Faculty from Seton Hall University and Ramapo College of NJ will be presenting on the ways they have incorporated digital humanities tools and practices into their courses through projects and assignments. The presenters come from a variety of disciplines: Psychology, English, Sociology, Languages, History, and more. Students in their courses acquired skills such as text annotation, data visualization, podcasting, mapping, and data narration. Funding for this work was provided by grants from Bringing Theory to Practice and the Booth Ferris Foundation. We hope you’re able to join us to learn how DH tools, applications, and approaches can enhance teaching and learning.
This event is open to faculty from Seton Hall University, Ramapo College, and member schools of the NJ Digital Humanities Consortium. For more information, contact Mary Balkun (mary.balkun@shu.edu). Please share with others who may be interested.
Creative, Critical, Editing: A Virtual Symposium | 22 – 30 April 2021
Creative critical approaches are having a growing impact on how we do research in the humanities – from practice-based work in art, drama and performance, to creative writing, visible and interventionist modes of translation and annotation, autoethnography and experimental ways of curating archival resources. At the same time, the digital humanities are offering new avenues for disseminating creative critical work – enabling a mixture of textual, audible and visual formats, interactive elements, audience participation and a more international scope. But the rise of the digital has also taught us to appreciate the materiality of the book in new ways even as Zoom reminds us of the joys of personal interactions.
We propose to make connections between these various developments through the concept of ‘editing’ – a practice that can take many forms: an edited collection of essays, a scholarly edition of canonical texts (from the Bible to contemporary poetry), an artistic practice (artist’s books, exhibitions), an advertising gimmick (a special edition of scented candles), a form of censorship (redacting out sensitive material). We are hoping to bring together scholars and critics, archivists and librarians, artists and creative practitioners, textual and digital editors and other thinkers – within and beyond the academy – in a virtual symposium that will explore the work of editing in its various facets.
We will start off with a virtual roundtable on 22 April 2021, 17:00-18:30, featuring:
Ruth Abbott – Caroline Bassett – Deborah Bowman – Susan Greenberg Tim Mathews – Wim van Mierlo – Marta Werner – John Schad
This will be followed by interactive workshops – on Friday 23 April, Thursday 29 April and Friday 30 April – where we can put some of our ideas into practice. We will use Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem The Mask of Anarchy as a base-text, but you are welcome to bring in your own materials. We hope to create an environment in which you can share your own work, try out editing in new forms, and generate ideas for future projects and collaborations.
If you would like to take part in the workshops, please submit a statement of approx. 150 words outlining your current research/practice and what you hope to gain from participating in the Symposium. We do not expect you to have any prior experience of editing or creative critical practice – all we request is curiosity and a willingness to experiment. If there are more applicants than places, priority will be given to students and early-career scholars and practitioners whose work has the potential to benefit the most from attending a workshop.
Please submit your expression of interest to IESEvents@sas.ac.uk by 14 March 2021; make sure to include the event title in the subject. If you have any questions, please contact Mathelinda Nabugodi on mn539@cam.ac.uk.
Organizers
Christopher Ohge, Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature, Institute of English Studies
Mathelinda Nabugodi, Leverhulme Trust/Isaac Newton Trust Early Career Fellow, Newnham College, University of Cambridge
A short course on Digital Scholarly Editing will be offered virtually by the Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. It will survey the traditions and principles of scholarly editing and textual scholarship, complemented with training on the fundamentals of creating digital editions. It aims to provide an understanding of the history of editorial practice, including the study of manuscripts, the theory of copy text editing, and the decisions relating to textual and contextual apparatus that inform the design of an edition. We will focus on encoding documents in Markdown and in XML using the standards of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Students will also learn about HTML, CSS, and publishing options.
Scholarly editing involves various philosophical commitments, arguments, and interpretive strategies for organizing and publishing texts and works. The aim of this short course is to combine the how of editing with the why, as well as the pragmatic functions of editions in the digital space, emphasizing thinking tools, in addition to technological ones.
Courses fees are £175 (standard) and £100 (student). Register here
This talk reviews three recent contributions to the history of fiction publishing in the British Isles and Ireland during the 19th century. The three papers share an investment in an inclusive history of the novel and of novel-writing as a profession. They depend on, to varying degrees, the availability of machine-readable bibliographies and of digital surrogates of volumes held by legal deposit libraries (e.g., Oxford’s Bodleian, British Library).
The first article, “Reassembling the English Novel, 1789—1919,” forthcoming in Cultural Analytics, estimates annual rates of novel publication for each year between 1789 and 1919. This period—which witnessed the publication of between 40,000 and 63,000 previously-unpublished novels—merits attention because it was during this period that institutions, organizational practices, and technologies associated with the contemporary text industry emerged.
