Center for Digital Humanities Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

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-- submitted by Tay Vu (tay@humanities.ucla.edu)

UCLA Digital Humanities Incubator Group (UDHIG) meeting

Just a reminder of the upcoming UDHIG (UCLA Digital Humanities Incubator Group) meeting that will take place on Tuesday February 21st, 4-5 pm 1648 Hershey Hall--just south of parking lot 2.

Introduction - Willeke Wendrich Because virtually all Digital Humanities projects need to store and access large quantities of text and images the UCLA Digital Library will give a presentation of the recent and ongoing developments.

Program: "Re-Inventing the Library"

- Digital Library repositories and services - Digital Preservation - Exchanging data and digital objects with a digital library: the Open Knowledge Initiative - Using Digital Library content for research, instruction, publication - Emerging digital library standards: how is this relevant for you? - eScholarship

Presenters: The Digital Library Team; Stephen Davison, Hannah Walker, and Howard Batchelor. Refreshments: Coffee and cookies.

The next meetings of UDHIG are tentatively scheduled for Tuesday April 11th. and Tuesday May 16, from 4.00-5.00 pm (place TBA).

You can follow developments on our very recently established (and not yet completed) website: http://projects.cdh.ucla.edu/udhig/

Looking forward to seeing you! --zoe .......... Zoe Borovsky, PhD UCLA-Digital Humanities Incubator Group

-- submitted by Stacey Rosborough (humnet\stacey@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://projects.cdh.ucla.edu/udhig/

UCLA-Digital Humanities Incubator Group (UDHIG) meeting

Because virtually all Digital Humanities projects need to store and access large quantities of text and images the UCLA Digital Library will give a presentation of the recent and ongoing developments.

Program: The UCLA Digital Library: repositories, tools, and services for the Digital Humanities.

- Digital Library repositories and services - Digital Preservation - Exchanging data and digital objects with a digital library: the Open Knowledge Initiative - Using Digital Library content for research, instruction, publication - Emerging digital library standards: Why should you care? - eScholarship

Presenters: The Digital Library Team Stephen Davison, Hannah Walker, Howard Batchelor. Refreshments: Coffee and cookies.

-- submitted by Zoe Borovsky (zoe@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

Home Computer Support Clinic - Friday, March 10, 2006.

We will be conducting our next monthly Home Computer Support Clinic on Friday, March 10, from 1:00pm to 5:00pm in 1020 PPB. If you are a graduate student, staff or faculty member of any of the Humanities departments and would like to bring your misbehaving computer to CDH for diagnosis and/or repair, please sign up for an appointment by filling out the online form at . Please note that you only need to bring in your computer (the main box with the hard drive) - we'll supply the monitor, keyboard and mouse. If it's a laptop please bring your own power supply. At the clinic we will evaluate your computer, describe what needs to be done to fix it, and/or provide an estimate of how long it will take to fix. All appointments will last for 2 hours maximum and will be start at the scheduled time. If we are unable to fix the problem within 2 hours, we will make an appropriate recommendation based on our diagnosis. Also, note that under our hardware support policy, we no longer service computers that are older than 5 years and can only provide "limited" support for computers not on our supported hardware list. It is important that you understand the difference between "full" support and "limited" support, so please visit for a detailed description.

To further support the UCLA community with home and/or personal systems, UCLA has negotiated a deal with KST Data that allows individual faculty, staff, and students at UCLA to purchase personal PCs at greatly discounted prices. Please see the Icompass website for details.

*********************************** UCLA Center for Digital Humanities 1020 Public Policy Building CDH@humnet.ucla.edu (310) 206-1414 www.cdh.ucla.edu ************************************ CDH Help Desk Hours of Operation Phone/Email Support: Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Walk-in Support: Monday through Friday 10:000 am to 4:00 pm *************************************** Please let us know if you have any questions about this response or announcement. We typically are able to respond to phone inquiries within 2 hours, and email questions or requests within one business day. Comments about CDH email responses should be directed to the User Services Manager, Stacey Rosborough (stacey@humnet.ucla.edu).

-- submitted by Jenny Munguia (jenny@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hum_events

CDH Roundtable Meeting-Qumran VR Project

Please join us for a discussion with Professor William Schniedewind (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures). Prof Schniedewind will discuss the Qumran Virtual Reality Project, which is the first academic Virtual Reality project for the ancient site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.

