Events

Critical DH Group

More Hack Plus More Yak Equals Critical DH?

The UVic-VIU Critical Digital Humanities Group welcomes you to a seminar in which participants articulate a practical DH component of a humanities project through the selected works of theorist Georgio Agamben. The hack in more hack could be some coding, an algorithm/math challenge, using a DH or DH related tool or app, or even simply a practical resource such as a digital library or database.

Our Agamben focus is: The Man Without Content, The Open, and Homo Sacer; these can be grouped, used individually, or explored at a more focused level of a key concept or essay.

• Dates: Fall 2015 - Spring 2016
• Location: UVIC and VIU

VIU-UVic Knowledge Commercialization Group

Dean Irvine will be with us discussing his Agile Humanities Agency, on Nov 6 at UVic, location HSD A 250, 10 am to 12.00 and then in Nanaimo on Nov 7, at the Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce, again 10 am 10 12.00.

• Dates: Nov 6 & 7
• Location: UVIC and Nanaimo

Critical DH Group

Based in part upon the public discussion of the concept of Critical Digital Humanities at The Many Masks/Masques of Heidegger: Technology, Poeisis and Humanism: A Literary Theory Research Group Symposium (The Seminar for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Vancouver Island University, Cowichan Campus, May 2014), Professor Richard J. Lane (MeTA DH Lab, VIU) and Professor Emile Fromet de Rosnay (Dept. of French, UVic), now invite the academic community to meet to discuss some of the theoretical interests sketched so far.

• Dates: Fall 2014 - Spring 2015
  
• Location: UVIC and VIU

Dh-Theory Intersections Group

Sponsored by the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, The University of Victoria.

Lead: Dr. Richard J. Lane (MeTA DH Lab, VIU).
Members: Dr. Emile Fromet de Rosnay (French, UVic), Dr. Stephen Ross (English, UVic), Dr. Jentery Sayers (English, UVic), Dr. Sally Carpentier (English, VIU), Dr. Ian Whitehouse (English, VIU).

• Dates: 2012

Creative Cloud Computing: Utilizing Android Tablet Computers & Dynamic Connectivity Modes in Undergraduate Research

Project supported by the Vancouver Island University Research Awards Committee, Research Fund. Lead: Dr. Richard J. Lane. Undergraduate research assistants working with Dr. Lane on this project are: Lauren Walker and Emily Marroquin.

• Dates: 2012

MeTA - Media Text Assemblage Application

Principal Investigator on a project funded by The Canada Foundation for Innovation, the British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund and VIU, Faculty of Arts & Humanities. Co-applicant on project, Dr. Daniel Burgoyne. The main aim of the project is to facilitate new academic approaches to studying the critical and cultural relationships of media text clusters. This project aims to use media text clusters to study the graphic dimensions of publication and reception of Canadian literature. This project will also develop an online database application called Media Text Assemblage (MeTA) that will allow for the definition of unique media text clusters that utilize other humanities databases.

• Dates: 2011-2016

eBook Futures: A Phenomenology of Digital Reading and Being

Supported and part-funded by The Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Group, VIU, in conjunction with The University of Turin and the Literary Theory Research Group, VIU. The project aims to critically and analytically explore the rapidly emerging digital eBook knowledge economy, to produce a phenomenology of digital reading and being.

• Dates: 2010-2015

Next Generation IT: A Research & Advisory Group

A Humanities Interdisciplinarity Research Group think tank, examining the interface between speculative IT projects (research and pedagogy) and practical, affordable delivery. The group brings together researchers, practitioners, IT experts and consultants, in temporary or finite teams for each project.

• Dates: Fall 2011 - 

eBooks in the Contemporary Humanities: Advantages and Challenges for Teaching and Research

A symposium at VIU co-ordinated by the Humanities Interdisciplinarity Research Group and VIU Library.  Keynote speakers were Professor Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing, University of Victoria, and Gwen Bird, Associate University Librarian for Collection Services, Simon Fraser University. Papers were also presented by Stephanie Jones, University of Calgary; Jean Blackburn and Dana McFarland, VIU Library Services; Michelle Patterson, Manager, Environment and Sustainability, VIU; Sally Carpentier, Daniel Burgoyne, and Richard J. Lane, VIU department of English. Topics ranged from technical and practical aspects concerning eBooks, issues of sustainability, access and pedagogy, through to more conceptual work on the philosophy and phenomenology of eBooks.

• Dates: Fall 2010

A Phenomenology of Digital Reading: On eBooks and other Virtual Experiences

A paper presented at the symposium eBooks in the Contemporary Humanities: Advantages and Challenges for Teaching and Research. The paper examines advances in virtual reality research and haptics (the study of senses and human-digital interactions) to update and offer an innovative approach to the concept of the electronic book, with specific reference to the phenomenological methods of philosophers Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Cross-overs between scientific and humanities research are also utilized to produce a new approach to the arts-based conceptualization of the eBook.

• Dates: Fall 2010