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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Colleagues, see below<BR>
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<B>From: </B>"David M. Berry" <D.M.Berry@swansea.ac.uk><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:02:25 +1000<BR>
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<B>Conversation: </B>[Air-L] CFP: The Computational Turn (with website)<BR>
<B>Subject: </B>[Air-L] CFP: The Computational Turn (with website)<BR>
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CFP: The Computational Turn<BR>
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<a href="http://www.thecomputationalturn.com/">http://www.thecomputationalturn.com/</a><BR>
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SWANSEA UNIVERSITY<BR>
9TH MARCH 2010<BR>
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Keynote: N. Katherine Hayles (Professor of Literature at Duke <BR>
University).<BR>
Keynote: Lev Manovich (Professor, Visual Arts Department, UCSD).<BR>
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The application of new computational techniques and visualisation <BR>
technologies in the Arts & Humanities are resulting in new approaches <BR>
and methodologies for the study of traditional and new corpuses of <BR>
Arts and Humanities materials. This new 'computational turn' takes the <BR>
methods and techniques from computer science to create new ways of <BR>
distant and close readings of texts (e.g. Moretti). This one-day <BR>
workshop aims to discuss the implications and applications of what Lev <BR>
Manovich has called 'Cultural Analytics' and the question of finding <BR>
patterns using algorthmic techniques. Some of the most startling <BR>
approaches transform understandings of texts by use of network <BR>
analysis (e.g. graph theory), database/XML encodings (which flatten <BR>
structures), or merely provide new quantitative techniques for looking <BR>
at various media forms, such as media and film, and (re)presenting <BR>
them visually, aurally or haptically. Within this field there are <BR>
important debates about the contrast between narrative against <BR>
database techniques, pattern-matching versus hermeneutic reading, and <BR>
the statistical paradigm (using a sample) versus the data mining <BR>
paradigm. Additionally, new forms of collaboration within the Arts and <BR>
Humanities are emerging which use team-based approaches as opposed to <BR>
the traditional lone-scholar. This requires the ability to create and <BR>
manage modular Arts and Humanities research teams through the <BR>
organisational structures provided by technology and digital <BR>
communications (e.g. Big Humanities), together with techniques for <BR>
collaborating in an interdisciplinary way with other disciplines such <BR>
as computer science (e.g. hard interdisciplinarity versus soft <BR>
interdisciplinarity).<BR>
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Papers are encouraged in the following areas:<BR>
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- Distant versus Close Reading<BR>
- Database Structure versus Argument<BR>
- Data mining/Text mining/Patterns<BR>
- Pattern as a new epistemological object<BR>
- Hermeneutics and the Data Stream<BR>
- Geospatial techniques<BR>
- Big Humanities<BR>
- Digital Humanities versus Traditional Humanities<BR>
- Tool Building<BR>
- Free Culture/Open Source Arts and Humanities<BR>
- Collaboration, Assemblages and Alliances<BR>
- Language and Code (software studies)<BR>
- Information visualization in the Humanities<BR>
- Philosophical and theoretical reflections on the computational turn<BR>
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+ Participation Requirements +<BR>
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Workshop participants are requested to submit a position paper <BR>
(approx. 2000-5000 words) about the computational turn in Arts and <BR>
Humanities, philosophical/theoretical reflections on the computational <BR>
turn, research focus or research questions related to computational <BR>
approaches, proposals for academic practice with algorithmic/<BR>
visualisation techniques, proposals for new research methods with <BR>
regard to Arts and Humanities or specific case studies (if applicable) <BR>
and findings to date. Position papers will be published in a workshop <BR>
PDF and website for discussion and some of the participants will be <BR>
invited to present their paper at the workshop.<BR>
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Deadline for Position papers: February 10, 2010<BR>
Submit papers to: <a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tct2010">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tct2010</a><BR>
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Workshop funded by The Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict, <BR>
Power, Empire, Swansea University. TheResearch Institute in the Arts <BR>
and Humanities (RIAH) at Swansea University.<BR>
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+ References +<BR>
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Clement, Tanya E. (2008) ‘A thing not beginning and not ending’: using <BR>
digital tools to distant-read Gertrude Stein’s The Making of <BR>
Americans. Literary and Linguistic Computing. 23.3 (2008): 361.<BR>
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Clement, Tanya, Steger, Sara, Unsworth, John, Uszkalo, Kirsten (2008) <BR>
How Not to Read a Million Books. Retrieved 10/11/09 from <a href="http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/hownot2read.html">http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/hownot2read.html</a><BR>
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Council on Library and Information Resources and The National <BR>
Endowment for the Humanities (2009) Working Together or Apart: <BR>
Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship. Retrieved <BR>
10/11/09 from <a href="http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub145/pub145.pdf">http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub145/pub145.pdf</a><BR>
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Hayles, N. Katherine (2009) RFID: Human Agency and Meaning in <BR>
Information-Intensive Environments. Theory, Culture and Society 26.2/3 <BR>
(2009): 1-24.<BR>
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Hayles, N. Katherine (2009) How We Think: The Transforming Power of <BR>
Digital Technologies. Retrieved 10/11/09 from <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1853/27680">http://hdl.handle.net/1853/27680</a><BR>
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Kittler, Fredrich (1997) Literature, Media, Information Systems. <BR>
London: Routledge.<BR>
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Krakauer, David C. (2007) The Quest for Patterns in Meta-History. <BR>
Santa Fe Institute Bulletin. Winter 2007. Retrieved 10/11/09 from <a href="http://www.intelros.ru/pdf/SFI_Bulletin/Quest.pdf">http://www.intelros.ru/pdf/SFI_Bulletin/Quest.pdf</a><BR>
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Latour, Bruno (2007) Reassembling the Social. London: Oxford <BR>
University Press.<BR>
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Manovich, Lev (2002) The Language of New Media. MIT Press.<BR>
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Manovich, Lev (2007) White paper: Cultural Analytics: Analysis and <BR>
Visualizations of Large Cultural Data Sets, May 2007. Retrieved <BR>
10/11/09 from <a href="http://softwarestudies.com/cultural_analytics/cultural_analytics_2008.doc">http://softwarestudies.com/cultural_analytics/cultural_analytics_2008.doc</a><BR>
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McLemee, Scott (2006) Literature to Infinity. Inside Higher Ed. <BR>
Retrieved 10/11/09 from <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee193">http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee193</a><BR>
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Moretti, Franco (2005) Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a <BR>
Literary History. London: Verso.<BR>
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Robinson, Peter (2006) Electronic Textual Editing: The Canterbury <BR>
Tales and other Medieval Texts. Electronic Textual Editing. Modern <BR>
Language Association of America. Retrieved 10/11/09 from <a href="http://www.tei-c.org/About/Archive_new/ETE/Preview/robinson.xml">http://www.tei-c.org/About/Archive_new/ETE/Preview/robinson.xml</a><BR>
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Schreibman, Susan, Siemens, Ray & Unsworth, John (2007) A Companion to <BR>
Digital Humanities. London: WileyBlackwell.<BR>
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Organised by Dr David M. Berry, Department of Political and Cultural <BR>
Studies, Swansea University. d.m.berry@swansea.ac.uk<BR>
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