scholarly journals Review: Diversity NOW! Fashion & Race with Kimberly Jenkins

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Jaclyn Marcus
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Fashion Industry

The following article is a review of the 2018 Diversity Now! Lecture, entitled “Unleash the Power of Fashion to Challenge Racism,” led by Kimberly Jenkins and held by Ryerson University’s Centre for Fashion Diversity and Social Change. Jenkins is a lecturer at Parsons University, where she first created and continues to teach her undergraduate course “Fashion and Race,” is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, and a curator, anthropologist, and art historian. Jenkins is also the creator of the online digital humanities project entitled The Fashion and Race Database as well as co-constructing and presenting a lecture and workshop series known as “Fashion and Justice,” among involvement in many other groups, activities, and media that help to further representation and diversity in fashion education, research, and the fashion industry. The review covers Part 1 and Part 2 of her lecture, “Fashion and Race” and a visual analysis exercise, “The Power of Representation.”

scholarly journals Diversity Now! Sequins, Style & the End of Gender with Dr. Madison Moore

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Rachel Rammal
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Annual Lecture ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Lecture Series ◽  
Guest Lecturer ◽  
Virginia Commonwealth University

Diversity Now! is an annual lecture series hosted by the Centre for Fashion Diversity and Social Change at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. This lecture series explores how individuals have used fashion as a means to inspire social change and political advocacy in their personal lives, their community, or the fashion industry. The 2019 guest lecturer was Dr. Madison Moore, an artist-scholar, DJ, and Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. In this seventh series lecture, Moore discussed the journey and research behind his recent book Fabulous: The Rise of The Beautiful Eccentric (2018). Drawing on autobiography, anecdotal evidence, and interviews, Moore took his audience on a journey from his childhood in Ferguson, Missouri, to the night scene in New York, London, and Berlin, with an emphasis on Vogue Balls and catwalks. While Moore’s lecture drew on various sources, his message was unequivocal: style and clothes have the power to inspire social change.

Visual Analysis of Scientific Life of Scholars Based on Digital Humanities

2018 ◽  
pp. 461-473
Author(s):  
Wei Liu ◽  
Xinying Han ◽  
Xiaoju Dong ◽  
Zhiwen Qiang ◽  
Xuwei Chen
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Scientific Life

scholarly journals Examples of challenges and opportunities in visual analysis in the digital humanities

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Rushmeier ◽  
Ruggero Pintus ◽  
Ying Yang ◽  
Christiana Wong ◽  
David Li
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 162-168
Author(s):  
Alexandra Kertz-Welzel
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Music Education ◽  
New Music ◽  
Utopian Studies ◽  
Utopian Thinking

The final chapter summarizes the ideas presented in the previous chapters, highlights important issues, and opens up new perspectives for music education research. It discusses the utopian energy of music education and presents ideas about how to reconceptualize music education in view of social change. It reconnects the concepts developed in the previous chapters with significant notions in utopian studies to highlight the potential of this new music education approach, particularly in view of global crises. This final chapter tries to encourage utopian thinking to refine music education’s societal mission, but without forgetting or marginalizing its artistic and aesthetic dimensions.

scholarly journals Digital Humanities and Social Change: an Interview with Alex Gil

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (33) ◽  
pp. 27-47
Author(s):  
Alex Gil ◽  
Marcela Santos Brigida ◽  
Gabriela Ribeiro Nunes
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Literature Teaching ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
Produce Change ◽  
The Many ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

While it is not yet possible to gauge the long-term impacts of the shifts brought on by the experiences of 2020, it seems safe to assume this year will be remembered by the many critical events that precipitated change in the ways humans relate to each other and to our environment. The most far-reaching of those is, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the Black Lives Matter marches, popular demonstrations against totalitarian governments throughout the world, as well as deeply concerning tipping-points regarding climate change are all part of a collective conversation we feel the urge to engage with. Nearly six months into our own experience with the pandemic in Brazil, after the loss of more than one hundred thousand lives to COVID-19, we at Palimpsesto aim at publishing pieces that not only acknowledge the circumstances under which they were written, but that also engage and produce critical thinking about them. It was within this spirit, and not only considering this issue's theme – “Literature Teaching in Digital Contexts: Dialogues and Connections” – that we approached Dr. Alex Gil and asked him for an interview.Alex Gil is a well-known scholar in the field of Digital Humanities not only for his work as a Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University Libraries or as a developer of ingenious projects, but also for the fact that he often directs his abilities to produce tools that help promote social change. Dr. Gil has developed and collaborated in several of such efforts, as we discuss throughout our interview. Bearing Witness, one of his most recent initiatives, has been jointly announced by him and Prof. Samuel Roberts (Columbia University) and appears as “an effort to document and interpret the events associated with the novel coronavirus epidemic in the United States as it pertains to racialized minorities”. We strongly recommend that you read more about the Mobilized Humanities interventions in the links available at the end of this piece.It has been truly delightful to discuss Alex Gil’s projects and to consider how each of us – as students, researchers, and teachers – can work in the humanities to acquire new skills to produce change. The discussion around the place of the university amid this crisis, as an institution, is also one that deeply interests us. Finally, Gil is a prominent Aimé Césaire scholar. Discussing the work produced by this writer and thinker – at a moment when Discourse on Colonialism has just been released in a new Brazilian edition – also seems to be a crucial exercise to try to make sense of our questions – in a local and in a global scale – with a critical eye. We are thankful to Dr. Alex Gil for taking the time to talk to us amid the 2020 chaos as well as for the thought-provoking insights he has brought to us, which we now proudly share with Palimpsesto's readers.

