Medieval History
SWANSEA UNIVERSITY http://sites.google.com/site/dmberry/home/location
9TH MARCH 2010
http://www.thecomputationalturn.com/
Keynote: N. Katherine Hayles http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Literature/faculty/n.hayles (Professor of Literature at Duke University).
Keynote: Lev Manovich http://www.manovich.net/ (Professor, Visual Arts Department, UCSD).
The application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts & Humanities are resulting in new approaches and methodologies for the study of traditional and new corpuses of Arts and Humanities materials. This new ?computational turn? takes the methods and techniques from computer science to create new ways of distant and close readings of texts (e.g. Moretti). This one-day workshop aims to discuss the implications and applications of what Lev Manovich has called ?Cultural Analytics? and the question of finding patterns using algorthmic techniques. Some of the most startling approaches transform understandings of texts by use of network analysis (e.g. graph theory), database/XML encodings (which flatten structures), or merely provide new quantitative techniques for looking at various media forms, such as media and film, and (re)presenting them visually, aurally or haptically. Within this field there are important deb ates about the contrast between narrative against database techniques, pattern-matching versus hermeneutic reading, and the statistical paradigm (using a sample) versus the data mining paradigm. Additionally, new forms of collaboration within the Arts and Humanities are emerging which use team-based approaches as opposed to the traditional lone-scholar. This requires the ability to create and manage modular Arts and Humanities research teams through the organisational structures provided by technology and digital communications (e.g. Big Humanities), together with techniques for collaborating in an interdisciplinary way with other disciplines such as computer science (e.g. hard interdisciplinarity versus soft interdisciplinarity).
Papers are encouraged in the following areas:
- Distant versus Close Reading
- Database Structure versus Argument
- Data mining/Text mining/Patterns
- Pattern as a new epistemological object
- Hermeneutics and the Data Stream
- Geospatial techniques
- Big Humanities
- Digital Humanities versus Traditional Humanities
- Tool Building
- Free Culture/Open Source Arts and Humanities
- Collaboration, Assemblages and Alliances
- Language and Code (software studies)
- Information visualization in the Humanities
- Philosophical and theoretical reflections on the computational turn
Participation Requirements
Workshop participants are requested to submit a position paper (approx. 2000-5000 words) about the computational turn in Arts and Humanities, philosophical/theoretical reflections on the computational turn, research focus or research questions related to computational approaches, proposals for academic practice with algorithmic/visualisation techniques, proposals for new research methods with regard to Arts and Humanities or specific case studies (if applicable) and findings to date. Position papers will be published in a workshop PDF and website for discussion and some of the participants will be invited to present their paper at the workshop.
Deadline for Position papers: February 10, 2010
Submit papers to: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tct2010
Workshop funded by The Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict, Power, Empire http://www.swansea.ac.uk/humanities/ResearchCentres/CallaghanCentrefortheStudyofConflict/, Swansea University. TheResearch Institute in the Arts and Humanities http://www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/riah/ (RIAH) at Swansea University.
Organised by Dr David M. Berry http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/Arts/berryd/, Department of Political and Cultural Studies, Swansea University. [email protected]
Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)
URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/cfp-the-computational-turn-with-website/
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Medieval History
CFP: The Computational Turn (with website)
SWANSEA UNIVERSITY http://sites.google.com/site/dmberry/home/location
9TH MARCH 2010
http://www.thecomputationalturn.com/
Keynote: N. Katherine Hayles http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Literature/faculty/n.hayles (Professor of Literature at Duke University).
Keynote: Lev Manovich http://www.manovich.net/ (Professor, Visual Arts Department, UCSD).
The application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts & Humanities are resulting in new approaches and methodologies for the study of traditional and new corpuses of Arts and Humanities materials. This new ?computational turn? takes the methods and techniques from computer science to create new ways of distant and close readings of texts (e.g. Moretti). This one-day workshop aims to discuss the implications and applications of what Lev Manovich has called ?Cultural Analytics? and the question of finding patterns using algorthmic techniques. Some of the most startling approaches transform understandings of texts by use of network analysis (e.g. graph theory), database/XML encodings (which flatten structures), or merely provide new quantitative techniques for looking at various media forms, such as media and film, and (re)presenting them visually, aurally or haptically. Within this field there are important deb ates about the contrast between narrative against database techniques, pattern-matching versus hermeneutic reading, and the statistical paradigm (using a sample) versus the data mining paradigm. Additionally, new forms of collaboration within the Arts and Humanities are emerging which use team-based approaches as opposed to the traditional lone-scholar. This requires the ability to create and manage modular Arts and Humanities research teams through the organisational structures provided by technology and digital communications (e.g. Big Humanities), together with techniques for collaborating in an interdisciplinary way with other disciplines such as computer science (e.g. hard interdisciplinarity versus soft interdisciplinarity).
Papers are encouraged in the following areas:
- Distant versus Close Reading
- Database Structure versus Argument
- Data mining/Text mining/Patterns
- Pattern as a new epistemological object
- Hermeneutics and the Data Stream
- Geospatial techniques
- Big Humanities
- Digital Humanities versus Traditional Humanities
- Tool Building
- Free Culture/Open Source Arts and Humanities
- Collaboration, Assemblages and Alliances
- Language and Code (software studies)
- Information visualization in the Humanities
- Philosophical and theoretical reflections on the computational turn
Participation Requirements
Workshop participants are requested to submit a position paper (approx. 2000-5000 words) about the computational turn in Arts and Humanities, philosophical/theoretical reflections on the computational turn, research focus or research questions related to computational approaches, proposals for academic practice with algorithmic/visualisation techniques, proposals for new research methods with regard to Arts and Humanities or specific case studies (if applicable) and findings to date. Position papers will be published in a workshop PDF and website for discussion and some of the participants will be invited to present their paper at the workshop.
Deadline for Position papers: February 10, 2010
Submit papers to: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tct2010
Workshop funded by The Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict, Power, Empire http://www.swansea.ac.uk/humanities/ResearchCentres/CallaghanCentrefortheStudyofConflict/, Swansea University. TheResearch Institute in the Arts and Humanities http://www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/riah/ (RIAH) at Swansea University.
Organised by Dr David M. Berry http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/Arts/berryd/, Department of Political and Cultural Studies, Swansea University. [email protected]
Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)
URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/cfp-the-computational-turn-with-website/
- Working With Text In A Digital Age - Reminder
Humanities researchers, consider applying to the NEH Institute, "Working with Text in a Digital Age." Faculty, graduate students, and library professionals are encouraged to apply. The deadline is February 15. For any information, please visit http://sites.tufts.edu/digitalagetext/ July...
- 2010 Dho Summer School
2010 DHO Summer School in conjunction with NINES and the EpiDoc Collaborative 28 June ? 2 July 2010 http://dho.ie/ss2010 The third annual Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) Summer School will take place in Dublin from 28 June to 2 July 2010. Following...
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We are happy to announce the 1. European Summer School ?Culture & > Technology? to take place at the University of Leipzig, Germany, July 27-31, > 2009 > > http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ > > Funded by the University of Leipzig, the Volkswagen...
- Digital Humanities Post
Applications are invited for two 2 ½ year fixed term positions with the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO), a national digital humanities centre located in Dublin, Ireland. Digital Humanities Specialist The Digital Humanities Specialist will promote...
- Post-doc Opportunity: Swansea
Post-Doctoral Research Assistant Swansea University AHRC-funded project 'Mapping Medieval Chester: Place and Identity in an English Borderland City c.1200-1500' School of Arts (Dept of English) Post Reference: 4815 Salary scale: £25135 per annum...