Digital Humanities Roundtable:
Automatically Detecting and Analyzing Literary Allusions and Direct Speech in Ancient Literature | Thursday, February 29, 2024 | 4:00-5:30 pm (CDT) | Virtual
Panelists: Neil Coffee, The State University of New York at Buffalo | Christopher W. Forstall, Mount Allison University | Berenice Verhelst, University of Amsterdam
Panelists will discuss their work creating the databases and systems to detect literary allusions and direct speech in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature. Dr. Coffee will discuss the Tesserae Project, which he founded in 2008 as an effort to trace intertextuality and allusion in literary texts using computational means. Dr. Forstall and Dr. Verhelst will discuss the DICES project, an international research collaboration for the study of direct speeches in Greek and Latin epic poetry from Homer to Late Antiquity. The heart of the project is an effort to construct a comprehensive, authoritative database of direct speech in Greek and Latin epic. In addition to their specific projects, panelists will discuss how their general approaches can be modified and applied to works of literature written in English.
Survival by Sharing: Independent Publishing as an Artistic Practice
Tuesday, March 5, 2024 | 12:00-1:30 pm (CDT) | (In-person) UMKC Gallery of Art, Fine Art Building
Speaker: Paul Soulellis, Rhode Island School of Design
Why look closely at publishing? For artists, writers, poets, designers, activists, and anyone else who wants to spread the word—whatever that word may be—"making public" is a powerful means to mobilize communities and inspire change. Artist and design educator Paul Soulellis experiments with independent publishing as an artistic practice, and shares examples of joyful, radical, political, queer, and movement-based publishing as a means to resist, refuse, and survive. Paul is one of the founding members of Queer.Archive.Work, a queer and trans cooperative print studio in Providence, Rhode Island, as well as Department Head of Graphic Design at Rhode Island School of Design. For more information, visit www.soulellis.com.
A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line
Thursday, April 25, 2024 | 4:00-5:30 pm (CDT ) | (In-person) Student Union 302
Speaker: John Cullen Gruesser, Sam Houston State University
Gruesser’s book not only brings to light the literary life of this important Black writer but also discusses the work of a Black Kansas City artist who illustrated Griggs’ 1905 novel, The Hindered Hand, commissioned by the National Baptist Church as a response to Thomas Dixon’s best-selling racist romance, The Leopard’s Spots, which, along with Dixon’s later book, The Clansman, served as the basis for the film, The Birth of the Nation.
For more information, please visit the website at http://go.umkc.edu/shutz.
