Upcoming Digital Humanities Workshops
Add January 30 and February 20 to your calendar!
The Digital Humanities workshop is BACK for the spring semester!
Save the dates below, and register HERE!
On January 30 from 12-1:30pm EST, Dr. Milan Terlunen, Engaged Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute and the Tabb Center, will lead a workshop entitled "The Writers We Keep Quoting: Repurposing Plagiarism Detection to Historicize the Humanities Disciplines." This work adapts plagiarism detection methods to investigate the history of humanities disciplines. By computationally detecting quotations from a range of literary and theoretical texts across millions of academic journal articles, Dr. Terlunen investigates how certain key passages have enabled not only the consolidation of disciplines and fields, but also interdisciplinary communication.
The workshop will convene in person at the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute (Mergenthaler 429) and on Zoom. Please register here to attend in either modality.
Then, on February 20 from 12-1:30 PM EST, the DH Workshop will welcome Dr. Kim Gallon, Dr. Alex Gil, Sayeed Choudhury, Dr. Nadejda Webb, and Jon Baynes for a roundtable on AI, Data, and Ownership.
Dr. Gallon is Associate Professor of Africana Studies. Her work investigates the cultural dimensions of the Black Press in the early twentieth century. Her first book, Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (University of Illinois Press, 2020) —argues that African American newspapers fostered Black sexual expression, agency, and identity in the first half of the twentieth century. She is a leader in the field of Digital Humanities and is co-PI of Black Beyond Data.
Dr. Gil is Senior Lecturer II and Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, where he teaches introductory and advanced courses in digital humanities, and runs project-based learning and collective research initiatives.
Sayeed Choudhury is is the Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure and Director of the Open Source Programs Office (OSPO) at Carnegie Mellon Libraries and an affiliated faculty member of the Block Center for Technology and Society as well as the Executive Director of the Open Forum for AI. He is a Co-Investigator of Black Beyond Data.
Dr. Webb is the Assistant Director of LifexCode and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for Digital Humanities (JHU). She recently founded the We Live Language (WLL) lab within Black Beyond Data, a Computational Humanities and Social Sciences ecosystem. The WLL lab is centered on the writings and spoken word of Afro-diasporic poets, authors, and philosophers, exploring the intricate relationship between language and power.
Jon Baynes is Software Research Engineer for LifexCode and the founder of EINDEVR.
Join us!