The RIT reading group will be meeting this Thursday (8/1) at noon in 200C Warren to discuss recent projects and trends in digital humanities, both from the international Digital Humanities conference (held in mid-July) and locally at UC Berkeley, with particular emphasis on opportunities for non-humanists to engage with digital humanities. Close reading in advance is not required for this meeting, but the projects and ideas in the following abstracts and blog posts will be discussed in greater depth, and attendees will benefit from at least looking through them in advance.
Projects: Inferring rank in an Old Assyrian trade network - http://dh2013.unl.edu/abstracts/ab-249.html Uncovering reprinting networks in 19th century American newspapers - http://dh2013.unl.edu/abstracts/ab-150.html Mapping Homer's Catalogue of Ships - http://dh2013.unl.edu/abstracts/ab-367.html Ideas: Riffs on McCarty (based on a plenary talk at the DH 2013 conference) - http://digitalriffs.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/riffs-on-mccarty.html Why digital humanists should get out of textual scholarship - http://www.academia.edu/4124828/SDSE_2013_why_digital_humanists_should_get_out_of_textual_scholarship If you have any questions, please contact Quinn ([email protected]).
