Events and News
Floppy Disk and Counterfactuals: the Korean War Orphan in Octavia E. Butler's Unfinished Novels
November 13 | 3:30PM - 4:30PM | Coffey Hall, McCormick Lounge | Dr. Jeff Noh Jeff Noh will draw on聽original archival research conducted on Octavia E. Butler鈥檚 papers at the Huntington Library to聽reconstruct her work on the computer.聽Butler鈥檚 experiments聽with the computer re-imagines the possibilities of her work through a hitherto overlooked figure of textual and historical counterfactuality: the Korean War orphan.
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BREN ORTEGA MURPHY'S LEGACY: Igniting Feminist Thought in Jesuit Education
November 1st | 3:00pm-5:00pm | Palm Court, 4th Floor Mundelein, LSC Featured Panelist: Karla Scott (St. Louis University) & Laura Ellingson (Santa Clara University) Join us for a celebration of Professor Bren Ortega Murphy's vital contributions to rhetoric, gender studies, and media representation. Engage with colleagues and students in discussions about the boundaries of scholarship and Brens film, "A Question of Habit." Refreshments Provided
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Spring Class: DIGH 402: DIGITAL HUMANITIES DESIGN: DESIGN FEMINISMS
SPRING 2025 | DR. Hopwood | Tues 4:15 PM Open to all graduate students interested in the politics of design and how it shows up in our humanities research. This class will focus on research methods from interdisciplinary fields of design and digital humanities to examine how code, aesthetics, and interface make and remediate our histories, our systems, our archives, and our understanding of the human in the digital age.
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October 2 | 3:30 PM | McCormick Lounge (Coffey Hall) | Matthew Kirschenbaum The Department of English invites you to a talk by Matthew Kirschenbaum. He is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, where he has appointments in the Department of English and the College of Information Studies. The author of three books on digital technologies, he also writes for venues such as the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He is currently completing a book on AI entitled "Textpocalypse."
Mapping Women in Late Medieval Paris & Using Digital Mapping in Your Research
Sept. 23 | Presentation: 02:00 - 2:45 PM (Crown Auditorium) | Workshop: 02:45 - 04:00 PM (Crown 103) | Mariah Proctor-Tiffany | Tracy Chapman Hamilton Digital tools allow scholars to analyze and visualize evidence in new ways. Mariah Proctor-Tiffany and Tracy Chapman Hamilton will discuss their digital art history project mappingthemedievalwoman.com that makes visible women's foundations, rituals, residences, convents, and work in the urban landscape of late medieval Paris. Then they will lead a workshop on ArcGIS's Storymaps, an agile program that you can use immediately to make compelling, highly accessible maps and projects for publications, presentations, and online portfolios. If you have research in process with places, images, and/or text, do bring them. With or without a project, come and give Storymaps a try for yourself!
Humanities Datebook Fall 2024
We are pleased to announce that the Humanities Datebook Fall 2024 is here for you! We can鈥檛 wait to hear from you! Regards, CTSDH What is the Humanities Datebook? The Humanities Datebook is a weekly listserv to provide a round-up of humanities-related events around LUC. To subscribe, and send event visit our page.
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April 10 | 12:30-2 pm | 黑料门Hall, Room 318 | Marta Werner, Caroline McCraw, Danielle Nasenbeny, and Rayne Broach This project undertakes the identification, archiving, and un-archiving of bird sounds in Dickinson's text-, land-, and sky-scapes to enlarge our understanding of the relationship between Dickinson's bird-poems, her evolving sense of emplacement, and her intuition of the long approach of the Anthropocene through the widespread ecological changes of the Industrial Revolution, while also encouraging us to sound out our contemporary experience of loss and mourning for a planet now suffering profoundly from the effects of climate change, loss of biodiversity, and environmental degradation. Please register here: https://tinyurl.com/dickinsonbirds Lunch will be provided.
APRIL 18, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 CST | LSC, MUNDELEIN, PALM COURT | Join us for a conversation on these issues with Emily Drabinski, the president of the American Library Association and an associate professor of library and information science at the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. Drabinski will discuss how libraries are vital to American democracy, and how we can support them. While they are currently sites of conflict, libraries also hold the key to bridging the nation's divides. Please register here: https://libcal.luc.edu/calendar/events/April18Drabinski
April 3, 2024 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm CST | Prof. Emeritus Frank Fennell | 黑料门Hall, Room 318 In his new book The Frugal Chariot: Readers, Reading, and the Case of Hopkins Professor Emeritus Frank Fennell outlines what he has learned from his decades-long study of how ordinary readers, not academics, approach the poet. In the process he believes he has learned how we need to teach poetry differently, indeed how his own teaching methods were misdirected. As one reviewer said, 鈥楾his is a seasoned scholar鈥檚 bold challenge to his discipline, and it will be a balm to anyone who loves poetry and has lamented the life-sapping ways it is so often taught and studied. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/hopkinspoetry
March 18, 2024 | 4:15 - 5:30 pm CST | Dr. Steve Newman (Temple University)| on Zoom In this presentation, faculty and librarians for Temple University will discuss how and why they are constructing a site based around The Beggar鈥檚 Opera (1728), the first English musical, the model for The Threepenny Opera and many other adaptations, and one of the most influential texts from the English eighteenth century. They will discuss their editorial decisions for the music and text; how they encoded the text in TEI- and MEI-XML (Text and Music Encoding Initiative eXtensible Markup Language) and the challenges in coordinating the two; and their plans for the site in the future. We look forward to questions and feedback! Register here: https://tinyurl.com/beggarsoperazoom
13th Annual International Symposium
Symposium Theme: "LEAP!" #CDEP24 | Center for Digital Ethics & Policy | March 14, 2024 | McCormick Lounge, Coffey Hall, LUC. Join 13th Annual International symposium on digital ethics and policy. For more information and archive: /digitalethics/events/upcomingevents/ REGISTER HERE! https://bit.ly/3vYe9GA Media inquiries: Dr. Florence M. Chee, Associate Professor and CDEP Director fchee@luc.edu
Friday, March 1| 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 pm. | Lake Shore Campus, Information Commons, 4th Floor Join us for an engaging program in recognition of Fair Use and Fair Dealing Week featuring Donna L. Ferullo, JD, Professor and Director of the Copyright Office at Purdue University and author of Managing Copyright in Higher Education: A Guidebook. An exception under the U.S. Copyright Act, fair use is a provision frequently used in higher education settings that can be confusing to those needing to interpret and apply it. 鈥嬧�嬧�嬧�� Ms. Ferullo will explain what the exception is and how it is a great asset to libraries and universities. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a group activity that allows them to apply their knowledge of fair use in various scenarios. Check the event page for registration and details: https://libcal.luc.edu/calendar/events/fairuse2024
February 22nd-23rd, 2024 | Mary Ton, the Digital Humanities Librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | on Zoom Dive into comic book data and level up your Wikidata Skills in this fully virtual edit-a-thon. We are focusing on works published in Illinois and emphasizing comics with BIPOC characters and BIPOC creators. No prior editing experience needed! To register and check the schedule visit: http://go.illinois.edu/heroes
Humanities Datebook Spring 2024
We are pleased to announce that the Humanities Datebook Spring 2024 is here for you! We can鈥檛 wait to hear from you! Regards, CTSDH What is the Humanities Datebook? The Humanities Datebook is a weekly listserv to provide a round-up of humanities-related events around LUC. To subscribe, and send event visit our page.
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Wednesday, February 14 | 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM | Ruggles Hall, Newberry Library Chicago Join the CTSDH and the Newberry Library to wish a happy birthday to Frederick Douglass during our annual celebration of Douglass Day (https://douglassday.org/). The day celebrates Douglass and Black history by gathering communities to participate in a transcribe-a-thon, using By the People, a crowdsourcing website from the Library of Congress, to improve access to the correspondence of Frederick Douglass. The event will be held in person at Ruggles Hall, Newberry Library. The Newberry Library is located at 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610. No registration is required and the event is open to all on a drop-in basis. Please bring your laptop to participate in the transcribe-a-thon and stay for cake and browsing the Newberry's collection.
Dr. Ryan Cordell & Dr. Mary Borgo Ton | Wednesday, November 15 | 1 pm - 2:30 pm CST | Room 318, 黑料门Hall. We are thrilled to invite you to the inaugural edition of the Illinois Digital Humanities Speaker Series. For this special occasion, we have the privilege of hosting two professors from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: 鈥r. Ryan Cordell: "From C19 to GPT: How Historical Reprinting Can Help Us Understand Large Language Models" 鈥r. Mary Bogo Ton: "What Does It Take to Design, Develop, And Defend a Digital-Born Thesis or Dissertation?" Please register for this event by using this link: https://tinyurl.com/ILDHSpeakerSeries Lunch will be provided.
