Introduction to Digital Humanities
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Katherine Pandora, Department of History of Science
Darren Purcell, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability
Introduction to new ways of thinking about research in the humanities by showcasing creative experimentation happening in multiple disciplines that are using computational tools that have the potential to transform the content, scope, methodologies, and audiences for humanistic inquiry.
Public Lectures Series
The History of Science Department presents a public lecture series in conjunction with the Presidential Dream Course. Presentations are free and open to the public. For information or accommodation to events on the basis of disability, contact Dr. Katherine Pandora, kpandora@ou.edu or at 405-325-3427.
"The Age of Scale"
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
4:00 p.m.
Bizzell Library, Lower Level 118 / Helmerich Collaborative Learning Center Community Room
Michael Peter Edson
Digital Strategist
Smithsonian Institution / Council on Library and Information Resources / The Open Knowledge Foundation
Michael Peter Edson is a digital strategist and thought leader at the forefront of digital transformation in the cultural sector. He has worked on numerous award-winning projects and has been involved in practically every aspect of technology and new media in museums including the development of the Smithsonian’s first Web and New Media Strategy; the Smithsonian’s first blog, Eye Level; and the first alternative reality game to take place in a museum, Ghosts of a Chance. Michael is a Presidential Distinguished Fellow at the Council on Libraries and Information Resources (USA), and he serves on the Open Knowledge Foundation’s OpenGLAM advisory board. Michael was a member of the National Endowment for the Arts "Art Works" task force, which mapped the relationship between the arts and the quality of life in American communities; he is an O'Reilly Foo Camp alumni; and he was named a "Tech Titan: person to watch" by Washingtonian magazine.
"Mapping the Holocaust"
Thursday, February 5, 2015
4 - 6 p.m.
Bizzell Lower Level 118 / Helmerich Collaborative Learning Center Community Room
Anne Kelly Kowles
Professor of Geography, Middlebury College
Anne Kelly Knowles has been at the forefront for nearly two decades in exploring how the use of geographers’ tools such as GIS expands interdisciplinary research in the spatial humanities. Her latest book, as a lead researcher in the international Holocaust Geographies Collaborative, is Geographies of the Holocaust. She is a recipient of the Smithsonian’s American Ingenuity Award for her pioneering application of “cutting-edge technology to geography, changing our perspective on historic events from Gettysburg to the Holocaust,” and the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers for her book Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868.
"The New Nineteenth-Century Archive:Reading Poetry in the Digital Age"
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
4 p.m.
Bizzell Library Lower Level 118 / Helmerich Collaborative Center Community Room
Natalie Houston
Associate Professor / University of Houston
Department of English
Natalie Houston's current research project, Digital Reading: Poetry and the New Nineteenth-Century Archive, uses large scale computational analysis to explore how poetry functions within Victorian print culture. She was Project Director for the NEH-fundedVisual Page, a software application designed to identify and analyze visual features in digitized books.
"A Sentimental Education in the (Digital) Humanities"
Thursday, March 26, 2015
4 p.m.
Bizzell Library Lower Level 118 / Helmerich Collaborative Center Community Room
Alex Gil
Digital Scholarship Coordinator
Humanities and History Division Columbia University Libraries
Alex Gil specializes in 20th-century Caribbean literature and Digital Humanities, with an emphasis on textual studies. He is currently Chair of the Global Outlook::Digital Humanities initiative and is actively engaged in several digital humanities projects at Columbia and around the world, and has served as Internationalization Editor for Digital Humanities Quarterly.
"Insight and Absence: Digital Humanities, Data Visualization, and James Hemings"
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
4 p.m.
Frontier Room / Oklahoma Memorial Union
Lauren Klein
Associate Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication
Lauren Klein's research interests include early American literature and culture, food studies, media studies & digital humanities. She is Director of Georgia Tech’s Digital Humanities Lab and co-developer of TOME, a tool to explore and visualize text-based archives. Current projects include the history of visualization and how visualization techniques advance arguments and perform critique.
