Who: anyone interested in reading analytical articles encompassing the digital humanities, including but not limited to digital history
What: read some stuff of interest to the group members, get together over food or drinks and discuss the readings
When: September 27th, 5pm-6:30pm and repeated on the last Wednesday of every month, August-May (no meeting in June or July)
Where: If you know of a quieter place with food/drink in the Oakland area where we can meet, please let me know and I’ll check it out! In the meantime, we’ll stick to Hemingway’s Cafe (3911 Forbes Ave).
Our readings this month will be from the Viral Texts project:
- “Fugitive Verses”: The Circulation of Poems in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers, http://viraltexts.org/2016/04/08/fugitive-verses/
- Computational Methods for Uncovering Reprinted Texts in Antebellum Newspapers, http://viraltexts.org/2015/05/22/computational-methods-for-uncovering-reprinted-texts-in-antebellum-newspapers/