Dr. Matthews, Data Science, LUC | Wednesday, Nov. 8 | 1 pm - 2 pm CST | 黑料门Hall, Room 318. This hands-on introductory workshop is for beginners interested in exploring the essentials of R programming and R Studio, important tools for data analysis and statistical computing. Participants will learn about fundamental R concepts, data manipulation techniques, and how R is used to create compelling visualizations. No prior experience is required鈥攂ring your curiosity and a laptop with R or R Studio installed. Please register for this workshop by using this link: https://tinyurl.com/workshopintrotoR
Girls Who Code Fall 2023
We are happy to announce that registration is now open for 黑料门University Chicago鈥檚 Girls Who Code Fall 2023 session. Girls Who Code is a FREE nonprofit organization that teaches girls, female-identifying, and nonbinary tweens and teenagers (6th-12th grade) important coding skills to grow confidence in computer science and help close the gender gap in tech fields. Class sessions will feature interactive lessons and discussions, guest speakers, and individual and group work with 黑料门University Chicago Computer Science graduate and undergraduate student instructors and mentors. This semester's focus will be on coding fundamentals using the programming language Python. In-person classes will be held on Loyola's Lake Shore campus in Rogers Park on the following Saturdays: Oct 21, Oct 28, Nov 4, Nov 1 No prior experience is required: all experience levels are welcome! And as always, our program remains completely FREE. To register, please visit https://tinyurl.com/girlswhocodefall23
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Humanities Datebook Fall 2023
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DIGH 500 | FALL 2023: The Amy Lowell Letters Project
Dr. Bradshaw | Fall 2023 | Classes on Thursdays 4:15- 6:45 pm | Open to all graduate students including MA and Ph.D. students. This interdisciplinary seminar will introduce students to the theories and practices of digital scholarly editing, broad areas of DH-related discourse (e.g. databases, digital archives, interface) as well as issues unique to editing Amy Lowell Letters, such as using TEI elements, and encode letters in XML. No prior experience is required. Please email Dr. Bradshaw (mbradshaw@luc.edu) for course approval.
This conference will be hosted by The New School, New York NY, and will take place June 1-3, 2023. Pre-registration is required. Schedule: https://textualsociety.org/design-and-text/ Register: https://textualsociety.org/membership-information/
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End of the Year CTSDH Celebration!
Friday, April 28 | 3 pm CST | 黑料门Hall, Conference Room 318. Please join us to Celebrate the end of the academic year! Please register for this event by using this link: https://tinyurl.com/semesterendcelebration
CDEP 12th Annual International Symposium
Symposium Theme: Inflection points: indicating a time of significant change in a situation; a turning point | Center for Digital Ethics & Policy | April 13-14, 2023 | LUC's Downtown Watertower Campus. Join a two-day conference about this time of transition and flux, with an eye toward the future in digital ethics and policy. Pre-registration is required. Schedule: /digitalethics/events/upcomingevents/ Register: /digitalethics/events/annualsymposium/
Developing a Digital Archive: Mexican Masks & The May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection
Catherine Nichols, Caroline Houser | Wednesday, April 12 | 1 pm CST | Mundelein 419. In recent years, anthropologists, information scientists, and digital humanists have called attention to the ways in which metadata standards and similar descriptive practices both increase discoverability and position objects within interpretive domains. This presentation of a work-in-progress will consider how one category of museum objects, Mexican masks held in the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection, are (re)created in digital records. The focus will be on the development of a separate digital archive using Omeka C dedicated to increasing accessibility to these objects while considering the social and institutional dynamics of meaning-making. Please register for this event by using this link: https://tinyurl.com/MexicanMasks
Margaret Heller and Greer Martin | Monday, March 27 | 1-2:30 pm CST | 黑料门Hall, Conference Room 318. Mukurtu CMS, an open-source digital access platform, was designed for Indigenous communities to determine and enact cultural protocols in a digital space by managing the access and use of cultural materials and knowledge. What about for political action that Indigenous communities are engaged in and documenting right now? This presentation will provide an overview of Mukurtu CMS, and showcase a partnership between an academic institution and an Indigenous legal advocacy organization to create a portal for students and researchers to their video archive featuring documentation of environmental justice movements. Please register for this event by using this link: https://tinyurl.com/MukurtuCMS. Food will be provided.
Bruce Montes, Brandiann Molby, Adam Porter, and Felix Oke | Friday, March 17 | 3 PM - 4.30 PM CST | 黑料门Hall, Conference Room 318. Join us for an open and interactive discussion on the challenges鈥攁nd potential opportunities鈥攐f incorporating Chatbot and AI technologies in the undergraduate classroom. Our interdisciplinary panelists from Digital Humanities, the Writing Program, Computer Science, and Religion will share their experiences and concerns with the rise of these technologies in education. **Note: A chatbot wrote this panel description. Please register for this discussion by using this link: https://tinyurl.com/AChatbotWroteMyEssay . Food will be provided.
Douglass Day 2023!
Tuesday, February 14th | 11:30 AM-12:45 PM CT | Information Commons, 4th Floor. Join the CTSDH to wish a happy birthday to Frederick Douglass! Douglass Day is an online and international celebration of Frederick Douglass鈥檚 chosen birthday (Feb 14), run by The Center for Black Digital Research at Penn State ( https://douglassday.org/ ). The day celebrates Douglass and Black history by gathering communities to transcribe the papers of Mary Ann Shadd Cary. Please register for the event by using this link: https://tinyurl.com/douglassday . Food will be provided.
Humanities Datebook Spring 2023
We are pleased to announce that the Humanities Datebook Spring 2023 is here for you! We can鈥檛 wait to hear from you! Regards, CTSDH What is the Humanities Datebook? The Humanities Datebook is a weekly listserv to provide a round-up of humanities-related events around LUC. To subscribe, and send event visit our page.
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Dr. Christopher Cantwell | Thursday, November 17th | 12:30PM-1:30PM | 黑料门Hall, Conference Room 318. The rise of digital humanities methods and pedagogies has fundamentally altered the study of religion. At the same time, our networked world currently is experiencing a profound shift in the nature of religious life. How might these two trends be brought into conversation? Can one help understand the other? This talk will draw upon a recent digital public history project to explore how religious studies, digital humanities, and public history can fruitfully work together to build a vibrant digital archive of our current moment. Please register for this Lunchtime Lecture. Food will be provided.
Dr. Emily Hutchinson | Tuesday, November 15th | 12:30 PM-1:30 PM | 黑料门Hall, Conference Room 318. Mapping is a critical element of my scholarly work, and a useful form of evidence. Mapping often reveals things that are otherwise hidden in textual, artistic, or material sources. It offers insights into the physicality of a space, but also into patterns of use. The primary aim of Digital Paris c. 1400 is to have this platform answer queries for users that range from the very simple and straightforward (such as locating a particular street) to the more complex (for example: tracing the trajectory of the Dit des Rues de Paris and identifying ONLY the sites of interaction with women). Mapping evidence from our textual sources forces us to recognize that people's experiences differ across the terrain in very concrete ways, and mapping enables these realities to come to life in ways that we might otherwise overlook. Please register for this Lunchtime Lecture. Food will be provided.
Melissa Bradshaw, Ian Cornelius, Elizabeth Hopwood, Frederick Staidum, and Marta Werner | Wednesday, November 9th | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 黑料门Hall, Conference Room 318. Presentations of digital humanities projects by faculty in the Department of English. Please register for this Lunchtime Lecture. Food will be provided.
Join us as Dr. Chris Lusakik, Purdue University talks about 'The Transformation of the Medium and Meaning of Illustration in Early Nineteenth' on Thursday Oct 20, 2022 by 12:30pm at 黑料门Hall, room 316. While the significance of illustration to the rise of a mass visual culture across the nineteenth century has been well documented, our understanding of what illustration meant during the period leading up to its dominance remains confused. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, this paper examines the transformations in the medium and meaning of illustration as they appear in periodicals published in America from 1775 to 1825. Evidence from this case study will be discussed as it pertains to the study of literature, art history, and book history as well as our understanding of the rise of optical media across the nineteenth century.
