Laura Mandell – Andrew W. Mellon Digital Humanities Fellows

Tweets and pics from events by our first “Visiting Scholar in Digital Humanities.”

Excited to host @mandellc for a slew of digital humanities events this week @UofR! http://t.co/Cn4Iq23Hym pic.twitter.com/mSa3bjzNTe

— Eric Loy (@eric_loy) February 16, 2015

Yesterday's Vista Collabotatory presentation on big data #URMellon @mandellc @eric_loy @c_patrello pic.twitter.com/AVleGUW0Ip

— Serenity Sutherland (@serenitys37) February 20, 2015

.@mandellc on "Big Data [& Big Screens] & the Humanities." Hey look, it's the @BlakeArchive! #digitalhumanities @UofR pic.twitter.com/qDgPYeJuTu

— Eric Loy (@eric_loy) February 19, 2015

looking forward to day 2 of DH at University of @UofR @mandellc @ReEnvisionJapan #URMellon

— nora dimmock (@ndimmock) February 20, 2015

Panelists discussing digital preservation & "archives in between" #URMellon @eric_loy @mandellc @c_patrello pic.twitter.com/enQ2KwmRQ2

— Serenity Sutherland (@serenitys37) February 20, 2015

.@EastmanHouse's Daniela Currò presenting on digital film preservation at this morning's #URMellon panel. @UofR #DH pic.twitter.com/BFttLvBjdB

— Eric Loy (@eric_loy) February 20, 2015

Re-envisioning Japan @ReEnvisionJapan documents ephemeral tourist material from Japan #URMellon

— nora dimmock (@ndimmock) February 20, 2015

Jim Kuhn digital projects at UR allow grad and undergraduate students to participate in the preservation of our cultural heritage #URMellon

— nora dimmock (@ndimmock) February 20, 2015

.@mandellc is worried about "digital dark age" because of poor imaging for OCR projects. #URMellon #digitalhumanities pic.twitter.com/T5o6C065Eh

— Eric Loy (@eric_loy) February 20, 2015

.@mandellc's eMOP uses crowdsourced OCR correction to fix bad scans. #URMellon #digitalhumanities pic.twitter.com/lRfLXpKVzc

— Eric Loy (@eric_loy) February 20, 2015

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The Andrew W. Mellon Fellows in Digital Humanities are pleased to announce the February 19-20 visit of Dr. Laura Mandell, Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&M University. Dr. Mandell is our first-ever Visiting Scholar in Digital Humanities. Her research focuses on visualizing poetry, developing software that will allow all scholars to deep-code documents for data-mining, and improving OCR software for early modern and 18th century texts via high performance and cluster computing. During her time in Rochester, she’ll lead and participate in several thought-provoking events that draw on her wide range of scholarly, pedagogical, and professional pursuits. We’re excited for her visit, and hope you can share the experience with us.

These events are open to the public.

Thursday, February 19

10:30am — Presentation: “Big Data and the Humanities” (VISTA Collaboratory)
12:30pm — Lunch with graduate students (Digital Humanities Center)
5pm — Keynote: “Scaling Up: Search as Research” (Morey 321)

Friday, February 20

10:30am — Panel: “Archives in Between: Cultural Preservation, Material to Digital” (Welles-Brown Room). With Joanne Bernardi, Associate Professor of Japanese and Film and Media Studies, and author/editor of ReEnvisioning Japan; Daniela Currò, Preservation Manager, Moving Image Department, George Eastman House; and Jim Kuhn, Joseph N. Lambert and Harold B. Schleifer Director of Rare Books and Special Collections.
12:30pm — DH Lunch: “The Dark Side of Digital Humanities” (Welles-Brown Room). For this event, RSVP to urmellonfellows@gmail.com by February 13.

Keep your eyes peeled for more info about each event!

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