Digital Humanities: TENT-ative Definitions and the New Modalities of Scholarship”

Digital Humanities: TENT-ative Definitions and the New Modalities of Scholarship”

Location: July 5 – 10:00-12:00 – Anfiteatro Nobre (FLUP)

Speaker: Dr. Craig Saper, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Estados Unidos da América
(https://llc.umbc.edu/saper/)

Summary: The lecture will open the conversation and cover what digital humanities means to different audiences and how it is connected to both contemporary theories of post-print-literacy and to the history and future of reading, scholarship, and publishing. The lecture and presentation will be suited for graduate and undergraduate students as well as colleagues and researchers interested in these areas.

Bio: Professor Craig Saper (csaper@umbc.edu) is the Director of the Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program at UMBC in Baltimore, Maryland, US. He is the author of The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown (2016), Intimate Bureaucracies (2012), Networked Art (2001), Artificial Mythologies (1997). He has co-edited scholarly collections on: ElectracyImaging PlaceDriftsMapping Culture Multimodally; and edited and introduced six critical editions by a reading machine inventor, Bob Brown, including five with Roving Eye Press: The ReadiesWordsGems1450-1950; and Houdini (http://rovingeyepress.umbc.edu/). In 2020 Saper co-edited, introduced, and annotated the contributors’ section of the 1931 Readies for Bob Brown’s Machine: A Critical Facsimile Edition with Edinburgh University Press. He has published chapters and articles on digital culture and built readies.org. He co-curated TypeBound (on typewriter and sculptural poetry), and was the co-founder of folkvine.org. Later in July 2023, he will present full-dome poetic projections at the Electronic Literature Organization in Coimbra, Portugal.

Raízes das Humanidades, sob o signo da sustentabilidade

Raízes das Humanidades, sob o signo da sustentabilidade

Integrado na programação do SER HUMANO – Festival das Humanidades, o evento “Raízes das Humanidades” convida à reflexão sobre as origens e evolução das humanidades, com um enfoque especial na sustentabilidade e nas formas como as práticas culturais humanas interagem com o meio ambiente através de perspectivas das Humanidades Digitais.

Na FLUP I&D, os visitantes poderão explorar a instalação poética “Árvore” de Rui Torres, que os levará a uma viagem imersiva através da palavra, assim como explorar diversas propostas visuais integradas em trabalhos de investigação em humanidades digitais, que apresentam paisagens literárias e universos semânticos, ajudando a problematizar as relações entre literatura, cultura e sustentabilidade.

O evento contará ainda com um passeio fotográfico pelos espaços naturais do Jardim Botânico da Universidade do Porto, no âmbito da etapa nacional do concurso internacional de fotografia do Wiki Loves Earth. Trata-se de uma iniciativa global do movimento Wikimedia, coordenado em Portugal pela Associação Wikimedia Portugal (https://wikilovesearth.wikimedia.pt/), que tem como objectivo fotografar as  paisagens naturais protegidas em todo o mundo.

Neste passeio, os participantes poderão explorar e documentar a fauna e flora dos espaços envolventes do Jardim Botânico, promovendo a consciencialização sobre a urgência de estabelecer relações justas e equilibradas na nossa casa comum.

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Open Class on Linked Data

Open Class on Linked Data

On April 27th, 14:00-17:00, in Room B207 at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, the Research Methodologies course of the Masters in Multimedia will be open to all those interested in Linked Open Data Workshop. The class is organized by the Digital Lab, CODA, and Wikimedia Portugal and will focus on the project Anglophone travellers in Portugal. Join us.

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Mapping Edgar Allan Poe’s Terror

Mapping Edgar Allan Poe’s Terror

Mapping Edgar Allan Poe’s Terror

The main purpose of this thesis is to provide a complete study of the effect of terror in Edgar Allan Poe’s works through the development of a detailed digital cartography of the author’s terror fiction.

To achieve this goal, five maps will be created and divided into at least three main interrelated categories: spaces, themes, and characters. The main goal is to discern patterns that link spaces, themes, and characters, effectively achieving the effect of terror. In order to provide a complete study of the effect of terror, the corpus will englobe the totality of the Poesque oeuvre.

This thesis aims to offer a new way of approaching Edgar Allan Poe’s terror and will have as its main research outputs an open source website to share the maps created throughout my research, as well as an annotated digital anthology of Poe’s terror stories, comparing their first and last editions side by side with annotations regarding the changes made my Poe as well as regarding the evolution of the effect of terror throughout the years that separate those editions.

Both website and anthology will be made available in an open source format and will be published, at least in a first moment, in English in order to achieve the largest number of people as possible. Furthermore, it aims to transcend the academic world and to start being used as a powerful tool in schools.

         

Mapping the African American Space in Toni Morrison

Mapping the African American Space in Toni Morrison

Mapping the African American Space in Toni Morrison

The purpose of this work is to use Digital Humanities not only as the methodology for it, but also as the mode chosen to display research outcomes.

The Digital Humanities will be used to map the characters’ journey, in Toni Morrison’s novels, through their spaces (African-American) and the spaces of others (usually white people), in order to find out what happens to them according to their movement or lack of it. This project also intends to show that the utopian space is white, while the heterotopic is black.

Thus, the Digital Humanities are going to be crucial to show it by means of making visual the intersections – between African-American and American, therefore white, spaces – that creates a third space (heterotopic and dystopic) for the African-American characters in the novels analysed.

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