Progressing from Humanities to Digital Humanities
Progressing from Humanities to Digital Humanities: Values, Methods and Tools
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Host: Ledo College
When: August 2, 6.30pm (IST)
Abstract: The humanities is the academic discipline that studies human culture and how people record the human experience in letter, art, music, language, history, philosophy and religion. The humanities use methods which are historical, critical and exploratory which distinguish them from empirical approaches in the hard sciences. It therefore stands that digital humanities is the intersection between the computational and the humanities to allow for more powerful comparisons, pattern matching and trend analysis usually utilizing vast stores of electronic data that represent letters, images, audio and video. In this presentation we consider values and methods, tools and example projects representative of the digital humanities. We consider the efficacy and validity of these emerging techniques, and explore some of the controversies and criticisms, in light of the new discoveries. We reflect on the question, how might the digital humanities aid or impede the understanding and explanation of the meaning of life; from where we have come, the present day, and where we are going.
Biography: Katina Michael is a professor at Arizona State University, holding a joint appointment in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and School of Computing, Informatics and Decisions Systems Engineering. She is also the director of the Society Policy Engineering Collective (SPEC) and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society. Katina is a senior member of the IEEE and a Public Interest Technology advocate who studies the social implications of technology.
Invitation:
We have the honour to inform you that Ledo College is organising Foundation Day Lecture cum International Webinar on “Progressing from Humanities to Digital Humanities" at 6.30 PM ( IST /India) on 2nd August 2020. Therefore, we invite you as resource person and request you to deliver webinar talk on 'Progressing from Humanities to Digital Humanities: Values, Methods and Tools, Opportunities and Challenges'' and oblige.
(Associate Professor Tunna Baruah, Texas University, will talk about "digitalization of education'' in the webinar and Professor Mridul Hazarika, VC, USTM, Meghalaya will deliver keynote address')
Ledo College was established on 2nd August in the year 1997. The College is located in Hamukjan Gaon Panchayat under Margherita Sub-division, Dist. Tinsukia, Assam. It is situated in the centre of Ledo from where the historic Stilwell Road connects the North-East India with China via Myanmar. Since its inception the college has been performing a pioneering role in the spread of higher education amongst various ethnic linguistic groups of Upper Assam, particularly Dehing Patkai region.
The college is permanently affiliated to Dibrugarh University. It has been included under Section 2(f) and 12 (B) of UGC Act. 1956. In 2019 it is accredited by NAAC. We are also participating in NIRF.
The college possesses four buildings with a playground which measures to an area of 24 bighas of land by the side of Ledo Kacha Nulah (Ledo River) and historic Ledo Air Strip. Hostel for students, a play ground, fitness centre, computer centre, auditorium and modern classrooms are also available in the College Campus.)
Location of Ledo College
This presentation was live to Ledo College located in Assam, a state of India. The nearest city is Guwahati. The regional language is Assamese and Hindi is the National language. Both Assamese and English are used as medium of instruction. The local district of our college is Tinsukia and local area is known as Ledo.
Ledo is famous for Coal Mining and Dehing Patkai reserve forest which is known as Amazon of North East India. Assam is famous for minerals full and of natural resources as well as largest Tea supplier state of India. Assam is also famous for having "one horned Rhino" found in Kaziranga National Park.