'Channels of Digital Scholarship' Seminar I: New tools and old questions in the analysis of textual corpora

Research in the digital humanities has experienced explosive growth and development in the last ten years. Two important factors have contributed to this progress: firstly, the very strong mobilisation of scientific and scholarly communities to engage with this emerging field in all humanities sectors; secondly, the extraordinary progress of digital tools and capacities. This has resulted in a profusion of initiatives at all levels: major digitisation projects led by libraries and academic institutions, digitisation of corpora of all kinds and for all periods, and multiple research projects with targeted objectives.

The aim of this first Channels of Digital Scholarship seminar series is to reflect upon new avenues for the analysis and use of textual corpora. Textual corpora and their uses represent several challenges in the development and validation of digital tools for analysis, the dialogue between disciplines, and the institutional structures that support the wide range of projects that are being developed. In this series of four seminars, the Maison Française d’Oxford and Digital Scholarship @ Oxford, with the help of leaders of digital humanities initiatives in the CIVIS network, propose to explore these challenges from Franco-British and international perspectives.

Conveners: Goran Gaber (EHESS (LIER-FYT)), Andrew Cusworth (Digital Scholarship, Oxford), Christophe Gaillac (Nuffield College, Oxford), Pascal Marty, Olivier Delouis, Tristan Alonge (MFO), Grégoire Lacaze (MFO/Aix Marseille).

SEMINAR PROGRAMME (UK time) :

24 May, 2-4.30pm: ‘Institutions & Networks: The cultural infrastructures of digital scholarship’
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25 May, 2-4pm: ‘Greek and Latin corpora’
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31 May, 2-4pm: ‘From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment’
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1 June, 2-4pm: ‘Building and Mining Corpora for Social Media Discourse Analysis’
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Tuesday 24 May 2022

Wednesday 25 May 2022

Tuesday 31 May 2022

Wednesday 1 June 2022

This series features in the following public collections: