Digital Humanities
Open House
We’re hosting an Open House or Meet and Greet for Digital Humanities Researchers and prospective Research Assistants from 3-430. McGill Faculty, Staff, and Students are welcome!
Matthew Milner - Historical Timelines
Matthew Milner will discuss an historical timeline application in a large history survey course this fall that crowdsources events, and teaches about historical methodology. All are welcome
Montreal Digital Humanities Showcase 2013
who: Montreal Researchers
what: Projects using or considering digital technologies & Methods, resources, or tools in humanistic research
how: Prepare a 5 minute snappy short on your work for an interdisciplinary audience
when: May 22, 1-4
where: Leacock 232, McGill University
Montreal Digital Humanities Showcase 2013 - Calls for Presentations
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS - DUE MAY 12 to Digital [dot] Humanities [at] mcgill [dot] ca
Montreal Digital Humanities Showcase 2013
Are you using digital research methodologies and resources in your humanities research and scholarship? Or are you making new tools or applications? We want to hear about it! The Showcase is an informal occasion to bring together Montreal’s faculty and student researchers to discuss current work-in-progress.
It is all on the Web, so why bother? Special Collections in the Digital Age
Speakers: 1. Stefan Sinclair (McGill), 2. Lindsay Eckert (University of Toronto), 3. Fiona Black (Dalhousie), 4.Leslie Howsam (Windsor / SHARP) 5. Julie Cumming (McGill)
Moderator: Dean Ellen Aitken (McGill)
A Digital Panel at
Meetings with Books: Raymond Klibansky, Special Collections and the Library in the 21st Century
Hacking Culture Node
Convenor - Gabriella Coleman
Hackers: They everywhere and yet everywhere misunderstood. What makes them tick? What makes them tock? Why are they relevant to Digital Humanities? Gabriella Coleman, Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy will be kicking off a discussion about hackers, their history, culture, and politics in light of her recently published book on the topic, Coding Freedom and various so-called hacking cases that have recently hit the news.
Readings
- activism
- communication studies
- computer science
- computing culture
- digital
- digital activism
- digital culture
- Digital Humanities
- digital research
- digital rights
- digital security
- digital society
- Faculty
- hackers
- hacking
- hacking culture
- hacking society
- information science
- intellectual property
- online culture
- research nodes
- Staff
- Students
Hacking Culture Node
Convenor - Gabriella Coleman Hackers: They everywhere and yet everywhere misunderstood. What makes them tick? What makes them tock? Why are they relevant to Digital Humanities? Gabriella Coleman, Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy will be kicking off a discussion about hackers, their history, culture, and politics in light of her recently published book on the topic, Coding Freedom and various so-called hacking cases that have recently hit the news. Readings
- activism
- communication studies
- computer science
- computing culture
- digital
- digital activism
- digital culture
- Digital Humanities
- digital research
- digital rights
- digital security
- digital society
- Faculty
- hackers
- hacking
- hacking culture
- hacking society
- information science
- intellectual property
- online culture
- research nodes
- Staff
- Students
Track Changes: The Literary History of Word Processing - McGill 2013 Digital Humanities Lecture - Matt Kirschenbaum (Maryland)
Mark Twain famously prepared the manuscript for Life on the Mississippi (1883) with his new Remington typewriter, the first literary text ever submitted to a publisher in typewritten form. Today we recognize that the typewriter changed the history and material culture of authorship. But when did writers begin using word processors? Who were the early adopters? How did the technology change their relationship to their craft? Was the computer just a better typewriter—faster, easier to use—or was it something more?
Roger Easton “Imaging Technologies and an Impending New 'Golden Age' in Manuscript Studies"
The imaging of the visual appearance of manuscripts for wide dissemination via the internet is now widely practiced and has dramatically changed the lives of manuscript scholars.
Dirk Wintergruen, Robert Casties, Jamil Ragep (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science / McGill) "The Open Mind database of the Islamic Scientific Manuscript Initiative (ISMI)"
Traditional databases work well with structured data that can be organized into tables. But humanist scholars often deal with very unstructured information that is fluid and in need of flexible structures. The Open Mind database of the Islamic Scientific Manuscript Initiative (ISMI) was developed by humanist scholars and technical experts working jointly through a partnership between the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin and McGill's Institute of Islamic Studies.