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Tufts University in Medford, MA will host “Working with Text in a Digital Age”, a three-week NEH Institute for Advanced Technology in the Digital Humanities.
This institute will combine traditional topics such as TEI markup with training in methods from Information Retrieval, Visualization, and Corpus and Computational Linguistics.
Co-directors are Monica Berti and Gregory Crane, Tufts University; Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt University.
This institute will provide participants with three weeks in which to:
- develop hands on experience with TEI-XML,
- apply methods from information retrieval, text visualization, and corpus and computational linguistics to the analysis of textual and linguistic sources in the humanities,
- rethink not only their own research agendas but also new relationships between their work and non-specialists.
For more information, visit http://sites.tufts.edu/digitalagetext/.
This symposium, a collaboration between the University of Toronto graduate program in Book History and Print Culture, and a new, online publication, The Toronto Review of Books, invites papers that consider the practice of e-reading, both as an activity and an idea. E-reading tends to provoke either dismay or enthusiasm from its critics, but this symposium aims for clear-eyed assessments that address both the potential gains and losses of a practice that is rapidly growing in popularity around the world.
With an interdisciplinary and cross-period scope, this symposium seeks to give e-reading a history that accounts for the continuities and discontinuities the practice shares with the ancient tradition of reading a wide a variety of materials, including paper, papyrus, parchment, and other media. Scholars working on periods both before and after the rise of virtual media are therefore equally encouraged to submit proposals that address what might be called the "long history" of e-reading. Possible topics may include but are not limited to:
- Digital reading in humanities scholarship: materials, methods, and critics
- The profits of e-reading, financial and intellectual economies of e-reading: the corporate ownership of e-texts, copyright and the cost of e-books
- Pedagogy and e-reading: the fate of bibliographic skills
- Online literacies: attention span, short form, bots, and e-reading
- email, texting, e-reading, and the history of correspondence
- From Socrates to WikiLeaks: memorization, data, and electronic memory
- Scanning: fast reading and slow reading
- eReaders: the materiality of e-reading
- Screens and reading
- eDesign
- The long history of mobile reading and travel
- Precursors to virtual reading: visions and reading
- Marginalia, reading out loud, and blog comments: the long history of private reading in public
- Facebook and reading
- Digital literacies in developing countries
- Animation, interaction, and reading: illustrated e-books
- Internet/book/e-book: the fate of bookwork in e-landscapes
- E-books, e-readers, and fashion
- Time and e-reading
Papers should be delivered in English and should not exceed 20 minutes' oral presentation in length. Please send proposals of approximately 250 words, alongwith institutional and departmental affiliation, to bhpc2011@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is 20 December 2011.
Organizer: Alan Galey (alan.galey@utoronto.ca)
Massey Hall, University of Toronto
Dr. Helma Dik will give a lecture entitled "Searching, Mining, Aligning: Old and New Paradigms for Research in the Classics."
The lecture will address results from data mining and alignment approaches to ancient Greek literature and their consequences for how we do linguistic and literary research today.
Dr. Dik is a professor of Classics at the University of Chicago who has authored numerous works on Greek linguistics and digital humanities, including two books:
- Word Order in Greek Tragic Dialogue, Oxford University Press. (2007)
- Word Order in Ancient Greek. A Pragmatic Account of Word Order Variation in Herodotus. Amsterdam: Gieben (1995)
Her lecture should be of interest to Classicists and others working within the field of Digital Humanities. Everyone is welcome to attend!
Goetz Library (MFAC 320, in the Ellicott Complex on UB's North Campus)
***TIME CHANGE*** Now at 3:00pm instead of 12:00pm.
Dr. Helma Dik will lead a workshop/discussion on digital philology entitled "What Can Your Corpus Do For You?" for members of the Tesserae Project and others interested in Digital Humanities. She has been heavily involved in establishing digital humanities projects at the University of Chicago, where she is a professor in the Classics Department specializing in Ancient Greek linguistics.
Everyone is welcome to attend!
Goetz Library (MFAC 320, in the Ellicott Complex on UB's North Campus)
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