Events

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. ...

The Northeastern Humanities Center is pleased to present the Global Fellows Distinguished Lecture, the annual launch event of the Global Fellows Program. ...

On October 22, the Centers for Digital Scholarship, the Digital Scholarship Group, and the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science will host our annual fall scholarship celebration. ...

Come and learn about the benefits and potentials of open publishing using KnightLab tools. ...