-- submitted by Kathy Forero (kforero@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/Faculty/Schniedewind.htm

CDH Roundtable Meeting-Qumran VR Project

-- submitted by Kathy Forero (kforero@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/Faculty/Schniedewind.htm

CDH Roundtable Meeting-Qumran VR Project

Please join us for a discussion with Professor William Schniedewind (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures). Prof Schniedewind will discuss the Qumran Virtual Reality Project, which is the first academic Virtual Reality project for the ancient site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.

-- submitted by Kathy Forero (kforero@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/Faculty/Schniedewind.htm

CDH Roundtable Meeting-French & Francophone Studies

Please join us for a discussion with Dr. Kimberly Jansma from French and Francophone Studies.

More information to follow.

-- submitted by Kathy Forero (kforero@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.french.ucla.edu/

UDHIG meeting

-- submitted by Zoe Borovsky, PhD (zoe@humanities.ucla.edu)

Center for Digital Humanities Rountable (2)

CDH Roundtable Meeting-Prof. Knapp/Musicology

CDH Roundtable Meeting with Prof. Raymond Knapp, Musicology

-- submitted by Kathy Forero (kforero@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.musicology.ucla.edu/

Center for Digital Humanities Lecture: Realizing the First Metamedium - Dr. Julian Lombardi.

Dr. Julian Lombardi, Asst Vice President of Information Technology, Duke University

"Croquet: Realizing the First Metamedium"

Dr Lombardi is one of the architects of Croquet (http://www.opencroquet.org). Croquet is a system that supports deep collaboration and resource sharing among large numbers of users, using 3D visualization and simulations.

If you would like to attend, please RSVP by visiting: http://admin.cdh.ucla.edu/lombardi.php

-- submitted by Jenny (jenny@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.opencroquet.org

UDHIG Meeting

· Claudia Rapp, History, and Michael Phelps will discuss the EMEL (Early Manuscript Electronic Library),

· Timothy Tangherlini, Scandinavian, will discuss his Danish Folklore project,

· Rebeka Vital, Architecture, will present her dissertation project: Incorporating Cultural Identity in Virtual Architectural Reconstructions.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Hope to see you there! --zoe

-- submitted by Zoe Borovsky (zoe@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://projects.cdh.ucla.edu/udhig/

CDH Roundtable

Join us for a special Roundtable with John Unsworth, Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Unsworth was a founding director of the University of Viriginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

This roundtable, like all of them, will be an informal discussion of technology in the Humanities. Later on the same day, Dr. Unsworth will be giving a lecture in the REMAP series (see http://remap.ucla.edu/exp/unsworth.htm).

-- submitted by (jenny@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://remap.ucla.edu/exp/unsworth.htm

John Unsworth, REMAP EXP lecture

In 2003, John Unsworth was named Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with appointments as Professor in GSLIS, in the department of English, and on the Library faculty. During the previous ten years, from 1993-2003, he served as the first Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and a faculty member in the English Department, at the University of Virginia. For his work at IATH, he received the 2005 Richard W. Lyman Award from the National Humanities Center. He has supervised research projects across the disciplines in the humanities and published widely on the topic of electronic scholarship, as well as securing grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Getty Grant Program, IBM, Sun, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and others. His first faculty appointment was in English, at North Carolina State University, from 1989 to 1993. He attended Princeton University and Amherst College as an undergraduate, graduating from Amherst in 1981. He received a Master's degree in English from Boston University in 1982 and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia in 1988. In 1990, at NCSU, he co-founded the first peer-reviewed electronic journal in the humanities, Postmodern Culture (now published by Johns Hopkins University Press, as part of Project Muse). He also organized, incorporated, and chaired the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, co-chaired the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions, and served as President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, as well as serving on many other editorial and advisory boards.

This lecture is part of a series that explores intersections of arts and humanities with science and engineering, convened by UCLA's Vice Chancellor for Research, Dr. Roberto Peccei. It is sponsored by the Center for Research in Engineering (REMAP) and Experiential Technologies Center (ETC).

