IDRH Events: Recent submissions
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Beyond Tools: Linking Computer Science to the Humanities
(2014-03-31)The term “digital humanities” tends to stage contemporary developments in the humanities as a confrontation, not with specific ideas or disciplines, but with digital technology itself. That’s part of the logic of the term’s ... -
Digital Humanities Profile: Doug Ward on Infomania
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Short-Circuiting the Hardware of History
(2013-09-12)The past is, as Wolfgang Ernst has provocatively written, the “artifactual hardware, so to speak, upon which historical discourse operates like a form of software.” Taking up the implications of Ernst’s statement, this ... -
A Postcolonial Reading of (Digital) Archival Structure
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From Uncertainty to Virtual Reality: Knowledge Representation in Rome Reborn
(2011-09-24)Abstract: Graphic representations of ancient Rome have become more visually powerful in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries with the innovations afforded by digital technologies, but the use value of these ... -
Bridging conversations with the Humanities
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The Network Map Under Water
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From Pulpit and Pew to Pixels: American Evangelicals and the Digital Body of Christ
(2013-09-14)The American evangelical church has historically existed as a material institution. As Great Awakening scholar Frank Lambert has argued, it was largely due to early revivalists’ eager efforts to mass print and distribute ... -
Exhibits and Posters, Return to the Material Conference 2013
(2013-09-14)I propose to exhibit a physical sculpture: a visualization of the entire 85-year run of the Florida Historical Quarterly. I identified the top one hundred key terms and arrayed each according to the number of times that ... -
The Hermeneutics of Data Representation
(2011-09-24)When we consult a file on disk, or receive a data stream on a network port, we see a sequence of bits. What does it mean? And can we tell the difference between a meaningful sequence of bits and garbage? Any work involving ... -
A World in a Grain of Sand: Uncertainty & Poetry Corpora Visualization
(2012-09-22)Under a grant funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in the US and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, and JISC in the UK, we recently embarked on a poetry visualization ... -
Fabrications, or How to Lie with Computer Vision
(2013-09-14)Since its initial role in artificial intelligence research during the early 1970s, computer vision — defined, for the purposes of this talk, as the automated description and reconstruction of the physical world (including ... -
New Technologies and Old Things
(2016-09-19)The study of the ancient world is currently undergoing a revolution. Many scholars are moving away from traditional approaches for recording artifacts, architecture, and landscapes, instead embracing a new array of highly ... -
Decolonizing Archival Practice and Diversifying the Historical Record Through Post-Custodial Human Rights Archiving
(2015-09-25)Over the past twenty years, archival discourse has shifted from embracing objectivity and neutrality as core professional values to rightfully questioning how these values negatively impact archival practice and the ... -
Not Just Point & Click: The Poetics of Choice (& Resistance) in Narrative Games
(2017-09-29)Mainstream video games are only occasionally seen as sites of compelling digital storytelling, and even more rarely attract controversy for their narrative representations. However, the medium of video games is far broader ... -
Digital Humanities in (Other) Contexts
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Virtual Reality on Stage
(2014-10-22)For almost 20 years, KU has been a world leader in the field of digitally mediated theatre production. Starting in 1995 KU’s University Theatre has mounted a series of ever-increasingly complex productions in which real-time ... -
Walter Freeman and the Visual Culture of Lobotomy
(2016-01-25)Head-and-Shoulder Hunting in the Americas: Walter Freeman and the Visual Culture of Lobotomy. Between 1936 and 1967, Walter Freeman, a prominent neurologist, lobotomized as many as 3,500 Americans. Freeman was also an ...