The second article, “The Class of 1838: A Social History of the First Victorian Novelists,” revisits a research question introduced by Raymond Williams in The Long Revolution (1961) (Chapter 5, “The Social History of English Writers”). This article, published last year, examines the social origins of the 81 novelists who published a novel in 1838. Replicating Williams’s research is essential because Williams’s original study was, by his own admission, preliminary and depended on a small, non-probability sample of writers.
The talk concludes with an assessment of four major digital libraries’ coverage of published Victorian novels. (The digital libraries studied are the Internet Archive, HathiTrust, Google Books, and the British Library.) While evidence suggests that a majority of Victorian novels have been digitized, multivolume novels and novels by male authors are overrepresented relative to their share of the population of published novels. This third paper also provides an occasion to reflect on the past decade of data-intensive literary history, a research field whose prospects have been linked to mass digitization of research and national libraries.
Allen Riddell is Assistant Professor of Information Science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington. His research explores applications of modern statistical methods in literary history and text-based media studies. He is the co-author with Folgert Karsdorp and Mike Kestemont of Humanities Data Analysis (Princeton University Press, 2021) (open-access edition in 2022). Prior to coming to Indiana, Riddell was a Neukom Fellow at the Neukom Institute for Computational Sciences and the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College.
If you require accommodation to attend this event, please contact us at uchi@uconn.edu or by phone (860) 486-9057.
Friday, October 30, 10:00 am – 11:30 am, online synchronous (Instructors: Caterina Agostini, Rutgers Italian, and Danielle Reay, Drew University Library)
This workshop will explore the International Image Interoperability Framework (https://iiif.io/) and the work of the IIIF community to create universal standards for describing and sharing images online. With common viewing platforms, we can obtain interoperable digital image content to display, edit, annotate, and share images on the web, for example artworks, maps, and musical scores.
Programming for Humanists, run at Texas A&M will offer Zoom-based courses this fall. Registration is open now and closes on September 2. For details, and to register, see http://programming4humanists.tamu.edu/overview/
Digital Editions, Start to Finish (8 weeks)
This course is designed for Humanities scholars who wish to create a digital edition of a text that is scholarly quality and can be peer-reviewed for promotion and tenure and/or used in classes for students who need access to rare texts. Students will learn all the basics of what Elena Pierazzo has described as “a new publication form called the ‘digital documentary edition’ which is composed of the source, the outputs and the tools able to produce and display them.” In this class, we will spend three weeks learning TEI encoding, the code used to create scholarly digital editions, as we will explain, and then will learn how to transform them into web pages using oXygen. Registration includes a one-year subscription to oXygen. Readings and lessons assigned before class meetings will take approximately two hours per week to complete. ($500)
HTML and CSS (6 weeks)
This class is for absolute beginners who know nothing about the code that lies behind the web sites as seen in browsers such as Google Chrome or Safari. There are other sources available for learning HTML and CSS, but in this class, students will actually create HTML and CSS files during class time, along with the instructor; making mistakes is integral to learning the coding system, and so going over mistakes is an essential part of the course curriculum. The class consists of workshops in which everyone follows along, making HTML pages and styling them with CSS (Cascading Stylesheets). When problems arise, students will share their screens with everyone, and we will troubleshoot together. We will be using oXygen to create and edit both HTML and CSS. Registration includes a one-year subscription to oXygen. Note: Students who do not already have server space for web publishing will need to purchase or activate via your university web-accessible server space (e.g., Reclaim Hosting $30 per year, not covered by the registration fee). Assignments requiring an hour to complete will be given at the end of every class to prepare you for the next one. ($400)
Taking both classes costs only $750 or $2,500 for 5 participants from the same institution.
The University of Alabama University Libraries is proud to announce the annual Digital Humanities Conference, Digitorium, will be held October 1-3, 2020. The conference, hosted by the University of Alabama Libraries and the Alabama Digital Humanities Center, will be entirely virtual for the first time this year. In an unprecedented time when digital literacies are critically important, Digitorium represents a timely opportunity for faculty, practitioners, and students to learn what’s possible with Digital Humanities (DH) methods and pedagogy. This year, we will offer several workshops that can help build DH skills, with tools such as Nvivo, Orange, 360 videos in VR, and Twine.
While we are disappointed that we won’t be able to meet in person, we’re looking forward to providing an opportunity for faculty, practitioners, and students worldwide to engage with discussions on Digital Humanities, hear from innovative scholars in the field, and to learn new skills through virtual workshops.
Registration is $25.00 and opens August 16th , 2020.
For more information regarding our schedule, plenaries, and registration, please visit the Digitorium site.
