MONDAY, JUNE 12
Voyant and Text as Big Data

10:00-10:45     [Tool Intro] Introduction to Voyant

10:45-11:30     [Lecture + Discussion] Text as Data

11:30-12:30     [Workshop] Data set with Testimony Transcripts

12:30-1:30       Lunch

1:30-2:45         [Discussion] Text Analysis and Holocaust Testimony
Discussion Reading: Franco Moretti and Todd Presner

2:45-3:00         Break

3:00-4:30         Open Lab Time

5:00-7:00         [Dinner] at The Hamilton (600 14th Street, N.W.)

Readings

• Franco Moretti, Distant Reading (London: Verso, 2013), 123 – 135
• Todd Presner, “The Ethics of the Algorithm: Close and Distant Readings of the Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive,” History Unlimited: Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture, eds. Claudio Fogu, Wulf Kansteiner, and Todd Presner (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015, 175 – 202).