End of the Year CTSDH Celebration! April 28, 2023
Developing a Digital Archive: Mexican Masks & The May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection - Catherine Nichols, Caroline Houser. April 12, 2023
Documenting Movements: Introducing Mukurtu CMS as a Platform for a Collaborative Video Archive - Margaret Heller and Greer Martin. March 27, 2023
The CTSDH has in recent years hosted the Chicago Colloquium's Digital Humanities and Computer Science conference (2011, 2018) and the International Society for Textual Studies conference (2013). Every year it helps to organize and co-sponsors, with the Martin J. Svaglic Chair in Textual Studies, two day conferences on a range of topics in textual studies and digital humanities. The CTSDH also sponsors or co-sponsor regular lectures and presentations by distinguished scholars working in the areas of textual studies or digital humanities.
Textual Studies and the Nonhuman Turn: A Symposium
The Martin J. Svaglic Fall Lecture, 鈥淭extual Studies & the Nonhuman Turn, A Symposium" will be held on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019 from 4:30-6:00 p.m. on the 4th floor of the Information Commons. The two talks will be on the subject of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson's works and current textual studies projects. Sponsors are Marta L. Werner (Martin J. Svaglic Chair of Textual Studies) and CTSDH. Free and open to the public!
CONFERENCE
Upcoming: "Editions and Manuscripts of Middle English Poetry"
Join us Saturday, October 12th, 2019 on the fourth floor of the Information Commons for "Editions and manuscripts of Middle English poetry," a conference that will feature five lectures on late medieval English poems and the manuscripts and editions that transmit them.
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Call for Papers
The Center for Digital Ethics & Policy at 黑料门University Chicago (digitalethics.org) will be holding its 9th annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics on November 7th & 8th, 2019. Abstracts for papers related to digital ethics should be submitted by May 20th, 2019.
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DHCS 2019 is fast approaching! As last year's hosts, we are excited to see how University of Chicago extends the conversation about the current state of DH. The conference will be held in the David and Reva Logan Center, November 9-10. Make sure to RSVP and we will see you there!
CONFERENCE
Conference call for papers
The Call for Papers was just issued for DHCS 2019 to be held Nov 9-10, 2019 at the David and Reva Logan Center at the University of Chicago. Click through for more information.
The Society for Textual Scholarship and Textual Cultures 2022 Conference
Join us at the 2022 Society for Textual Scholarship (STS) Conference with the theme: Cultural Mapping hosted at 黑料门University Chicago, May 26-28.
The 2022 STS conference—the first in-person conference since 2019—will take place May 26-28, 2022 at 黑料门University Chicago, with the conference theme “Cultural Mappings.” Following, and we hope furthering, the work of “reckonings” begun in the 2021 meeting — the critical analysis of the past, reflection on the present, and speculation about the future of textual scholarship as we transit through a period of multi-dimensional, global upheaval — we seek to explore the multivalent ways mapping as a mode of inquiry and a methodological tool in the field of textual scholarship makes visible the meanings of cultural heritage and contributes to our affective experience of emplacement. The work of cultural mapping is capacious and allied with deep mapping, community mapping, ecological mapping, counter-mapping, qualitative GIS, and emotional mapping. What does it mean to dwell? How are texts and other works also cartographs that give us access to the sedimented strata of our experiences in a lifeworld flourishing with multiple voices, present contingencies, contested pasts, and imagined futures?
Advance registration is open through May 6. Please go to to begin the registration process. You can access general conference information . A copy of the program is available .
Editions and Manuscripts of Middle English Poetry
October 12, 2019, 9:30-5:00, 黑料门University Chicago, Lake Shore Campus , Information Commons 4th Floor
This day conference features five lectures on late medieval English poems and the manuscripts and editions that transmit them. Papers will explore the editorial work of medieval scribes, the responsibilities of modern editors, and the contributions of multimedia digital technologies (text, image, and voice) to editorial endeavors today. Speakers will share lessons and questions that emerge from their experience editing the works and studying the manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and other poets of fourteenth-century England. The day concludes in a workshop on designs for a new hybrid online and print edition of Langland’s Piers Plowman for classroom use and launch of David Lawton’s new Norton Chaucer.
Data Cleaning Workshop
Dr. Catherine Nichols will be holding a Data Cleaning Workshop, using OpenRefine, on Friday, November 15th, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM at 黑料门Hall, 318. Entry is free. Please RSVP to Dr. Elizabeth Hopwood at luctsdh@luc.edu.
Workshops
An Introduction to Digital Authoring with Scalar Workshop
Starting a digital writing project, but don鈥檛 know what to build it in? In this workshop, Digital Humanities MA student Zach Stella will make a case for Scalar, a free, open-source web publishing platform designed to help authors write rich, digital-born scholarship. It will be held at 黑料门318, Friday, January 31st, 2020 from 2:30 pm to 4 pm.
Coding the World: Empowering Young Women through Humanities, and Tech
This talk will share the initiatives we鈥檝e begun at 黑料门to address issues of the gender gap in tech through our student-run chapter. It will be held on Thursday, February 13, 2020, from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm at 黑料门Hall 318. RSVP: luctsdh@luc.edu
The workshop will be hosted by Eliora Horst on Wed. 3/24, 2-3:30PM CST, where you will learn how to transform the plain text of XML encoded documents into a well designed and easy to read format using the coding languages XSLT and JavaScript. No prior experience is required. Click to register
Hosted by Andrew French - Wed. 3/3, 2-3:30PM CST Omeka Classic is a popular web publishing platform that allows users to create and share digital collections and exhibits. Omeka is a wonderful resource that empowers the user by providing a simple way to customize and navigate the backend of your own digital archive. Join us in this workshop as we will explore the process of setting up an Omeka site, and see how you can liven up your next digital project.
Hosted by Anna Kroon - Wed. 2/24, 2-3:30PM CST This workshop will provide an introduction to creating and using open access content with Creative Commons licenses. We will cover the different Creative Commons licenses and their restrictions as well as where to find open access and public domain content. We will also discuss what it means to license projects under Creative Commons and how this impacts knowledge.
Hosted by Regina Hong - Wed. 2/10, 2-3:30PM CST Any story, composed in any form, is the narration of time. TimelineJS is a user-friendly tool by KnightLab for building visually beautiful, interactive timelines that can display a variety of media to tell a story. Join us to learn about how TimelineJS works and how it can be integrated with existing projects you have.
Click to register to receive the Zoom link for 'The Fashion and Race Database: Decentralizing Fashion' lunchtime lecture. It will be held on Wednesday, November 11, 2020, from 2 pm to 3 pm CST. The talk will provide an introduction to the digital humanities project, The Fashion and Race Database, which is "an online platform filled with open-source tools that expand the narrative of fashion history and challenge mis-representation within the fashion system". Database founder and principal researcher Kim Jenkins (Ryerson University) will discuss the impetus for the project as well as the process of gathering and classifying sources on a large-scale, establishing a team of researchers and contributors. Jenkins will also discuss how the project has established a hybrid model of serving both academia and industry, whilst building community in the public realm through social media.
Workshops
Unessays, Data Analysis, and 360 VR
Fall 2018 Workshops
We expanded our research toolkit this year! Taught by talented scholars, our workshops provided hands-on training and discussion for interested students, faculty, staff, and members of the community.
Lunchtime Lecture
Community technology projects underpin so much of the digital humanities and libraries, but building these communities and maintaining them over time is not easy. Various models for sustainability have been tried over the past 150 years, and there are some clear better practices to follow when planning projects. Margaret Heller, Digital Services Librarian at 黑料门University Chicago Libraries will discuss the special challenges in making community digital academic and library projects sustainable, based on her 2019 book, Community Technology Projects: Making Them Work.
Lunchtime Lectures
In this session, attendees will hear about digital humanities research taking place on Zooniverse.org. Subjects will include the aims and outcomes of crowdsourcing projects being hosted on the platform; internal research being conducted involving the evaluation of newly-built tools for online crowdsourced transcription; and how Zooniverse makes tools for crowdsourcing available to the public free of charge.
Workshop: APIs, Data Scraping, and Twitter Bots
In this informal and hands-on workshop, participants will work through some of the basics of data scraping on the web. it will take place on Friday, February 14, 2020, from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm at CTSDH, 黑料门Hall 3rd Floor.
How did the Black Death impact people鈥檚 daily lives? From 1340-1380, Pepo Albizi kept a ledger and memorial book, recording business affairs, accounts of events, personal and family matters, including details of his three weddings, a list of his legitimate and illegitimate children, and a register of family members who died in the black death of 1348. One of the most powerful families of premodern Florence, the Albizi were active members of the wool guild, most prosperous between 1200 and 1550. Pepo鈥檚 diary (1340-1380 ca.), now at the Newberry Library in Chicago, provides an unprecedented glimpse into the life of a medieval merchant during the time of a pandemic and tells us a story of survival and of overcoming a tragic personal and public event. This talk, by Isabella Magni, will present the initial stages of building a digital edition of the Albizi Memorial book. Click to register and receive the Zoom event link. Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 2pm - 3pm CST.
