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…
“Spatiality and Digital Mapping” with Dr. David Joseph Wrisley (Fordham University, October 29, 2014)
“Spatiality and Digital Mapping” was held in Keating Hall on the Fordham University Rose Hill campus on October 29, 2014. The program was organized by the Fordham Medieval Studies Program and co-sponsored by the Digital Humanities Working Group. Roughly 15 people attended the two hour workshop. Dr. David Joseph Wrisley (@DJWrisley) is Associate Professor in the Department of English and…
“Libre Software, Libre Education” with Richard Stallman (Columbia University, October 17, 2014)
“Libre Software, Libre Education” with Richard Stallman(Columbia University, 10-17-2014) The lecture “Libre Software, Libre Education” was held in Butler Library on the Columbia University campus on October 17th. Roughly 20 people attended the event, most of whom were Columbia University students. The speaker, Richard Stallman is, according to the event description, a “Mac Arthur Award winner, Harvard alum, founder of…
Destruction and Documentation: Saving Syria’s Cultural Heritage, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis (CUNY, October 15, 2014)
On October 15th, The Graduate Center at the City University of New York hosted Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis as she presented her lecture, “ Destruction and Documentation: Saving Syria’s Cultural Heritage.” The talk was co-sponsored by the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative, Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center and the M.A. program in Liberal Studies. Macaulay-Lewis is an archeologist, educator, author and…
Protected: Manuscript Materiality Lab and Scriptorium (NYU, 10-10-2014)
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