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Networked New York-Yaddo Circles Project Talk This Friday, March 9th

The Yaddo Circles home page features a summer of 1942 group
photograph of the colony’s guests.

Fordham’s Digital Humanities Working Group is pleased to report that Micki McGee, our group’s co-chair and a professor in the department of Sociology and Anthropology, will present at the Networked New York conference this coming Friday at New York University.

McGee will talk about her work on the Yaddo Archive Project, and demonstrate the prototype network mapping interface that she has been working towards with developers Aditi Muralidharan (UC Berkeley), Asik Pradhan (Indiana University), and Charles Forcey (Historicus, Inc).

Other presentations of interest to digital humanists will be Edward Whitley’s talk on The Crowded Page network mapping interface and The Vault a Pfaff’s, a digital literary history of the 19th-century hangout of Walt Whitman and his friends.

Networked New York will focus on on material, literary, and digital connections in the city and is hosted by the Colloquium in American Literature and Culture, and Workshop in Archival Practice at New York University.

 For more information and a detailed schedule of talks, visit: networkednewyork.wordpress.com.

“What Do Keywords Do?” – Keywords Collaboratory Talk This Week

The Keywords Collaboratory, a project of Fordham University English and American Studies professor Glenn Hendler and Professor Bruce Burgettt of the University of Washington at Bothell, has been the focus of presentations at two recent national conferences: the October 2011 Mobility Shifts Conference at the New School for Social Research and the January 2012 Modern Language Association Annual Meeting in Seattle.

In case you missed these events, you have another chance to learn about the Collaboratory  this week. Hendler and Burgett, who developed the Collaboratory to accompany their 2007 anthology Keywords for American Cultural Studies (NYU Press) will discuss the critical and creative potential of keywords to catalyze interdisciplinary conversation this coming Friday, February 10th, at 4pm at the Humanities Center of the City University of New York Graduate Center.  This public program is co-sponsered by the Revolutionizing American Studies Seminar and the CUNY-Graduate Center’s Ph.D. Program in English. 

What Do Keywords Do?
a talk by Glenn Hendler and Bruce Burgett
February 10, 2012 – 4pm
City University of New York – Graduate Center
English Lounge (Room 4406)

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Keeping Up with Digital Resources in Medieval Studies

The Latin Works of John Wyclif (www.wyclif.info)
is an online resource developed by Dr. Patrick Hornbeck
and his colleagues.

Fordham’s Center for Medieval Studies will host a workshop on Keeping Up with Digital Resources in Medieval Studies on Wednesday, October 26, 1-2 pm, at Fordham’s Rose Hill/Bronx campus, in Faculty Memorial Hall, Room 215.

The Medieval Studies digital resources pioneered by Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski, Joseph Fitzpatrick SJ Distinguished Professor and Director of Medieval Studies, and other faculty and graduate students affiliated with Fordham’s Center for Medieval Studies, are among the richest online humanities resources at the University. The oldest of these sites, the Internet History Sourcebooks, at one time accounted for more than three-quarters of all visits to Fordham’s domain and the site still accounts for nearly half of all hits.

Join Dr. Kowaleski and colleagues Dr. Nina Rowe, Associate Professor of Art History, and Dr. Patrick Hornbeck, Assistant Professor of Theology and Medieval Studies, for a series of presentations digital tools for Medieval Studies. Dr. Kowaleski will present new developments with the Online Medieval Sources Bibliography, Dr. Rowe will talk about ARTstor for non-art historians and Dr. Hornbeck will present his recently re-designed web-based resource, The Latin Works of John Wyclif.

Faculty Memorial Hall is located at Belmont Avenue and East Fordham Road (see map).

Information Visualization Leader Katy Börner to Keynote Fordham Compatible Data Meeting

Dr. Katy Börner will keynote the Compatible Data Meeting
at Fordham University.

Katy Börner, an international leader in information visualization, will present the keynote lecture on “Envisioning Scholarly Data” at the Compatible Data Initiative meetings at Fordham University, September 23-25th.  Börner’s keynote will focus on developing visual representations of intellectual and creative communities.

Dr. Börner is the Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science at the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. She also serves as Adjunct Professor at the School of Informatics and Computing, Adjunct Professor at the Department of Statistics in the College of Arts and Sciences, Core Faculty of Cognitive Science, Research Affiliate of the Biocomplexity Institute, Fellow of the Center for Research on Learning and Technology, Member of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory, and Founding Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University.

Dr. Börner is also the curator of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit. Her research focuses on the development of data analysis and visualization techniques for information access, understanding, and management. She is particularly interested in the study of the structure and evolution of scientific disciplines; the analysis and visualization of online activity; and the development of cyberinfrastructures for large scale scientific collaboration and computation. Börner is the co-editor of the Springer book on “Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries” and of a special issue of PNAS on “Mapping Knowledge Domains” (2004). Her book “Atlas of Science: Guiding the Navigation and Management of Scholarly Knowledge” was published by MIT Press in 2010. She holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology in Leipzig, 1991 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Kaiserslautern, 1997.

Dr. Börner’s lecture will take place at Fordham’s Lincoln Center Campus, Lowenstein Building, 12th floor on Friday evening, September 23rd at 6:30pm. The Lowenstein Building is on the northwest corner of 60th Street and 9th Avenue. ID is required for entry. This event is free, but registration is recommended. Map: Fordham University–Lincoln Center.

