<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Richard Rogers <<a href="mailto:rogers@govcom.org">rogers@govcom.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">January 4, 2010 12:20:30 PM CEST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Masters of Media <<a href="mailto:mastersofmedia@listcultures.org">mastersofmedia@listcultures.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Cc: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:dmi@mediastudies.nl">dmi@mediastudies.nl</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b><mom> CFP: The Computational Turn, Swansea University</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><div class="sites-layout-tile sites-tile-name-header" style="padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; "><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; "><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 24px; white-space: pre; "><b>CFP: The Computational Turn</b> </span></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.thecomputationalturn.com/">http://www.thecomputationalturn.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/dmberry/home/location" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: none; ">SWANSEA UNIVERSITY</a></div><div>9TH MARCH 2010</div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><br></span></span></div><div><div><b>Keynote: <a href="http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Literature/faculty/n.hayles" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: none; ">N. Katherine Hayles</a><span style="font-size: x-small; "> (Professor of Literature at Duke University). </span></b></div><div><b>Keynote: <a href="http://www.manovich.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: none; ">Lev Manovich</a> <span style="font-size: x-small; ">(Professor, Visual Arts Department, UCSD).</span></b></div><div><b><br></b></div></div><div>The application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts & Humanities are resulting in new approaches and methodologies for the study of traditional and new corpuses of Arts and Humanities materials. This new 'computational turn' takes the methods and techniques from computer science to create new ways of distant and close readings of texts (e.g. Moretti). This one-day workshop aims to discuss the implications and applications of what Lev Manovich has called 'Cultural Analytics' and the question of finding patterns using algorthmic techniques. Some of the most startling approaches transform understandings of texts by use of network analysis (e.g. graph theory), database/XML encodings (which flatten structures), or merely provide new quantitative techniques for looking at various media forms, such as media and film, and (re)presenting them visually, aurally or haptically. Within this field there are important debates about the contrast between narrative against database techniques, pattern-matching versus hermeneutic reading, and the statistical paradigm (using a sample) versus the data mining paradigm. Additionally, new forms of collaboration within the Arts and Humanities are emerging which use team-based approaches as opposed to the traditional lone-scholar. This requires the ability to create and manage modular Arts and Humanities research teams through the organisational structures provided by technology and digital communications (e.g. Big Humanities), together with techniques for collaborating in an interdisciplinary way with other disciplines such as computer science (e.g. hard interdisciplinarity versus soft interdisciplinarity). </div><div><b><span style="font-weight: normal; "><br></span></b></div><div>Papers are encouraged in the following areas:</div><div><br></div><div>- Distant versus Close Reading</div><div>- Database Structure versus Argument</div><div>- Data mining/Text mining/Patterns</div><div>- Pattern as a new epistemological object</div><div>- Hermeneutics and the Data Stream</div><div>- Geospatial techniques</div><div>- Big Humanities</div><div>- Digital Humanities versus Traditional Humanities</div><div>- Tool Building</div><div>- Free Culture/Open Source Arts and Humanities</div><div>- Collaboration, Assemblages and Alliances </div><div>- Language and Code (software studies)</div><div>- Information visualization in the Humanities</div><div>- Philosophical and theoretical reflections on the computational turn</div><div><br></div><div><div><b>+ Participation Requirements +</b><br><br>Workshop participants are requested to submit a position paper (approx. 2000-5000 words) about the computational turn in Arts and Humanities, philosophical/theoretical reflections on the computational turn, research focus or research questions related to computational approaches, proposals for academic practice with algorithmic/visualisation techniques, proposals for new research methods with regard to Arts and Humanities or specific case studies (if applicable) and findings to date. Position papers will be published in a workshop PDF and website for discussion and some of the participants will be invited to present their paper at the workshop. </div><div><br>Deadline for Position papers: February 10, 2010</div><div>Submit papers to: <a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tct2010" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: none; ">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tct2010</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; ">Workshop funded by <a href="http://www.swansea.ac.uk/humanities/ResearchCentres/CallaghanCentrefortheStudyofConflict/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: none; ">The Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict, Power, Empire</a>, Swansea University. The<a href="http://www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/riah/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: none; ">Research Institute in the Arts and Humanities</a> (RIAH) at Swansea University.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b>+ References +</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; ">Clement, Tanya E. (2008) ‘A thing not beginning and not ending’: using digital tools to distant-read Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans. </span><i><span style="font-size: x-small; ">Literary and Linguistic Computing</span></i><span style="font-size: x-small; ">. 