[SDH/SEMI Members] Fwd: NEH Summer Institute Announcement

[Richard Cunningham]

Dear Members,

I am forwarding this on behalf of

Tim Tangherlini, Director of the NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in  
Digital Humanities,
"Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities"
August 15 - 27, 2010, at UCLA

Cheers,
Richard

>
> ANNOUNCEMENT
> "Networks and Network Analysis for Humanities". Call for  
> Applications. Applications are currently being accepted for an NEH  
> Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities at UCLA,  
> August 15-27, 2010. Applications must be submitted online no later  
> than November 5, 2009. For more information, and for the online  
> application, please visit http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/hum2010
>
> In recent years, attention has been drawn in both the academic and  
> popular press to the ubiquity of networks in everyday life, from  
> communications networks to investment networks to power transmission  
> networks to social networks. As a result of this increasing  
> awareness, the study of the different types of networks that link us  
> together, and the analysis of the structure of those networks has  
> risen to greater and greater prominence not only in the mathematical  
> and social sciences but also in the Humanities. Despite this  
> increasing awareness of the importance of networks for theoretical  
> advances in the Humanities, there is a considerable gap between  
> recognizing in the broadest strokes the existence of these complex,  
> dynamic systems and the very hard work of the consistent application  
> of rigorous theoretically sound methods to the study of networks.  
> Computational tools for the discovery and analysis of networks offer  
> the promise of bridging this gap; unfortunately, many of these tools  
> are as complex to work with as the underlying data itself. A main  
> goal of this institute is to teach Humanities scholars some of the  
> most accessible of these techniques.
>
> In broadest terms, the topics to be addressed in the Institute are:  
> (a) the science of networks and networks in Humanistic inquiry (b)  
> preparing and cleaning Humanities data for network analysis (c)  
> internal networks in Humanistic data: networks of characters,  
> networks of texts, networks of language (d) external networks in  
> Humanistic data: networks of influence, networks of production,  
> networks of reception.



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Richard Cunningham
Associate Professor, English & Theatre
Director, Acadia Media Centre
Acadia University




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