Some humanities projects call for close reading of text and image. Creative commons attributionnoncommercialsharealike 3. Introducing digital humanities work to undergraduates. Will is a middle east historian, and his research has, for example, explored egyptian legal records from the late. I write a lot about gender, race, ethnicity, issues in higher education, digital pedagogy and the digital humanities. Wendy hui kyong chun in conversation with adeline koh june, 2012. Software for digital humanities software studies initiative researchers exploring a video collection using the tools developed in the lab.
Adeline koh will talk about her work on digital humanities and diversity from 45 p. Koh and other digital humanities scholars distanced themselves from some of the most zealous predictions about the digital humanities made years ago namely, the idea that incorporating digital tools into research and teaching would launch the humanities disciplines into the national conversation, increase the supply of tenuretrack positions. I also run my own consulting company where you can hire me to build you a website. Adeline koh,the chronicle of higher education, march 25, 20. In addition to publishing regularly on the intersections of race, gender, technology, and postcoloniality, she writes software code, creates educational games, produces a comic strip, offers webinars, blogs for profhacker at the chronicle of higher education, and. Mary litch of chapman university, part of the active digital humanities community in southern california created a blog that served as a central clearing house for conversation and event listings in the region. Using ohms with students to put oral history online also addresses some salient concerns about the digital humanities. The text encoding initiative tei is a consortiumthat develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form. Guide to using imageplot in polish by radoslaw bomba we have developed a number software tools for working with big image and video collections, including preparing image data, automatically analyzing. The main focus of the field is to study the cultural importance of computer code. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanities, as well as the analysis of their application.
Our online position paper is a twoheaded reflection on disability and universalism in the fields of digital humanities dh and universal design ud. Digital islamic humanities project at brown university. November 20 updates the center for digital humanities. Over the course of 4 days, i tried desperately to meet people i only knew from tiny twitter pictures or github or even citations, and in between attempted to catch as many presentations as i could. Organized by bonnie johnson, director of the university press of north georgia and professor of english at north georgia college. Galloway the digital humanities and national security brian lennon death. While much more sophisticated projects involving gis and visualization software are possible, they require considerably more investment in. Professor kohs lecture focused on the formation and concept of political communities. Our office focuses on supporting dh within the classroom, though we also consult on. Using these methods, scholars can process large volumes of digitized images or texts that describe works of art. Critical code studies is a broad field that brings together digital humanities, software studies, cultural studies, computer science, and humancomputer interaction.
Studies postcolonial digital humanities, digital humanities, and film theory. Brian croxall is the digital humanities strategist at emory universitys digital scholarship commons disc and lecturer of english. With the dh2014 conference in full swing i am thinking about assignments for my graduate seminar. I was a newly minted assistant professor, brimming with optimism, and the field with which i increasingly identified my workthis digital humanitieshad just been declared the first next big thing in a long time by william. In addition to disrupting the digital humanities, she is also coediting, with adeline koh, alternative histories of the digital humanities forthcoming from punctum, which examines the difficult histories of the digital humanities in relation to race, sexuality, gender, disability, and fascism. Why you need your own academic website guest post by adeline koh. Since the late 1990s the number of websites that offer free access to arabic, persian, ottoman, or urdu literatures delivered in a range of formats, though with a slight preference for downloadable pdffiles has been steadily increasing see the list of textual databases on the resource website of the digital islamic humanities project. For the purposes of this mla panel, i am specifically interested in how humanities researchers may not only interpret computer vision as a public act but also intervene in it through a sort of critical technical practice agre 1997. Class management introduction to digital humanities. In this talk, koh presents digitizing chinese englishmen, a digital project that documents the creation of a group of asian victorians during the nineteenth century within the british empire in southeast asia. Matthew kirschenbaum the brave side of digital humanities fiona m. Without knowing it, youre probably already using many of the techniques of digital humanists in your life and in your classroom. Digital humanities scholar adeline koh lectures at usm. Postcolonial digital humanities global explorations of.
Basic html and css with adeline koh and melissa mott. Her title will be upgraded for the next academic year. For example, students could compare some of the publications to the tumblr with other digital humanities publications e. In the shadows of the digital humanities book, 2014. She is the director of the center for digital humanities at stockton, and is the. Digital humanities and the future of technology in higher ed. To be sure, the data scientist may retain the humanist as a subject matter or domain expertbut that fits no ones definition of digital humanities.
Digital humanities practitioners have increasingly been theorizing the power structures and silences of the archive, as well as drawing on materials less often granted the legitimacy of academic preservation. Dh can be defined as new ways of doing scholarship that involve collaborative, transdisciplinary, and computationally engaged. Adeline koh will be teaching the identity track for digital pedagogy lab in. Visiting speaker adeline koh to present lecture on digital. Writing for profhacker in the chronicle of higher education last month, adeline koh reported on the sugfunded workshop encouraging digital scholarly publishing in the humanities, which took place in november 2012. While no selection can represent the full scope of a field, these scholars represent the emergent and promising work within digital humanities. First, digital humanists use computational technology as a research tool. Wendy hui kyong chun in conversation with adeline koh. Recall that the inventors of culturomics are biologists, not historians. The site is run by adeline koh and roopika risam, scholars working at the intersections of postcolonial studies and. Subscribe to our rss feed follow adeline koh on twitter like adeline koh on facebook connect with adeline koh on linkedin friend adeline koh. On 1718 may 20, will hanley of florida state university fsu led the first workshop for prosop, which was held at brown university. Adeline koh gives a brief overview of an assortment of digital. Rather than a collection of essays each by an individual author, each chapter is the work of the full team.