Jessica Mailhot will share the story of CollViz (short for 鈥渃ollection visualization鈥�), an online one-stop resource hub for anyone interested in bringing data viz into their collection work. CollViz is the product of Jessica Mailhot鈥檚 graduate thesis at the University of Colorado Boulder鈥檚 Museum & Field Studies Program, and she will discuss how to explore interdisciplinary solutions, the crossroads of data viz and museums, and how CollViz could help introduce the power of data viz into your work.
What Computers Can't Read: Computational Graphology and Literary Manuscripts
September 23, 2020, 2 pm - 3 pm CST: Seth Perlow talks about his project which develops computerized methods for literary handwriting analysis. It uses forensics software, a pen-wielding robot, and other equipment to read manuscripts from Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe to recent Instagram poetry. The project situates these methods within an interdisciplinary history of graphology to show how technological challenges help us to rethink the value of seeing literary manuscripts in the first place. Click to sign up.
The Sesquicentennial Scholars are a group of graduate students based at the University Archives and Special Collections and Women and Leadership Archives, working on a series of projects to commemorate Loyola's sesquicentennial. Come listen to project presenters Scarlett Andes, Jennifer Duvall, and Regina Hong, share about their work on timelines, exhibits, oral histories and tweets, on September 9, 2020 from 2-3PM (online). Click to sign up and receive the Zoom meeting ID. 黑料门: This session is being recorded and will be posted on our social media channels.
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The 2019/20 Edward Surtz Memorial Lecture to be held in late February
Founded in 1973, the Edward Surtz Memorial Lecture year after year has featured innovative trans-historical and cross-disciplinary work in the humanities. Save the date, February 26th, 2020, to participate in the continuation of this tradition.
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East Asian Textiles Launch
Please join us for the launch of the East Asian Textiles project. Wednesday, March 18, 12:30-1:30 pm at the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection (Mundelein 419).
Lunchtime Lectures
A Year of Lunchtime Lectures
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Lunchtime Lectures provide talented scholars with the opportunity to share their Digital Humanities work with interested students, faculty, staff, and members of the community over lunch throughout the academic year.
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new essay written by 黑料门digital humanities students
"Digital Paxton: Collaborative Construction with Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Collections" by 黑料门doctoral student Kelly Schmidt, recent graduate Kate Johnson, and scholar Will Fenton reveals the pedagogical possibilities of digital archives.
Congratulations to CTSDH Fellow Eunice Montenegro for being featured in this story, highlighting the different ways female students excel in STEM fields at Loyola!
A Chatbot Wrote My Essay: Navigating the Future of AI in the College Classroom - Bruce Montes, Brandiann Molby, Adam Porter, and Felix Oke. March 17, 2023
Douglass Day 2023! February 14, 2023
Lunchtime Lecture: "Gathering Places: Religion, Community, and Digital Public History," - Dr. Christopher Cantwell. November 17, 2022
Lunchtime Lecture: "Digital Paris, c 1400," - Dr. Emily Hutchinson. November 15, 2022
Lunchtime Lecture: "Digital Humanities and Textual Studies Showcase," - Dr. Melissa Bradshaw, Dr. Ian Cornelius, Dr. Elizabeth Hopwood, Dr/ Frederick Staidum, and Dr. Marta Werner. November 9, 2022
Lunchtime Lecture: "The Transformation of the Medium and Meaning of Illustration in Early Nineteenth-Century America," - Dr. Chris Lukasik (Purdue). October 20, 2022
Instant History Conference: The Postwar Digital Humanities and Their Legacies, September 24th, 2016
Women Computer Operators & British State - Marie Hicks (Illinois Institute of Technology), November 12, 2015
Textual Conditions: Lawrence, Conrad and Woolf - Peter Shillingsburg, Alexander Fachard, Joyce Wexler, Paul Eggert, March 29, 2014
The Fate of the Page in Digital Environments - Patricia Fumerton (UC Santa Barbara), Laura Estill (U Victoria, BC), Morris Eaves (U Rochester), James Knapp (黑料门Chicago), April 20, 2013
Stanley & Me: Text Analysis and Literary Criticism - Stephen Ramsay, November 8, 2012
Textual Studies and Literary Theory - Paul Armstrong (Brown University):How Historical is Reading - Books and Neuroscience; Steven Mailloux (黑料门Marymount): Intention, Convention and Rhetorical Agency; Paul Jay (黑料门Chicago): Accidental Editor - How I Wrote the selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke, Malcolm Cowley and Why; David Greenham (CUNY): The Well tempered text, October 27, 2012
Humanistic Imagination and the Mere Counting of Words - Ted Underwood, April 11, 2012
Poster of the 2012 18th Century Texts and Books Day Conference
Minority Archives and the Politics of Textual Recovery - Jose Aranda, Christopher Mulvey, Maria Cotera, Suzanne Bost, October 29, 2011
Ecology, Empire and the Birth of Anti-Copyright Ideology - Adrian Johns (U Chicago), September 28, 2011
Humanities Research Infrastructure and Tools - Laura Mandell, Desmond Schmidt, Peter Shillingsburg, George K. Thiruvatukal, October 30, 2010
Modernist Networks - George Bornstein (UMichigan), Robin Schulze (Penn State), Sean Latham (U Tulsa), Pamela L. Caughie (黑料门Chicago), April 10, 2010
Night Archives: Helen Keller and the Deaf-Blind Textual Condition - Martha Werner (D鈥橸ouville College), March 17, 2010
Medieval Texts and Textual Meaning - Peter Robinson (U Birmingham), Hoyt N. Duggan (U Virginia), Martin Foys (Drew University), Stephanie Lundeen (黑料门University Chicago)
Ethics of Textual Scholarship - John Gouws (Northwest University - South Africa) October 15, 2008
The Future of Shakespeare鈥檚 Texts - Michael Best, Alan Galey, Gabriel Egan, Michael Witmore, November 7, 2009
Sex, Dress and Revision in Thomas Hardy鈥檚 Work - Simon Gatrell (U Georgia) September 12, 2009
What is Digital Humanities? - Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (U Maryland), April 15, 2010
19th Century Studies Digital Texts - Neil Freistat (U Maryland), Andrew Stauffer (U Virginia), Joseph Visconi (U North Carolina, March 28, 2009
The CTSDH has in recent years hosted the Chicago Colloquium's Digital Humanities and Computer Science conference (2011, 2018) and the International Society for Textual Studies conference (2013). Every year it helps to organize and co-sponsors, with the Martin J. Svaglic Chair in Textual Studies, two day conferences on a range of topics in textual studies and digital humanities. The CTSDH also sponsors or co-sponsor regular lectures and presentations by distinguished scholars working in the areas of textual studies or digital humanities.
Expand your research toolkit throughout the academic year! Taught by talented scholars, our workshops provide hands-on training and discussion for interested students, faculty, staff, and members of the community. All workshops are free.
Fall 2019
Miller C Prosser (University of Chicago) | Wednesday, September 11
Text criticism, lexicography, epigraphy, GIS data and digital imaging, complex querying, and web publication. These are a few of the topics highlighted in this showcase of research projects using the Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment (OCHRE). Along with this show-and-tell, we also wrestle with the challenge of knowledge representation in Digital Humanities. From the interpretation of a single stroke on the page, through to the publication of an open data set on the web, how should we model our data so it can be put to good use in our research? The case-studies for this Lunchtime Lecture are drawn from various philology projects working in a wide range of corpora; from Shakespeare, to the Hebrew Bible, to the little-known epic tales from ancient Ugarit.
Dr. Samantha Blickhan | Wednesday, October 9th | 12:30-1:30 PM | CTSDH
In this session, attendees will hear about digital humanities research taking place on Zooniverse.org. Subjects will include the aims and outcomes of crowdsourcing projects being hosted on the platform; internal research being conducted involving the evaluation of newly-built tools for online crowdsourced transcription; and how Zooniverse makes tools for crowdsourcing available to the public free of charge.
Margaret Heller | Wednesday, October 23rd | 12:30-1:30 PM | CTSDH
Community technology projects underpin so much of the digital humanities and libraries, but building these communities and maintaining them over time is not easy. Various models for sustainability have been tried over the past 150 years, and there are some clear better practices to follow when planning projects. Margaret Heller, Digital Services Librarian at 黑料门University Chicago Libraries will discuss the special challenges in making community digital academic and library projects sustainable, based on her 2019 book Community Technology Projects: Making Them Work.
