We are a group of researchers/teachers at HUM who are interested in different methods related to digital culture and text studies. The group focuses on digital text studies, theory, and methodology and will work to apply these in both our research and teaching practices. The group's activities are interdisciplinary and thus address (but are not limited to) researchers from several departments in the fields of culture, literature, and language. The activities of the group include the exchange of ideas, solutions, and perspectives, as well as the identification of problems that we may best solve together. The aim is to strengthen the study of digital humanities that concerns digital text studies by establishing an interdisciplinary community of practitioners.
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This was a unique opportunity to gain insight into different ways in which computer technology is being used as a tool in humanities research.
12:00 – 12:05
Introduction to the conference.
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12:05 - 12:25
Cognitive Modeling as method for researching the mind – possibilities and limitations. Theory of Mind modeling as example.
Peter Thestrup Waade. Onsite. PhD Student. Aarhus University.
Cognitive modeling is a formal and computational approach to researching an understanding the (human) mind, methodologically rooted in the natural sciences but belonging to psychology, psychiatry, and the humanities in terms of subject matter. Giving an approach to describe mental mechanisms that underlie observable behavior, cognitive modeling provides tools for formal and data-driven accounts of the mind – but also comes with many limitations. In this talk, I use Theory of Mind modeling as an illustrative example of the method, both its advantages and disadvantages.
12:25 - 12:30: Questions
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12:35 - 12:55
Digital Humanities between Ambition and Pragmatism
Jonas Kjøller-Rasmussen. Onsite. Information Specialist and PhD Student. University of Copenhagen
The combination of source accessibility and digital tools has inspired many novel and ambitious approaches to traditional humanities scholarship. Ambition, however, might sometimes yield to pragmatism when unfolded within the constraints of academic project management. In my presentation I will give a practical example of how high ambitions for the application of digital methods, when faced with obstacles, can be transformed into practical approaches that nonetheless provide valuable and unique insights that support and enhance traditional humanities scholarship at a fundamental level.
12:55 - 13:00: Questions
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13:05 - 13:35
Read, search and Research. Using Trinskribus on a 18th century handwritten large scale source material
Tine R. Reeh. Onsite. Associate Professor. University of Copenhagen
This paper presents some of the experiences from using Transkribus in an interdisciplinary and collective research project; Managing Melancholy. After a brief explanation of our aims and approach, I will give some examples from our work. Finally, I will touch on unexpected obstacles and opportunities that may inspire and inform other projects.
13:35 - 13:45: Questions
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13:45 - 14:00: Break
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14:00 – 14:35
Digital humanities, infrastructure, and multilingual inclusivity
Paul Spence. Online. Reader in Digital Humanities. King’s College London
Recent years have seen a growing interest in the concept of Multilingual digital humanities, but what does DH understand by multilingualism, and how does DH research respond to the challenges which digital mediation presents for language diversity, language justice and language professionals? In this presentation, I will explore how Multilingual DH 'infrastructural' or 'workflow' responses engage with wider discussions about fostering epistemic diversity and global inclusivity in knowledge infrastructures.
14:35 – 14:45: Questions
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14.45 - 15:00: Break
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15:00 – 15:40
Voyant and Spyral
Geoffrey Rockwell. Online. Professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities. University of Alberta
Voyant is a suite of text analysis and visualization tools that are widely used in the digital humanities, especially when introducing students to computer-assisted analysis of texts. In this presentation Geoffrey Rockwell will provide a brief history of Voyant leading up to the development of Spyral, a notebook programming extension to Voyant. He will demonstrate both Voyand and Spyral and discuss how Spyral provides a growth path for students and research projects. He will end by encouraging you to join the Voyant Consortium so that the tool evolves in ways that suit your research.
15:40 – 15:55: Questions
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15:55 – 16:00
Goodbye
Meet Professor Glenn Roe of Sorbonne University and hear him talk about the project "Modelling Enlightenment. Reassembling Networks of Modernity through data-driven research". It is on 15 June 2023, 11:00-12:00 at South Campus, room 24.0.11. Organizer: Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies and DH-Cult.
Read more: Intertextual networks of the French Enlightenment: the ModERN Project
On this day, we had invited two students to give presentations based on their assignments and two local researchers presented experiences from the teaching.
Digital Humanities (DH) uses digital methods to solve humanities research questions, and once a year the organisation Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) holds a conference that brings together Nordic and Baltic research environments to exchange knowledge and inspire each other.
This year the conference is online and free. To mark the start of the conference DHNB 2023, KUB Datalab is organising a workshop with four short presentations on how digital humanities are part of the research and teaching at Søndre Campus. The workshop is organized in collaboration with the network Digital Humanities Culture and Text (DH-CULT). DH-CULT is a local network on Søndre Campus for researchers who have an interest in exploring DH in relation to text.
It is free to participate in both the DHNB's online conference and the workshop. You can register for both via this link: https://www.conftool.org/dhnb2023/ or by contacting Lars Kjær, lakj@kb.dk.
Programme
10:00 – 10:15
Welcome, presentation of the program, the DHNB, and DH activities at South Campus by Lars Kjær
10:15 – 10:35
Digital methods in Chinese – illuminated by a research of dating profiles by Anna Davidsen Buhl
10:35 – 10:55
Digital methods in History – illuminated by a research of Danish industrial development by Mikkel Støvring Hansen
10:55 – 11:05
Short Break
11:05 – 11:20
Experiences from the classrooms and the introduction of digital methods in the teaching at Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies by Robert Rix
11:20 – 11:40
Experiences from the classrooms and the introduction of digital methods in the teaching at Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies by Bo Ærenlund Sørensen
11:40 – 11:50
Presentation of the KUB Datalab Calendar by Lars Kjær
11:50 – 12:00
Closing and networking
The Digital Humanities Discussion Group
Spring 2025
During spring 2025 the Digital Humanities Discussion Group meets again.
The meetings take place in English.
Friday 17 January, 14-15, in 24.3.62 [1]
Friday 7 February, 14-15 i in 24.3.62 [2]
Friday 14 March, 14-15 i in 24.3.62 [3]
Thursday 24 April, 14-15 i in 24.3.62 [4]
Friday 16 May, 14-15 i in 24.3.62 [5]
Friday 6 June, 14-15 i in 24.3.62 [6]
We discuss either a work-in-progress text by one of the participants, a guest presentation, or a published paper, as part of an informal and friendly meet-up.
Litteraturlisten
[1] ‘Media Portrayals of the Hong Kong Occupy Central Movement’s social actors: Multilevel and critical discourse analysis’ by Janet Ho and Ming Ming Chiu
[2] Work-in-progress artikle by Kim Ebernsgaard Jensen (the article will be shared with those who sign up)
[3] To be decided.
The Digital Humanities reading group is organized by Joanna Beaufoy, PhD fellow at the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Languages and Astrid Roesen Abildgaard, PhD fellow at the same place, and you are welcome to contact Astrid Roesen Abildgaard by email for more information.
Autumn 2024
The Digital Humanities Reading Group will meet again once a month during the autumn semester.
The meetings take place in English.
We discuss either a work-in-progress text by one of the participants, a guest presentation, or a published paper, as part of an informal and friendly meet-up.
Readling list
[1] Sophie Thorkildsen will share some of her work in progress on digital corpus studies of translation shifts. Sophie will share something short to read in advance of the meeting, we will have a short presentation, and then Q&A and discussion.
[2] DH-Cult Mini Conference. Press the link, read the program and sign up onsite or online
[3] Yuri, Bizzoni, and Feldkamp Pascale. 2024. ‘Sentiment Analysis for Literary Texts: Hemingway as a Case-Study’. Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities NLP4DH (April).
[4] The Preface to Ted Underwood’s 2019 book Distant Horizons : Digital Evidence and Literary Change. University of Chicago Press, 2019
The Digital Humanities Discussion Group is organised by Joanna Beaufoy, PhD Fellow at Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, and please reach out to her by email for more information.
Spring 2024
During spring 2024 the Digital Humanities Discussion Group meets on these dates in room 24.2.62.
The meetings take place in English.
The meetings are just one hour, and they are an easy way to get into regularly discussing peer-reviewed DH work. An article is chosen for each meeting and is examined from these three points, 15 minutes each:
The Digital Humanities Discussion Group is organised by Kim Ebensgaard Jensen, Associate Professor at the Department of English, German and Romance Languages, whom you are welcome to contact for more information.
Reading list
Autumn 2023
During autumn 2023 the Digital Humanities Discussion Group meets on these dates in room 24.2.62.
The meetings take place in English.
The meetings are just one hour, and they are an easy way to get into regularly discussing peer-reviewed DH work. An article is chosen for each meeting and is examined from these three points, 15 minutes each:
The Digital Humanities Discussion Group is organised by Kim Ebensgaard Jensen, Associate Professor at the Department of English, German and Romance Languages, whom you are welcome to contact for more information.
Reading list
[1] Dahl, Christian: 'Two Armies fly in...' : Battle scenes in English Renaissance theatre. Orbis Litterarum, Volume 78, No. 5, 2023, pp. 368-383. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/oli.12404
[2] Kallenbach, U. & A. Lawaetz (2023). Levels of presence in the drama text: Between close and distant reading. Orbis Litterarum 78 (5): 401-420. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/oli.12399
[3] Ahnert, R.S.E. Ahnert, C.N. Coleman & S.B. Weingart (2021). The Network Turn: Changing Perspective in the Humanities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://soeg.kb.dk/permalink/45KBDK_KGL/1pioq0f/alma99123649154905763 (it has been suggested that we read one chapter from this book, but a specific chapter has not been proposed)
[4] McEnery, A. & H. Baker (2016). Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century Prostitution: Computational Linguistics and History. London: Bloomsbury. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31700
During spring 2023 the Digital Humanities Discussion Group meets on these dates in room 24.2.63.
The meetings are just one hour, and they are an easy way to get into regularly discussing peer-reviewed DH work. An article is chosen for each meeting and is examined from these three points, 15 minutes each:
The Digital Humanities Discussion Group is organised by Joanna Beaufoy, PhD Fellow at Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, and please reach out to her by email for more information.
Reading list
[1] Karlińska, Agnieszka. “The Art of Nerves: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Drama at the Turn of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 36.1 (2021): 122–137. Web.
[2] Viola, Lorella, and Jaap Verheul. “Mining Ethnicity: Discourse-Driven Topic Modelling of Immigrant Discourses in the USA, 1898–1920.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 35.4 (2020): 921–943. Web.
[3] We will read two “manifestos” for Digital Humanities: