Shaoling Ma’s talk “What Do Media Do? The ‘Case’ of Late Qing China, 1861–1906,” drew on her recent book, The Stone and the Wireless, Mediating China 1861-1906.
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Radical Futures Symposium
The Radical Futures symposium, which took place on March 20-21, 2021, brought together researchers from Germany and the US to discuss both the future of media and form(at)s of imagination/imaginaries in the 21st century.
Fall 2019 Digital Toolbox Working Group meetings
Our meetings this semester will be:
Wednesday, September 18th at 3:30 (UCHI Conference Room)
Wednesday, October 9th at 3:30 (Heritage Room – 4th floor of the library)
Monday, November 4th at 11:35 (Austin 246)
New Site Launched
We are proud to announce the launch of our new website. Built on the the university Aurora service, this new version of our site sports a modern look, faster loading times, and works on all mobile and tablet devices.
Helpful Aurora Guides for New Webmasters
To get started on your new site, take a look on the Aurora site for tips on how to get started.
New England Humanities Consortium DH Retreat (August 2019)
The New England Humanities Consortium (NEHC) sponsored the Digital Humanities Island Retreat on August 23–25 at the Shoals Marine Laboratory on Appledore Island, off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This all-expenses-paid retreat focused on the cutting-edge research and teaching happening in the digital humanities among the eleven NEHC member institutions and on how to make these valuable digital tools and resources widely available.
Leila K. Norako on a Digital Edition of Richard Coer de Lyon
Leila K. Norako, this year’s Charles A. Owen, Jr. Visiting Professor of Medieval Studies at UConn, is working on a digital edition of Richard Coer de Lyon. You can hear more about her project on Friday, September 6 at 4 p.m. (Austin 217).
Text Mining Harry Potter with Two UConn Grad Students
For their final project for the “Introduction to Digital Humanities” graduate seminar in Spring 2019, Rebecca Rowe and Tolonda Henderson, both graduate students in English, collaborated on a project, Authorial Influence and Harry Potter Fan Fiction. Rowe and Henderson examine how J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels affect fan-fiction in the Harry Potter universe by text mining the seven Harry Potter novels and 450 fan fictions. Their project suggests more broadly the extent to which authors influence the amateur fiction written by fans, but also how fan fiction differs from the novels that inspire them.
