EVENT DETAILS

Data Science and Digital Humanities symposium

Organized by Peter Krapp and Geoffrey Bowker.
Co-sponsored by the Data Science Initiative and the Digital Humanities Working Group at the Humanities Commons

Digital Humanities practices incorporate both digitized and born-digital materials and combine methodologies from humanities disciplines (e.g. history, philosophy, linguistics, literary criticism, art history) with tools provided by computing (data visualization, data mining, statistics, computational analysis) and digital publishing. These areas of research, teaching, and creation at the intersection of computing and the humanities receive attention and grant funding, but are rarely discussed in terms of institutional support. Developing from what used to be called humanities computing, Digital Humanities encompass a variety of topics, from curating online collections to data mining large cultural data sets, but there are still observers who feel that its practices are not "humanities" as such. Introducing the question of technology into the humanities shifts the focus to networks of technologies and institutions that allow a given culture to select, store, and process relevant data, but also invites an intervention in the interstice between academic practices, for instance in supplementing spatial models (writing, graphs, illustrations) with time-based modeling (videos, interactive models) of those data.

Agenda

10:00 a.m. Peter Krapp
Professor, Film & Media Studies School of Humanities, UCI
Welcome and Introductions

10:30 a.m. Katherine D. Harris
Associate Professor Department of English & Comparative Literature, San Jose State University Using Bootstrap Digital Humanities to Explore Topic Modeling: Ghosts, Haunted Houses, and Heroines in 19th-Century Literature

11:00 a.m. Scott Kleinman
Professor of English & Director, Center for the Digital Humanities, California State University Northridge Digital Humanities Projects with Small and Unusual Data: Some Experiences from the Trenches

11:30 a.m. Discussion

12:00 p.m. Break 

1:00 p.m. Kathi Berens
Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and Publishing, Portland State University Literary/Ludic Reading: Is there a Feminist Poetics of Interface?

1:30 p.m. Maria Pantelia
Professor of Classics & Director of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, UC Irvine The Future of the Past: The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Project

2:00 p.m. Discussion

2:30 p.m. Break 

3:00 p.m. Jeremy Douglass
Assistant Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara Graphs in the clouds: DH infrastructure for structured narrative

3:30 p.m. David Bamman
Assistant Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley Natural Language Processing for the Long Tail

4:00 p.m. Miriam Posner
Coordinator and Core Faculty, Digital Humanities Program, UCLA Money and Time: Some Hard Truths about Institutional Support for Digital Humanities

4:30 p.m. Discussion

5:00 p.m. Conclusion


This event is free and open to the public.

Symposium details and registration on the DSI website.