Events

The Northeastern University Library’s Digital Scholarship Group (DSG) invites Northeastern ...

Join the Centers for Digital Scholarship, the Digital Scholarship Group, Archives and Special Collections, the Women Writers Project, and the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences on February 13th, 2025, at 12pm Boston / 5pm London / 9am Oakland, for a transcribe-a-thon in celebration of Douglass Day, an event honoring the life and birthday of Frederick Douglass. We are excited to celebrate Douglass Day this year as part of Black History Month and Love Data Week. ...

This event is part of the 2025–2026 Digital Practice Workshop ...

Join Colleen Nugent McLean, CDS Coordinator, for a discussion of her dissertation research. Her dissertation interrogates the colonial roots of modern British anti-Muslim racism, specifically the idea that Islam is inherently ‘fanatical,’ ‘violent,’ and ‘incompatible’ with the West. She uses digital text analysis, specifically word embedding models, to chart the construction of British anti-Muslim discourse across three case studies from the colonial period: the 1857 Rebellion in India, the battle of Omdurman and the Candia Massacre in late 1898, and the German-Ottoman declaration of jihad during the First World War. The Rushdie Affair in 1989 is often pointed to as the “start” of this discourse, and I argue that the rhetoric found in these colonial instances mirrors the modern language used during the Rushdie Affair. She uses word vector analysis on corpora of The Times of London to chart the consistent British association between fanaticism and Muslims. ...

For many digital scholarship research projects one of the first steps is digitizing analog and paper materials. Managing the digitization well is crucial to a successful digital project. Kim Kennedy, the Digital Production Librarian, will provide a hands-on workshop on digitizing analog and paper materials. Come hear how the library can help support your digitization plans and needs, as well as some of the interesting work of the Library’s Digital Production Services. ...