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“In the stacks of the livebrary”

Jeffery T. Schanapp will give a talk entitled “In the stacks of the livebrary” at 5:30 on February 2nd, in the Lownes Room, John Hay Library, followed by a reception in the lobby. This will be the third talk of the Digital Arts & Humanities 2011-2011 lecture series, co-sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center “In the stacks of the livebrary”

“The Spatial Turn in History” A Talk by Stanford Professor Richard White – Second Talk of the Digital Arts and Humanities Lecture Series

Richard White will give a talk entitled The Spatial Turn in History at 5:30pm on December 1st, in the Lownes Room, John Hay Library, followed by a reception in the lobby. This will be the second talk of the Digital Arts & Humanities 2011-2012 Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public “The Spatial Turn in History” A Talk by Stanford Professor Richard White – Second Talk of the Digital Arts and Humanities Lecture Series

Digital Humanities Librarian appointed

The Center for Digital Scholarship is pleased to announce that Jean Bauer began her duties as Digital Humanities Librarian on August 1st. Jean Bauer is a historian, database designer, and photographer. She holds degrees in history from the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia, where she is completing her doctoral dissertation, “Revolution Mongers: Digital Humanities Librarian appointed

Infrastructure for Digital Humanities: Challenges for Computational Linguistics in Mining Million Book Collections

The Computers in the Humanities Users Group and the Brown University Library present: Infrastructure for Digital Humanities: Challenges for Computational Linguistics in Mining Million Book Collections David Smith Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2:00 PM Tuesday, March 15 Bopp Room, John Hay Library Concerted scanning projects are making significant amounts of data Infrastructure for Digital Humanities: Challenges for Computational Linguistics in Mining Million Book Collections

Julia Flanders quoted in Chronicle article

A May 23, 2010 article by Jennifer Howard entitled “Hot Type: No Reviews of Digital Scholarship = No Respect” features quotes from Julia Flanders, on the issue of achieving academic recognition for digital projects. Here is the relevant section: Julia Flanders is editor in chief of Digital Humanities Quarterly and director of the Women Writers Julia Flanders quoted in Chronicle article

CHUG Talk: Neil Fraistat on “Recentering the Humanities: Digital Humanities Centers, Academic Disciplines, and Cyberinfrastructure”

4:00 PM Wednesday, April 21 Lownes Room, John Hay Library Recentering the Humanities: Digital Humanities Centers, Academic Disciplines, and Cyberinfrastructure

CHUG Talk: Steve Ramsay on “The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around”

3:30 PM Friday, April 16 Lownes Room, John Hay library The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around Humanities scholarship, by all accounts, now finds itself in what one prominent center of activity calls “An Age of Abundance.” Prominent scholars are asking “What do we do with a million books?” and suggesting “far reading,” “distant reading,” and even CHUG Talk: Steve Ramsay on “The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around”

Collaboration and Dissent

Podcasts are now available of the Interview and Lecture by Julia Flanders from the Digital Humanities Speaker’s Series, Future Knowledge: Prospects for a Digital Era. University of South Carolina. March 25, 2010. Julia is the Director of the Women Writers Project and Associate Director for Textbase Development here at the Center for Digital Scholarship.