Jasmine Mulliken

Visiting Assistant Professor

English, OSU

I would like or this combination-TALK/PLAY session to explore the potentials of using Google Earth or other locative media in literary analysis. For the TALK component, we can use my Mapping Dubliners Project, which maps out the approximately 200 geographical references in James Joyce’s Dubliners, as a lead-in to discuss how maps can inform our interpretation of political and historical themes in literary texts. After looking at some of Google Earth’s functionality in this context, participants can PLAY with Google Earth and experiment with its interface. No prior experience with mapping software is necessary, but participants should be able to download Google Earth on their laptops for the PLAY portion.

Thomas Carlson

Department of History, OSU

thomas.a.carlson@okstate.edu

Description: Humanities scholars are trained to critique power relationships and representations, while technology practitioners are trained to optimize what computers do, but who might think critically about the limitations of applying digital methods to humanities scholarship?  And how might we do that?  The digital world is, by default, very tidy, while the real world is very messy, so to what degree can we use digital methods to investigate the world of human phenomena?  This session will propose a few basic concepts for assessing digital methods, and then we will discuss some common digital approaches in light of the concepts proposed.

Mary Larson

Associate Dean for Special Collections, OSU Libraries

mary.larson@okstate.edu

There are a lot of points of intersection between oral history and digital humanities, and as someone with a foot in both methodologies, I am always interested in discussing the places where they overlap. I’d like to have a conversation with other practitioners about where they see those junctures, whether they are meaningful or superficial, and what the areas of similarity say about where both methodologies are headed – either separately or in tandem. A particular area of discussion might be the idea of curation and how our conceptual understandings of it have been evolving in both oral history and digital humanities.

Liorah Golomb, PhD, MLIS

Associate Professor and Humanities Librarian

Bizzell Memorial Library

University of Oklahoma

401 West Brooks Street, Room 312

Norman, OK 73019

405.325.4878

lgolomb@ou.edu

Last year I discussed a project in the works: a computer-assisted analysis of the dialogue of the U.S. television program Supernatural. A year later, the project is still in the works, but much has been learned (and forgotten and relearned). Many hurdles have arisen and some have been overcome. In this session I will discuss the project and the hurdles and briefly demonstrate a few language processing tools such as AntConc, TagAnt, and Voyant Tools 2.0 beta. The hope is that my difficulties will make future projects proceed more smoothly for attendees, and that we can share ways to make complications less complicated.