Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 32, No. 378.
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    [1]    From: Gabriel Egan 
           Subject: Prof Tim Hitchcock (Sussex University) speaking at De Montfort University (26)

    [2]    From: Francesca Benatti 
           Subject: Open University Digital Humanities seminar: Christopher Ohge, 28 Jan (31)


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        Date: 2019-01-24 23:52:16+00:00
        From: Gabriel Egan 
        Subject: Prof Tim Hitchcock (Sussex University) speaking at De Montfort University

Dear HUMANISTs

The historian Prof Tim Hitchcock of Sussex University will give a talk
at 1-2.30pm on Wednesday 30 January 2019 in De Montfort University's Art
Factory room AF1.03 (address: 1 Mill Lane, Leicester, LE2 7HU, UK). His
topic is "Computer-assisted Distant and Close Reading". Here's the blurb:

"Historians have long practised the art of Close Reading, but there's
also an art of Distant Reading: standing back from any particular text
and seeing what we find when we examine large numbers of texts at once.
This session will look at the present state of computerized tools for
doing both kinds of reading, with a particular eye to historical
analyses. A specialist in 18th-century history, Prof Hitchcock's work in
bringing primary sources to public view as online resources has included
the creation of The Old Bailey Online (http://www.oldbaileyonline.org)
and The Digital Panopticon: The Global Impact of London Punishments,
1780-1925 (http://www.digitalpanopticon.org). His profile page is at
(http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/336034). "

Regards

Gabriel Egan
De Montfort University




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        Date: 2019-01-24 08:49:41+00:00
        From: Francesca Benatti 
        Subject: Open University Digital Humanities seminar: Christopher Ohge, 28 Jan

Dear Humanist list members,

the next seminar in The Open University Digital Humanities / History
of Books and Reading series takes place on Monday 28 January at the
Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London. The
event is free and all are welcome.

This year's theme is "Digital Books, Digital Readers". Join us as we
debate how digital modes of enquiry and digital modes of reading,
writing and publishing are transforming the way we analyse, consume
and produce books with leading digital humanities scholars and
historians of the book and reading.

Time: 28 January 2019, 17.30-19.00.
Venue: room 234, Senate House, University of London

Speaker: Christopher Ohge (Institute of English Studies)
Title: Digital Marginalia

Abstract: Authorial marginalia is enigmatic in literary study, partly
due to its fragmentary nature. Yet it can also provide clues into an
author's reading habits and creative process. After surveying recent
attempts by scholars to encode marginalia for digital publication, the
seminar will focus on Ohge's recent work on Herman Melville's
marginalia, which combines XML encoding and text analysis techniques
to achieve a more sophisticated (and holistic) understanding of
Melville's reading and writing process.

Reserve a place at https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events?event_name=hobar




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