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Intellectual History November 24, 2020

Digitizing Enlightenment

Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Studies

Simon Burrows and Glenn Roe

Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of 18th-Century Studies (Liverpool UP, 2020) explores how a set of inter-related digital projects are transforming our vision of the Enlightenment. The featured …

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Digital Humanities November 18, 2020

Historical Atlas of Hasidism

Marcin Wodziński and Waldemar Spallek

Hosted by Marshall Poe
The Historical Atlas of Hasidism (Princeton UP, 2018) is the first cartographic reference book on one of the modern era’s most vibrant and important mystical movements. Featuring seventy-four large-format maps …
Digital Humanities October 21, 2020

Furnace and Fugue

A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s “Atalanta fugiens” (1618) with Scholarly Commentary

Donna Bilak and Tara Nummedal

Hosted by Molly Taylor-Poleskey
In 1618, on the eve of the Thirty Years’ War, the German alchemist and physician Michael Maier published Atalanta fugiens, an intriguing and complex musical alchemical emblem book designed to …
Digital Humanities October 14, 2020

A History of Philosophy Journals

Evidence from Topic Modeling, 1876-2013

Brian Weatherson

Hosted by Luca Scholz
Anglophone philosophy in the twentieth century was centered, to an unprecedented extent, around journals: periodical publications that aimed to present (one vision of) the best philosophical work of the moment …
Digital Humanities September 29, 2020

Close Reading with Computers

Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas

Martin Paul Eve

Hosted by Joanna Taylor
Most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history. This book asks what happens when such telescopic techniques function as a microscope instead. The first monograph …
Digital Humanities August 31, 2020

A Very Square Peg

A Discussion with Brian Collins

Dr. Brian Collins

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Today I talked with Dr. Brian Collins, the creator of "A Very Square Peg." We talked about: --How he discovered Eilser in a used bookstore in Ann Arbor --How he …
Digital Humanities March 27, 2020

What is Digital Sociology?

Neil Selwyn

Hosted by Krystina Millar
The rise of digital technology is transforming the world in which we live. Our digitalized societies demand new ways of thinking about the social, and this short book introduces readers …