MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Event

Oct 13, 2020
Visualizing the History of Knowledge: Methods and Epistemic Implications of Digital Humanities' Visual Techniques

This BBL will take place on Zoom

 

The last few years have seen an exponential growth of humanities projects based on digital tools. The increasing availability of digitalized historical data as well as of processing power has allowed the emergence of what has been called “the second wave of quantitative history” characterized by the emergence of fields such as historical network research, quantitative micro-history and new approaches to provide longue durée perspectives. 

One of the major opportunities as well as challenges offered by new digital humanities approaches is given by new ways to visualize our past and the role of knowledge in it. Network representations, word clouds, statistical graphics, geo-historical mapping, representations of texts, interactive timelines have become increasingly common as tools to explore and understand complex historical processes, as well as synthetic ways to communicate such complexity to a broad audience.

 

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Contact and Registration

Please email Research IT Group for the Zoom link.

All are welcome to attend, regardless of prior experience of the digital humanities. Registration is required for external participants. To register, and for further information on the Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch series email Research IT Group.

About This Series

Brown Bag Lunch is a bi-weekly meeting of researchers at the MPIWG who use or want to learn more about digital research methods, broadly encompassed by the term Digital Humanities. In the Brown Bag Lunch meetings, researchers can discuss tools, share ideas and experiences (good and bad), and learn from each other. Each session explores a new topic; workshops are usually interactive, and we often invite external speakers. Please feel free to bring your lunch, and a laptop or notebook in order to participate!

2020-10-13T12:00:00SAVE IN I-CAL 2020-10-13 12:00:00 2020-10-13 13:30:00 Visualizing the History of Knowledge: Methods and Epistemic Implications of Digital Humanities' Visual Techniques This BBL will take place on Zoom   The last few years have seen an exponential growth of humanities projects based on digital tools. The increasing availability of digitalized historical data as well as of processing power has allowed the emergence of what has been called “the second wave of quantitative history” characterized by the emergence of fields such as historical network research, quantitative micro-history and new approaches to provide longue durée perspectives.  One of the major opportunities as well as challenges offered by new digital humanities approaches is given by new ways to visualize our past and the role of knowledge in it. Network representations, word clouds, statistical graphics, geo-historical mapping, representations of texts, interactive timelines have become increasingly common as tools to explore and understand complex historical processes, as well as synthetic ways to communicate such complexity to a broad audience.   Shih-Pei ChenRobert CastiesDirk WintergrünPascal Belouin Shih-Pei ChenRobert CastiesDirk WintergrünPascal Belouin Europe/Berlin public