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141033 UE M10 Digital Humanities for Turkologists (2022S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikanistik, Indologie und Tibetologie
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 6 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 10.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Thursday 17.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Thursday 24.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Thursday 31.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Thursday 07.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Thursday 28.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Thursday 05.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Thursday 12.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Thursday 19.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Thursday 02.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Thursday 09.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Thursday 23.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Thursday 30.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In the last decade, the interdisciplinary formation known as Digital Humanities has renewed the methods, tools and techniques in literary studies. Analyses of digitized texts using computer-assisted tools and techniques promise to transform the kinds of evidence, the methods of interpretation, and the modes of argument that matter to literary scholarship. The aim of this course is to provide an introduction to the Digital Humanities tools, technologies and methodologies for Turkish Studies by way of a close reading of Orhan Pamuk’s Kara Kitap (The Black Book).
How does the ability to digital analyse, reassess hundreds of thousands of texts, related networks and spatial information give us new insights into the history, history of literature and culture? In order to address this question the course consists of 4 main goals: introduce the participants to a) the basic concepts and practices of Digital Humanities tools, technologies and methodologies, b) the major categories of digital analysis (text analysis, network analysis, spatial analysis); c) the related projects, databases of Turkish Studies; and d) allow the participants the opportunity to develop their own experimental projects.

Assessment and permitted materials

The assessment will be based on the midterm report and the project.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Attendance (max. 3 times missing) and participation in the class as well as timely completion of the assignment.

The final grade consists of three parts:

1) 30% participation
2) 30% midterm report
2) 40% final project

Examination topics

The scale of the project and the report must comprise at least one of the following areas; textual analysis, network analysis, spatial analysis.

Reading list

Selected Readings:

Orhan Pamuk. Kara Kitap. İstanbul: YKY, 2014.

Kirschenbaum, Matthew. “What Is ‘Digital Humanities,’ and Why Are They Saying Such Terrible Things about It?” differences 25, no. 1 (2014): 46–63.

Thaller, Manfred, "Geschichte der Digital Humanities", in Fotis Jannidis / Hubertus Kohle / Malte Rehbein (Hg.), Digital Humanities. Eine Einführung. Stuttgart 2017, 1-12:

Lit, L. W. Cornelis; Morris; James H. and Çevik, Deniz, “A Digital Revival of Oriental Studies “, ILCEA 39 [Online]

Folsom, Ed. “Database Genre: The Epic Transformation of Archives.” PMLA 122, no. 5 (October 2007): 1571–1579.

Michael Buckland. "What is a 'document'?". JASIST Vol. 48, no. 9 (September 1997): 804-809.

Dönecke, Anna. “From Serial Sources to Modeled Data: Changing Perspectives on Eighteenth-Century Court Records from French Pondicherry,” Digital Methods for the Humanities: Challenges, Ideas, Perspectives. Schwandt S (Ed); Digital Humanities Research, 1. Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press: 217–237.

Rockwell, Geoffrey, "What is Text Analysis, Really?" Literary and Linguistic Computing 18:2 (2003): 209-219.

Jockers, Matthew L.. Macroanalysis: Digital Methods & Literary History. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illionis Press, 2013.

Moretti, Franco. Distant Reading. London: Verso, 2013.

Elson, David, Nicholas Dames, and Kathleen McKeown. “Extracting Social Networks from Literary Fiction.” In ACL 2010, 138–47.

Association in the course directory

M10

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