-- submitted by Zoe Borovsky (zoe@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

Website Presentations of New Media Colloquium

-- submitted by Jonathan Jones (jonjones@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact hayles@humnet.ucla.edu

Art History Symposium/Discussion

UCLA Hammer Museum Wednesday, May 24, 7 PM

“Incorporated, Inc.: A Museum of Modern Art Before the Museum of Modern Art”

In conjunction with the current Hammer exhibition, “The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America,” a small symposium and panel discussion on the importance of the Société Anonyme as the first “experimental museum” for contemporary art in the United States.

Organized and moderated by George Baker, with Miwon Kwon, Richard Meyer, and Nancy J. Troy.

George Baker is assistant professor of art history at UCLA, an editor of OCTOBER magazine, a critic for ARTFORUM, and is currently preparing the book The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris.

Miwon Kwon is associate professor of contemporary art history at UCLA and the author of One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity.

Richard Meyer is associate professor of art history at the University of Southern California (USC); his book Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth- Century Art received the Charles C. Eldredge Prize.

Nancy J. Troy is professor of modern art at USC, president of the National Committee for the History of Art, and is currently working on a book about Piet Mondrian.

-- submitted by (jenny@humanities.ucla.edu)

CDH Roundtable

When: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:00-1:00 pm Where: Public Policy Building, CDH Conference Room 1023

-- submitted by (jenny@humanities.ucla.edu)

UDHIG meeting

When: Tuesday, June 13, 4-5 pm

Where: Visualization Portal, 5628 Math Sciences Bldg

We have had some last-minute cancellations-we apologize for the late notice.

· Kandace Pansire,Eric Wells and Willeke Wendrich (NELC) will present "Visualization as a Tool in Archaeological Research and Preservation" and

· Zoe Borovsky (UDHIG) will present "Some new tools for digital humanities projects". She will show:

Juxta (for creating critical editions of texts, http://www.patacriticism.org/juxta/ ), TAPoR (an online text-analysis tool, http://test- tapor.mcmaster.ca/portal/portal ) and an image mark-up tool http://www.tapor.uvic.ca/~mholmes/image_markup/ ).

We hope to see you on Tuesday afternoon! --zoe

......

Zoe Borovsky, Ph.D.

UCLA-Digital Humanities Incubator Group

-- submitted by Zoe Borovsky (zoe@humanities.ucla.edu)

2006-2007 CDH Lecture - Dr. Julian Lombardi

Dr Lombardi is one of the architects of Croquet. Croquet is a system that supports deep collaboration and resource sharing among large numbers of users, using 3D visualization and simulations.

RSVP: http://admin.cdh.ucla.edu/lombardi.php

-- submitted by Kathy Forero (kforero@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.opencroquet.org/

Foreign Languages in the Professions: Business, Translation, Interpretation.

Center for World Languages • 1333 Rolfe Hall • PO Box 951411 • Los Angeles, CA 90095-1411 Tel: (310) 825-2510 • Fax: (310) 206-5183

-- submitted by Jenny M. (jenny@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact sbauckus@earthlink.net

CDH Roundtable

Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:00am - 12:00pm CDH Conference Room PPB 1023 *

Thanks to Prof. Philip Ethington (USC) we will have the opportunity to meet and talk with Prof. Cardesin, who works in the area of digital urban history. See for example Ferrol Urban History Please help us with planning, RSVP by visiting /

-- submitted by Jenny (jenny@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://admin.cdh.ucla.edu/cardesin.php

CDH Roundtable

Prof. Tangherlini will discuss his experience using Tablet PCs in the classroom.

RSVP for this event: http://admin.cdh.ucla.edu/rsvp.php?eventid=10

-- submitted by Kathy Forero (kforero@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/scandinavian/faculty/Tangherlini_T/index.html

CDH Roundtable

Almila is an Art History graduate student and Humanities Jr. Fellow. She will discuss work to date on her project: "Mapping the Exchange Of Ideas In Interdisciplinary Research: Time-Based Data Mining."

RSVP for this event: http://admin.cdh.ucla.edu/rsvp.php?eventid=11

-- submitted by Kathy Forero (kforero@humanities.ucla.edu)

Countries, Cultures, Communication: Digital Innovation

I cordially invite you to attend "Countries, Cultures, Communication: Digital Innovation at UCLA." This event is being hosted by my office and the Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) to showcase UCLA's many and varied strengths in digital research. Faculty and researchers from the School of Arts and Architecture, the Humanities and Social Sciences divisions of the College of Letters and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education and Information Science, the School of Public Affairs, the UCLA Digital Library and the School of Theater, Film and Television will be presenting projects and discussing their ground-breaking work in an open-house format.

The keynote speech will be delivered at 7 p.m. by the 2006 Richard Lyman Award winner, Dr. Willard McCarty. McCarty is a reader in humanities computing at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, in the School of Humanities at King's College London.

Thursday, May 10

Doors will be open 4-8 p.m.

1302 Perloff Hall

Admission is free; parking is $8.

Refreshments will be served.

Visit our website and RSVP by Tuesday, May 8. www.digitalinnovations.ucla.edu/

I look forward to seeing you on campus.

Roberto Peccei

Vice Chancellor for Research

-- submitted by Jenny (jenny@humanities.ucla.edu)

Text Encoding for Humanities Scholarship: What, Why, How?

Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman Women Writers Project, Brown University

May 14 & 15: 9:00-5:30 UCLA’s Biomedical Library (Louise M. Darling) Location RSVP Monday & Tuesday

How are digital texts used in research? How are they created? How do text encoding practices impinge upon and affect traditional scholarly work? What is text encoding, anyway, and why does it matter? Aren't search engines enough?

This two-day seminar explores the role and significance of the text encoding in current digital scholarship, aiming to give participants a thoughtful introduction to the issues and practices surrounding the creation of scholarly digital texts. It also provides an introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines, the widely used international standard for creating rigorous digital texts for humanities research. The seminar combines hands-on experimentation with discussions of encoding theory and strategy, editorial perspectives, publication methods and tools, and the changing shape of digital research. Participants will also have the opportunity to explore practical questions about planning and running digital humanities research projects.

This seminar is the second in a series of twelve funded by the NEH and designed by the Brown University Women Writers Project (WWP), with the goal of helping humanities faculty and students learn about text encoding in a way that addresses their interests and needs. With nearly two decades of experience and research, the WWP is internationally known as a center of expertise in scholarly text encoding. The project's online collection, Women Writers Online, serves as a model for issues of text representation and digital scholarly research.

About the instructors:

Julia Flanders is the Director of the WWP and serves as vice-chair of the TEI Consortium. Her research focuses on the political and social dimensions of digital humanities scholarship and of text encoding in particular. She is also the editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly, a new open-access digital journal.

Syd Bauman is the North American Editor of the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines, and the Senior Programmer/Analyst at the WWP. His work focuses on developing data standards, tools, and digital materials that reflect the real needs and constraints of humanities research.

To view the schedule and for more information about this NEH-funded seminar series, please see http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/UCLA/

This is a two-day seminar/workshop that combines discussion and hands-on training using PCs. We will have 20 computers; participants who attend both days will have priority when assigning laptops. To reserve a seat, see the links above, or visit the website: http://projects.cdh.ucla.edu/udhig/

Email: zoe@ats.ucla.edu with questions. This event is sponsored by: UDHIG (UCLA’s Digital Humanities Incubator Group), CDH (The Center for Digital Humanities), UCLA Digital Library Program, ATS (Academic Technology Services), IDRE (Institute for Digital Research and Education)

-- submitted by (jenny@humanities.ucla.edu)

Shu Lea Cheang's "Fresh Kill"

presents

Shu Lea Cheang's "Fresh Kill"

Film Screening followed by Artist's Reflections and Q&A with Director Shu Lea Cheang

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

James Bridges Theater, 1409 Melnitz Hall

7:00 pm

"Fresh Kill" tells the story of two young lesbian parents (Sarita Choudhury of MISSISSIPPI MASALA and Erin McMurtry) who get caught up in a global exchange of industrial waste via contaminated sushi. The place is New York and the time is now. Raw fish lips are the rage on trendy menus across Manhattan. A ghost barge, bearing nuclear refuse, circles the planet in search of a willing port. Household pets start to glow ominously and then disappear altogether. The sky opens up and snows soap flakes. People start speaking in tongues. The crisis escalates when a multinational corporation is implicated and the couple's infant daughter mysteriously vanishes. After uncovering censored information, a group of young New Yorkers makes an unlikely alliance with activists in the developing world and strikes back.

