DHI Opportunities
High Performance Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences
September 29, 2009
Location: Union College
Time: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Supported through a grant from the Teagle Foundation
Presenters
Orville Vernon Burton
Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University
Founding Director and currently Chair of Board of Advisors, Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science.
Associate Director for Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.
www.chass.illinois.edu
Topic: A framework for cyberinfrastructure for the humanities, arts, and social science (HASS) disciplines that is rooted in the history and challenges of those disciplines, as well as the working practices of faculty scholarship. It also describes the work of the Institute for Computing, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (I-CHASS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which serves the national research and education communities by making tools available for high-performance computing, communication and collaboration, data collection and analysis, geospatial inquiry and visualization.
Geraldine Heng
Perceval Fellow and Associate Professor
English, Middle Eastern Studies and Women's Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Founder and Co-Director: the Global Middle Ages Projects (G-MAP), the Mappamundi digital initiatives, and the Scholarly Community for the Globalization of the Middle Ages (SCGMA)
The Global Middle Ages
Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory: Digital Textuality and Tools
Geraldine's Profile
Topic: Futures of the Past: the Global Middle Ages, and the "Clash" of Civilizations, or what happens when 1,000 years of culture encounter digital humanities and high performance computing in the 21st century.
Dean Rehberger
Director, MATRIX, Michigan State University
MATRIX: Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online
MATRIX
Topic: The New Curiosity Box: High-Performance Computing and the Humanities: This talk will explore the uses of high-performance computing in the humanities and argue for the importance of moving it from a "curiosity" to a more important role in teaching, learning, and research in the humanities.
Douglas L. Reside
Assistant Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
Topic: The ways in which Digital Humanities centers, which have thus far largely been focused on careful work on small data sets, are beginning to make use of the power of high performance computing.
Workshop Format
The workshop will go from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. and will have four presenters who can provide varying perspectives on the topic. Each presenter will provide a twenty-five minute overview and then respond to questions for another twenty-five minutes. The concluding session will be a panel of the four speakers where attendees can ask questions of the four presenters and derive themes from the day's sessions.
The Teagle Grant
This meeting is sponsored by the Teagle Foundation as part of a grant to hold a series of four workshops around the topic of High Performance Computing (HPC) in the Sciences, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. These workshops are intended to bring together faculty and support staff to better understand what people are currently doing with HPC at small colleges and the best ways to support this emerging work. The grant was awarded to Hamilton, Union, Skidmore, Colgate, Vassar, and Bard.