Members of the local chapters of 4Humanities at UCSB and UCLA will join the chapter at CSUN (California State University, Northridge) for Southern California’s annual, day-long 4Humanities DHSoCal research workshop. (Last year, 4Humanities@UCSB hosted the meeting at UC Santa Barbara.) The workshop’s agenda this year focuses on the 4Humanities “WhatEvery1Says” project, but will also include […]
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The Making of the Humanities Conferences and “Making of the Humanities IV”
By Floris Solleveld Final Call for Papers — “The Making of the Humanities IV”, Rome, 16-18 October 2014 The history of the humanities considered as a whole is still a young discipline. While there are well over a hundred institutes and graduate schools in the history of science, or the history and philosophy of science, […]
4Humanities@UCSB Meeting — “WhatEvery1Says” Project (Text Preparation Team) (April 30, 2014)
In this meeting to continue work on the “WhatEvery1Says” project, members of 4Humanities@UCSB working on the text-preparation team will perform the following tasks: Share notes on and fine-tune their ongoing work in archiving and transforming documents from the corpus for a sample set stored on Google Drive. Discuss and split up next-stage work. The next […]
4Humanities@UCSB Meeting — “WhatEvery1Says” Project (Text Preparation Team) (March 19, 2014)
Research workshop meeting on WhatEvery1Says project. At this important meeting, members of the RFG will work collaboratively to standardize a method of archiving and extracting text from the public discourse about the humanities collected in the WhatEvery1Says corpus (see notes). Working from a detailed set of protocols created by member Jeremy Douglass, the group will […]
“Global Humanities?” — 4Humanities Discussion Forum with Rens Bod (March 12, 2014)
How can we think comparatively about what the humanities mean in multiple areas of the world with educational and funding systems not necessarily commensurable with U.S.-style “liberal arts”? For example, how are the humanities and arts talked about elsewhere? How are their histories and traditions different? How are they positioned relative to other disciplines, institutions, […]
4Hum@UCSB Meeting – “What Every1Says” Project (continued) (Feb. 18, 2014)
4Humanities@UCSB’s activities for Winter quarter 2014 start with a meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 18th, 3:30-5:00 (South Hall 2509) focused on starting work on the 4Humanities@UCSB “WhatEvery1Says” text-harvesting and topic modeling project. The mission of the project is corpora-scale digital text analysis of public discourse about the humanities. We want to look for things we don’t […]
Kickstarter Campaign for The Humanities Bus Tour Has Started
Get on the Humanities Bus! The Kickstarter campaign to fund the Humanities Bus tour and Webseries began on February 4, 2014. Who: DHMakerBus (Kim Martin, Ryan Hunt, Beth Compton) and Alex Gil, together with the 4Humanities Collective. What: A KickStarter Campaign titled “The Humanities Matter”. The goal is to raise $15 000 (or more!) towards […]