Hello all,

 

Here’s a list of some of our upcoming DH Open Office Hours events in February and March:

 

All our Open Office Hours sessions this semester will be virtual -- held on Wednesdays from 12:15 to 1:00 via Zoom unless otherwise noted.  We’re starting at 12:15 to give everyone time to get lunch and take a stretch break between virtual meetings.

 

Please note, if you would like to participate in one of these sessions please register through the Northeastern Library Calendar (links below). Anyone can register, but this helps us keep our events secure.  When you register you will receive a calendar invitation with a Zoom link *as an attachment* to the confirmation email (and not in the body of the email itself). You can register at any time up until the end of each session.

 

February 24, 12:15-1:00pm - Challenging Colonial Discourse Through TEI Markup

RSVP here: https://northeastern.libcal.com/event/7563427

In this session, Jacob Murel discusses ways in which the Women Writers Project's approach to TEI markup challenges colonialist language in early and late modern English texts as well as potential methods for further revising colonial discourse across the textbase. 

 

March 3, 12:15-1:00pm - St. Katharine Docks and the Digital Cities Research Network

RSVP here: https://northeastern.libcal.com/event/7563444

In this session, Oliver Ayers will talk about his current project creating a history of St. Katharine Docks, site of Northeastern University’s new campus by the Thames in London, as well as the work of the transatlantic Digital Cities Research Network that is helping to facilitate collaborations across disciplines and campuses.

 

March 10, 12:15-1:00pm - Representing Race in the Early Modern Archive

RSVP here: https://northeastern.libcal.com/event/7564445

In this session, Cailin Flannery Roles will discuss the Women Writers Project's new, internally-funded collaborative project, which asks whether and how digital collections of historical texts can represent racial identity. Building on the work of scholars like Kim Hall (1995), Marisa Fuentes (2016), Brigitte Fielder (2020), and Jessica Marie Johnson (2020), the project addresses race not as a stable quality of difference but as a social category with shifting boundaries and culturally specific descriptors. Rather than simply marking the presence of women of color, a practice that reifies whiteness as the unmarked norm, this project seeks to make visible both early modern categories of race and the process of archival categorization by considering race as a critical framework for understanding early women’s writing. Cailin will provide an overview of the project and its emerging encoding methods, using Claire de Duras’ Ourika to demonstrate the complexities of formalizing information about race. 

 

March 17, 12:15-1:00pm - NULab Seedling and Travel Grant Recipient Presentations

RSVP here: https://northeastern.libcal.com/event/7563470

Please join us for a special session of DH Open Office Hours in which recipients of NULab Seedling and Travel Grants will share their research projects in a round of lightning talks.

 

This event will feature:

Hanyu Chwe, Network Science, speaking on the “Impact of Race and Gender in Online Dating” project

Ryan Cordell and Kenny Oravetz, English, speaking on the Letterpress Goes 3D project

Ryan Gallagher, Network Science, speaking on the “Measuring Affective Dynamics of Polarized Publics” project

Dietmar Offenhuber, Art + Design and Public Policy, and Sara Wiley, Sociology and Health Science, speaking on the Environmental Enforcement Watch project