Center for Digital Humanities at the University of South Carolina

12/14/2018

Our friends up north will be hosting a week-long Digital Humanities event for those who are interested in opportunities to learn new techniques and skills, hear about DH projects in and around New York City, and become part of the vibrant and diverse community of scholars and practitioners.

NYCDH Week Kickoff Event Registration Now Open!! NYCDH is happy to announce the 4th Annual NYCDH Week, February 4-8, 2019. Taking place at institutions throughout New York City, NYCDH Week gives individuals across the region who are interested in digital humanities an opportunity to learn new techni...

06/28/2018

Our Friends at the University of Alabama University Libraries through the Alabama Digital Humanities Center invites submission proposals to present at the Digitorium 2018 DH conference, October 4 - 6, 2018. They look forward to reviewing your proposals on digital methods, tools, and pedagogies. For more information, please visit the Digitorium site (https://apps.lib.ua.edu/blogs/digitorium/).

Hold the dates: Digitorium 2018 October 4 – 6, 2018 Proposal submissions now open Digitorium is the Digital Humanities Conference hosted by the University of Alabama. Inspired by working with scholars and students in many different departments, the Alabama Digital Humanities Center created Digitor...

06/14/2018

Our friends at the University of Sheffield's Digital Humanities Institute is delighted to announce its program for a three-day conference to be held in Sheffield, 6th – 8th September 2018.

The Digital Humanities Congress is a conference held in Sheffield every two years. Its purpose is to promote the sharing of knowledge, ideas and techniques within the digital humanities.

Early bird registration will end on June 30th -

Registration is now open! Digital Humanities Congress | University of Sheffield, 6th – 8th September 2018 Register here using our online store. The University of Sheffield’s Digital Hum…

04/20/2018

Come meet the CDH dev ops team at Discover USC today! They’ll be discussing our development platforms and project infrastructure. These guys work so well together they didn’t even plan their matching outfits!

04/19/2018

And then there's the evil use of technology.

AI fake news is funny now, but it’ll be scary later

04/16/2018

Our friends at UC Berkeley are excited to announce a new undergraduate Summer Certificate in the Digital Humanities. The Certificate is designed to be completed in a single summer, and enrollment is open to visiting students from universities throughout the country and the world.

The digital and data revolutions have transformed our world. For students of the humanities, these revolutions have made new kinds of study possible.

01/30/2018

Our friends at The Digital Humanities Institute are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Digital Humanities Congress which will be held at the University of Sheffield, 6th – 8th September 2018.

They welcome proposals for individual papers and sessions on all aspects of Digital Humanities research, teaching, and infrastructure. The closing date for their Call for Papers is February 28th.

More information can be found here:

Call for Papers Digital Humanities Congress | University of Sheffield, 6th – 8th September 2018 The University of Sheffield’s Digital Humanities Institute is delighted to announce its C…

01/22/2018

Dear friends,

The Center of Digital Humanities would like to extend an invitation for you to join us Friday, Feb 9th at 3pm as Professor of Linguistics Stanley Dubinsky discusses the opportunity to build a searchable, geo-locative, curated archive of information about ethnolinguistic conflicts and human rights violations around the world.

Linguistic minorities can arise through conquest, colonization, immigration, enslavement, or the creation of political states that ignore ethnolinguistic territories, and where there exist linguistic minorities, one almost invariably finds ethnolinguistically motivated human conflict. Such conflicts often play out, in part, through assaults on the rights of these minorities to use their languages freely and without prejudice. And while such conflicts and rights violations are ever-present, they tend to attract less attention and be less acknowledged as a “class”, than are ideological, religious, environmental, or economically-based human conflicts.

If you have questions, please feel free to email Mike Gavin ([email protected]) or Jason Porter ([email protected]). RSVPs are appreciated but not necessary. Bring a friend and join us in our new space in the Horizon II building!

JOIN US!

The Ethnolinguistic Fight Club with Stanley Dubinsky
Friday, Feb. 9th, 3:00 pm
Center for Digital Humanities
550 Assembly Street, room 1213

06/28/2017

Italo Calvino, *If on a winter's night a traveler*, trans. William Weaver (New York: Harcourt, 1981). From page 186:

"I asked Lotaria if she had already read some books of mine that I lent her. She said no, because she doesn't have a computer at her disposal.

She explained to me that a suitably programmed computer can read a novel in a few minutes and record the list of all the words contained in the text, in order of frequency. 'That way I can have an already completed reading at hand,' Lotaria says, 'with an incalculable saving of time. What is the reading of a text, in fact, except the recording of certain thematic recurrences, certain insistences of forms and meanings? An electronic reading supplies me with a list of frequencies, which I have only to glance at to form an idea of the problems the book suggests to my critical study. Naturally, at the highest frequencies the list records countless articles, pronouns, particles, but I don't pay them any attention. I head straight for the words that are richest in meaning: they can give me a fairly precise notion of the book.'"

02/27/2017

Dear colleagues,

The CDH is hosting a workshop in text analytics for any and all students, faculty, and staff. We will meet at 11am at the SCPC seminar room in Hollings Library on Wed. March 1. The text analytics workshop is co-convened by Michael Gavin, English, and Amir Kamari, Library and Information Science. For our first meeting, we'll discuss a work-in-progress by Rachel Mann and Michael Gavin, "Distant Reading the Seventeenth-Century Body," which uses computational methods to understand the history of medicine in England.

The workshop is open to anybody with interest in text analysis, whether you come at it from the information and computer science side or from the humanities side (or from some altogether different side, for that matter). We're open to all perspectives. If you have a set of skills and would like to meet up with people to learn about cool new areas of application, or if you have a topic you'd like to study and think text analysis might help, or if you just find the whole field vaguely interesting and would like to meet people who do it, this meeting is for you!

Please feel free to email me with questions at [email protected].

- Mike Gavin

02/24/2017

Thanks to everyone who attended our brainstorming session this afternoon. It was a blast!