Humanities Lab: Literature Group

The next meeting of our Hum Lab — Lit Group will be this Friday, Oct. 25th from 10-11 in JFSB 4010 (the Dean’s Conference Room). We will be visiting with Ted Underwood of the English Department of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (For more information about Underwood’s excellent digital humanities blog “The Stone and the Shell” see …

Conversations Series Meeting

Four members of the Department of Linguistics and English Language — Don Chapman, Janis Nuckolls, Wendy Smemoe, and Mark Davies — will discuss the residual prescriptivism of our language practices in the university and in society more generally. This includes the political arena, where prescriptivism has been a touchy subject for supporters of Bush and …

Digital Humanities Colloquium Series

Bruce Schaalje (from Statistics) will discuss the outcomes of an experiment in which a computer “read” several decades worth of General Conference addresses to determine whether a correlation exists between the mood of talks and particular global events, like the state of the economy. This event features a really fascinating, increasingly important exercise in the …

Humanities Lab

 Our Humanities Lab has two groups: a “literature” group and an “impact” group, with the latter exploring the impact of the humanities on other fields. The “impact” group will meet to discuss a plan for formulating its projects.  Tuesday from 1-2 in JFSB 4010

Conversations Series

“Publicly Engaged Scholarship and Teaching” The next in the series of Humanities Center “Conversations Series” meetings.The purpose of this series, you recall, is to raise awareness about issues of current significance (or widely perceived urgency) in the humanities.