital Communication: Corpus Linguistics and Lexicography” with Dr. Nathan W. Hill (Columbia University, October 30, 2014)
On October 30, 2014, a presentation titled “Tibetan in Digital Communication: Corpus Linguistics and Lexicography: Using an annotated corpus to facilitate the philological study of Tibetan texts” was given at Columbia University’s Butler Library. Dr. Nathan W. Hill of SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London spoke on the goals, processes, and potential impacts of “Tibetan in…