Sarah Ketchley | Monday, Sept. 30th | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM | Information Commons 120
The University Libraries invites you to attend a hands-on workshop introducing the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, a new library resource that enables students and researchers to do text mining and analysis on materials from Gale Primary Sources, which includes digitized texts from the 16th century through the 20th century. This workshop will give attendees a chance to familiarize themselves with the Digital Scholar Lab, and ask questions about the interface and workflow. It is also an excellent opportunity for discussions related to text mining, particularly related to how to obtain texts to work with, and questions of representativeness 鈥� what makes a good textual corpus? The workshop will include a discussion of pedagogy and ideas for upcoming classes, and current research use cases for the Lab.
This workshop will be appropriate for researchers from a range of disciplines, and requires no prior experience with digital research methods. Prior to the session, you鈥檙e welcome to access the to log-in and explore the resource. We鈥檒l also use this session to gauge interest in a faculty learning community for digital research and pedagogy.
Jonathan B. Singer | Friday, October 11th, 11:30 - 12:30 | School of Communications, Water Tower Campus
Podcasting has been around since 2004, but entered a golden age with the . Millions of people are podcasting and advertisers are pouring millions of dollars into them. So why would an academic want to podcast when you could write a book, a chapter, an article, or just have coffee with your colleague? Is it really as easy as everyone says it is to create a podcast? If so, why am I not doing it already? Questions to these answers and more from Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW, associate professor of social work and founder and host of the award winning .
Caroline McCraw | Friday, October 18th, 12:00 - 1:30 PM | CTSDH, 黑料门Hall 318
What are the possibilities of a digital text? What are its limitations? In an attempt to open ourselves up to the poetic potential of text in a digital space, this event is one part crash survey of the history and context of electronic literature, one part screening/viewing of contemporary digital text work, and one part creative workshop in which participants will utilize the provided templates to experiment with creating their own digital-born text pieces.
Spring 2019
Taylor BrownFriday| March 29, 1:30-3 pm | CTSDH
How are our digital environments affecting the connections we make with others? Is social media the detriment of modern society? The project brings purpose to the quasi-social media environment, GitHub, to facilitate better, more meaningful conversations about art and the creative process using a digital-periodical framework. Join us as we tour the backyard and vote on submissions for the May 2019 issue!
Margaret Heller and Niamh McGuigan | Wednesday, February 27, 12:30-2PM | CTSDH
Get ready for Fair Use Week (February 25-March 1, 2018) with a guided discussion with Niamh McGuigan and Margaret Heller from the University Libraries about what fair use really means and tips for telling if your intended use is allowed. Get some ideas about how to use fair use in teaching and share your own experiences with your colleagues. We will focus on digital projects, but all types of research are welcome.
Tina Figueroa and Hannah Overstreet | Friday, February 8,1:30-3 PM | CTSDH
What considerations are important to cover before digitizing history? Learn about the process that the Women and Leadership Archives uses to preserve Mundelein's history.
Tina Figueroa, Hannah Overstreet, Zach Stella, Austin Sundstrom (Loyola) | Wednesday, April 10
Since early 2018, the Sesquicentennial Scholars have been preparing for Loyola's 150th anniversary in 2020. This preparation includes the creation of a digital exhibit, "Then and Now: 150 Years at 黑料门University Chicago," and other research and outreach projects. Over the past year, the Scholars have been prototyping user experience and other features and building code for Omeka S.
Susan Schulten (Denver) | Wednesday, March 20
From the voyages of discovery to the digital age, maps are fundamental to American history. Whether handmaidens of diplomacy, tools of statecraft, instruments of reform, or even advertisements, maps both reflect and shape particular moments in time. As such, they remain rich yet underutilized sources of historical research. Join us as Susan Schulten demonstrates the way that maps illuminate and complicate modern understandings of the past, and in turn how the digital humanities has transformed the study of maps. To glimpse a bit of the past through maps, visit the site for Schulten鈥檚 newest work: .
Dan Johnson (Notre Dame) and Sarah Noonan (St Marys) | Wednesday, February 13
Sarah Noonan and Daniel Johnson will discuss their collaboration on an inaugural, four-day Digital Humanities Research Institute in South Bend, Indiana this May, which will introduce participants to the foundational computational methodologies that undergird DH projects of all kinds. Projecting use cases from their own research, Johnson and Noonan will discuss the importance of community creation in DH circles, how this event seeks to promote a digital humanities network across the region, and how 黑料门University Chicago students and alumni can become involved.
Christine DeLucia (Mt Holyoke) | Wednesday, February 6
Native American communities, archivists, museum curators, and digital technology specialists are pursuing innovative techniques for re-envisioning collections of original Indigenous heritage materials and decolonizing knowledge-sharing processes. This presentation draws on examples from the Native Northeast to examine opportunities for digital interventions into historically colonialist modes of collecting, while also recognizing cautions and constraints about making materials more widely available. It invites conversation about best ways to reconnect significant objects and texts with their communities of origin as well as scholars, students, and public audiences.
Mark Cormier | Tuesday, February 19, 11:00 AM-12:45 PM | Information Commons 120
The University Libraries is initiating a trial of the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, a platform that enables students and researchers to do text mining and analysis on materials from Gale Primary Sources, which includes digitized texts from the 16th century through the 20th century. This workshop will include an interactive introduction to using the lab and a discussion of best practices. Attendees will learn how to perform searches, manage data sets, apply analysis tools, and review results. This workshop will be appropriate for researchers from a range of disciplines, and requires no prior experience with digital research methods.
Prior to the session we ask that session participants access the 黑料门University Gale Digital Scholar Lab to ensure a seamless start!
Lunch will be provided by Gale-Cengage.
11:00 鈥� 11:45 AM
- Interactive walk-through of the Digital Scholar Lab
11:45 鈥� 12:15 PM
- Best Practices Discussion with Digital Humanities Specialist
12:15鈥� 12:45 PM
- Lunch with interactive Q&A (12:15 鈥� 12:45 PM)
June Coyne & Liz Hopwood | Friday, February 15, 1:30 - 3 PM | CTSDH
While many humanities courses default to the scholarly essay for major assignments each semester, in many contexts this format may not be particularly well suited to fulfilling the goals of the course. In this workshop we鈥檒l discuss the alternative to the traditional scholarly essay, the Unessay, which challenges students to use their own unique skills and talents to choose a topic, present it any way they please, and be evaluated on how compelling and effective they are. The Unessay, created by Daniel Paul O鈥橠onnell, has been used effectively across many history, literature, and writing classrooms, by a variety of instructors and students. In this workshop, Elizabeth Hopwood and June Coyne will discuss how they implement and assess these projects, and will guide a discussion on how the assignment may be adopted and adapted in other classrooms.
Jenna Drenten | Friday, January 25 | CTSDH
Modern life is deeply intertwined with social media鈥攑eople share life stories on YouTube, offer political opinions on Twitter, and post hashtagged selfies on Instagram. As online and offline spaces increasingly converge, social media platforms offer opportunities to better understand society. Widely available tools for capturing large-scale quantitative datasets allow researchers to count and measure social media content.
While such metrics are important, they do not necessarily account for lived experiences or symbolic meaning within the data. Studying social media through interpretive methods is critical to understanding culture, beyond automated analytics. For instance, on image-based sites like Instagram, what users say in their captions complement what they show in their photos. Therefore, text analyses alone may not fully capture the meaning embedded within social media images.
The aim of this workshop is to equip attendees with skills to collect, analyze, and interpret qualitative data from popular social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Pinterest.
Drawing on interpretive methods, we will address the following:
* Benefits and opportunities for engaging in qualitative social media analyses for humanistic inquiry
* Methods for capturing social media data, including hashtag tracking and manual approaches for troubleshooting API roadblocks
* Approaches for examining image-based social media data, including narrative analysis, autodriving, and visual content analysis
* Critical questions around ethics and privacy in social media research
Jenna Drenten (PhD, University of Georgia) is Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Quinlan School of Business at 黑料门University Chicago. Jenna's research centers on understanding technology-mediated consumer culture. Jenna鈥檚 research has appeared in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, Journal of Macromarketing, Journal of Business Research, and Consumption Markets and Culture, among others.
Stephanie Kimmel, Olena Marshall, and Denise Du Vernay | Friday, January 18, 12:30-2 PM | CTSDH
黑料门University Chicago鈥檚 Corporate and Foundation Relations team strengthens relationships between the university and private philanthropic organizations. In this workshop for 黑料门faculty, learn more about how CFR can help faculty identify key fundraising prospects, provide assistance with outreach to targeted foundations and corporations, offer support on proposals (editing, organizational content, and more).
