Schedule
November 12, 2020
Elaine Treharne
Text Technologies
Elaine Treharne, Director of Text Technologies, is a Medievalist who takes an extremely long view of what we mean by the book and what the book means to us-- the cultural and intellectual implications of the materiality of the book. The data she discussed relates to patterns within the life cycles of text technologies.
Mark Algee-Hewitt
The Literary Lab
Mark Algee-Hewitt is Director of the Stanford Literary Lab, a research collective that applies computational criticism to the study of literature. Mark works on the history of aesthetic theory and the development and transmission of aesthetic and philosophic concepts during the Enlightenment and Romantic periods.
Graduate Respondent: Leonardo BarletaDecember 3, 2020
Giovanna Ceserani
Open Access & the Grand Tour Project: Historical Data Representation Beyond Data Schemas
Giovanna Ceserani is associate professor of Classics at Stanford University. She is also currently serving as the director of CESTA and is one of the co-organizers of our workshop series. Giovanna’s current work deals with the relationship between the ancient and the modern worlds. One of her current projects focus on the emergence of modern histories of ancient Greece and the other one on the modern/eighteenth century travels to the ancient lands. In relation to her latter project, she initiated the digital Grand Tour Project within the umbrella project titled Mapping the Republic of Letters.
Bridget Algee-Hewitt
Data Science to the Power of Ethics Equals Responsible Research
Bridget Algee-Hewitt is a senior research scientist at Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. As a biological anthropologist, Bridget studies how skeletal and genetic traits vary among contemporary peoples, across space and through time. As a practicing forensic anthropologist, she also provides forensic casework consultation and delivers expert testimony for asylum petitions, advocating for policy change in support of undocumented migrant and refugee rights Her current research focuses on migration, poverty, and violence in Latin America, addressing the crisis of deaths along the US-México border. Read about her larger research program here. Her ongoing projects with CESTA students include work on the COVID-19 pandemic and the risk to immigrant health in the Detention Centers.
Graduate Respondent: Mae Velloso-LyonsJanuary 27, 2021
Peggy Phelan
Selected Negatives: Warhol's New York, 1984
Peggy Phelan is the Ann O’Day Maples Chair in the Arts Professor of Theater & Performance Studies and English. Publishing widely in both book and essay form, Phelan most recently co-curated the exhibition and book, Contact Warhol: Photography Without End (The Cantor Center for the Arts and MIT Press, 2018), with Richard Meyer. Her other projects include: Unmarked: the politics of performance (Routledge, 1993); Mourning Sex: performing public memories (Routledge, 1997); the survey essay for Art and Feminism, ed. by Helena Reckitt (Phaidon, 2001); the survey essay for Pipilotti Rist (Phaidon, 2001); and the catalog essay for Intus: Helena Almeida (Lisbon, 2004). She edited and contributed to Live Art in Los Angeles, (Routledge, 2012), and contributed catalog essays for Everything Loose Will Land: 1970s Art and Architecture in Los Angeles (Mak Center, 2013), Haunted: Contemporary Photography, Video, and Performance (Guggenheim Museum, 2010); WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007); and Andy Warhol: Giant Size (Phaidon, 2008), among others. She has been President and Treasurer of Performance Studies International, the primary professional organization in her field. She has been a fellow of the Getty Research Institute and the Stanford Humanities Center. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004. She chaired the Department of Performance Studies at New York University and the Drama Department at Stanford University.
Nicole Coleman
Collections as Data
Nicole is Digital Research Architect for the Stanford University Libraries. Nicole works at the intersection of the digital library and digital scholarship as a lead architect in the design and development of practical research services. She is currently leading an initiative within the Library to identify and enact applications of artificial intelligence —machine perception, machine learning, machine reasoning, and language recognition— to make the collections of maps, photographs, manuscripts, data sets and other assets more easily discoverable, accessible, and analyzable.
As Research Director for Humanities+Design, a research lab at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, she has led the design and development of numerous tools for data visualization and analysis including Palladio, Breve, and Data Pen. The mission of the lab was to encourage and support collaboration between researchers from the humanities and design to encode interpretive methods in tools for data analysis. Lessons learned in that work have proven essential to designing human-centered applications of machine intelligence in support of research.
February 24, 2021
Laura Stokes
Bad Data and Epidemiology
Laura Stokes completed their Ph.D. at the University of Virginia in 2006. Their first book, Demons of Urban Reform, examines the origins of witchcraft prosecution in fifteenth-century Europe against the backdrop of a general rise in the prosecution of crime and other measures of social control. In the process they have investigated the relationship between witchcraft and sodomy persecutions as well as the interplay between the unregulated development of judicial torture and innovations within witchcraft prosecution.
Their current research is an examination of quotidian economic culture during the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. This project, under the working title A Social History of Greed in the Age of the Reformation, is based largely on the examination of court depositions from the city of Basel. Its first fruit will be a microhistory on The Murder of Uly Mörnach, currently in process.
Ali Yaycioglu
Mapping Ottoman Epirus: Region, Power, and Empire
Ali Yaycıoğlu is a historian of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. His research centers on economic, political and legal institutions and practices as well as social and cultural life in southeastern Europe and the Middle East during the Ottoman Empire. He also has a research agenda on how people imagined, represented and recorded property, territory, and nature in early periods. Furthermore, Dr. Yaycıoğlu explores how we can use digital tools to understand, visualize and conceptualize these imaginations, representations and recordings. He teaches courses on the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey; empires, markets and networks in the early modern world; global history of the age of revolutions; doing economic history; and digital humanities.
