Digital Humanities Summer Institute June 6-10, 2011



DHSI Colloquium, 5-8 June 2012

The DHSI Colloquium showcases new and emerging, innovative and engaging work of those at DHSI.

Open to all DHSI attendees, the colloquium starts on the second day of the institute and takes place during sessions that begin and end each day. Presentations will be informal and may take the form of full-length conference papers (15-20 minutes), short conference papers, those traditional in their delivery, and those more demonstration-oriented. Brief high-impact formats such as paper-slams, lightning presentations, dork shorts, pecha kuchas, etc., will also be given consideration. The colloquium welcomes presentations by individuals or teams of two or more presenters.

Accepted for Presentation

• Almond Aguila, "The Pedagogy of Facebook"
• Gord Barentsen, "Coding Digital Texts in TEI-Compliant XML, Case Study: The Folger Shakespeare Library Edition of Troilus and Cressida"
• Mary Borgo, "Voyeur-istically Viewing Middlemarch: Visualization Tools and Traditional Literary Scholarship"
• Lauren Burr, "House of Leaves, House of Lexia"
• Christopher Church, Hannah Farber and Scott McGinnis, "Computing and the Practice of History: Creating an Institutional Framework for the Digital Humanities at UC Berkeley"
• Carol Lea Clark, “The Future of the Ebook: A Medium for Scholarly Innovation?”
• Kristin Cornelius, "Disseminating the Humanities"
• Constance Crompton, Daniel Powell and Ray Siemens, "The Devonshire Manuscript Defused: Modeling the Social Edition"
• Jon Detombe, "Digitizing and Deciphering the Courten MS"
• Eugenie Duthoit, "Re-thinking the Use of Digital Tools to Assist the Pedagogical Translation from Latin"
• Orhan Elmaz, “How and why to create a frequency dictionary of Media Arabic”
• Bill Endres, "Sorting Through Encoding Possibilities: TEI Guidelines and Conflicting Hierarchies in an 8th Century Illuminated Manuscript"
• Paul Faber, "'A Thousand Twangling Instruments': Digital Humanities and the Study of Song"
• Elias Fahssi, “Working with Patience: Textual Editing, Digital Humanities, and Undergraduate Research”
• Chris Friend, "Bringing Technology to Student Writing: How DH Practices Can Enhance Composition Pedagogy"
• Mary Galvin, “The Materiality of the Digital”
• Anna Gibbs and Maria Angel, “Digital Writing and the Literary Ethos”
• Gabriel Hankins, "Mapping the Modern Republic of Letters: Modeling Correspondence Networks with Omeka/Neatline"
• Tim Hawkins, “Developing a Google Earth Finding Aid for Archival Materials About the Southern Colorado Coal Fields”
• Alison Hedley, “’Mobilizing the Maternal Body in Late Victorian England’: Geo-Victorian Pedagogy
• Linnet Humble, “Ebook Production at Canadian Ups: Problems and Possible Solutions”
• Sara Humphreys, “Telling Open World Stories through Foundational Literary Genres”
• Rob Imes, "Mapping Early Modern Travel Compilations: Merging Cartography, Travelogues, and GIS"
• Kathi Inman Berens, “Failure is Frictive: Coding and Pedagogy”
• Peggy Jubien, "Opening the Black Box of Mobile Technology"
• Andy Keenan, "Gamification: Exploring the Debate within Game Design"
• Sarah Koning, "Historical Gentrification?: The Example of 19th-Century Mexico City"
• Christopher Laxer, “Designing a Literary Labels Database”
• Brooke Lestock and Sarah Storti, "The Praxis Program and Prism: Rethinking Graduate Training in a Digital Age"
• Paige Morgan, "Visible Prices: Digital Humanities at the Intersection of Literature and Economics"
• Mike Nutt and Markus Wust, "Omeka and MicroTiles: Building Library Exhibits for Enormous Displays"
• James O'Sullivan, "Advancing Textual Analysis Through Digital Annotation"
• Charles Pence, "Software Demo: RLetters"
• Daniel Powell, Alyssa Arbuckle, Alyssa McLeod and Shaun MacPherson, "Digital Humanities and the Alt-Ac "Track": Views from the Grad School Trenches"
• Amy Ratelle, “To boldly go where someone else has been before in great detail: DH, archives, and fan sites in film studies”
• Anne Salsich, "The Archive and Digital Humanities: 'Shansi: Oberlin and Asia'"
• Charles Shirley, “Can putting ‘Troilus and Criseyde’ into a database aid critical study?”
• Tara Thomson, J. Matthew Hucalak, Katie Tanigawa and Stephen Ross, “The Modernist Versions Project”
• Amanda Visconti, "Choose Your Own Edition: Digital Pedagogy, Game Studies, and Editing Theory"
• Rob Voigt, "Unmasking the Translator: The Example of Yu Hua's "To Live""
• Robin Wharton, "How to Make a Digital Humanist?"
• Jeffrey Witt, "Rethinking the Critical Edition: The "Editio Critica Electronica" of Petrus Plaoul"
• Ross Woods, "Mapping Madrid: Digital Humanities as Literary Criticism"