Fall 2018
Xavier Snowman and Hannah Davison (Adam Matthew) | Wednesday, September 19
Ever wonder what goes into creating a commercial digital resource? Curious about careers doing that kind of work?
For our first lunchtime lecture of the new year, , Academic Outreach and Project Development, and Hannah Davison, Development Editor, at will talk about the work that goes into creating digital resources, from coming up with an idea for a new collection, working with archives, editorial and technical production, and finally to outreach and support for users.
Ashley Howdeshell and Margaret Heller (Loyola)| Wednesday, October 3
What happens when a school not known as a college basketball powerhouse suddenly becomes the Cinderella story of the NCAA March Madness Tournament?
The frenzy over Loyola鈥檚 Men鈥檚 Basketball Team鈥檚 historic NCAA Basketball Tournament run resulted in the creation of hundreds of memes, online articles, digital videos, tweets, and images taken by cell phone cameras. Assistant University Archivist Ashley Howdeshell and Digital Services Librarian Margaret Heller will discuss the tools and strategies used to preserve this digital moment of fame. Learn how Archive It was used to capture and preserve over 300 unique URLs and how a function of Omeka allowed for 黑料门fans to submit their digital images and videos to the University Archives.
Danuta Smolucha (Ignatianum) | Wednesday, October 24
The last two decades have been a time of great development in the Digital Humanities, a discipline at the intersection of the humanities, computer science, and art. But not every country in the world has enjoyed the same growth. Learn how this discipline has been undertaken in Poland, what are the factors which raise the potential growth of the Digital Humanities and also the challenges which inhibit this development. Dr. Smolucha will share examples of Polish projects and how people are learning to be digital humanists in Poland.
Mandy Gagel (UC Berkeley) | Wednesday, November 7
Amanda Gagel, PhD, will discuss her work as an editor at the Mark Twain Project (), a print and digital scholarly edition project at UC-Berkeley. With a full-time team of editors, this project has been going strong for decades, maintaining a commitment to producing award winning critical editions of Twain's novels and personal writings. Dr. Gagel will discuss how the project operates, the editorial policies it employs, and career paths in the fields of textual scholarship and digital humanities.
Jonathan B. Singer | Friday, September 14 | LUMA, Simpson Room
Podcasting has been around since 2004 but entered a golden age with the Serial Podcast. Millions of people are podcasting and advertisers are pouring millions of dollars into them. So why would an academic want to podcast when you could write a book, a chapter, an article, or just have coffee with your colleague? Is it really as easy as everyone says it is to create a podcast? If so, why am I not doing it already? Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW, associate professor of social work and founder and host of the award-winning Social Work Podcast will answer these questions and more.
Rebecca Parker | Friday, September 7, 2018 | CTSDH, Room 318
Are you a historian interested in digitizing archives? A librarian who wants to learn how humanists are preserving texts in XML? A coder who wants to learn what literary studies has to do with XML? Come learn the basics of XML and the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI, ) and how you could use it in your archival or digitization project. This workshop by Rebecca Parker, second-year Digital Humanities MA student and CTSDH Fellow, will introduce the basics of XML encoding, the how-tos when it comes to working with XML, and the must-knows of starting a TEI Digital Humanities project.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to gain hands-on experience, but laptops are not required for participation. Those that wish to encode alongside Rebecca should come to the workshop with a text or XML editor downloaded on their computers, such as oXygen - a sophisticated and powerful XML editor available with a free 30-day license ().
Abdur Khan | Friday, September 21, 2018 | CTSDH, Room 318
Curious about why a webpage displays the way it does? Heard the terms HTML and CSS but not sure what they mean or how they work? Want to learn more about the basic building blocks of web design?
Join us Friday, September 21st in the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities to learn the basics of HTML (hypertext markup language) and CSS (cascading style sheets) from Abdur Khan, second-year Digital Humanities MA student and CTSDH Fellow.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to gain hands-on experience, but laptops are not required for participation.
Nick Liberatore | Friday, October 26,2018 | Digital Media Services, Information Commons
Nick Liberatore, Manager of Digital Media Services, will lead a digital video workshop on Friday October 26th. This presentation will include an overview of all that Digital Media Services has to offer, equipment loan program recommendations with video in mind, and an introduction to video editing using Adobe Premiere Pro CC. This presentation will also offer tips and best practices throughout regarding planning, capturing, and organizing your video footage. No prior video editing experience required!
Jamason Chen | Friday, November 16, 1:30 - 3:00 pm | School of Commmunication Room 100, Water Tower Campus
When a camera covers all angles in a shot, how may a story be scripted in narrative? When nothing can be hidden around the camera, how may technical setup enhance storytelling? 360 VR visual production and presentation are facing challenges both in the methodology of telling a story and technology of implementing storytelling. This presentation will be trying to explore some new ideas and methods of storytelling in a virtual reality environment. Water Tower Campus.
Tyler Monaghan | Friday, November 30, 2:30 - 4:00 pm | CTSDH, Room 318
For scholars in the humanities, servers can feel like inaccessible black boxes. This workshop for beginners will demystify servers and walk participants through the process of turning their own computer into a mini-server that can be used for a variety of big data humanities computing tasks.
No experience is required, but participants should feel comfortable installing software on their computer. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to gain hands-on experience, but laptops are not required to attend.
Lunchtime Lectures provide talented scholars with the opportunity to share their Digital Humanities work with interested students, faculty, staff, and members of the community over lunch. All workshops are free and take place during lunchtime.
Fall 2023
Spring 2023
Friday, April 28 | 3 pm CST | 黑料门Hall, Conference Room 318. Please join us to Celebrate the end of the academic year! Please register for this event by using this link: https://tinyurl.com/semesterendcelebration
Catherine Nichols, Caroline Houser | Wednesday, April 12 | 1 pm CST | Mundelein 419. In recent years, anthropologists, information scientists, and digital humanists have called attention to the ways in which metadata standards and similar descriptive practices both increase discoverability and position objects within interpretive domains. This presentation of a work-in-progress will consider how one category of museum objects, Mexican masks held in the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection, are (re)created in digital records. The focus will be on the development of a separate digital archive using Omeka C dedicated to increasing accessibility to these objects while considering the social and institutional dynamics of meaning-making. Please register for this event by using this link: https://tinyurl.com/MexicanMasks
Margaret Heller and Greer Martin | Monday, March 27 | 1-2:30 pm CST | 黑料门Hall, Conference Room 318. Mukurtu CMS, an open-source digital access platform, was designed for Indigenous communities to determine and enact cultural protocols in a digital space by managing the access and use of cultural materials and knowledge. What about for political action that Indigenous communities are engaged in and documenting right now? This presentation will provide an overview of Mukurtu CMS, and showcase a partnership between an academic institution and an Indigenous legal advocacy organization to create a portal for students and researchers to their video archive featuring documentation of environmental justice movements. Please register for this event by using this link: https://tinyurl.com/MukurtuCMS. Food will be provided.
Bruce Montes, Brandiann Molby, Adam Porter, and Felix Oke | Friday, March 17 | 3 PM - 4.30 PM CST | 黑料门Hall, Conference Room 318. Join us for an open and interactive discussion on the challenges鈥攁nd potential opportunities鈥攐f incorporating Chatbot and AI technologies in the undergraduate classroom. Our interdisciplinary panelists from Digital Humanities, the Writing Program, Computer Science, and Religion will share their experiences and concerns with the rise of these technologies in education. **Note: A chatbot wrote this panel description. Please register for this discussion by using this link: https://tinyurl.com/AChatbotWroteMyEssay. Food will be provided.
Douglass Day 2023!
Tuesday, February 14th | 11:30 AM-12:45 PM CT | Information Commons, 4th Floor. Join the CTSDH to wish a happy birthday to Frederick Douglass! Douglass Day is an online and international celebration of Frederick Douglass鈥檚 chosen birthday (Feb 14), run by The Center for Black Digital Research at Penn State ( https://douglassday.org/ ). The day celebrates Douglass and Black history by gathering communities to transcribe the papers of Mary Ann Shadd Cary. Please register for the event by using this link: https://tinyurl.com/douglassday. Food will be provided.
Fall 2022
Dr. Christopher Cantwell | Thursday,November 17th | 12:30PM-1:30PM | 黑料门Hall, Conference Room 318
The rise of digital humanities methods and pedagogies has fundamentally altered the study of religion. At the same time, our networked world currently is experiencing a profound shift in the nature of religious life. How might these two trends be brought into conversation? Can one help understand the other? This talk will draw upon a recent digital public history project to explore how religious studies, digital humanities, and public history can fruitfully work together to build a vibrant digital archive of our current moment.
