I will be offering a 10-hour workshop at the Digital Humanities Institute Beirut (DHIB), 4-5 May 2019. It is a miniature version of a course I will be teaching at NYU Abu Dhabi in Fall 2019.
NB: This is a preliminary outline of the course. It will be updated as the time comes closer.
Brief description: This ten-hour workshop will explore elements of the contemporary “quantified self” movement and its claims to “self-knowledge through numbers” focusing on contexts outside of the West/global North. It adopts a data-centered approach to gather, analyze and visualize data about the self in order to evaluate the phenomenon critically.
Requirements: Participants should come with a laptop and a smartphone (iOS or Android) with plenty of charge each day.
Outcomes. Participants in this workshop will:
Breakdown
Saturday 4 May, 0900-1130 — Session 1
Saturday 4 May, 1430-1700 — Session 2
Sunday 5 May, 0900-1130 — Session 3
Sunday 5 May, 1430-1700 — Session 4
For more information, see the bibliography of my forthcoming colloquium as well as the QS bibliography and 325 Show&Tell talks.
It is an informal get together featuring a wide array of topics for those interested in, or just curious about, the digital humanities. It is co-sponsored by the NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Digital Scholarship and the Division of the Arts and Humanities.
It will meet for approximately one hour during the day every few weeks throughout the Fall and Spring semester.
Anyone in the NYU Abu Dhabi community or beyond. The meet up is designed to be a learning experience for all. No particular technical knowledge is required. No RSVP required.
All meet ups are held in the NYU Abu Dhabi library, C2 329, unless noted below.
Wednesday, 19 September, 12-1pm Taylor Hixson (NYUAD Library, Geospatial Services), Workshop: “An Introduction to Story Maps”
Monday, 24 September, 1150-105pm David Wrisley (NYUAD, Digital Humanities), Workshop: “Web Hosting and Digital Identity”
Thursday, 4 October, 2-3pm - Abdullah Heyari, (NYUAD, Center for Cybersecurity), Workshop: “LaTeX for complete beginners”
Monday, 8 October, 1150-105pm - Kaki King (Musician), “Data Not Found” Different Location C3 116, NYU Abu Dhabi Arts Center
Sunday, 4 November, 12-1pm - Jeremy Farrell (Emory, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies) - Research presentation and hands on: “Network Approaches to Historical Religious Movements: Early Sufism (9th-10th c. CE) as a Case Study”
Tuesday, 20 November, 12-1pm - David Wrisley (NYUAD, Digital Humanities) Presentation and hands on: “WikiMedia and the UAE : On Freedom of Panorama, de minimis, and Visual Data in the Creative Commons”
Tuesday, 4 December, 12-1pm -Taylor Hixson (NYUAD Library, Geospatial Services) “Archiving your Digital Spatial Objects in NYU’s Spatial Data Repository”
Topics for next term:
Digital Scent
Social Networks and Entrepreneurship in the 19th century
Faculty Digital Archive and “green” repositories
Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
Below is a map of the data collected at two iterations (2017 and 2018) of the “Humanities Data and Mapping Environments” at the European Summer University of Digital Humanities, Leipzig, Germany.
The first version of the dataset is published here. Overlays use open data from the city of Leipzig.
Map created with R and Shiny by Victor Westrich (U Mainz)
“What exactly has happened to the study of the humanities in the digital age? To answer this question one need only review the last thirty years and remember how scholarship used to be carried out. In order to find books and articles, we had to look through various catalogs (card, National Union) as well as printed bibliographies. Fledgling institutional digital catalogs existed, but hardly contained everything we needed. Few journals offered digital access to publications. A researcher’s data was often stored on a desktop computer, or even just in paper copy on a shelf. At conferences, we arranged photographic slides in a carousel to project them on the wall.
In today’s connected world a stunning variety of virtual, networked resources are now available to researchers: electronic books and other platforms for document delivery, digitized archival collections, new environments for scholarly communication and web publishing, open data repositories, even cloud and high performance computing. Not all humanists are using these resources, but increasing numbers are, and as a result, our scholarly work is taking on a diversity, and creativity, of new forms. The transition to an era of “software intensive” humanities-it is, after all, a slow change-is bringing about new possibilities for trans-disciplinary scholarship. But what are the implications of more machines in our profession? Are we ready to confront the challenges and the results of such research? How many of us actually understand how to navigate these new data-rich environments to our benefit? …”
The rest of the NYU Abu Dhabi Digital Humanities Year in Review 2017 document can be downloaded here.