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Digital Humanities October 7, 2021

Along Came Google

A History of Library Digitization

Deanna Marcum and Roger C. Schonfeld

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
When Google announced that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowledge accessible to all, questions were raised about the roles and responsibilities of libraries, the rights of …

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Interviews with digital humanists and scholars of digital humanities about their new work.

Digital Humanities September 21, 2021

Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum

Mike Jones

Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum (Routledge, 2021) provides the first interdisciplinary study of the digital documentation of artefacts and archives in contemporary museums, while also exploring the implications of …
Digital Humanities September 14, 2021

The Values in Numbers

Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age

Hoyt Long

Hosted by Katherine McDonough
In The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age (Columbia UP, 2021), Hoyt Long offers both a reinterpretation of modern Japanese literature through computational methods and …
Science September 10, 2021

Atlas of Forecasts

Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures

Katy Borner

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
To envision and create the futures we want, society needs an appropriate understanding of the likely impact of alternative actions. Data models and visualizations offer a way to understand and …
Indian Religions September 9, 2021

Online Dharmaśāstra Library

A Conversation with Don Davis

Don Davis

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Dr. Don Davis (Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies) speaks about the newly launched Resource Library for Dharmaśāstra Studies, a digitized open educational resource hosted at the University of …
Intellectual History August 23, 2021

A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication

Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Statistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escaped all disciplinary bounds. Today graphics are ubiquitous in daily life. In their just-published A History …
Science August 17, 2021

The Digital Environment

How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now

Pablo J. Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Increasingly we live through our personal screens; we work, play, socialize, and learn digitally. The shift to remote everything during the pandemic was another step in a decades-long march toward …
Indian Religions August 11, 2021

Embodied Philosophy

A Conversation with Jacob Kyle

Jacob Kyle

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Raj Balkaran speaks with Jacob Kyle about the genesis and vision of the online educational platform Embodied Philosophy. Over the course of their rich conversation, they touch on contemplative studies …
General History August 6, 2021

The Red Atlas

How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World

John Davies and Alexander J. Kent

Hosted by Joshua Tham
Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union conducted an ambitious yet clandestine programme to map the world - from big cities like New York and Tokyo, to seemingly-obscure towns like Gainsborough (Lincolnshire) …
Japanese Studies August 3, 2021

The Values in Numbers

Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age

Hoyt Long

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Ideas about how to study and understand cultural history—particularly literature—are rapidly changing as new digital archives and tools for searching them become available. This is not the first information age …
Digital Humanities July 15, 2021

Technology and the Historian

Transformations in the Digital Age

Adam Crymble

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
The digital age has touched and changed pretty much everything, even altering how historical research is practiced. In his new book Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age …
Digital Humanities July 14, 2021

The Network Turn

Changing Perspectives in the Humanities

Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian Ahnert, Nicole Coleman, and Scott Weingart

Hosted by Katherine McDonough
We live in a networked world. Online social networking platforms and the World Wide Web have changed how society thinks about connectivity. Because of the technological nature of such networks …
Art July 9, 2021

Painting by Numbers

Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art

Diana Seave Greenwald

Hosted by Allison Leigh
Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art (Princeton UP, 2021) presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific methods to chart, for the first time, the sheer …
Media July 6, 2021

Architects of Memory

Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age

Nathan R. Johnson

Hosted by Lee Pierce
We are now living in the richest age of public memory. From museums and memorials to the vast digital infrastructure of the internet, access to the past is only a …
Caribbean Studies July 5, 2021

The Digital Black Atlantic

Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs

Hosted by Sharika Crawford
How can scholars use digital tools to better understand the African diaspora across time, space, and disciplines? And how can African diaspora studies inform the practices of digital humanities? These …
Ethnographic Marginalia June 28, 2021

Talking Digital Ethnography and Netnography

In Conversation with Marta-Marika Urbanik

Marta-Marika Urbanik

Hosted by Alexander Diamond
As our research subjects increasingly live their social lives on and through virtual platforms, how can ethnographers incorporate digital methods into our research? On this episode we speak with Dr …
Education June 15, 2021

Generous Thinking

A Radical Approach to Saving the University

Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Hosted by Kai Wortmann
In an age characterized by rampant anti-intellectualism, Kathleen Fitzpatrick in her Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021) charges the academy with thinking constructively rather …
Scholarly Communication May 7, 2021

Book Wars

The Digital Revolution in Publishing

John B. Thompson

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Today I talked to John Thompson, Emeritus Professor, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, about his new book Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing (Polity, 2021). We discuss crowdfunding, audio books, distribution chains …
Indian Religions April 30, 2021

Teaching Buddhist Studies Online

A Discussion with Kate Hartmann

Kate Hartmann

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Join Raj Balkaran as he talks with Dr. Kate Hartmann, Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Wyoming and Director of Buddhist Studies Online, a new educational platform …
Critical Theory April 29, 2021

Working Aesthetics

Labour, Art and Capitalism

Danielle Child

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) is the story of art and work under contemporary capitalism. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattractive subject for art, the …