Please register for this Lunchtime Lecture. Food will be provided.
Melissa Bradshaw, Ian Cornelius, Elizabeth Hopwood, Frederick, and Marta Werner | Wednesday, November 9th | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 黑料门Hall, Conference Room 318
Presentations of digital humanities projects by faculty in the department of English.
Please register for this Lunchtime Lecture. Food will be provided.
Dr. Emily Hutchinson | Tuesday, November 15th | 2:30 PM-1:30 PM | 黑料门Hall, Conference Room 318
Mapping is a critical element of my scholarly work, and a useful form of evidence. Mapping often reveals things that are otherwise hidden in textual, artistic, or material sources. It offers insights into the physicality of a space, but also into patterns of use. The primary aim of Digital Paris c. 1400 is to have this platform answer queries for users that range from the very simple and straightforward (such as locating a particular street) to the more complex (for example: tracing the trajectory) and identifying ONLY the sites of interaction with women). Mapping evidence from our textual sources forces us to recognize that people's experiences differ across the terrain in very concrete ways, and mapping enables these realities to come to life in ways that we might otherwise overlook.
Please register for this Lunchtime Lecture. Food will be provided.
Dr. Chris Lukasik (Purdue University) | Thursday, October 20th | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 黑料门Hall, Conference Room 318
While the significance of illustration to the rise of a mass visual culture across the nineteenth century has been well documented, our understanding of what illustration meant during the period leading up to its dominance remains confused. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, this talk examines the transformations in the medium and meaning of illustration as they appear in periodicals published in America from 1775 to 1825. Evidence from this case study will be discussed as it pertains to the study of literature, art history, and book history as well as our understanding of the rise of optical media across the nineteenth century.
Please register for this Lunchtime Lecture. Food will be provided.
Fall 2019
Miller C Prosser (University of Chicago) | Wednesday, September 11
Text criticism, lexicography, epigraphy, GIS data and digital imaging, complex querying, and web publication. These are a few of the topics highlighted in this showcase of research projects using the Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment (OCHRE). Along with this show-and-tell, we also wrestle with the challenge of knowledge representation in Digital Humanities. From the interpretation of a single stroke on the page, through to the publication of an open data set on the web, how should we model our data so it can be put to good use in our research? The case-studies for this Lunchtime Lecture are drawn from various philology projects working in a wide range of corpora; from Shakespeare, to the Hebrew Bible, to the little-known epic tales from ancient Ugarit.
Dr. Samantha Blickhan | Wednesday, October 9th | 12:30-1:30 PM | CTSDH
In this session, attendees will hear about digital humanities research taking place on Zooniverse.org. Subjects will include the aims and outcomes of crowdsourcing projects being hosted on the platform; internal research being conducted involving the evaluation of newly-built tools for online crowdsourced transcription; and how Zooniverse makes tools for crowdsourcing available to the public free of charge.
Margaret Heller | Wednesday, October 23rd | 12:30-1:30 PM | CTSDH
Community technology projects underpin so much of the digital humanities and libraries, but building these communities and maintaining them over time is not easy. Various models for sustainability have been tried over the past 150 years, and there are some clear better practices to follow when planning projects. Margaret Heller, Digital Services Librarian at 黑料门University Chicago Libraries will discuss the special challenges in making community digital academic and library projects sustainable, based on her 2019 book Community Technology Projects: Making Them Work.
Sarah Ketchley | Monday, Sept. 30th | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM | Information Commons 120
The University Libraries invites you to attend a hands-on workshop introducing the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, a new library resource that enables students and researchers to do text mining and analysis on materials from Gale Primary Sources, which includes digitized texts from the 16th century through the 20th century. This workshop will give attendees a chance to familiarize themselves with the Digital Scholar Lab, and ask questions about the interface and workflow. It is also an excellent opportunity for discussions related to text mining, particularly related to how to obtain texts to work with, and questions of representativeness 鈥� what makes a good textual corpus? The workshop will include a discussion of pedagogy and ideas for upcoming classes, and current research use cases for the Lab.
This workshop will be appropriate for researchers from a range of disciplines, and requires no prior experience with digital research methods. Prior to the session, you鈥檙e welcome to access the to log-in and explore the resource. We鈥檒l also use this session to gauge interest in a faculty learning community for digital research and pedagogy.
Jonathan B. Singer | Friday, October 11th, 11:30 - 12:30 | School of Communications, Water Tower Campus
Podcasting has been around since 2004, but entered a golden age with the . Millions of people are podcasting and advertisers are pouring millions of dollars into them. So why would an academic want to podcast when you could write a book, a chapter, an article, or just have coffee with your colleague? Is it really as easy as everyone says it is to create a podcast? If so, why am I not doing it already? Questions to these answers and more from Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW, associate professor of social work and founder and host of the award winning .
Caroline McCraw | Friday, October 18th, 12:00 - 1:30 PM | CTSDH, 黑料门Hall 318
What are the possibilities of a digital text? What are its limitations? In an attempt to open ourselves up to the poetic potential of text in a digital space, this event is one part crash survey of the history and context of electronic literature, one part screening/viewing of contemporary digital text work, and one part creative workshop in which participants will utilize the provided templates to experiment with creating their own digital-born text pieces.
Spring 2019
Taylor BrownFriday| March 29, 1:30-3 pm | CTSDH
How are our digital environments affecting the connections we make with others? Is social media the detriment of modern society? The project brings purpose to the quasi-social media environment, GitHub, to facilitate better, more meaningful conversations about art and the creative process using a digital-periodical framework. Join us as we tour the backyard and vote on submissions for the May 2019 issue!
Margaret Heller and Niamh McGuigan | Wednesday, February 27, 12:30-2PM | CTSDH
Get ready for Fair Use Week (February 25-March 1, 2018) with a guided discussion with Niamh McGuigan and Margaret Heller from the University Libraries about what fair use really means and tips for telling if your intended use is allowed. Get some ideas about how to use fair use in teaching and share your own experiences with your colleagues. We will focus on digital projects, but all types of research are welcome.
Tina Figueroa and Hannah Overstreet | Friday, February 8,1:30-3 PM | CTSDH
What considerations are important to cover before digitizing history? Learn about the process that the Women and Leadership Archives uses to preserve Mundelein's history.
Tina Figueroa, Hannah Overstreet, Zach Stella, Austin Sundstrom (Loyola) | Wednesday, April 10
Since early 2018, the Sesquicentennial Scholars have been preparing for Loyola's 150th anniversary in 2020. This preparation includes the creation of a digital exhibit, "Then and Now: 150 Years at 黑料门University Chicago," and other research and outreach projects. Over the past year, the Scholars have been prototyping user experience and other features and building code for Omeka S.
Susan Schulten (Denver) | Wednesday, March 20
From the voyages of discovery to the digital age, maps are fundamental to American history. Whether handmaidens of diplomacy, tools of statecraft, instruments of reform, or even advertisements, maps both reflect and shape particular moments in time. As such, they remain rich yet underutilized sources of historical research. Join us as Susan Schulten demonstrates the way that maps illuminate and complicate modern understandings of the past, and in turn how the digital humanities has transformed the study of maps. To glimpse a bit of the past through maps, visit the site for Schulten鈥檚 newest work: .
Dan Johnson (Notre Dame) and Sarah Noonan (St Marys) | Wednesday, February 13
Sarah Noonan and Daniel Johnson will discuss their collaboration on an inaugural, four-day Digital Humanities Research Institute in South Bend, Indiana this May, which will introduce participants to the foundational computational methodologies that undergird DH projects of all kinds. Projecting use cases from their own research, Johnson and Noonan will discuss the importance of community creation in DH circles, how this event seeks to promote a digital humanities network across the region, and how 黑料门University Chicago students and alumni can become involved.
Christine DeLucia (Mt Holyoke) | Wednesday, February 6
Native American communities, archivists, museum curators, and digital technology specialists are pursuing innovative techniques for re-envisioning collections of original Indigenous heritage materials and decolonizing knowledge-sharing processes. This presentation draws on examples from the Native Northeast to examine opportunities for digital interventions into historically colonialist modes of collecting, while also recognizing cautions and constraints about making materials more widely available. It invites conversation about best ways to reconnect significant objects and texts with their communities of origin as well as scholars, students, and public audiences.
Mark Cormier | Tuesday, February 19, 11:00 AM-12:45 PM | Information Commons 120
The University Libraries is initiating a trial of the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, a platform that enables students and researchers to do text mining and analysis on materials from Gale Primary Sources, which includes digitized texts from the 16th century through the 20th century. This workshop will include an interactive introduction to using the lab and a discussion of best practices. Attendees will learn how to perform searches, manage data sets, apply analysis tools, and review results. This workshop will be appropriate for researchers from a range of disciplines, and requires no prior experience with digital research methods.
