Brown Bag talk: Dwight Reynolds on “Archiving Arabic Folk Tradition”

The Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory at the University of Victoria (http://etcl.uvic.ca/) invites you to attend the third meeting of the 2015-16 Brown Bag Speaker Series. This is a series of informal seminars for faculty and graduate students in the Department of Humanities and across the university to discuss issues in digital literacy, digital humanities, and the changing face of research, scholarship, and teaching in our increasingly digital world. For an hour once per month, we meet to hear from an invited speaker, share ideas, and build knowledge.

On Monday, February 1, from 3:30 until 4:20., Dwight Reynolds (professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara) will be presenting a talk entitled,

Archiving Arabic Folk Tradition

Details are below and in the attached poster. Please share this announcement and poster with anyone who might be interested in attending.

Monday, February 1st, 3:30-4:20.
Harry Hickman Building, Room 110, University of Victoria

Abstract: Dwight Reynolds will lead an informal discussion of digital and public humanities with a focus on the various role of digital archives ranging from the political and legal implications of archives such as the TKDL (The India-based Traditional Knowledge Digital Library) to the pedagogical and perservationist mission of the Sirat Bani Hilal Digital Archive.

Digital approaches and methodologies are rapidly transforming nearly all disciplines within the Humanities, but the digital world remains a scattered and diffuse domain — open discussions about advances and ideas among scholars are needed now more than ever.

Bio: Dwight F. Reynolds is professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, recognized for his contributions to the study of both music, and Arabic folk traditions. His research and publications range across several disciplines, including comparative literature, ethnomusicology, folklore, performance studies, and the Digital Humanities. His current book project is /The Musical Heritage of al-Andalus/, for which he has conducted research in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Spain. In addition he is running an important Digital Humanities project the Sirat Bani Hillal Digital Archive (http://www.siratbanihilal.ucsb.edu/start-0) which documents an important epic Arabic folk narrative cycle.

Bring your (late) lunch (or afternoon snack!) and join us to discuss digital technologies and research in our community!