The DH Faire is an annual Berkeley event that brings together digital humanists to share their work and reflect on the field more broadly. Including lectures, a poster session, and an evening reception, the Faire offers the Berkeley community the opportunity to share projects at various stages of development and receive invaluable feedback from peers.
Join us for the 2018 DH Faire, kicking off Monday, April 2nd!
Highlights:
DH Faire Reception and Poster Session
Mon. April 2, 5:00 – 7:00 PM | Morrison Library, 101 Doe
Help us kick off the 2018 DH Faire by enjoying refreshments with colleagues and browsing posters on recent DH work in Berkeley’s Morrison Library.
Digital Scholarship in the Library and Archives
Wed. April 4, 9:30 – 11:00 AM | Doe Library 180
The Library collaborates with digital humanities research and initiatives through digital publishing, digitization, preservation strategies, metadata creation, subject expertise, instruction, and much more. Come hear from librarians and archivists Mary Elings, Cody Hennesy, and Josh Quan on the ways they have engaged with digital scholarship both within the Library and on campus.
Keynote: David Bamman: The Long Rise of Word Vectors in the Digital Humanities
Wed. April 4, 4:00 -5:30 PM | Academic Innovation Studio (117 Dwinelle)
Professor David Bamman will outline the history of distributed representations of words and unpack what’s new about contemporary (neural) methods of learning such representations compared to previous approaches. By focusing on the fundamentals of representation learning, he will also discuss how we can incorporate other forms of extra-linguistic information into the representation for a word (such as time, geographical location, or author identity) and use that more complex representation for linguistic reasoning.