IDRH Events: Recent submissions
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Prosopography and Computer Ontologies: The ‘Factoid’ Model and CIDOC-CRM
(2011-09-24)Abstract: Structured Prosopography provides a formal model for representing prosopography: a branch of historical research that traditionally has focused on the identification of people that appear in historical sources. ... -
Random Borges | Infinite E Lit: A Look from Hispanic Legacies
(2015-03-25)Part of the inter-institutional collaborative project Hispanic Legacies in Electronic Literature, in this presentation Élika Ortega proposes a juxtaposition between Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges’ imagined figures ... -
Mapping Testimonies of Children Who Survived the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
(2017-01-25)Voices of children who survived the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have to a great extent been muted, ignored, and excluded from discourse as if these children are invisible and do not exist. However, children were never spared ... -
The First Part of ‘Text Analysis’ is ‘Text’: Applying Digital Methods to an Under-Documented Language
(2014-09-29)The digitization and curation of large bodies of text has inspired and encouraged new methods of research into language and literature, but only into those languages for which such corpora have been established. What sort ... -
Learning from Constraints in Visualizations of Information
(2014-09-13)Visualizations have been part of both humanistic and scientific knowledge production and dissemination for quite a long time. In recent years, however, its use has risen exponentially, fueled in part by the need to extract ... -
Networks and Network Analysis Methods in Humanities
(2013-03-05)Network analysis in the sciences and social sciences typically focuses on citation, social, communication, logical, and neurological networks, and a broad set of methods and research has developed along those lines. However, ... -
Documentary Social Networks and Narrative Structure in Enchanters of Men: Visualizing the Synchronic and Diachronic based on Alison Booth’s Collective Biographies of Women
(2014-09-13)In Ethel Colburne Mayne’s work of collective biography, Enchanters of Men (1909), she narrates the erotic adventures of twenty-three “worldly” women from five centuries of history. She tells their stories elliptically and ... -
Diachronic Corpora and the Study of Language Change
(2015-01-26)How can morphological, lexical, and syntactic change be found and analyzed in diachronic corpora? Historical linguistics is inherently corpus based, and many of the techniques that have been used in historical linguistics ... -
The Light Commodity of Words: Digitizing the Material Book
(2013-09-05)This talk will explore the issues that arise when material objects are converted into digital form. Although such questions have received much attention from a throng of scholars, librarians, and computer scientists, I ... -
Reconstructing Moses Grandy’s World: The Interplay of GIS With Enslaved Narratives
(2017-02-20)For enslaved people surviving during the period before the Civil War the southern landscape was shaped by political, social, and geographical boundaries and obstacles to freedom that are almost unimaginable to modern ... -
When a Project Demands to be Digital: Reflections by Reluctant Dhers
(2015-08-31)In this presentation, a faculty member and a graduate student from the English Department will recount their experience of beginning to work on a traditional (i.e. print) edition of a nineteenth-century text only to realize ... -
Planning for Digital Humanities at CU-Boulder
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What is Digital Humanities and What’s it doing in the Classroom? Toward a Digital Pedagogy
(2015-09-21)Incorporating digital humanities into the classroom, while rewarding, can be difficult and messy—for instructors and students alike. In this talk, Lach will share her experiences experimenting with DH in the classroom. She ... -
Phylogenetic Futures: Big Data and Design Fiction
(2012-09-22)This talk seeks to position phylogenetics within the broader frameworks of both big data and the design disciplines. Originating in “big data” applications of evolutionary biology, phylogenetic methods are increasingly ... -
The New Woman Network: Visualizing the Discursive Development of a Feminist Ideal
(2014-09-13)“‘The woman’s movement of this age is the most momentous event that has ever disturbed the sleep of the conservative,’” The Woman’s Herald quotes of a Mr. Ham speaking at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, “‘Without warning ... -
Less is More: The Pursuit of Gestalts in Minimalism and Knowledge Discovery in Databases
(2014-09-13)As cultural marketplaces become increasingly saturated and fragmented, new forms emerge to compress, sort, and efficiently deliver messages. Minimalism, from the visual arts, and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD), ... -
Visualizing History: The Malone Community Center
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Our Voices: Digital Storytelling at Edmonton Public Library
(2017-09-29)