The Digital Humanities Working Group at UIC’s Institute for the Humanities
has secured Steven E. Jones as its inaugural speaker.

Steven E. Jones<http://stevenejones.org/>  is Professor of English and Co-Director
of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities<http://ctsdh.luc.edu/>
at Loyola University Chicago. His research interests include Romantic-period
literature, textual studies – which is concerned with the production,
transmission, and reception of texts of all kinds in multiple media – and
digital humanities, the intersection of humanities research and computing.

Based on his book-in-progress, his talk, entitled “The Emergence of the
Digital Humanities,” will be presented on Wednesday, November 28th from 3-5 p.m.
at UIC’s Institute for the Humanities (basement of Stevenson Hall).

More details will be forthcoming closer to the date.

Benn E. Williams
Secretary, Digital Humanities Working Group
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607-7106
Email: bwilli7@uic.edu

Thank you to everyone who participated in the first Digital Humanities Symposium!  We’d love to get your feedback to make sure that future events can be even better, so please take a couple minutes to complete the survey here:

https://illinois.edu/sb/sec/7034631

We’ll also be posting the presenters’ slides to this site soon, as well as regular updates on upcoming DH activities and events at UIUC and beyond.  Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have questions or comments, and keep an eye on this website for more brownbag talks and activities to keep up the exciting DH dialogue here at UIUC!

Registration is now closed for the Digital Humanities Symposium due to space constraints.  There will be more space during the break out sessions from 10:15 to 11:45 in rooms 314 Library and 323c Library, and the final schedule can viewed under the Schedule tab.  Contact us with questions!