The most visible digital humanities projects are often located within graduate programs at wellfunded, research institutions. Barnett the dark side of digital humanities richard grusin niceness, building, and opening the genealogy of the digital humanities adeline koh the cybernetic hypothesis alexander r. The rising stars of the digital humanities inside higher ed. The definitions for digital humanities dh vary depending on who you talk to, but these resources are a great introduction to what people mean when they talk about dh, and a few of the major professional organizations that support dh work. Adeline koh is associate professor of postcolonial literature at stockton university. Last week was the marvelous international conference for digital humanities, held this year at beautiful university of nebraskalincoln. Whether or not digital humanities, this hard to define fieldthing, has certain values inherent to it, may be equally hard to prove, but many dh projects, often due to their digital nature, do have characteristics and traits in common to the point where one can see a community of practice built around, supported by, an interested in building upon, a set of common values. Outside of the regional penn fellowship program, she has also held. Sometimes, digital humanities is as simple as putting an an old text online for everyone to seelike this scan of a. This course is the foundation seminar for our graduate certificate in digital humanities at the university of nebraska. People on the software side get a little surprised by my argument that software isnt everything. Adeline koh, an assistant professor of literature and director of digital humanities at the richard stockton college of new jersey, began her tenuretrack job in 2010 and received tenure and a promotion in 20.
Defining the digital humanities in debates in the digital humanities alvarados point that the field of digital humanities is varied and dynamic is an excellent one. Postcolonial digital humanities, founded and run by adeline koh and roopika risam. Back in march, there was a brief flurry of discussion about regional networks in the digital humanities. Usm digital humanities university of southern maine. Digital art history is the use of digital humanities tools to further traditional aspects of art history and to create new avenues for exploration. She works on the intersections between postcolonial studies and the digital humanities, 19th21st century british and anglophone literature and southeast asian and african studies, and games in higher education. Interdisciplinary readings seminar in digital humanities. Visiting speaker adeline koh to present lecture on digital humanities and diversity on friday. Adeline koh profhacker blogs the chronicle of higher. Digital humanities dh is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. Universal design and its discontents disrupting the. Read david golumbias post on the dark side of the digital conference yesterday.
No matter our field, we need to organize our source materials and keep track of our notes. By accessing this site you agree to be bound by the legal agreement we respect your privacy. Im selftaught in technology, meaning i taught myself how to do all of this. The digital humanities is what digital humanists do.
Her work spans the intersections between postcolonial studies and the digital humanities, 19th20th century british and anglophone literature and southeast asian and african studies, and games in higher education. Why you need your own academic website guest post by. When i was starting out, sgml and other markup languages within were seen as unglamorous. Applications for the internship should be submitted by march 3, 2014. The workshop was supported by a startup grant from the national endowment of the humanities neh and by browns middle east studies program. Professor adeline koh directs the center for digital humanities at stockton university, and is a member of the literature program. Godden, considers how particular experience of disability shapes his use of media and also informs his reactions. She is also coediting a volume with adeline koh, alternative genealogies of the digital humanities forthcoming, puncture books that considers the issues of race, gender, white supremacy in.
While digital scholarship on the nineteenth century has proliferated in the past ten years, few projects that focus on the influence of empire on victorian culture currently exist. Adeline koh gives a brief overview of an assortment of digital humanities projects that can be easily implemented in primarily undergraduatefocused institutions. Resources for digital humanities simpson center for the. I n late summer of 2010, i arrived on the campus of st. Friday, march 25, in hale librarys hemisphere room. Alex gil, lauren klein, marisa parham, miriam posner and jacqueline wernimont. Except where otherwise noted, all content on this site is licensed under a creative commons attributionnoncommercialsharealike 3. Digital humanities series of digital culture books, university of michigan press, 20ff. Debates in the digital humanities, digital humanities quarterly, to discuss what overlap there is between research topics. Race and the digital humanities adeline koh, duke university. Can digital humanities mean transformative critique. Odh in the news national endowment for the humanities neh. When i first started attending humanities computing conferences in the mid1990s, i was struck by how many of the presentations remarked, either explicitly or implicitly, that concerns that had taken over so much.
Managing references with paperpile profhacker blogs. Reading list for graduate seminar in digital humanities. Social media and revolutions, digital humanties lecture by. Digital humanities wont save the humanities, digital. Adeline koh, associate professor of literature and director of the dh digital humanities program at stockton university, could have just spent her sabbatical relaxing and researching new topics.