MITH's Digital Dialogues

Due to its unique geography, Puerto Rico is at the forefront of climate catastrophe. In theory, Puerto Rico’s devastating experiences should provide nations around the world with insight into impending climate fluctuations. But as my presentation reveals, the global disaster-response methods being used by governments and contractors tend to be underpinned by power, greed, and [...]

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We will present initial results on two computational projects on Medieval Hebrew manuscripts. The first, Sofer Mahir, applies an HTR (handwritten text recognition) pipeline constructed at Scripta-PSL to the major manuscripts of the classical compositions of the tannaitic period of Rabbinic Judaism. In the frame of the second project, Tikkoun Sofrim, which applies the pipeline [...]

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The word “glitch,” meaning a small voltage variance that can short out a circuit, entered the English language through radio hobbyists and was popularized by astronauts, for whom a glitch could mean the difference between life and death. But while the word “glitch” is often still used to connote catastrophic failure, videogamers have come to [...]

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Several important reports and studies have made us aware of the dismal practices of inclusion in the film industry. By drawing on extensive bodies of data, researchers have usefully highlighted the relative struggles of “minority” actors in relation to their “majority” counterparts. But what do we find when we concentrate on black artists and black [...]

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This presentation traces the conceptualization and production of the dc 1968 project, an ambitious digital storytelling project designed to transform public memory and scholarship about Washington, DC in 1968 from a hyper focus on the uprising after the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr to a fuller and more complex understanding of the [...]

The post Marya McQuirter Digital Dialogue appeared first on Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.

What connects Open Source Software development, scholarly edition making, Linked Open Data, and Digital Sustainability? All of them rely our human capacity for managing fine detail as much as or more than they rely on technological infrastructure. Although Digital Humanities often tends to focus on the macroscopic, with text mining, visualization, and distant reading, it [...]

The post Hugh Cayless Digital Dialogue appeared first on Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.

Many years after the idea of a digital humanities galvanized different genealogies of humanistic practice around the world, most institutions in North America have by now each attracted various forms of related talent to their libraries, departments and centers to help build capacity at the institutional level. What happens when that talent begins to collaborate [...]

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Gilles Deleuze has written that movement is a translation in space. In this talk I use this distinction as a framework for critical reflection on engaging how past agents marginalized in history have influenced the meaning of space and place. My focus will center on enslaved people who liberated themselves from bondage in the Great [...]

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This lecture focuses on the size of the Arabic tradition (ca. 700-1500), and the likely role that written practices and cultural expectations played in its development. It is arguably the largest written tradition up to its day, rivalled only by medieval Chinese. I focus, first, on recent work assembling a corpus of 1.3 billion words [...]

The post Sarah Savant Digital Dialogue appeared first on Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.

Revolutionary dreams erupt out of political engagement; collective social movements are incubators of new knowledge.  Robin D.G.  Kelly, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination   This presentation traces the arc of Museums Respond to Ferguson and #BlkTwitterstorians--two born digital projects that emerged at the height of the Movement for Black Lives. The chats started with queries [...]

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