This Friday, May 29, at 1:30 p.m., University of Notre Dame digital initiatives librarian Eric Lease Morgan will lead a hands-on workshop on text mining for the humanities in the Scholar’s Lab. Those interested in attending may RSVP here. See below for more information.
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English Spring Conference to Showcase DePaulians’ Work on Friday, May 8
This Friday, May 8, the DePaul English department‘s sixth annual English spring conference will take place in Arts & Letters Hall from noon to 8 p.m. More than forty MAE, MAWP, and undergraduate students will present their academic and creative work. The conference will also include a digital humanities workshop led by alumna Amanda Licastro, a career panel featuring recent…Continue reading English Spring Conference to Showcase DePaulians’ Work on Friday, May 8
Alumna Spotlight: Amanda Licastro
Digital Scholar Amanda Licastro, MAE ’08, teases out insights from student course blogs, online academic genealogies, and Twitter. BY HANA YOO Amanda Licastro has more than 1,000 Twitter followers. One week, she recalls, her tweets garnered more than 29,000 views. Generally, her Twitter account averages a couple thousand views per week. “I joke that…Continue reading Alumna Spotlight: Amanda Licastro
Winter Quarter Graduate Course Spotlight: Bibliography and Literary Research
Waffling about winter 2015 courses? See below for one possibility. ENG 471 (Hybrid) Bibliography and Literary Research Thursdays, 6 p.m.–9:15 p.m. Class meets face-to-face: 1/8, 1/22, 2/5, 2/26, and 3/12 Professor John Shanahan MAE: Core Requirement “Our investigation will cover theoretical topics in book and media history from the first decades of printing to the present. The course…Continue reading Winter Quarter Graduate Course Spotlight: Bibliography and Literary Research
Daniel Shore Lecture and Workshop Monday, November 17
Join Georgetown’s Daniel Shore for “Prosthetic Formalism in the Digital Archive,” a lecture and workshop on digital methods for historical literary analysis. Professor Shore studies the literature of the Renaissance, with a special focus on the works of John Milton. He is the author of Milton and the Art of Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Shore is currently…Continue reading Daniel Shore Lecture and Workshop Monday, November 17
DePaul’s New Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate Program Now Accepting Applications
Digital Humanities, or “DH,” is the name for a set of computer-based tools and methods used by people in the humanities. Digital Humanities work is all around us, from large searchable databases to interactive and mobile storytelling apps; from innovative visualization methods for art history and anthropology to new collaborative platforms for research and teaching.The…Continue reading DePaul’s New Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate Program Now Accepting Applications
Important Reminders and a Lecture Invitation
REMINDER: in order for the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences to verify the completion of academic requirements, students must apply for degree conferral (graduation) in advance to have a degree posted and to receive a diploma. If you plan on graduating in June of 2013, the deadline to apply for degree conferral as well…Continue reading Important Reminders and a Lecture Invitation
DePaul Humanities Center Announces Winter Events
Winter quarter may seem ages away, especially to those of us preoccupied with finals, but the DePaul Humanities Center is pleased to announce to the DePaul and Chicago communities to their Winter 2013 Events, featuring selections from three current series: New Voices in the Humanities, Nostalgia and the Age of Enlightenment, and Digital Humanities. This…Continue reading DePaul Humanities Center Announces Winter Events
One Book One Chicago, Anne K. Knowles at DePaul, and More
Thank you to everyone who came out to One Book One Chicago History of Reading program last week and made it a success. Don’t forget, there’s one more OBOC program at DePaul this season, and it’s taking place this week: The Book as Object Wednesday, October 10, 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. DePaul University, Lincoln…Continue reading One Book One Chicago, Anne K. Knowles at DePaul, and More