Events
Bodies of Work: Digital Corpora for Teaching and Research
Date and Time
Friday, September 28, 2018 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Description
Professor Anderson (Classics) will describe his born-digital project on competing 16th and 17th century Latin translations of Marcus Aurelius' ancient Greek Meditations. This presentation draws from Prof. Anderson's work for a two-week 2018 NEH Institute for AdvancedTechnology in the Digital Humanities ("Digital Editions, Digital Corpora, and new Possibilities for the Humanities in the Academy and Beyond"). “Translating” such documents into useable bodies of textual (and meta-textual) data for a specific research project is complex and challenging. Building a digital resource which is also useful for other researchers with different research questions is an additional challenge. But these kinds of projects offer a fantastic opportunity for involving students at every stage of the long process of building a research corpus. Anderson will discuss his current project and research goals, his work at the NEH Digital Humanities Seminar, and will explore the potential and challenges of these digital corpora and the opportunities for teaching, faculty research, and student research collaborations that are inherent in creating sustainable digital humanities resources.
The event is LIB 100 approved and is co-sponsored by the Classics Department & the Digital Studies minor.