Visit http://humnet.ucla.edu/mellon for more information

This event is sponsored by the Dean, College of Letters and Sciences, and the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu

CDH Round Table

What would Bertrand Russell do?

RSVP for this event. http://admin.cdh.ucla.edu/rsvp.php?eventid=13

-- submitted by Kathy Forero (kforero@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.mcmaster.ca/home.cfm

CDH Roundtable

Wednesday, November 7, 2007 12-1pm

Virginia will discuss the academy’s resistance to the digital using her own dissertation as a limit case. She will argue that the most problematic features of the digital are: its ease of publishing; its reliance on non-alphabetic modes of expression; and its complication of copyright conventions.We hope the participants could discuss the role of digital scholarship in term of its valuation in higher education (tenure and promotion and such).

-- submitted by CDH Help Desk (hcf@humanities.ucla.edu)

Constructing Community--Egyptology Lecture

Constructing Community: the Old Kingdom provincial cemetery at Qubbet el Hawa

An examination of these tombs in their original context and a recognition of them as the meaningful products of the community who created and used them reveals a striking material expression of local identity

-- submitted by Catharine McGraw (catharinemcgraw@humanities.ucla.edu)

CWL Tech Series: Common Collaboration & Learning Environment (CCLE) Moodle

Come find out what CCLE Moodle, our new course management system, has to offer you and your students at the next CWL Tech Demo!

We will be giving an overview of some of the current and pilot features that are relevant for language teaching and learning:

*Single Sign-On with UCLA Logon

*Unicode & Right-to-Left Language Support

*Workshops Module

*Wimba Voice Tools (Voice Board, Podcaster, and Presentations)

*Wimba Classroom (pilot)

*Hot Potatoes (pilot)

*Questions & Quizzes

*Usage Tracking

*Grades & Statistical Analysis

*Forums & Groups

Presenters: Jonathan Jones (jonathanitc@humnet.ucla.edu), Instructional Technology Consultant & Ted Liu(ted@humanities.ucla.edu), Language Instructional Technology Coordinator

Come and discuss with your fellow instructors how you can leverage these tools to meet your teaching & learning objectives. Hope to see you here! RSVP by reply to insure your seat! For questions, contact ted@humanities.ucla.edu.

-- submitted by Center for Digital Humanities & Center for World Languages Technology Series (hcf@humanities.ucla.edu)

CDH Roundtable

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12pm

Please join us for an informal discussion of issues and challenges in developing software to test linguistic theories.

RSVP for this event at http://admin.cdh.ucla.edu/rsvp.php?eventid=20.

-- submitted by CDH Service Desk (hcf@humanities.ucla.edu)

CDH Roundtable

"Wiki See, Wiki Do"

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 12pm CDH Conference Room (PPB 1023)

Susan is a doctoral student in the department of English working under N. Katherine Hayles and a former ITC with the Center for Digital Humanities. Her dissertation explores the intersections between New Media and postmodern American literature. Shish is an educator with the visual effects company, "Rhythm and Hues" and a Part Time Lecturer in the Professional Writing Program at USC. Their presentation "Wiki See, Wiki Do," will explore the role of Wikis in educational environments as well as in the changing nature of authorship.

RSVP for this event at http://admin.cdh.ucla.edu/rsvp.php?eventid=17.

-- submitted by CDH Service Desk (hcf@humanities.ucla.edu)

Elizabeth Povinelli Lecture

“Beyond Autonomy and Genealogy: Economies of Abandonment”

Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Elizabeth Povinelli is professor of Anthropology & Gender Studies and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Law & Culture. Her writing has focused on developing a critical theory of late liberalism, grounded in theories of the translation, transfiguration and the circulation of values, materialities, and socialities within settler liberalisms. She looks at how the distinction between individual freedom and social bondage subtends and animates most theories and practices of sexuality in postcolonial liberalisms. Her publications include: The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism; The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality; and Labor's Lot: The Power, History, and Culture of Aboriginal Action.

-- submitted by Catharine McGraw (catharinemcgraw@humanities.ucla.edu)