Prior to the session we ask that session participants access the 黑料门University Gale Digital Scholar Lab to ensure a seamless start!
Lunch will be provided by Gale-Cengage.
11:00 鈥� 11:45 AM
- Interactive walk-through of the Digital Scholar Lab
11:45 鈥� 12:15 PM
- Best Practices Discussion with Digital Humanities Specialist
12:15鈥� 12:45 PM
- Lunch with interactive Q&A (12:15 鈥� 12:45 PM)
June Coyne & Liz Hopwood | Friday, February 15, 1:30 - 3 PM | CTSDH
While many humanities courses default to the scholarly essay for major assignments each semester, in many contexts this format may not be particularly well suited to fulfilling the goals of the course. In this workshop we鈥檒l discuss the alternative to the traditional scholarly essay, the Unessay, which challenges students to use their own unique skills and talents to choose a topic, present it any way they please, and be evaluated on how compelling and effective they are. The Unessay, created by Daniel Paul O鈥橠onnell, has been used effectively across many history, literature, and writing classrooms, by a variety of instructors and students. In this workshop, Elizabeth Hopwood and June Coyne will discuss how they implement and assess these projects, and will guide a discussion on how the assignment may be adopted and adapted in other classrooms.
Jenna Drenten | Friday, January 25 | CTSDH
Modern life is deeply intertwined with social media鈥攑eople share life stories on YouTube, offer political opinions on Twitter, and post hashtagged selfies on Instagram. As online and offline spaces increasingly converge, social media platforms offer opportunities to better understand society. Widely available tools for capturing large-scale quantitative datasets allow researchers to count and measure social media content.
While such metrics are important, they do not necessarily account for lived experiences or symbolic meaning within the data. Studying social media through interpretive methods is critical to understanding culture, beyond automated analytics. For instance, on image-based sites like Instagram, what users say in their captions complement what they show in their photos. Therefore, text analyses alone may not fully capture the meaning embedded within social media images.
The aim of this workshop is to equip attendees with skills to collect, analyze, and interpret qualitative data from popular social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Pinterest.
Drawing on interpretive methods, we will address the following:
* Benefits and opportunities for engaging in qualitative social media analyses for humanistic inquiry
* Methods for capturing social media data, including hashtag tracking and manual approaches for troubleshooting API roadblocks
* Approaches for examining image-based social media data, including narrative analysis, autodriving, and visual content analysis
* Critical questions around ethics and privacy in social media research
Jenna Drenten (PhD, University of Georgia) is Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Quinlan School of Business at 黑料门University Chicago. Jenna's research centers on understanding technology-mediated consumer culture. Jenna鈥檚 research has appeared in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, Journal of Macromarketing, Journal of Business Research, and Consumption Markets and Culture, among others.
Stephanie Kimmel, Olena Marshall, and Denise Du Vernay | Friday, January 18, 12:30-2 PM | CTSDH
黑料门University Chicago鈥檚 Corporate and Foundation Relations team strengthens relationships between the university and private philanthropic organizations. In this workshop for 黑料门faculty, learn more about how CFR can help faculty identify key fundraising prospects, provide assistance with outreach to targeted foundations and corporations, offer support on proposals (editing, organizational content, and more).
Fall 2018
Xavier Snowman and Hannah Davison (Adam Matthew) | Wednesday, September 19
Ever wonder what goes into creating a commercial digital resource? Curious about careers doing that kind of work?
For our first lunchtime lecture of the new year, , Academic Outreach and Project Development, and Hannah Davison, Development Editor, at will talk about the work that goes into creating digital resources, from coming up with an idea for a new collection, working with archives, editorial and technical production, and finally to outreach and support for users.
Ashley Howdeshell and Margaret Heller (Loyola)| Wednesday, October 3
What happens when a school not known as a college basketball powerhouse suddenly becomes the Cinderella story of the NCAA March Madness Tournament?
The frenzy over Loyola鈥檚 Men鈥檚 Basketball Team鈥檚 historic NCAA Basketball Tournament run resulted in the creation of hundreds of memes, online articles, digital videos, tweets, and images taken by cell phone cameras. Assistant University Archivist Ashley Howdeshell and Digital Services Librarian Margaret Heller will discuss the tools and strategies used to preserve this digital moment of fame. Learn how Archive It was used to capture and preserve over 300 unique URLs and how a function of Omeka allowed for 黑料门fans to submit their digital images and videos to the University Archives.
Danuta Smolucha (Ignatianum) | Wednesday, October 24
The last two decades have been a time of great development in the Digital Humanities, a discipline at the intersection of the humanities, computer science, and art. But not every country in the world has enjoyed the same growth. Learn how this discipline has been undertaken in Poland, what are the factors which raise the potential growth of the Digital Humanities and also the challenges which inhibit this development. Dr. Smolucha will share examples of Polish projects and how people are learning to be digital humanists in Poland.
Mandy Gagel (UC Berkeley) | Wednesday, November 7
Amanda Gagel, PhD, will discuss her work as an editor at the Mark Twain Project (), a print and digital scholarly edition project at UC-Berkeley. With a full-time team of editors, this project has been going strong for decades, maintaining a commitment to producing award winning critical editions of Twain's novels and personal writings. Dr. Gagel will discuss how the project operates, the editorial policies it employs, and career paths in the fields of textual scholarship and digital humanities.
Jonathan B. Singer | Friday, September 14 | LUMA, Simpson Room
Podcasting has been around since 2004 but entered a golden age with the Serial Podcast. Millions of people are podcasting and advertisers are pouring millions of dollars into them. So why would an academic want to podcast when you could write a book, a chapter, an article, or just have coffee with your colleague? Is it really as easy as everyone says it is to create a podcast? If so, why am I not doing it already? Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW, associate professor of social work and founder and host of the award-winning Social Work Podcast will answer these questions and more.
Rebecca Parker | Friday, September 7, 2018 | CTSDH, Room 318
Are you a historian interested in digitizing archives? A librarian who wants to learn how humanists are preserving texts in XML? A coder who wants to learn what literary studies has to do with XML? Come learn the basics of XML and the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI, ) and how you could use it in your archival or digitization project. This workshop by Rebecca Parker, second-year Digital Humanities MA student and CTSDH Fellow, will introduce the basics of XML encoding, the how-tos when it comes to working with XML, and the must-knows of starting a TEI Digital Humanities project.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to gain hands-on experience, but laptops are not required for participation. Those that wish to encode alongside Rebecca should come to the workshop with a text or XML editor downloaded on their computers, such as oXygen - a sophisticated and powerful XML editor available with a free 30-day license ().
Abdur Khan | Friday, September 21, 2018 | CTSDH, Room 318
Curious about why a webpage displays the way it does? Heard the terms HTML and CSS but not sure what they mean or how they work? Want to learn more about the basic building blocks of web design?
Join us Friday, September 21st in the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities to learn the basics of HTML (hypertext markup language) and CSS (cascading style sheets) from Abdur Khan, second-year Digital Humanities MA student and CTSDH Fellow.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to gain hands-on experience, but laptops are not required for participation.
Nick Liberatore | Friday, October 26,2018 | Digital Media Services, Information Commons
Nick Liberatore, Manager of Digital Media Services, will lead a digital video workshop on Friday October 26th. This presentation will include an overview of all that Digital Media Services has to offer, equipment loan program recommendations with video in mind, and an introduction to video editing using Adobe Premiere Pro CC. This presentation will also offer tips and best practices throughout regarding planning, capturing, and organizing your video footage. No prior video editing experience required!
Jamason Chen | Friday, November 16, 1:30 - 3:00 pm | School of Commmunication Room 100, Water Tower Campus
When a camera covers all angles in a shot, how may a story be scripted in narrative? When nothing can be hidden around the camera, how may technical setup enhance storytelling? 360 VR visual production and presentation are facing challenges both in the methodology of telling a story and technology of implementing storytelling. This presentation will be trying to explore some new ideas and methods of storytelling in a virtual reality environment. Water Tower Campus.
Tyler Monaghan | Friday, November 30, 2:30 - 4:00 pm | CTSDH, Room 318
For scholars in the humanities, servers can feel like inaccessible black boxes. This workshop for beginners will demystify servers and walk participants through the process of turning their own computer into a mini-server that can be used for a variety of big data humanities computing tasks.
No experience is required, but participants should feel comfortable installing software on their computer. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to gain hands-on experience, but laptops are not required to attend.