Close Reading, Far Reading
Between born-digital texts and the digitization of archival texts, researchers in the humanities and social sciences now have digital access to large bodies of written materials. How might this access enable both new questions and new answers to old questions? What tools and techniques can faculty and scholars use to see patterns in collections of digital or digitized texts? And how we train computers to understand the meanings encoded in these texts?
Join us for a panel of faculty and researchers who are learning and developing text analysis techniques to practice both close reading and “far” reading. Their work will provide inspiration for new approaches to your scholarship, and they will recommend ways to get started with text analysis methods.
Co-sponsor: VU Communications and Marketing
Sponsors: Digital Commons, Center for Digital Humanities
Panelists: Mark Schoenfield, professor of English, Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of African and African American art, and Pedro Rodriguez, postdoctoral fellow in data science and political science
Date and Time: Monday, October 25th, 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Zoom (link to be emailed in advance of the event)
Open to Vanderbilt faculty, staff, postdocs, and students.