GLS eNews December 3, 2019
GLS Weekly Update - December 3, 2019
This is the last weekly update of 2019. We'll see you in January!
In this edition:
- GLS Alumna Featured in Indy Week
- Wired! Lab to Offer Digital Humanities Workshop
- GLS Holiday Party Tomorrow!
- Keep GLS in Mind for Your Holiday Giving
- Work Opportunities with FHI
- Share Your News!
- Important Dates for GLS Students
- Events and Happenings
- Get Social with GLS
Alumni Spotlight: Anne Weston
Anne Weston (MALS 2001) was featured in an Indy Week story on green burial options in North Carolina. Anne has become an expert on the subject, presenting the green option before audiences across the Triangle. She is the founder of the Green Burial Project, a non-profit "dedicated to educating the public about the benefits of green (or natural) burial over our current options of conventional burial, fire cremation, and wet cremation (alkaline hydrolysis)."
GLS alumna Anne Weston, founder of the Green Burial Project.
Wired! Lab Presents "From Historical Evidence to Data: Introductory Workshop on Transforming Humanities Sources into Digital Formats"
Tuesday, December 3rd, 3:00-4:00PM
Wired! Lab (Smith, Bay 11, A233)
Many humanists decry the Digital Humanities because of the first step in a digital project: the basic need to transform ambiguous, rich, subjective, and historically produced evidence into unambiguous, standardized data formats. For critics, this is the death knell and ultimate reason not to engage in a digital project. This workshop addresses the question of how historical evidence is made into computational data. It will introduce the topic in a brief lecture modeling examples of how this has been done, the problems, and the possibilities. Then the workshop will turn to a hands-on exploration of how rules of data entry can or cannot be made out of humanities evidence. In this sense, the workshop is meant for those with little or no experience in the digital humanities but with a curiosity about its possibilities or an interest in developing an informed critical perspective. (Please bring a laptop.)
Paul Jaskot and Augustus Wendell will lead the workshop.
Reminder: GLS Holiday Party Tomorrow!
The GLS holiday party is tomorrow, December 3, at the Doris Duke Center in Duke Gardens, from 5:30-7 PM. We look forward to celebrating with you!
Support GLS This Holiday Season
Did you know that GLS is completely dependent on our tuition revenue to cover scholarships and operating expenses? Please keep GLS in mind when considering year-end donations. Secure online gifts may be made via the Give to GLS link at the top of our homepage.
New Job Opportunities Posted
The Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) has openings for a Graduate Assistant Events Coordinator (deadline to apply: December 2) and several work study position (rolling deadline). Visit the GLS Bullentin Board for details..
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Important Dates for GLS Students
- GLS scholarship applications for Duke employees who are using the Employee Tuition Assistance reimbursement are due today, December 1
- GLS will be closed for the winter holidays from Monday, December 23 through Friday, January 3. See you in 2020!
Events and Happenings
Reading Group on Antigone (Spring 2020)
Juan Manuel Echavarria, Réquiem NN (2006-2013). Reproduced with permission from the artist.
The Franklin Humanities Institute seeks participants for a Reading Group on Antigone, organized by Andrés Fabián Henao Castro, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Castro currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the Academy of Global Humanities at Critical Theory and is in residence at the Franklin Humanities Institute.
The Reading Group on Antigone will focus on literary and theoretical criticism of the play. Readings may include G. W. F. Hegel, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Kamila Shamsie, and Anne Carson, and others.
Meetings will take place in the Spring of 2020 in preparation for a Fall 2020 colloquium, "Antigone's Wordlings." Find out more at FHI.