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2016 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities Coming Soon!

Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities & Computer Science “New Directions”

November 12-13, 2016

University of Illinois at Chicago (USA)

The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) brings together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to examine the current state of digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research.

The 2016 theme is “New Directions,” and will feature research broadly related to Digital Humanities and Computer Science work applied to humanistic research, with a particular focus on new trends in publishing, mapping, health humanities, digital archives, visualization and visualization tools, gaming, workflows, theories, and methodologies.

Keynote – Saturday, November 12th

Geoffrey Rockwell

Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Computing & Director of the Kule Institute for Advanced Study, University of Alberta

Geoffrey Rockwell works in the area of philosophical dialogue, textual visualization and analysis, humanities computing, instructional technology, computer games and multimedia. Co-investigator in the Text Mining the Novel SSHRC Partnership, he collaborates with Stéfan Sinclair on a hybrid manuscript Hermeneutica and tool Voyant project and is the co-lead of the TAPoR project documenting text tools for humanists.

Sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), DePaul University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Loyola University Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago Questions? Contact us at dhcs@helpdesk.uic.eduConference Website Follow us on Twitter!