Date and Location:

• Friday, January 13 at 2:00 PM
• Transcriptions Center (South Hall 2509)

Agenda:

• The "Making the Humanities Public" Arnhold "Collaborative Research Group" (CRG):
• Winter 2017
• Main tasks in winter.
• Spring 2017
• Main tasks in spring. (Possible project forms include op eds, timelines, storymaps, etc.)
• Optional in spring:
• English 199RA course credit
• Students can apply to UCSB for UCRA (Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities) grants of $750.
• Stipends for participation in the CRG during both Winter and Spring: $500
• Self-Introductions:
• Alan Liu (Professor) & Jamal Russell ("Arnhold Graduate Collaborative Research Advisor")
• Student participants in the CRG ("Arnhold Collaborative Research Fellows")
• Darya Behroozi
• Phi Do
• Sydney Hannum
• Noelle Leong
• Claire Lowinger-Iverson
• Karina Lucero
• Sonia Htoon
• Francisco Olvera
• Melani Sarhadi
• Justin Shieh
• Bella Solorzano
• Orientation to the "Making the Humanities Public" project:
• Background on the 4Humanities WE1S project and topic modeling (Alan Liu)
• 4Humanities.org
• "WhatEvery1Says" (WE1S) project
• Intro to WE1S and topic modeling.pptx  
• [Next meeting: Overview of "digital humanities" in relation to the "data journalism" (Alan Liu)]
• Background and current state of 4Humanities WhatEvery1Says (WE1S) topic modeling project (Jamal Russell)
• Preview of CRG meetings and activities in winter (Jamal Russell)
• Introduction to the WE1S journalism corpus and topic model (Jamal Russell)
• 2010 Corpus Topic Model- 50 Topics 
• 2010 Corpus Topic Model- 100 Topics 
• Logistics for the CRG (future meetings, scheduling, communications, etc.)

Readings:

Before the first meeting, please read or browse the following introductory materials touching on the theme, concepts, and methods of the CRG:

1. Gary Gutting. "The Real Humanities Crisis." Opinion Pages, New York Times. 20 Nov. 2013.
2. Curt Rice. "Here are 9 reasons why humanities matter. What’s your number 10?"  25 Feb. 2014.
3. Browse the 4Humanities.org site to see what kinds of things it does.
4. David M. Blei. Probabalistic Topic Models" (2012) [Note: read only the first 4 pages to get the gist of what "topic modeling" is about. No need to follow the parts of the article that have math]