This event is made possible by the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency, through a grant to the Compatible Databases Initiative, and by the Office of the Dean of Faculty, Fordham University.

Food Historian Gabriella Petrick to Speak on Using Digital Technology to Map Urban Life

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D.

Food historian and digital scholar Gabriella M. Petrick will speak on “Food and the Sensory City: Using Digital History to Map Everyday Life in 20th-Century New York” at Fordham University’s Bronx campus on Thursday, September 15, at 5:15pm. Dr. Petrick’s talk will explore the use of geographic information systems (GIS) for research on ethnic bakeries in urban contexts.  This is the first in a year-long series of public events highlighting the use of new digital technologies for humanities and social science scholarship.

Dr. Petrick’s book, Industrializing Taste: Food Processing and the Transformation of the American Diet, 1900-1965, forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press, analyzes how new food processing techniques transformed the foods available to American consumers as well as how housewives incorporated these new industrial foods into their family’s diet over the course of the last century. She is also working on a second book project entitled Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter: Taste in History, for the sensory history series at the University of Illinois Press.

Dr. Petrick earned her doctoral degree from the University of Delaware as a Hagley Fellow and is currently an Associate Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and History in the Department of Nutrition, and Food Studies at George Mason University.  Her interdisciplinary research on food combines the fields of the history of technology, sensory history, environmental history and the history of science. Additionally Dr. Petrick’s training at the Culinary Institute of America, Cornell University and at several wineries in Napa and Sonoma Counties has shaped her theoretical approach to taste.

The recipient of many awards for her scholarship, including the Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Society for the History of Technology, the W. Gabriel Carras Award for Junior Scholars from the Steinhardt School, New York University, and a National Science Foundation Grant, Petrick also publishes in the Journal of American History, Agricultural History, and History and Technology, among other journals and edited volumes.

Dr. Petrick’s lecture will take place at Fordham’s Dealy Hall (Room 204) on the University’s Bronx (Rose Hill) campus at 441 East Fordham Road.  The closest campus entrances to access Dealy Hall are just off of Webster Avenue and East Fordham Road, or at Fordham Road and Bathgate Avenue.  View map for directions.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the American Studies Program, the Urban Studies Program, the History Department, the English Department, the Dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill, and the Digital Humanities Working Group.

News: FCLC Senior Working on DH Project Wins Prestigious Beinecke Scholarship

Cristina Vignone, a senior at Fordham College at Lincoln Center, recently won Fordham’s first Beinecke Scholarship for graduate study in the arts, humanities or social sciences, a $34,000 award she will use after she graduates in 2012 with a double major in History and Anthropology. In her junior year Vignone undertook a digital humanities project that reexamined the Salem Witch Trials through visual representations of the relationships shared by various trial participants. Vignone developed the project under the guidance of Fordham Digital Humanities Working Group member and history professor Roger Panetta. The project was presented at the Fordham University Research Fair in Spring 2011 and at the 2011 Lower New York Regional Conference for the National History Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta, at Marist College. It was also selected for further digitization by graduate students of the Information Visualization course at the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. Congratulations to Cristina!

Open Access Advocate Kathleen Fitzpatrick to Keynote 2011 Faculty Technology Day

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.

The Digital Humanities Working Group could not be more pleased that Kathleen Fitzpatrick, a pioneer in developing new forms for scholarly publication, will speak on the topics of “Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy” as the keynote speaker at Fordham’s annual Faculty Technology Day. Sponsored by Fordham’s Instructional Technologies | Academic Computing Group, Dr. Fitzpatrick’s talk will consider the impact of digital technologies on publishing and the academy.

Dr. Fitzpatrick is a Professor of Media Studies at Claremont College and the author of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television (Vanderbilt University Press, 2006), and of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, forthcoming from NYU Press and previously made available for open peer review online. She is co-founder of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons. In mid-April MediaCommons and New York University Press were awarded a major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of a year-long study of peer-to-peer (P2P) review. Fitzpatrick was also recently appointed as director of the newly created Office of Scholarly Communication at the Modern Language Association.

Faculty Technology Day runs from 9:30–5:00 pm on Monday, May 16th at Fordham’s Lincoln Center Campus, Lowenstein Building, 12th floor. Fitzpatrick’s keynote is scheduled for 10:00 am. The Lowenstein Building is on the northwest corner of 60th Street and Ninth Avenue. ID is required for entry. This event is free, but registration is recommended. Map: Fordham University–Lincoln Center.

News: NEH Digital Start-Up Grant Awarded for Fordham-Initiated Compatible Data Summit

The National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities awarded a nearly $25,000 Digital Start-Up grant to Fordham University Sociology and Anthropology professor Micki McGee to convene a September 2011 meeting on fostering open access interoperable data. The Compatible Data Initiative, or CompDB, was one of just 22 projects funded in the competition. CompDB aims to focus scholars working in digital network mapping projects on developing conventions that will will make their data interoperable to allow for cross-project connections.  

Scholars from the University of Nebraska, the University of Southern California, the University of California-Berkeley, Indiana University-Bloomington, Lehigh Univerisity, and the University of Virginia will meet to brainstorm on data standards. This project has been developed in collaboration with The Corporation of Yaddo, one of America’s oldest and most distinguished artists’ retreats, and the New York Public Library’s Division of Manuscripts and Archives, where Yaddo’s records are housed. 

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