{"id":1927,"date":"2022-11-08T21:24:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T21:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2022-11-28T19:38:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T19:38:26","slug":"dickinson-digital-latin-workshop-july-13-15-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/2022\/11\/08\/dickinson-digital-latin-workshop-july-13-15-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickinson Digital Latin Workshop July 12-15, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>What: <\/strong>Dickinson Digital Latin Workshop<\/h1>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> July 12-15, 2023<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where: <\/strong>Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania (in person only)<\/p>\n<p><b>Intended for: <\/b>all Latin teachers and students over 18 year of age. R<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">equires no prior experience with computer programming. Intermediate and advanced programmers will still benefit from rethinking coding fundamentals through either a philological or a pedagogical lens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration and fees:<\/strong> to register, please email Mrs. Stephanie Dyson, Classical Studies Academic Department Coordinator (dysonst@dickinson.edu) with your email address and the name of the workshop you plan to attend.<strong> A non-refundable fee of $200 is due by June 1, 2023<\/strong> in the form of a check made out to Dickinson College, mailed to Stephanie Dyson, Department of Classical Studies, Dickinson College, Carlisle PA 17013. &nbsp;The fee includes lodging in campus housing (and please note that lodging will be in a student residence near the site of the sessions), two meals (breakfast and lunch) per day, as well as the opening dinner on the 12th.<\/p>\n<p>Registered participants should plan to arrive in Carlisle, PA on July 12, in time to attend the first event of the seminar. This first event is an opening dinner and welcoming reception for all participants, which will begin at 6:00 p.m. The actual workshop sessions will begin early the next morning, on Thursday, July 13. The final event will be lunch on Saturday, July 15.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Content:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">teaches fundamentals of computational text analysis in the Python programming language using a corpus-driven, \u201cexploratory\u201d approach with activities focused on vocabulary and other formal textual features.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">introduces participants to the basics of computer programming while also demonstrating how learning to code can help with everyday tasks in the Latin classroom. Learn to write just enough code to build vocabulary lists, count frequent (and infrequent!) words, search texts in flexible and \u201cfuzzy\u201d ways, generate reading drills and exercises, build up a collection of word games, and more. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">helps participants develop computational skills useful for working with projects such as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dcc.dickinson.edu\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dickinson College Commentaries<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bridge.haverford.edu\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Bridge<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><b>Instructor<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Patrick J. Burns, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1928\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/files\/2022\/11\/Patrick-head-shot.jpg\" alt=\"headshot of man wearing glasses\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/files\/2022\/11\/Patrick-head-shot.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/files\/2022\/11\/Patrick-head-shot-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/files\/2022\/11\/Patrick-head-shot-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Patrick J. Burns is Associate Research Scholar for Digital Projects at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, working previously at the Quantitative Criticism Lab at the University of Texas at Austin and the Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution Lab at Harvard University. Patrick is working an online book to be titled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Exploratory Philology: Learning About Ancient Languages Through Computer Programming<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a code-first introduction to Ancient Greek and Latin as well as a core contributor to the Classical Language Toolkit, a natural language processing framework for working with ancient-language text. Patrick has given workshops on digital and computational Classics topics at many venues, including Stanford, Yale, Dartmouth, NYU, Tufts, UT-Austin, Universit\u00e4t Rostock, and the Institute of Classical Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><b>Description<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is the best way for Latin teachers and students to get started with computational approaches to working with texts? This three-day workshop introduces participants to the basics of computer programming while also demonstrating how learning to code can help with everyday tasks in the Latin classroom. Learn to write just enough code to build vocabulary lists, count frequent (and infrequent!) words, search texts in flexible and \u201cfuzzy\u201d ways, generate reading drills and exercises, build up a collection of word games, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The workshop builds on the forthcoming book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Exploratory Philology: Learning About Ancient Languages Through Computer Programming<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a collection of text-analysis experiments designed to introduce coding to anyone interested in the Latin language and its literature. Building on Nick Montfort&#8217;s exploratory paradigm of learning how to &#8220;think with computation\u201d as well as Marina Umaschi Bers\u2019 pedagogical work on \u201ccoding as a playground,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Exploratory Philology <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">offers a code-first, immersive and improvisational way of working with ancient-language text such that mutually reinforces the reader&#8217;s language skills and programming skills. While drawing extensively on material from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Exploratory Philology<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, this workshop reframes the experiments from the book to address the specific pedagogical interests of Latin teachers and students, including by helping participants develop computational skills useful for working with projects such as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dcc.dickinson.edu\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dickinson College Commentaries<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bridge.haverford.edu\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Bridge<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><b>Agenda\/Activities<\/b><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Day 1 (4 hours)<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Workshop overview \/ introductions<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Counting words, aka \u201cexploratory philology\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in medias res<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is \u201cExploratory Philology\u201d?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Introduction to Classical Language Toolkit and CLTK Readers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Breaking texts into smaller units (paragraphs, sentences, words, characters, and more)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Making lists, making tables, making plots<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Day 2 (4 hours)<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The four Ds of Exploratory Philology w. coding activities<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Describe: Counting specific terms, spec. animals, colors, and more in Virgil<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discover: Searching for alliteration in Ovid<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deform: Autogenerating Latin sentence drills using Cicero<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Divert: Making Latin word scramble puzzles using Catullus<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Participant \u201cFree Play\u201d with the 4 Ds \/ Presentation Development<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tips and tricks for Latin text analysis using the Natural Language Toolkit<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Day 3 (2 hours)<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Participant presentations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Workshop conclusion\/overview and participant feedback<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><b>Materials<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The workshop uses several hands-on coding activities designed to help participants learn to read, write, and refactor computer programs for philological and pedagogical ends. All materials for the workshop are developed as Jupyter code notebooks and will be hosted in a public GitHub repository for participants\u2019 reference after the workshop. Participants will also have the option of consulting the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Exploratory Philology<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> online book for further skill development.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><b>Participants<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The workshop has been designed for Latin teachers and students who can benefit from working with Latin text at scale and with greater automaticity and flexibility. No prior experience with computer programming necessary. All materials are provided as working code that participants are encouraged to revise and refactor for their own research and pedagogical applications. While the workshop is written in a way to be open to participants with no prior computer programming experience, intermediate and advanced programmers will still benefit from rethinking coding fundamentals through either a philological or a pedagogical lens.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What: Dickinson Digital Latin Workshop When: July 12-15, 2023 Where: Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania (in person only) Intended for: all Latin teachers and students over 18 year of age. Requires no prior experience with computer programming. 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