Humanities Computing Lecture Series

Each year, Humanities Computing sponsors one or two visiting lectures by prominent practitioners in the field of digital humanities. In the past, we have focused on issues related to natural language processing, data-mining, and text analysis. Looking forward, we plan to invite speakers to discuss current developments and research in other media such as sound and video. Suggestions by University staff and faculty for future lecture topics or visitors are very welcome. Please contact the Division's Director of Technology with your ideas.

Lecture Archive

23 October 2007 "Mining and Meaning: Eighteenth-Century Metaphors of the Mind," Brad Pasanek, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Pomona College.

7 November 2006 "Research in Aesthetics and Data Visualization," George LeGrady, Professor of Interactive Media, University of California at Santa Barbara

15 May 2006 "Perseus, Classics, and a Million-Book Library," Greg Crane, Editor-in-Chief of the Perseus Library, Professor of Classics, Tufts University (co-sponsored with the Classics Department)

11 May 2006 "The Matter of the Digital Text," Julia Flanders, Director of the Women Writers Project and Associate Director for Textbase Development, Brown University

24 April 2006 "Who Wrote That? Computational Approaches to Authorship and Style," Shlomo Argamon, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology