Digital Humanities Forum

A forum on the past, present, and future of digital humanities research at the University of Chicago and around the world.

Our Next Forum

April 30, 10am: 5720 S Woodlawn, Classroom 005

 

Matthieu Husson, Équipe histoire de l’astronomie du SYRTE, Centre national de la recherche scientifique

 

A Digital Critique of Astronomical Diagrams in Eurasian Sources (8th–18th c.) and the Shaping of a Modular and Multipurpose Platform for the Study of the Visual Dimensions of Historical Sources

 

The EIDA project was launched in 2023, building on an earlier project (DISHAS) dedicated to digital scholarly edition of astronomical tables and leveraging recent progress in the study of mathematical diagrams. The EIDA team brings together a broad range of expertise in the history of astral sciences from the 8th to the 18th centuries, encompassing sources in Chinese, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. The team also includes digital humanities practitioners and computer vision specialists. Together, we are working to analyze both the documentary aspects of astronomical diagrams—such as their means of production, visual conventions, and patterns of circulation—and their epistemic dimensions, including types of diagrams, relationships to accompanying texts, and roles in reasoning and argumentation.

If you need any assistance to participate in the Forum, please contact Carmen Caswell (caswellc@uchicago.edu)

Digital China: Big Tech and the State

Join the Stigler Center for a conversation with Ling Chen (Johns Hopkins University) and Matt Sheehan (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), moderated by Lingling Wei (The Wall Street Journal).

Stigler Center

RCC Series: Dynamic and Interactive Plotting in Python

Plotting data in Python can be a beautiful, interactive experience! Modern plots include hover points, or info boxes that provide the user with a deeper understanding of the plots and the data behind them. We can also use Python to animate our results to show trends over time. This workshop will focus on libraries such as Bokeh to build colorful, dramatic graphical displays of your data.

Social Sciences Research Center

Digital Technologies for Humanists

Join faculty, students, and University staff in discussing the tools and support resources for scholars working at the nexus of the humanities, the social sciences, and technology, as well as presentations from current projects.

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