2008 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) » Arno Bosse

Date for 2010 DHCS Colloquium

Arno Bosse — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:47:47 +0000

This year’s DHCS Colloquium will be hosted by Northwestern University on November 21st – 22nd, 2010. Until the conference website is launched, please contact Prof. Martin Mueller at Northwestern for further details.

Proceedings of the 2008 Chicago DHCS Colloquium

Arno Bosse — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:46:54 +0000

Our new journal, the Proceedings of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (JDHCS), has finally been published. Please check it out!

Save the Date – DHCS 2009 will be held at IIT, Nov. 14-16th

Arno Bosse — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:03:18 +0000

We are pleased to announce that the 2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) will be organized and hosted by the Illinois Institute of Technology, November 14-16, 2009.

The goal of the 2009 DHCS Colloquium, as in previous years, is to bring together scholars and researchers in both the Humanities and Computer Science to collaborate on deepening the current state of Digital Humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research.

Call for Papers:

A formal call for papers will be issued shortly; please watch the DHCS blog (http://lingcog.iit.edu/~dhcs2009).

Important Dates & Deadlines:

* DHCS Colloquium: November 14-16.
* Deadline for Submissions: August 30
* Notification of Acceptance: September 15
* Full Program Announcement: September 24

Contact:

For further information, please email dhcs2009@iit.edu.

–
Shlomo Argamon, Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL 60616, USA

Colloquium est fini

Arno Bosse — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:12:26 +0000

A huge thanks to everyone who participated and helped organize this year’s DHCS colloquium and helped to make it a successful event.

In a day or two we’ll be sending out notes to our paper and poster presenters asking them to prepare their materials for inclusion in the online DHCS Colloquium Proceedings. Until then, please check out the live blog archives to find references to sites, papers etc. mentioned during the paper and keynote presentations.

See you next year at the Illinois Institute of Technology!

Online Registration closed & stats

Arno Bosse — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:13:42 +0000

We closed our online registration late yesterday afternoon. 129 people have registered for the colloquium plus a handful more via email. We’ll have to stop accepting registrants when we reach 150. Thus far, 62 people have indicated that they will be attending the Saturday pre-colloquium. 116 have signed up for the Sunday sessions and 119 for Monday. About 70 people will be attending the Sunday banquet and keynote.

Out of all registrants, just over 50% are either faculty or students. IT and library/press staff make up about 20% each and the remaining 10% are from funding agencies, individual consultants and industry.

James Coltrain

Arno Bosse — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:27:06 +0000

James Coltrain
Ph.D. candidate
History
Northwestern University

Fields of Interest: Imaging/Visualization, Libraries/Digital Archives, Modelling/Simulations

James Coltrain is a doctoral candidate in Early American History at Northwestern University. His academic interests include using studies of material and visual culture to address questions of social and cultural history. He is currently writing a dissertation on the architecture and society of the fortified imperial communities of 18th-century North America. He is also very interested in the use of new media, both to present scholarly findings and for public outreach. James has completed virtual 3D reconstructions of the original Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, the medieval city of Metz, and a number of colonial forts as part of his work on historical visualization.