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From: Elizabeth Della Zazzera <edella@sas.upenn.edu>
Date: Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 4:13 PM
Subject: [DHSI] Feb 8: [Virtual Talk] Andrew Piper on Textual Evidence in a
Time of Data
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The UConn Humanities Institute’s Digital Humanities and Media Studies
Initiative is hosting a virtual event on Feb 8 at 1pm EST that may be of
interest to DHSIers.
Details below.
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Dr. Elizabeth Della Zazzera
Assistant Professor in Residence
History and Humanities Institute
University of Connecticut
elizabethdz@uconn.edu
THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND MEDIA STUDIES INITIATIVE PRESENTS:Can We Be
Wrong?: The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of DataAndrew Piper
*February 8, 2022, 1:00pm EST*
*Live. Online. Registration required
(https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1xrmk0u7TxmRfgNL_IHL-A).*
This talk will address the problem of generalization when it comes to
text-based evidence. How can we move, reliably and credibly, from
individual observations about texts to more general beliefs about the
world? The rise of computational methods has highlighted major shortcomings
informing traditional approaches to textual analysis. In this talk, I will
illustrate how we can use methods like machine-learning to study texts and
reflect on the limitations (and affordances) of traditional text analysis.
*Andrew Piper is Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University. He is the
director of .txtlab (https://txtlab.org/) a laboratory for cultural
analytics, and author most recently of *Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of
Textual Evidence in a Time of Data* (Cambridge) and *Enumerations: Data and
Literary Study* (Chicago).*
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