Engage-LA: Interpretive Media Laboratory

A collection of physically interactive and immersive media works about the city, created by TFT undergraduate students in the Interpretive Digital Media concentration, as part of the Engage LA  initiative supported by the TFT Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment, and designed for the new Los Angeles State Historic Park. Exhibit 2-8pm / Gala Presentations 8-10pm RSVP...

Social Data Analysis Seminar

Please RSVP. Social data is recognized as an important data resource in today’s information oriented society. Exploring events/concepts/topics/features from social data is an emerging research methodology used to gain rich insights into global social contexts.  The Center for Digital Humanities and the Institute for Digital Research and Education will be hosting a special seminar on...

New Models and Methods in Digital Art History

New Models and Methods in Digital Art History is a colloquium open to the public, which will be held in conjunction with the eight day summer institute “Beyond the Digitized Slide Library.”   The event will be held on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at UCLA in the Young Research Library Main Conference Room. To register, please RSVP at: http://evite.me/UEBsEAYPUc...

Sustainable LA/Data Cosmopolis: Where Urban Meets Data

Los Angeles, with four million inhabitants in the city alone and twenty-two million in the region, is a global megacity. If Los Angeles was a country, it would be the fifteenth largest by economy size in the world. By 2050 Los Angeles County is predicted to house 1.5 million more individuals, as the world’s population...

New Digital Resources and Computational Methods for the Study of Literature in a Global Context

All meetings to take place in the Presentation Conference room in YRL Wednesday 11/4 -breakfast 8:30 -9:00--11:30 Mads Rosendahl-Thomsen (Aarhus Universitet)--Introduction to project or future funding possibilities Tim Tangherlini (UCLA)-- Goodreads and Reception-at-scale David Kim (UCLA)-- Goethe and Networks Peter Broadwell (UCLA)-- hGIS and Macroscopes -11:30-1:30 lunch -13:30-15:30 Scott Weingart (CMU): tba Denis Tenen (Columbia):...

New Digital Resources and Computational Methods for the Study of Literature in a Global Context

Wednesday 11/4 -breakfast 8:30 -9:00--11:30 Mads Rosendahl-Thomsen (Aarhus Universitet)--Introduction to project or future funding possibilities Tim Tangherlini (UCLA)-- Goodreads and Reception-at-scale David Kim (UCLA)-- Goethe and Networks Peter Broadwell (UCLA)-- hGIS and Macroscopes -11:30-1:30 lunch -13:30-15:30 Scott Weingart (CMU): tba Denis Tenen (Columbia): Scene Detection in Literary Fiction David Mimno (Cornell): classification -15:30-16 coffee -16:00-17:30--show...

Demystifying Open: Open Scholarship for Graduate Students in Humanities and Social Science

Early career researchers are increasingly embracing the open scholarship movement, which advocates broad public access to and reusability of research results, educational materials, and data. Many funders and institutions including the UC system have policies requiring openness in published scholarship. Though open efforts have primarily focused on the hard sciences, there are increasing opportunities for...

The Dangers of Representation

Diane Favro, of the UCLA Department of Architecture & Urban Design, will give a talk on “The Dangers of Representation”.

Future of History Conference 2016

The Department of History at the University of California Los Angeles invites you to attend Futures of History, a conference aimed at empowering the next generation of historians. Through discussions with innovative leaders, demonstrations from a wide variety of professionals, and displays of new ways of conceptualizing the discipline, this event promises a bold new...

Inertia: Momentum

A Conference on Sound, Media, and the Digital Humanities 2016 Conference News and Updates Inertia: Momentum will take place at the UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, April 28 – 30, 2016. Co-hosted by Echo: A Music-Centered Journal, The Digital Humanities Working Group at UCLA, andEthnomusicology Review, the conference gathers a diverse group of scholars from...