Introduction to TEI, 2-Day Workshop! 24-25 March 2012

In response to considerable demand for TEI training, instructor Malte Rehbein (U Wurzburg) is working with DHSI, ETCL, and UVic Humanities to offer a 2-day workshop introducing the basic elements of Text Encoding Initiative markup and functionality.

The workshop will take place 10.00 am - 5.00 pm Saturday and Sunday 24-25 March 2012, on the U Victoria campus in Clearihue 103.

Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors and hosts, all spots in this workshop are made available via DHSI Tuition Scholarship, requiring only the payment of a small non-refundable administrative fee ($40 students, $60 non-students). The workshop is now sold out.



Conference: Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century, 8-10 June 2012

This year, DHSI will be immediately followed by a conference on digital textual studies, led by the Textual Studies group of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project, and sharing our Friday DHSI Institute lecture.

Register for the conference.

Call for Papers (15 December 2011): The Textual Studies team of INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) wish to invite presentation proposals for Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century. June 8, 9, and 10, 2012, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada. Keynote speakers: Adriaan van der Weel (Leiden University) and Sydney Shep (Victoria University of Wellington).

At the end of the 20th century, textual studies witnessed a revolution in accessibility to texts with the explosion of the internet. Now we simply take it for granted that digital processes infuse every step of our study, editing, production, and dissemination of texts. The Textual Studies team of INKE invites presentations that address the questions “What is the state of textual studies in the 21st century? What is the important work of textual studies in the 21st century? What are the outstanding issues, challenges, concerns, emerging trends, methods, attitudes, and exciting developments in textual scholarship? Papers may address such questions as

- What is the state of the scholarly edition after the transition from print to print and digital?
- What is the impact on the material book and on book history of the different kinds of access enabled by the digital medium?
- How have authorship attribution studies been transformed by access to so many more searchable texts?
- How has the new age of access to materials affected the state of textual studies in various regions of the globe?
- How well are scholars being served by traditional and emerging infrastructures for the study, creation, production, and dissemination of texts?
- What is the future of, for example, the study of readership and letter writing, genetic editing, and reception history?

INKE is a multi-national, multi-disciplinary research initiative, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and partnering organizations, to study, develop, and implement digital environments for reading and research (www.inke.ca). The Textual Studies Team of INKE is researching ways in which the age of manuscript and print production can inform our development and implementation of electronic reading technologies.

Potential participants in the conference, particularly those coming from abroad, might be interested to take advantage of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, which will just before our conference, from 4-8 June, also at the University of Victoria. A limited number of scholarships for workshop tuition will be available for graduate students participating in the Beyond Accessibility conference. Also of potential interest is the annual conference of the Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, 28-30 May, 2012.