The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities provides resources and training in the practices and tools of the digital humanities, facilitating interdisciplinary academic collaborations, innovative research, and external funding opportunities.
Graduate Student Symposium on New Media, May 5
Saturday, May 5
9am – 5:30pm
Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
Reception to follow, 5:30-7pm in the Traditions Room
During this one-day symposium the graduate students in Professor Nancy Baym’s “New Media Audiences,” and “Communication and New Technology” classes, as well as students in Assistant Professor Germaine Halegoua’s “Methods and Applications for New Media Studies” class will convene to present their semester-long final projects.
The symposium will bring together graduate students from diverse departments such as Film & Media Studies, Communication Studies, Geography, and American Studies who bring a variety of methods and perspectives to the study of new media technologies and practices. Topics and themes covered will include: convergence, community, privacy & control, copyright & piracy, interpersonal relationships, audiences, identity, literacy & learning, participation, media circulation & distribution, cultural & creative production, locative media, economics, entertainment & gaming, law & policy, civic & political engagement, globalization.
Upcoming DH Seminar, Patrick Flor, May 1, 3:30pm
“‘Grounds more relative than this’: towards Semantic Computation in Digital Literary Studies”
Patrick Flor, Department of English and Department of Computer Science
Hall Center Seminar Room, 3:30pm – 5:00pm
In recently published research in Digital Literary Studies (DLS), more and more projects are moving beyond the well-established model in which the computer is used to obtain descriptive statistics about textual parameters (such as sentence lengths and token frequencies), which the researcher then interprets to mean something about the text’s literary style, subject, or authorship. Researchers are beginning to explore tools and resources from computational linguistics such as part-of-speech taggers, semantic role labelers, topic modelers, and deeply tagged texts/corpora, which allow them to ask new kinds of questions about literary texts.
In this seminar, I will explore the nature and extent of this incipient change in DLS through, appropriately, a diachronic analysis of a corpus of research paper abstracts. I will then describe my own literary research with such computational resources, which is primarily concerned with software tool creation and adaptation for literary interpretational usage. Among other things, I hope to show: that this trend in the field can be broadly characterized as an increasing involvement of the computer in the interpretational aspects of literary research; that this involvement is proceeding (naturally) first via lexical and sentential semantics; and that a possible next step is software tools that extract limited semantic models as they proceed through a text, and make classification and processing decisions based on these models and their correspondence with latter parts of the text.
Upcoming Workshop: Teaching Texts with Technology
The Project on the History of Black Writing presents
Teaching Texts With Technology
a workshop with Corrie Claiborne, Ph.D.
April 23, 2012
11:30 a.m.
503 Watson Library
Light lunch will be available
Please RSVP to krambsy@ku.edu
This will be a participatory workshop that explores multiple ways to engage and enhance cultural readings and to examine the style and language of written texts. “My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family After the War,” a memoir by Lawrence Jackson, will be the work discussed. The workshop presents a pedagogical model inviting new ways of teaching writing and literature. All iPads and other devices are welcome. Twitter will be the vehicle for the interactive community.
Dr. Claiborne is a professor of English and American Literature at Morehouse College. She received a doctorate from The Ohio State University, and was also affiliate faculty for the Jonathan Jasper Wright Institute for the Study of Southern African American History, Culture, and Policy at Claflin University. In 2009, she was awarded a UNCF/Mellon Fellowship at Harvard University. She’s currently the Coordinator for the Digital Humanities Initiative at Morehouse College.
This event is co-sponsored by Department of English and Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
IDRH 2012 Course Development Grant Competition
IDRH is pleased to announce the three recipients of our 2012 course development grant competition:
Crystal Hall, Department of French & Italian
Course Title: Manzoni in the Digital Age
Jonathan Lamb, Department of English
Course Title: Digital Shakespeare
Doug Ward, School of Journalism
Course Title: Infomania: Harnessing information in the digital age
Each recipient will be awarded a $1000 stipend to help develop a new course in digital humanities, to be taught beginning in the 2014 academic year. They will take part in a curriculum develoment workshop at the beginning of May to help them begin developing their courses. Congratulations, Professors Hall, Lamb, and Ward!
IDRH YouTube Channel
If you’ve missed a previous seminar or IDRH event, you may be able to view it on our new YouTube channel. Several of the Hall Center Digital Humanities Seminar presentations are now available for viewing, along with a number of presentations from last year’s conference on “Representing Knowledge in the Digital Humanities.” We are still in the process of adding more videos from the conference, and will continue to add videos of upcoming seminars and events as they become available.
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