Franco Moretti Public Lecture Series

Series of Three Public Lectures by Franco Moretti

Franco Moretti, “The World According to the Bank: Semantic Research on 60 Years of World Bank Reports”

Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 – 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Location: National Humanities Center

First in a series of three public lectures by Franco Moretti, this talk will focus on the use of quantitative literary-critical analysis to non-literary corpora, in this case the World Bank. Moretti is the Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He co-founded and currently directs the Stanford Literary Lab.

Co-sponsored by the Dean of Humanities, Franklin Humanities Institute, and Triangle Digital Humanities Collaboratory; partnership with the National Humanities Center, North Carolina State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Franco Moretti, “Network Semantics: Quantitative Insight into Tragic Language”

Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 – 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Location: FHI Garage – C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse
Second in a series of three, Franco Moretti will give a talk on Greek and Renaissance tragedy, and what a quantitative network analysis reveals about their semantic structures, with examples from Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Racine. Moretti is the Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He co-founded and currently directs the Stanford Literary Lab.
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Co-sponsored by the Dean of Humanities, Franklin Humanities Institute, and Triangle Digital Humanities Collaboratory; partnership with the National Humanities Center, North Carolina State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

[p][/p]Franco Moretti, “Operationalizing: or, the Function of Measurement in Modern Literature Study”

Date: Thursday, September 26, 2013 – 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Location: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The final in a series of three, Franco Moretti’s talk will focus on the space of Digital Humanities work [the lab], its form [the experimental report], and especially the key concept of operationalizing. This will be the most theoretical of the three, a discussion of critical concepts and their possible quantification. Moretti is the Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He co-founded and currently directs the Stanford Literary Lab.
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Co-sponsored by the Dean of Humanities, Franklin Humanities Institute, and Triangle Digital Humanities Collaboratory; partnership with the National Humanities Center, North Carolina State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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