SCWAReD Summer Workshop 2021

SCWAReD Workshop Schedule

NOTE: All times are Eastern Time.

Wednesday June 23

Time (ET)Topic

10:00-10:15

Welcome remarks from HTRC Director John A. Walsh

10:15-11:00

History of Black Writing
Maryemma Graham, Brendan Williams-Childs, Jade Harrison, Ashley Simmons (University of Kansas)

11:00-11:15

Break

11:15-12:00

Mining the Native American Authored Works in HathiTrust for Insights

Kun Lu, Raina Heaton, and Raymond Orr (University of Oklahoma)

12:00-1:00

Lunch break

1:00-1:45

The Black Fantastic: Curated Vocabularies, Artifact Analysis and Identification
Clarissa West-White (Bethune Cookman University) and Seretha Williams (Augusta University)

1:45-2:00

Break

2:00-2:45

Creating Period-Specific Worksets for Latin American Fiction 

José Eduardo González (University of Nebraska Lincoln)

2:45-3:00

Break

3:00-3:45

The National Negro Health Digital Project: Recovering and Restoring a Black Public Health Corpus
Kim Gallon (Purdue University)

3:45-4:00

Wrap-Up

Thursday June 24

Time (ET)Topic

10:00-10:45

HTRC Tools Training 1

10:45-11:00

Break

11:00-12:00

HTRC Tools Training 2

12:00-1:00

Lunch break

1:00-2:00

Guest Speaker: Kent Chang (UC Berkeley School of Information)

Title:

A Digital Humanities that Enables: Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Cultural-centric Data Science with HTRC Data Capsule

Abstract:

In this talk, I will discuss how HTRC Data Capsule has enabled one particular line of work in digital humanities: treating textual resources as cultural data and leveraging quantitative evidence or computational models to address historical and cultural inquiries, or what I call cultural-centric data science. I will demonstrate the nature of such work by introducing two recently published projects (in Post-45 and Critical Inquiry) that used results I helped produce with resources in the Data Capsule. With those example projects in mind, I will then discuss the main challenges as well as practical tips from my experience of interdisciplinary collaboration. I will conclude by sharing my thoughts on possible future directions to further realize the potentials of digital humanities as a diverse and inclusive field. 

2:00-2:15

Break

2:15-3:00

Social time with advisory board and HTRC team

3:00-3:30

Wrap-Up