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College of Arts and Sciences

Digital Humanities

The Humanities Collaborative sponsors the digital humanities working group, which supports humanists, social scientists, librarians, and students who use computational tools and methods in their research.

News and Meetings

We foster an open community of digital humanities dabblers, novices, and practitioners who can share new and developing projects, discuss strategies for addressing the challenges of beginning and continuing digital humanities work, and find collaborators and colleagues across campus. This group will address practical and intellectual concerns equally, with sessions devoted to topics that are likely to include publishing creative and critical research in multimodal formats, digital mapping, analyzing textual data, crowd-sourcing, geolocation, computational analysis, and any other topics that might be raised by participants.

Questions? Please contact organizor Kate Boyd ([email protected])

Campus Resources for Digital Projects

Below are tools and services available for starting and sustaining digital humanities projects. 

Where to start?  

  •  University Libraries offers CreateDigital, a free web hosting service for digital research and scholarship projects, to USC Columbia faculty, staff, and graduate students.  
  • The libraries also offer support, through Digital Research Services, for topics ranging from data management, analysis and visualization to digital publishing and archiving.  
  • See Digital Projects Showcase for examples of what others on campus have done.

Where to store?  

USC Columbia faculty can use up to 1TB for digital storage through Research Computing. 

Funding Your Digital Project
  • Internal grant programs, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research, can provide start-up support for digital projects.
  • The Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities offers competitive grants that support projects at early and advanced stages.  

 

Spring 2024

  • January 16 from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Brian Jabarian - Potential for Large Language Models in Experimental Research.
  • February 21 from 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Greg Wilsbacher - Virtual Bench: Deep learning models and custom software for the study of motion picture films
    March 14 from 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Marcelo Hazan - “The Complete Songs of Cândido Inácio da Silva (1799/1800-1838)”: Challenges and Rewards of a Hypertext Edition.
  • April 18 from 11:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Kate Boyd, Glenn Bunton, Amie Freeman, & Stacy Winchester - Getting Started with Digital Humanities Tools

Fall 2023

  • Friday, October 6 from 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Amie Freeman - Digital Publishing with Scalar
  • Friday, October 27 from 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. John McCullough - Mapping the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Tour: Academic and Touristic Considerations 
  • Thursday, November 2 from 1 - 2 p.m. Kate Boyd,  Axton Crolley, and Vandan Srivastava - Practicing Text Analysis and Machine Learning
  • Tuesday, September 26 from 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. - Coffee Drop-In
  • Thursday, September 28 from 10 – 11 a.m. Sarah Williams - Singing the Archives: A Digital and Musical Collaboration

Spring 2023

  • Friday, January 27 from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Jason Porter, USC College of Information and Communications - Piranesi’s Worlds through Virtual Reality
  • Thursday, February 9 from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and Friday, February 10 from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Malcolm Williamson and Dr. Carla Klehm (University of Arkansas, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies) - Applications of Photogrammetry
  • Tuesday, February 21 from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Dr. Joshua Meyer-Gutbrod, College of Arts and Sciences -- Digital Campaigns Project
  • Friday, March 24 from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Dr. Stan Dubinsky and Dr. Michael Gavin, College of Arts and Sciences -- The Language Conflict Project
  • Thursday, April 6 from 12:00  - 4: 30 p.m. Kate Boyd, Amie Freeman, and Stacy Winchester -- Getting Started with Digital Humanities Tools. 

Fall 2022

  • Wednesday, September 21st at 12pm: DH Meet and Greet
  • Thursday October 6th at 2:45pm: Kristin Harrell 
  • Thursday October 20th at 11:40am: Stacy Winchester and David Reddy
  • Friday, October 28th at 11:00am: Amie Freeman, Karen Gavigan, Kelly Goldberg, and Hayden Smith
  • Thursday November 3rd at 1:15pm: Tessa Davis, Kate Boyd, Vandana Srivastava
  • Thursday, November 10th at  11:40: Adam Schor
  • Thursday, December 1 at 3:00: Matt Simmons and Mark Smith

Spring 2022

  • Friday, January 28 at 11 a.m. Amie Freeman, Scholarly Communication Librarian on Digital Content Management with University Libraries.
  • Friday, February 4 at 11 a.m. Hannah Alpert-Abrams
  • Wednesday, February 9, from 3:30 – 4:30 p.m., Meet and Greet 
  • Wednesday, Feb 16: Lydia Mattice Brandt
  • Friday, Feb 25 at 11am: Herrick Brown
  • Friday,  Mar 4 at 11am: Jason Porter and Evan Meaney
  • Friday,  Mar 18 at 11am: Amanda Wangwright
  • Friday,  Mar 25 at 11am: Research Computing talk on storage
  • Friday, Apr 1 at 11am: Christian Cicimurri - Historic Southern Naturalists: Six Years of Digitizing Natural History
  • [CANCELLED] Friday, Apr 8 at 11am: Stan Dubinsky
  • Friday, Apr 22 at 11am: Heather Heckman
  • Friday, Apr 29 at 11am : Second Meet  and Greet (tentative)

 

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