New Archival Knowledges: Thursday, May 19- Friday, May 20
University of Chicago, Rosenwald Hall 405
Sponsored by the Macroanalysis in the Humanities Working Group
Sponsored by the Macroanalysis in the Humanities Working Group
Thursday, May 19
4:30 pm | Keynote Address: Daniel Shore
Associate Professor of English, Georgetown University
“In Defense of Search”
Friday May 20
9:30 am| Workshop: Daniel Shore
A hands-on workshop on the use of regular expressions and part-of-speech tags for the analysis of syntax. Please bring your laptops!
11:00 am | Macroanalysis Working Group Symposium
Sarah Kunjummen: “‘Words Numbered, Measured, Weighed’: Early Modern Sermons, and Modes of Understanding”
Matthew Aspeel: “After the Award: The Booker Prize and Cultural Capital”
Stefano Cagnato: “The Ghost of Magical Realism in World Literature”
Mohammad Sagha: “Narrators, Narratives, and Biographies: Using Hadith Literature for Reconstructing early Islamic History”
12:30 pm | Lunch Forum: Richard So and Michael Kramer
Richard So (English, Chicago) and Michael Kramer (History, Northwestern) will discuss recent work at the Chicago Text Lab and Northwestern University’s Digital Humanities Lab, and lead a conversation on new possibilities for macroanalysis.