In both the past and present, human populations are consistently presented with unpredictable situations. Behavioral responses to these situations are often heavily mediated by our degree of knowledge (uncertainty) about the variability in outcomes (risk). Using social network analysis as well as a novel macro-evolutionary method for examining the mode and tempo of evolution, this...
UCLA Center for the Study of Religion presents Scroll Down: Classical Jewish Texts, from Parchment to Internet. Gary A. Rendsburg, Rutgers University Light lunch will be served. Register here: csr@humnet.ucla.edu
The Kenneth Karmiole Lecture in Archival Studies presents “Verne Harris: Archive Banditry and the Ghosts of Zapiro and Derrida”. Harris uses Derridean hauntology and the work of cartoonist Zapiro to explore the intersecting themes of archive, social justice and professional calling. This becomes the basis for a call to what he names “archive banditry” –...
Scott Weingart pop-up lecture sponsored by the Digital Humanities Program Scott B. Weingart is Carnegie Mellon's Digital Humanities Specialist and a historian researching how science evolved alongside scholarly networks. His instructional material appears in the scottbot irregular (scottbot.net) and The Historian's Macroscope (Imperial College Press, 2015), and his research has been published in journals spanning...
Scott Weingart - Pop Up Lecture The Republic of Letters: Networked Serendipity in Early Modern Europe Scott B. Weingart is Carnegie Mellon's Digital Humanities Specialist and a historian researching how science evolved alongside scholarly networks. His instructional material appears in the scottbot irregular and The Historian's Macroscope (Imperial College Press, 2015), and his research has...
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...
I’m very excited to welcome you to a presentation on the state of the 3D printing industry. I recently attended EuroMold, an international conference on the 3D printing industry, in Düsseldorf, Germany. As the Library explores ways in which to offer 3D printing services to its campus community, I went to EuroMold with the goal...
Lorraine Daston (MPI-WG, Berlin). European History Colloquium, cosponsored by History of Science.
Matthew Sargent, University of Southern California Digital Humanities Sponsored by the UCLA History of Science Colloquium
A UCLA Student Panel will talk about “The Conundrum of Police-Involved Homicides Counter-Data in LA County”. A UCLA Information Studies Colloquium
