Register to attend the March 18-19 event at Northeastern University (including the Joint Keynote with Matthew Jockers and Julia Flanders and the NEH grants workshop with Brett Bobley) here.

Boston-Area Days of DH 2013

A Celebration of Digital Humanities Work in New England

• Sponsor: The NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks at Northeastern University
• Location: Northeastern University
• Date: March 18 – 19, 2013
• Deadline: February 1, 2013

The digital humanities community in the Boston area is rapidly growing—with new centers, new hiring, and an array of new DH projects.  To celebrate and facilitate this renaissance of digital humanities work in the Boston area, the newly founded NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks at Northeastern University will host a “Boston-Area DH Day” on March 18 and 19, 2013.

“Boston-Area Days of DH” will celebrate innovative work being done in New England’s rapidly-growing digital humanities community. The event will coincide with centerNet‘s annual, international “Day of DH,” and feature the work of both up-and-coming and established DH scholars in the region. Capping off the event will be a grants workshop run by officers from the NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities. All those interested in DH in the New England region are encouraged to submit a proposal or register to attend.

Schedule Outline

March 18

Coffee, tea, and light breakfast items will be provided starting at 8:45.

Events marked “WIT” on 3/18 will take place on the Wentworth Institute of Technology campus, conveniently adjacent to Northeastern. Please refer to this Google Map for help finding our various buildings. The map is also embedded at the bottom of this page.

9:00-10:30 in Blount Auditorium, Annex Central (WIT): Greetings and lightning talks (short presentations of work in progress by Boston-area DHers)

1. Indigenous Interfaces: Tribal Community, Scholars and Students in a Digital Hub, Writing of Indigenous New England, Siobhan Senier (University of New Hampshire)
2. Beowulf, Old Norse, and Tolkien: In the Trenches with Lexomics; Leah Smith, Rose Berger, Namiko Hitotsubashi, and Richard Neal (Wheaton College [MA])
3. The Early Caribbean Archive, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Northeastern University)
4. metaCATALOGUE, Michael McCluskey, Elizabeth Watkins, and Gretchen Henderson (Harvard University)
5. Annotation Studio, Kurt Fendt and Hyperstudio colleagues (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
6. Universal Design and Disability, Karen Bourrier (Boston University)
7. Uncovering Nineteenth-Century Viral Texts, Abby Mullen and Matthew Williamson (Northeastern University)

10:30-10:45: Break

10:45-12:15 Workshops I:

• Text Analysis: led by David Smith, Northeastern University (West Village H 166)
• Network Analysis for Humanists: led by Jean Bauer, Brown University (Ira Allen 122, WIT)
• Making Your First Historical Map with GIS: led by Ryan Cordell, Northeastern University (Environmental Sciences GIS Lab, Holmes 070)
• Informal Hack Sessions: Hang out in the Snell Library’s Digital Media Commons circle spaces and hack your own or someone else’s project (Snell Library, second floor, Circle 1 and Circle 2)

12:15-1:30: Lunch on your own

1:30-3:00 in Behrakis 10: Keynote address by Julia Flanders (Brown University) and Matthew L. Jockers (University of Nebraska—Lincoln): “A Matter of Scale”

3:00-3:15 Break

3:15-4:45 Workshops II:

• Text Analysis: led by David Smith, Northeastern University (West Village H 166)
• Network Analysis for Humanists: led by Jean Bauer, Brown University (Annex Central 106, WIT)
• Advanced Network Analysis Discussion: led by Drew Margolin, Northeastern University (West Village H 362)
• Making Your First Historical Map with GIS: led by Ryan Cordell, Northeastern University (Environmental Sciences GIS Lab, Holmes 070)
• Informal Hack Sessions: Hang out in the Snell Library’s Digital Media Commons circle spaces and hack your own or someone else’s project (Snell Library, second floor, Circle 1 and Circle 2)

March 19

Coffee, tea, and light breakfast items will be provided starting at 9:45. Please refer to this Google Map for help finding our various buildings. The map is also embedded at the bottom of this page.

10:00-12:00 in Curry Student Ballroom: Featured Talks

1. Mapping 1381, Mathieu Duvall and Michael Hanrahan (Bates College)
2. Trifles: A Game of Social Justice, Augusta Rohrbach (Washington State University) and Sarah T. Waddle (Des Moines Area Community College)
3. Teaching US Women’s History with Scripto, Shane Landrum (Florida International University/Brandeis University)
4. Reading Texts with Big Metadata: the Bookworm Platform for Books, Newspapers, and Other Texts, Benjamin Schmidt (Harvard Cultural Observatory)

12:00-1:30: Lunch on your own

1:30-3:30 in Behrakis 310: Grants workshop with Brett Bobley (Director, NEH Office of Digital Humanities)–Find here a package of grant proposals that will be discussed in a mock panel during the workshop.

If you have any questions about this event, please email Abby Mullen at mullen.ab@husky.neu.edu.

If you intend to attend the March 18-19 Days of DH event, we encourage you to register here.

This map provides a guide to our conference locations. If you click on a building’s marker, you will see details about which events will be hosted in that building:

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