23.3 (2008): 361.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; ">Clement, Tanya, Steger, Sara, Unsworth, John, Uszkalo, Kirsten (2008) How Not to Read a Million Books. Retrieved 10/11/09 from </span><a href="http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/hownot2read.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size: x-small; ">http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/hownot2read.html</span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; ">Council on Library and Information Resources and The National Endowment for the Humanities (2009) Working Together or Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship. Retrieved 10/11/09 from </span><a href="http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub145/pub145.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size: x-small; ">http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub145/pub145.pdf</span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; ">Hayles, N. Katherine (2009) RFID: Human Agency and Meaning in Information-Intensive Environments. </span><i><span style="font-size: x-small; ">Theory, Culture and Society</span></i><span style="font-size: x-small; "> 26.2/3 (2009): 1-24. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; ">Hayles, N. Katherine (2009) How We Think: The Transforming Power of Digital Technologies. Retrieved 10/11/09 from </span><a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1853/27680" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size: x-small; ">http://hdl.handle.net/1853/27680</span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; ">Kittler, Fredrich (1997) Literature, Media, Information Systems. London: Routledge.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; ">Krakauer, David C. (2007) The Quest for Patterns in Meta-History. Santa Fe Institute Bulletin. Winter 2007. Retrieved 10/11/09 from </span><a href="http://www.intelros.ru/pdf/SFI_Bulletin/Quest.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size: x-small; ">http://www.intelros.ru/pdf/SFI_Bulletin/Quest.pdf</span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; ">Latour, Bruno (2007) Reassembling the Social. London: Oxford University Press.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; ">Manovich, Lev (2002) The Language of New Media. MIT Press.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; ">Manovich, Lev (2007) White paper: Cultural Analytics: Analysis and Visualizations of Large Cultural Data Sets, May 2007. Retrieved 10/11/09 from </span><a href="http://softwarestudies.com/cultural_analytics/cultural_analytics_2008.doc" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size: x-small; ">http://softwarestudies.com/cultural_analytics/cultural_analytics_2008.doc</span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; ">McLemee, Scott (2006) Literature to Infinity. </span><i><span style="font-size: x-small; ">Inside Higher Ed</span></i><span style="font-size: x-small; ">. Retrieved 10/11/09 from </span><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee193" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size: x-small; ">http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee193</span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; ">Moretti, Franco (2005) Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History. London: Verso.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; ">Robinson, Peter (2006) Electronic Textual Editing: The Canterbury Tales and other Medieval Texts. Electronic Textual Editing. Modern Language Association of America. Retrieved 10/11/09 from </span><a href="http://www.tei-c.org/About/Archive_new/ETE/Preview/robinson.xml" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size: x-small; ">http://www.tei-c.org/About/Archive_new/ETE/Preview/robinson.xml</span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; ">Schreibman, Susan, Siemens, Ray & Unsworth, John (2007) A Companion to Digital Humanities. London: WileyBlackwell.</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></span></div></div><table cellspacing="0" class="sites-layout-hbox" style="width: 534px; table-layout: fixed; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><tbody><tr><td class="sites-layout-tile sites-tile-name-content-1 sites-canvas-sidebar sites-layout-empty-tile" style="vertical-align: top; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; width: 150px; "><div dir="ltr"><br></div></td><td class="sites-layout-tile sites-tile-name-content-2 sites-layout-empty-tile" style="vertical-align: top; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; "><div dir="ltr"><br></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="sites-layout-tile sites-tile-name-footer" style="padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 10px; "><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; "><div><span style="font-size: x-small; ">Organised by <a href="http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/Arts/berryd/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: none; ">Dr David M. Berry</a>, Department of Political and Cultural Studies, Swansea University. <span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-size: x-small; "><a href="mailto:d.m.berry@swansea.ac.uk?subject=The%20Computational%20Turn" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); text-decoration: none; ">d.m.berry@swansea.ac.uk</a></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; "><br></span></div></span></div></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>---</div><div><br>Dr David M. Berry<br>Department of Political and Cultural Studies<br>School of Arts and Humanities<br>Swansea University.<br>Swansea<br>SA2 8PP<br>Wales, UK<br><br>Tel: 01792 602633<br>Web: <a href="http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/Arts/berryd/">http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/Arts/berryd/</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></span></span></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>mastersofmedia mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mastersofmedia@listcultures.org">mastersofmedia@listcultures.org</a><br>http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/mastersofmedia_listcultures.org<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>