Gregory Flaxman and Anne Sauvagnargues: On the Digital (before the Digital)
Kaplan 348What does it mean to speak of a pre-history of the digital? In response to recent efforts to read the concept back into the history of philosophy or to render it a kind of ontology, this talk suggests that digital develops in the course of what we call “the ecology and evolution of images.” It’s no...
DH in Every Language with Quinn Dombrowski
Rolfe 2118 UCLA, Los Angeles, United StatesJoin UCLA's Excellence in Pedagogy and Teaching (EPIC) Digital Pedagogy Seminar for a discussion of teaching with digital tools in multiple languages. Sponsored by UCLA EPIC. Quinn Dombrowski has been involved with digital humanities since 2004, working on a variety of projects including a medieval Russian database, a digital research environment for Bulgarian linguistics and...
Faculty Innovation Fellows “Pitch Day”
Engineering VI AuditoriumThe Faculty Innovation Fellows is a new program co-sponsored by the Vice Chancellor of Research, the UCLA Technology Development Group, and Startup UCLA. Its purpose is to support startup culture, innovation, and social entrepreneurship across the campus. This year’s faculty projects come from across north and south campus and include a tech tool to decipher infant...
Moral Code – Ethics in the Digital Age
Royce Hall 314 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe Thomas Mann House and the UCLA Digital Humanities present Conference: Moral Code - Ethics in the Digital Age "The primary political and philosophical issue of the next century will be the definition of what we are," futurist Ray Kurzweil wrote just before the onset of the 21st century. Algorithms and autonomously operating machines have already...
Text Analysis Working Group: Applied Word Embeddings
Scholarly Innovation Lab Charles E. Young Research LibraryOur next meeting will be Wednesday, June 5 between 1:00 and 2:00pm in the SIL. We will continue our conversation about word embeddings and experiment with their practical application in our next meeting. In the meantime, feel free to begin playing with the code on your own.
Year End Celebration & Graduation
TBDCome join us for our end of the year festivities, where students will get to showcase their capstone projects and we say a final goodbye to our graduating seniors!
Apply – DH Undergraduate Assistant
The UCLA Digital Humanities Program is searching for a paid undergraduate assistant for the 2019-2020 academic year. The assistant ("Digital Scholarship Fellow") will aid in a variety of DH initiatives, including: Web Design Analytics Event Planning Program Strategy Email Marketing Qualified candidates are enrolled DH Minors with experience with Wordpress, Excel, and graphic design. Interested...
Apply – Fall ’19 DH GSRs
The Digital Humanities Program is looking for a 23% GSR (9 hours per week) to assist with Digital Humanities research projects and supporting the program through database development, data visualization, and some light administrative responsibilities. This person will work under direction and mentorship of the Vice Chair of the Digital Humanities program, who is responsible for monitoring hours...
Text Analysis Research Cluster (TARC): Discussion of Andrew Piper, Enumerations: Data & Literary Study (2018)
Scholarly Innovation Lab Charles E. Young Research LibraryIn this meeting, we will discuss Andrew Piper's Enumerations, with a particular focus on Chapter 5. This book presents Piper's arguments about several methods for distant reading. Chapter 5 in particular looks at distant reading of characterization and character relationships. Also, during this session, we will do some planning for the rest of the year...
EPIC + HumTech Faculty Innovation Lunch: Matthew Fisher on the Annotation Tool
Rolfe 2118 UCLA, Los Angeles, United Stateshis will explore how to use annotation for students to practice critical response, peer feedback, translation, and creative practice. Attendees will be able to play with the UC Annotate digital annotation tool during the luncheon.