Just a reminder about our meeting tomorrow night, when David L. Hoover from NYU will be presenting on "New-Fangled/Old-Fashioned Digital Literary Studies." This is a great opportunity to get an overview of an important field within DH from a truly expert practitioner – we hope to see you there!
The announcement is below – please pass along to colleagues who may be interested.
Wed March 9: David L. Hoover: “New-Fangled/Old-Fashioned Digital Literary Studies”
Please join us on Wednesday March 9, when the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative will welcome Professor David L. Hoover of New York University to speak on “New-Fangled/Old-Fashioned Digital Literary Studies.”
Although computational approaches to literary studies have a relatively long history, dating back to at least the 1960s, the recent explosive growth in the availability of digital texts and the increasing power of digital tools has encouraged new methods and techniques. David’s talk will take a look at some of the kinds of literary analysis that are possible only with digital texts and digital tools, and then focus in a bit more depth on a relatively new method of extracting the characteristic vocabulary of an author, text, or group.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Time & place: Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 6:30-8:30pm, CUNY Graduate Center, Room 6417.
This talk is co-sponsored by the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative and CUNY Graduate Center’s PhD Program in English, in partnership with the CUNY Digital Studies Group and The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
About David L. Hoover:
Website: https://files.nyu.edu/dh3/public/
About CUNY DHI:
The group, based on the CUNY Academic Commons, was launched in Fall 2010, and aims to bring together those at CUNY who are applying digital technologies to scholarship and pedagogy in the humanities. All are welcome: faculty, students, and technologists, experienced practitioners and beginning DHers, enthusiasts and skeptics.
CUNY DHI Co-Directors: Charlie Edwards (Student, CUNY GC English PhD) and Matthew Gold (Faculty, City Tech English and CUNY GC ITP)
Contact us at: cunydhi@gmail.com
Links:
Spring schedule: http://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/02/16/cuny-digital-humanities-initiative-spring-2011-schedule/
The group: http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/digital-humanities-initiative/
The blog: http://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
On twitter @cunydhi: http://twitter.com/cunydhi
The group has also created the CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide, an introductory guide to the field: http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/The_CUNY_Digital_Humanities_Resource_Guide
