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Please join us for a talk by research partners Lauren Tilton and Taylor Arnold entitled Looking Statistically: Alternative Lenses for Visual Culture on March 31, 2016 at 4:30 pm in the Pane Room, Alexander Library. An abstract follows: Work at the intersection of digital humanities (DH) and computer science has generally focused on an algorithmic application of computational methods such as topic modeling, document similarity, and network centrality measures. As a result, explorative methods developed within applied statistics and data analysis have received limited visibility. In this talk, we will give an overview of the historical developments of exploratory data analysis and statistical computing. We will show,Read More →

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Join us for DH events and workshops at Rutgers University Newark. Workshops Using HistoryPin for Spatial Humanities and Social Sciences Connecting area, space and place with theoretical concepts is the lynchpin of the emerging paradigm of spatial literacy. HistoryPin is a simple, interactive social media tool instructors can use to help create compelling course assignments with a spatial literacy component. This one hour workshop will give instructors a brief introduction to spatial literacy concepts and get them started using creating and using HistoryPin accounts. Options for administrating HistoryPin for course work and group projects will be discussed. Instructor: Krista White (Digital Humanities Librarian). Thursday, FebruaryRead More →

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[Crossposted from http://extendingplay.rutgers.edu/cfp/] Call for Papers Extending Play 3: Temporalities of Play School of Communication & Information, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Conference Dates: Sept. 30 & Oct. 1, 2016 Proposals Due: April 3rd History is indeed absent from the game, absent as something finished, as a storyline in the past tense. What replaces it is a history workshop, a model of history as the intuition of algorithms and their consequences. The gamer is a designer. Mckenzie Wark, “Gamer Theory” Extending Play 3 asks important questions about the temporalities of play from emergent scholarly perspectives: Can media archaeology and game preservation revise the history ofRead More →

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Dr. Claire Potter will deliver a talk entitled “On Beyond MOOCs: Why Humanists Should Be Shaping the Online World” on Thursday, February 25th, 4:30-6:00 p.m., in the Pane Room, Alexander Library. Potter is Professor of History and Director of the Digital Humanities Initiative at The New School. She is also a co-director of OutHistory.org, an LGBT digital history project, a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, and a member of the Schlesinger Library Council at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Her talk is sponsored by the Rutgers Department of History, the Department of English, and the Digital Humanities Initiative. We hope you willRead More →

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Join three Rutgers-Newark faculty on November 4th in the John Cotton Dana Library for an engaging discussion two of the fastest growing interdisciplinary fields: digital humanities and data science. What are these disciplines and how can they help you in your work? This event will break these complex terms down and demonstrate their value through discussions of current projects. Learn about new research tools, teaching strategies, and ways to engage the public. Speakers will include: Krista White, Digital Humanities Librarian, “The myth of the digital native: Why digital literacy is a perfect fit for the classroom” Mary Rizzo, Associate Director of Public & Digital HumanitiesRead More →