February 2021 - Eadh-topics - lists.digitalhumanities.org

Humanist mailing list is up and running again
by Fabio Ciotti 25 Feb '21

25 Feb '21

Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to let you know that the Humanist mailing list is active again, after a long hiatus. Following is the first welcome message from Willard McCarty, explaining how this important discussion venue for the Digital Humanities community will work in the future. The past members of the list have not been automatically migrated to the new mail-server, so both old and new members will have to apply for subscription. Yours sincerely. Fabio Ciotti. ---------- Forwarded message --------- Dear colleagues, Welcome to Humanist! We begin with this message after 200 days of silence and a great amount of cooperative work between Cologne and London to accomplish its migration to Universitt zu Kln. Thanks are due to all those involved, without whom the undesirable would be a fact. But it isn't, and I am grateful. Allow me first some housekeeping. Then other messages will follow. So, two matters for your attention. (1) Where it is. From now on Humanist lives at the same web address as before, dhhumanist.org, which is the only one you should use for it. The web system is likely to be moved to another server in the future, in which case <dhhumanist.org> will continue to work, whereas a server-based address will stop working. (2) How it goes. Humanist now has an editorial policy and an Editorial Board, for which see the About page (https://dhhumanist.org/announcement.html) The policy, worked out with the help of the Board, is as brief as I could get it and as close as I could make it to Humanist's de facto practices over the last three decades. My preference was to leave the policy implicit, but I've concluded that Humanist must have an explicit one and that it has to be spelled out for all to see. The Editorial Board is intended to function in much the same way as for journals, to provide the Editor with colleagues on whom to rely, and by its membership to signify the reach of Humanist in several dimensions. The Board also marks a transition that was accomplished years ago: from a clearing house of information to a form of scholarly publication. Now for the good stuff. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor emeritus, King's College London; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews; Humanist www.mccarty.org.uk _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted List posts to: humanist(a)dhhumanist.org List info and archives at at: http://dhhumanist.org Listmember interface at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted/ Subscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/membership_form.php -- Fabio Ciotti Department of "Studi letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’arte" - University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Chair, European Association for Digital Humanities Chief Editor, "Umanistica Digitale" https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/ @Fabio_Ciotti <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> f.ciotti(a)pec.it <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti>

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What could be the digital humanities' Hugging Face?
by Kaspar Beelen 16 Feb '21

16 Feb '21

We have a question for the DH community: what are the most sought after computational resources that, if made available, will greatly facilitate and accelerate your research? We would like to understand what are a) the code libraries you dream of using, b) the shared tasks you think are urgently needed. To systematically collect these ideas, we made the following survey: https://forms.gle/VL2Yc82AghB4X5Qg9. We invite anyone doing research in DH to participate, especially those who write (or use) code for their research. The survey takes only up to 10 minutes. We’d very much appreciate your thoughts and feedback. The survey results will be made public, in order for everyone to potentially collaborate on building the resources that could propel digital humanities research in the future. Furthermore, anyone can decide whether to sign their ideas or remain anonymous. You can also re-tweet: https://twitter.com/giovanni1085/status/1361565811933126661. Thank you. Kind regards, Giovanni Colavizza (University of Amsterdam) Kaspar Beelen (The Alan Turing Institute) The Alan Turing Institute is a limited liability company, registered in England with registered number 09512457 with registered offices at British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, England, NW1 2DB. We are also a charity registered in England with charity number 1162533. DISCLAIMER: Although we have taken reasonable precautions to ensure the completeness and accuracy of this e-mail, transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or be incomplete. If you receive a suspicious or unexpected email from us, or purporting to have been sent on our behalf, particularly containing different bank details, please do not reply to the email, click on any links, open any attachments, or comply with any instructions contained within it. Our Transparency Notice found here - https://www.turing.ac.uk/transparency-notice sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share your personal data and it explains your rights and how to raise concerns with us.

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Digital Access, Inclusion, and the Humanities, 23 February 2021
by Naomi Wells 15 Feb '21

15 Feb '21

Digital Access, Inclusion, and the Humanities 23 February 2021, 6.00pm - 7.00pm (GMT) https://sas.ac.uk/events/event/23475 This event is part of 'Open for Discussion’, an annual series of conversations that brings multidisciplinary humanities perspectives to bear on critical social issues – issues with human dimensions frequently overlooked in current policy debates. The focus of this year’s series are those things that the COVID-19 pandemic has made visible, or rather what it has forced us to see more clearly. This conversation will explore the enormous value of digital tools and platforms in enabling, promoting and developing the humanities at a time of crisis, but it will also consider how the humanities can help us to examine the challenges and pitfalls of the digital. Speakers: * Gabriela Baeza Ventura (Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Houston) * Bethany Nowviskie (Dean of Libraries and Professor of English, James Madison University) * Roopika Risam (Associate Professor of Secondary and Higher Education and English at Salem State University) * Anasuya Sengupta (Co-founder and Co-director, Whose Knowledge) This event is free, but booking is required at the following link: https://sas.ac.uk/events/event/23475 #OpenDigitalDiscussion: Over the next week (15-19 February), the Digital Humanities PhD community at the School of Advanced Study will be hosting a daily discussion on Twitter of some of the key issues and themes this event will address. Follow the hashtag to join the discussion and share your own experiences and perspectives on digital access, inclusion and the Humanities. ________________________________ Convened by Naomi Wells (Lecturer in Italian and Spanish with Digital Humanities) and Jane Winters (Professor of Digital Humanities), School of Advanced Study, University of London. Hosted by Michael Hayman, Honorary Professor of the Purpose Economy at the School of Advanced Study. Dr Naomi Wells Lecturer in Italian and Spanish with Digital Humanities Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study | University of London Room 238 | Senate House | Malet Street | London WC1E 7HU | UK Email: naomi.wells(a)sas.ac.uk http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/ https://digitalmodernlanguages.wordpress.com/