Professor Yaycıoğlu's first book, Partners of the Empire: Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions (Stanford University Press, 2016) offers a rethinking of the Ottoman Empire within the global context of the revolutionary age in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Currently Dr. Yaycıoğlu is working on a book project, entitled The Order of Debt: Power, Wealth and Death in the Ottoman Empire analyzing transformations in property, finance and statehood in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book focuses on episodes of economic violence during the political and economic transformation from the Early Modern era to the Modern times through fiscal records, probate inventories, debt and credit registers, confiscation and auction documents. Dr. Yaycıoğlu's other project, tentatively entitled Ottoman Topologies: Managing, Knowing and Recording Nature examines symbiotic relationship between managerial, intellectual and scribal organization of the Ottoman Empire and various eco-orders, such as mountains, forests, valleys, steppes, river and lakesides, coastal areas, islands and deserts...
Born and raised in Ankara, Turkey, Ali Yaycıoğlu studied International Relations at the Middle East Technical University and Ottoman History at Bilkent University. Then, he studied Arabic and Islamic legal history at McGill University in Montreal. Yaycıoğlu completed his Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard in 2008. After his Ph.D., Yaycioglu carried out post-doctoral studies in the Agha Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the same university and then in Hellenic Studies at Princeton. He joined the History Department at Stanford in 2011. Professor Yaycıoğlu is also director of Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and a board member of Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), cofounder of Ottoman and Turkey Encounters at Stanford (OTES) and an associate member of the Centre d'études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques at L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.
March 17, 2021
Grant Parker
A Discussion of Ruha Benjamin's Race after Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Grant Parker joined Stanford from Duke University in 2006. He teaches mostly Latin, as well as topics linked to the exotic and geographic elements of Roman imperial culture. His book, The Making of Roman India, was published in 2008, while new projects have addressed ancient travel literature as well as Rome's Egyptian obelisks. His interest in classical reception is reflected in his 2001 book, The Agony of Asar (critical edition of a former slave's defense of slavery, written in Latin [Leiden 1742]).
April 7, 2021
Annika Butler-Wall
Managing ‘Service with a Smile’ from Behind the Screen: Gender and Language in Yelp Reviews
Annika Butler-Wall is a PhD candidate in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. Her dissertation explores forms of labor that have been historically considered “women’s work” as they are “disrupted” by digital technologies. She is a 2020-21 CESTA Digital Humanities Graduate Research Fellow and currently serves as the graduate student coordinator for the SHC Research Workshop on Digital Aesthetics.
Charlotte Lindemann and Leah Chase
Speech Patterns in American Fiction
Charlotte Lindemann is a doctoral candidate in English at Stanford studying American literature and novel theory. Her dissertation examines the representation of characters' speech and dialogue in nineteenth century American literature. She is a member of Stanford’s Literary Lab and a 2020-21 CESTA Digital Humanities Graduate Research Fellow. Her work has appeared in Word and Text.
Leah Arima Chase is an English major with an emphasis in Creative Writing. She is a recipient of the Chappell Lougee Scholarship, with which she will begin drafting a novel this upcoming summer. She has previously worked with the Literary Lab and is currently a researcher at CESTA.
Nichole Nomura
Representing Learning Outcomes in Fiction: Finding Bloom's Taxonomy in ‘His Dark Materials’
Nichole Nomura is a PhD candidate in the Stanford University Department of English and a graduate of Stanford’s Graduate School of Education (M.A). She studies how science fiction teaches and is taught, using methods from the digital humanities, literary criticism, and education. A member of Stanford's Literary Lab, she's worked on projects including Microgenres, Personhood, Voice, and the Young Adult Novel Project.
April 28, 2021
Christina Hodge
A Decolonial Perspective on Archives and Digital Practices
Christina J. Hodge is Academic Curator and Collections Manager of the Stanford University Archaeology Collections (SUAC) of the Stanford Archaeology Center, a museum collection of over 100,000 archaeological, ethnographic, and art objects from California and around the world. Hodge is an interdisciplinary museum anthropologist, historical archaeologist, and curator working in critical museum and heritage studies.
Her research program investigates university-related collections in order to expose hidden dynamics of race, gender, and agency, focusing on intersections of personal identity and institutional authority. Insights into the evidentiary roles of material culture inform contemporary challenges to racist, white supremacist, and patriarchal norms. She promotes curation as a method of practice-based and inquiry-driven research. In this work, Hodge explicitly theorizes anthropological collections, analyzing practices--including digital practices--from a decolonial perspective. Hodge’s training is in anthropological, social, and interpretive archaeologies and the multicultural material worlds of early modern America.
Rowan Dorin
Corpus Synodalium: Local Ecclesiastical Legislation in Medieval Europe
Rowan Dorin is an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. He earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees at Harvard University, and an MPhil in Medieval History from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he held a Junior Fellowship at the Harvard Society of Fellows. His research and teaching focus primarily on the legal, religious, and economic history of western Europe and the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages, and he is currently finishing his first book, entitled Conflicts of Interest: Jews, Christian Moneylenders, and the Rise of Mass Expulsion in Late Medieval Europe.
Graduate Respondent: Laura MenéndezMay 19, 2021
Sumayya Ahmed
Talking Archives? Thinking about Oral History as a Form of Documentation
Professor Sumayya Ahmed recently joined the faculty of Simmons University’s School of Library and Information Science in the Archives Concentration. Prior to Simmons, she taught for several years at the Program in Library and Information Studies at University College London’s global campus in Doha, Qatar.
Her research focuses on documentary heritage in North Africa and the Middle East, the societal provenance of historical manuscript collections, the history of archives in North Africa and the Middle East, and the politics of cultural heritage preservation. She was the co-editor of the 2016 De Gruyter volume, Library and Information Science in the Middle East and North Africa.
