The Digital Humanities at Berkeley Fellows Lecture Series brings together the campus DH community for scholarly presentations and informal discussion of specific aspects of digital humanities practice. Each meeting a different Fellow presents their ongoing work before the conversation is opened to hands-on experimentation in addition to questions, and comments. Intended to further the critical understanding and practice of the digital humanities at Berkeley, these lectures are intended for both existing and prospective DH practitioners. The recap below is a quick snapshot of this Fall’s iteration of the Series.
The Digital Humanities at Berkeley kicked off the 2017-2018 DH Fellows Lecture Series with an aptly timed talk from the D-Lab Hate Speech Team on Friday, September 29th. The well attended talk and social uplifted the current political divide on Berkeley’s campus, with a thoughtful unpacking of online hate speech trends.
On October 27th, the Digital Humanities at Berkeley welcomed DH Fellow Rita Lucarelli of the Near Eastern Studies Department. She shared her cutting edge work entitled “The Book of the Dead in 3D”. The talk highlighted how the use of photogrammetry can help illustrate and textualize ancient Egyptian coffins.
The DH Fellows Lecture Series capped the semester with Jeroen Dewulf, Julie van der Hout, and Mary Elings’ collaborative talk entitled “New York’s Dutch History: Preparing a Discoverable Digital Resource from Primary Source Materials”. This exciting talk from November 17th showcased the collaborative research from Digital Humanities at Berkeley, the German Department and the Bancroft Library. Attendees were taken through the steps by-which researchers digitize, extract, and clean historic text in order to present “research ready” text to enable natural language, machine-processing capabilities over said archival documents.
Join us next semester as we kick off the Spring DH Fellows Lecture Series in February! Until then, enjoy winter break.