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Umanistica Digitale, 10: Call for papers
by Fabio Ciotti 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

Dear Colleagues, Umanistica Digitale the journal of AIUCD (Italian DH Association) accepts submissions for number 10, to be published in Summer 2021. UD accepts original scientific articles (5-10.000 words), book or project reviews and event reports (1-3.500 words) in Italian and English on any subject and sub-field of Digital Humanities. The works must be submitted to the journal OJS website by February 28th, 2021. Details on format, style guides and editorial policy at https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/about/submissions FC -- Fabio Ciotti Department of "Studi letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’arte" - University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Chair, European Association for Digital Humanities Chief Editor, "Umanistica Digitale" https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/ @Fabio_Ciotti <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> f.ciotti(a)pec.it <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti>

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Digital Humanities - Theorie und Methodik "Data Literacy and Digital Humanities"
by Ulrike Fußbahn 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

Dear all, we like to reinvite you to the lecture “IMAGES AS DATA” held by CAROL CHIODO (HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, CAMBRIDGE, USA) and LAUREN TILTON (UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, USA). The lecture will take place on Tuesday February 16th, 2020 from 5:15pm to 6:45pm (GMT +1) via Zoom. If you would like to attend this lecture, please sign up by using the following link: https://fdhl.info/theorie-und-methodik/ An abstract of the lecture and a short bio of Carol Chiodo and Lauren Tiltoncan be found in the calendar of events (https://fdhl.info/veranstaltungen/) of the Forum Digital Humanities Leipzig. This lecture takes place within the context of the lecture series: DIGITAL HUMANITIES – THEORIE UND METHODIK “DATA LITERACY AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES” The digital universe is growing very fast and the amount of information contained in data is exploding. The mining of these data has ethical, social, and political consequences. In order to think through these consequences a new kind of literacy is needed, which could also be called ‘data literacy’ if we define it according to Chantel Ridsdale as “the ability to collect, manage, evaluate, and apply data in a critical manner”. BUT HOW SHOULD WE TEACH DATA LITERACY IN THE HUMANITIES? The Digital Humanities are characterized by a cross-disciplinary and collaborative nature, by project orientation, hands-on practices and the use of cultural heritage data, and by the aim to integrate and create domain-specific knowledge with computational methods and tools while reflecting their application and use critically. As such Digital Humanities would seem to offer everything that students need to become not only literate in their specific Humanities field, but to acquire at the same time data literacy and skills like problem solving, computational and critical thinking. As the data which play a role in Digital Humanities are themselves multiform and comprise among other types visual, audio, geospatial, temporal, and statistical data, we can even say that by studying Digital Humanities students become meta- or transliterate and thus able to employ their knowledge, competencies and skills in very diverse social and professional domains. In order to support the claim that doing Digital Humanities involves becoming (meta- / trans-) data literate and to illustrate the acquisition of data literacy in diverse Humanities-specific courses offered at different levels of university education, we have brought together an international group of specialists. PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME (see also https://fdhl.info/theorie-und-methodik/[1]) * 8 DECEMBER 2020 Alex Bia (Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain): “Data science and digital humanities: a feasible merge?” * 22 DECEMBER 2020 Diane Jakacki (Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA): "Theory and Praxis: REED London, Data Literacy, and Research-Based Learning" * 19 JANUARY 2021 David Wrisley (NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE): “Data Transliteracy: Creativity and Cooperation across Knowledge Cultures” * 2 FEBRUARY 2021 Denis Arnold / Bernhard Fisseni (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany): “(Digital) Research Data and Metadata” * 16 FEBRUARY 2021 Carol Chiodo (Harvard University Library, Cambridge, USA) / Lauren Tilton (University of Richmond, USA): “Images as Data” The lectures (including ample time for discussions) will be given virtually via Zoom EVERY OTHER TUESDAY FROM 5:15PM TO 6:45PM (Berlin Time). The series starts on 8 December 2020. Interested participants are kindly asked to register here[2] AT THE LATEST by the Sunday before each event so that access data can be sent to them. The number of places is limited. The lecture series on “Data Literacy and Digital Humanities” is an integral part of the lecture series “Digital Humanities – Theorie und Methodik”, which was founded in the winter term 2014/15 by Elisabeth Burr with the aim to fill the term “Digital Humanities” with meaning by presenting the broader scholarly public with theoretical and methodological questions which play a role in Digital Humanities. Elisabeth Burr Professor emeritus of French, Francophone and Italian Linguistics Founder of the European Summer University in Digital Humanities Chair of the PC of EADH 2020-2021 President of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) President of the Constituent Organizations Board of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) Universität Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig https://home.uni-leipzig.de/burr/ Links: ------ [1] https://fdhl.info/theorie-und-methodik [2] https://fdhl.info/theorie-und-methodik/

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