scholarly journals From collection resources to intelligent data: Construction of intelligent digital humanities platform for local historical documents of Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yin Qian ◽  
Zhuoyuan Xing ◽  
Xiaohua Shi
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Visual Presentation ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Full Field ◽  
The Core ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Metadata Association

Abstract Local historical documents originated from daily life of people belong to special collection resources that were not published publicly. They are valuable assets of universities and libraries. At present, most documents had only finished digitalization or partial datalization work. However, the requirements of deep knowledge mining in documents data, providing visual analysis, and effectively supporting the research of historic humanities scholars had not been fully met. Taking the local historical documents project of Shanghai Jiao Tong University as an example, using relevant techniques of digital humanities (DH), the in-depth analysis and utilization research of documents data were carried out. On the one hand, the core database of the documents was established based on standardizing metadata cataloguing and establishing metadata association. On the other hand, based on the core database, an intelligent DH system platform was constructed. The platform is to realize full-field retrieval and display of the documents, text analysis, association analysis, statistics, and visual presentation of knowledge. In addition, in the process of using the platform for research, humanities scholars can continuously expand the data dimensions and the relationships between data, achieve intelligent supplementation of documents data and platform self-learning. The concept of DH has led to a new direction of database construction and platform development. In the exploration and practice of DH, libraries should continue to widen thinking, improve service and innovation capabilities, and provide better research perspectives, research environments, research support, and research experience for humanities scholars.

Transformation or Assimilation? Examining Identity and Organizational Tensions at Full Figured Fashion Week

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-45
Author(s):  
Joy Cox ◽  
Bernadette M. Gailliard ◽  
Shardé M. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
The Us ◽  
Body Positive ◽  
Fat Bodies ◽  
Organizational Tensions

Full Figured Fashion Week (FFFWeek) is a week-long event envisioned to be a countervailing force that challenges traditional body standards in the US fashion industry, showcasing plus-sized models and offering a safe space for fat bodies to commune and patronize plus size vendors. However, two years of participant observations with a critical lens has revealed how FFFWeek employed organizational decisions that demonstrate the complicated context of fashion and fatness, along with the ongoing struggle between body positive and fat accepting discourses, and the inner workings of capitalism and hegemony as an attempt to create social change.

Queer insurgency: Slava Mogutin and the politics of camp

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 141-161
Author(s):  
Graham H. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
American Artist ◽  
Fashion Photography ◽  
Political Challenge ◽  
Political Form

The subject of this article is Russo-American artist Slava Mogutin. A close associate of Gosha Rubchinskiy and Lotta Volkova, Mogutin has been based in New York since 1995. While he originally shot to fame as a poet and novelist, Mogutin is today better known as a performance artist, filmmaker and photographer. The aim of my article is to locate Mogutin, and in particular his fashion photography, within current debates around the representation of masculinity and the construction of masculine subjectivity/-ies. More specifically, using a visual analysis methodology, I analyse the camp aesthetics of Mogutin’s fashion imagery. In a number of ways, Mogutin’s camp aesthetic raises questions about displacement and identity, the clash between individual desires and social norms and – as he puts it – ‘what it means to be a young man in the modern world’. It also constitutes an avowedly political challenge, not just to the state-sponsored homophobia and heteronormativity of Mogutin’s native Russia but also to the identity politics underpinning today’s fashion industry. I conclude by suggesting that Mogutin’s openly political form of camp might pose a challenge to the traditional Sontagian view of camp as apolitical.

scholarly journals ShakerVis: Visual analysis of segment variation of German translations of Shakespeare’s Othello

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhao Geng ◽  
Tom Cheesman ◽  
Robert S. Laramee ◽  
Kevin Flanagan ◽  
Stephan Thiel
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Visualization System ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
World Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Interest

William Shakespeare is one of the world’s greatest writers. His plays have been translated into every major living language. In some languages, his plays have been retranslated many times. These translations and retranslations have evolved for about 250 years. Studying variations in translations of world cultural heritage texts is of cross-cultural interest for arts and humanities researchers. The variations between retranslations are due to numerous factors, including the differing purposes of translations, genetic relations, cultural and intercultural influences, rivalry between translators and their varying competence. A team of Digital Humanities researchers has collected an experimental corpus of 55 different German retranslations of Shakespeare’s play, Othello. The retranslations date between 1766 and 2010. A sub-corpus of 32 retranslations has been prepared as a digital parallel corpus. We would like to develop methods of exploring patterns in variation between different translations. In this article, we develop an interactive focus + context visualization system to present, analyse and explore variation at the level of user-defined segments. From our visualization, we are able to obtain an overview of the relationships of similarity between parallel segments in different versions. We can uncover clusters and outliers at various scales, and a linked focus view allows us to further explore the textual details behind these findings. The domain experts who are studying this topic evaluate our visualizations, and we report their feedback. Our system helps them better understand the relationships between different German retranslations of Othello and derive some insight.

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